Americans are divided over whether former President Trump will be convicted in his New York silence case, according to a poll released Friday.
The Economist/YouGov poll found that 24% of Americans think the former president will be convicted of a crime in the case, 36% said they do not think the former president will be convicted, and 39% said they were unsure. .
The same poll concluded that 43 percent of Americans think Trump should be convicted of a crime in the case, 37 percent say they think he should not be and 20 percent are not sure.
Trump’s trial in New York began on Monday, marking the first criminal trial of an American president. The former president was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with reimbursements to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who paid a porn actress $130,000 before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, which he denies having had. .
After the second day of jury selection at his trial, Trump referred to the reimbursements as a “legal expense,” placing some blame on his accountants.
“I was paying a lawyer and we marked that off as a legal expense – some accountant. I didn’t know,” Trump told reporters. “Mark this as a legal expense. That was exactly it. And you were indicted for this?
A recent Yahoo News/YouGov report also found that 57% of Americans say “falsifying business records to hide secret payments to a porn star” is a “serious crime.” Thirty percent said the same crime was “not serious,” while 14 percent said they were unsure.
The Economist/YouGov survey was carried out from April 14 to 16 and has a margin of error of 3.2% and had 1,574 respondents.
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