Twisting the findings of a new ABC New/Ipsos poll, only 17% of Americans surprised by Trump’s actions tied to Ukraine, the poll actually found a combined 48% were very surprised, somewhat surprised and not so surprised, refuting the actual poll’s findings that only 17% were surprised by Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukranian Presidne Zolodymyr Zelensky, asking him to dig up dirt on 76-year-old Democratic front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden and his 50-year-old son, Hunter. Trump and his 75-year-old Attorney Rudy Giuliani sought information from Zelensky about Joe Biden’s interference in a anti-corruption investigation of Hunter for his work on the board of Cypress-based Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainina natural gas company. Joe Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations in 2016 that he threatened to withhold Ukraine’s foreign aid unless they fired lead prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
Trump asked Zelensky what he knew of what went on when Hunter made $50,000 a month sitting on the board of a for-profit energy company. Hunter Biden was once partnered in the Ukraine with Chris Heinz, stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry. When Hunter took the board job with Burisma Holdings, Heinz broke up their partnership, for yet undisclosed reasons. Running for president, Joe Biden said Trump was trying to “smear” him, insisting there was nothing to reports that he pressured Poroshenko in 2016 to get the top Ukrainina prosecutor fired for investigating Burisma Holdings. Biden boasted to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2016 call with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, telling him he wouldn’t get a billion in U.S. aid unless he fires the chief prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings, where Hunter worked for $50,000 month.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) used Trump’s phone call and a recent whistleblower report saying Trump tired to dig up dirt on the former VP and his son to justify starting impeachment proceedings. Whether Democrats admit it or not, impeachment hearings will dredge up all the details about Joe’s attempts to threaten Poroshenko witholding U.S. aid unless he fired the key prosecutor looking into Burisma Holdings. ABC News, known for its bias against Trump, presented the latest Ispso poll to show that most Americans weren’t surprised by Trump’s actions in Ukraine. When you look at the poll’s actual findings, it showed that a majority of Americans aren’t paying attention and don’t care about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president. Pelosi has done what she couldn’t do with the 22-month Mueller investigation, find an excuse to start impeachment proceedings.
Even after Pelosi’s bombshell of starting impeachment hearings, a NPR/PBS NewsHour Marist poll found that only 49% of respondents approved of impeaching Trump vs. 46% opposed, hardly the overwhelming majority Democrats wanted. That same Ipsos poll showed that 43% thought the phone call was very serious, but 47% found that it was somewhat serious, not so serious and not serious at all, telling a very different story than the anti-Trump broadcast and print media. Most telling of all in the Ipsos poll was that on 24% of the public followed the story closely. Another 77% followed the story somewhat closely, not so closely and not closely at all, disproving Democrats contention that the public backs mpeaching Trump. If Democrats push the matter toward impeachment, they’ll get a lot of push back from Republicans, swinging public opinion back to Trump.
ABC reports that about 70% of voters were paying attention to the news. When you look at the actual poll’s findings, it shows that only 24% are watching closely. Adding it all up, 77% really don’t care that much, reporting that they watch somewhat closely, not so closely and not closely at all, hardly the 70% reported by ABC News. Pelosi hoped the American public would back her impeachment proceedings, not explaining how Trump’s phone call with Zelensky qualifies as high crimes and misdemeanors. When Trump’s attorneys present the facts, including Biden’s threats of withholding foreign aid to Porsoshenko and demanding that the chief prosecutor looking into Burisma Holdings get fired, the public’s opinion won’t look too good. Democrats and their media friends have controlled the airwaves, swaying public opinion currently against Trump.
Hyping the current polls to advance the Democrats’ impeachment of Trump, the tables could turn once the facts come out about Biden and his son. Calling it a “smear,” Biden hopes Democrats can continue to discredit Trump, when, in fact, Biden has a lot of explaining to do, especially about his bravado at the Council of Foreign Relations. Once the narrative changes exposing what really happened in the Ukraine, the public won’t be so willing to embrace Democrats’ rush-to-judgment about Trump. When legal experts say Trump, as commander in chief under Article 2, has every right to inquire about corruption of U.S. citizens, it won’t look so cut-and-dried. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) insists Trump engaged in a quid pro quo, expecting Zelensky to dig up dirt on the Bidens, in exchange for foreign aid. To date, there’s zero evidence that’s what happened.
