A national poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports on December 19-21 suggests a near supermajority of Americans believe the U.S. Congress should investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation over allegations that it orchestrated censorship of information on social media platforms.
The poll, leveraging national telephone and online surveys of 900 individuals, extrapolated that 63% of likely voters in the United States support the idea.
Only 22% of participants responded that they did not support a congressional investigation, while 15% said they were unsure.
Rasmussen also asked participants to gauge their opinions of the FBI. Fifty percent responded that they had a somewhat or very favorable view of the federal law enforcement agency, while 46% responded that they had a somewhat or very unfavorable view.
Another 5% responded that they were unsure.
The polling company also asked participants how likely it was that the FBI “encouraged social media sites … to suppress, silence, or reduce the reach of certain political speech and speakers.”
Sixty-three percent responded that they believed it was somewhat or very likely, while only 27% responded that they believed it was not very or not at all likely. Eleven percent answered that they were unsure.
Participants were also asked whether they agreed with the following statement: “There is ‘a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo.'”
The quote originated with a former adviser to Trump, Roger Stone, after the August raid of the former president’s private residence in Mar-a-Lago.
Fifty-three percent of participants strongly or somewhat agreed with Stone’s assertion, while 38% disagreed, and 9% responded that they were unsure.
Rasmussen first tested Stone’s statement in a poll of 1,000 individuals one week after the raid and produced similar results as the most recent test: 53% agreed, 36% disagreed, and 11% were unsure at the time.
A review of the crosstabs of the poll reveals that while 74% of self-identified Democrat respondents held a favorable opinion of the FBI, only 34% of Republicans and 40% of unaffiliated voters felt the same.
Conversely, 40% of Republicans, 28% of unaffiliated voters, and 10% of Democrats responded that they have a very unfavorable view of the FBI.
The results showed slightly more bipartisan consensus of opinion on whether the FBI meddled with social media platforms to censor information, with 76% of Republicans and 52% of Democrats answering that it was somewhat or very likely.
The poll reflects a 95% level of confidence in its findings and contains a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
If the democrats want to investigate Trump and they do it so easily, we should investigate fbi, biden’s family including himself, pelosi, Harris, Clinton’s and Obama too.
Bring it on! Democrats are not afraid of the truth! No need to “investigate” Trump, he commits crimes in plain sight! Didn’t he say he could “shoot someone on 5th Ave. and not lose any followers”? Of course he would say he has the right to do so because he is President and was treated unfairly.
Didn’t Rasmussen have one the largest polling errors amongst all major polling firms? Like almost 10 points off. And aren’t they essentially considered a conservative polling site because their questions are very leading? Just saying. Only quacks that read this online dumpster and believe it truly think the FBI is out to get them, but then those same critics call for the FBI’s help when you all write some piece on crime. Faulty logic at its best.
If you have EVER been polled, all of the polls use series of questions that are leading….and are designed to verify responses to assure efficacy.
A question may be asked many ways instead of just once. A question may have a preceding statement that causes evaluation of fact before answering.
Almost every poll has a statistical variance, the goal is a deviation of 3%. Therefore any poll that gives numbers like 48% or 52% maybe completely wrong as to majority.
Most polls are actually paid for by liberal and or commercial entities that have their own axe to grind. Therefore your comment is appropriate not necessarily for any given organization or poll taker, but for all polls in general. In other words it is naive on its face.
There are scores of research papers (peer reviewed) and polls that completely skewed because the researcher never even realized that a demographic slant existed just by the locations and methods or even words chosen. In fact some of those if extrapolated prove just the opposite of the findings. On such poll changed hiring practices for a decade or more and was so wrong that any statistician could have easily debunked it using its own data.
There are ways to ask multiple questions without leading. That whole mess of response is just lame. Do your research, the company in question was off by almost 10 entire points. That’s not a variance.
A junk poll used as a political tool to promote the idea of FBI suppression (and spread general negativity); complete with a loaded question from the Dirty Trickster himself, whose leader happens to be under investigation by the FBI; not to mention the DOJ, the New York DA, the Georgia DA and the Manhattan DA?
I read and interesting book written by Rev. Martin L. King Jr.’s lawyer, Clarence P. Jones. Called “What Would Say”.
I thought Rev. king would say that the Police and FBI would be horrible.
Mr. Jones in his book said Martin would say although he had problems with both. He would reply if any community needed the police and FBI it would be the minority community and parents need to take control of their children.
Although he was hated by J Edgar Hoover the community still needed to be protected by law enforcement.
He didn’t lie, the minority community is being ravaged by crime and their representatives need to help clean up the community or VOTED out. The promises mean nothing.
This seems like a pretty bogus poll. Try again
One of the legislated jobs of the FBI is to investigate ALL accusations of violations of civil rights under color of authority and to arrest and seek prosecution for those crimes.
I have had my civil rights violated at least 4 times in my life. There has NEVER been an investigation even though formal complaints were made. I know of someone else whose civil rights were violated NOT by police but by government actors. This is also a required area of investigation and arrest by FBI.
The FBI looks the other way for all LEO and government agencies. The Standard punishment is 5 years in prison for a simple violation of Civil rights. With personal injury it jumps to 15 years. With death it can lead to death penalty.
The FBI MUST be broken up and divided to divisions that have specific responsibility and no other authority except to forward information to the proper agency. In fact, the FBI needs to have its ability to ARREST removed altogether. Federal Marshals should be making arrests federally. The FBI should be ONLY an investigative unit and witness for prosecution.
Time to end this federal organization that has now become CRIMINAL.
And there it is. You are admittedly a criminal. That explains your long winded nonsensical bias. Please explain, according to the law how your civil rights were in fact violated. My guess is that your hand were dirty each time.
IMHO every branch and organization that is part of the government is CORRUPT! I do NOT trust nor do I believe anything the FBI says!! It is run by dumocraps and the whole world knows how corrupt they are!!
Yes! Especially the ones that refused to thoroughly investigate Bret Kavanaugh!
To throw out a blanket statement that you do not trust an entire organization is just dumb.
You are the dumb one. Buy the book, no organization is perfect. We talk about crime but always complaining about the FBI and Police.
Former Chief Renee Hall, said it best, when you need law enforcement they love. When they don’t need them, they hate you. You are the Fox in the hen house. Always something negative to say.
You can always go to Russia, if you don’t like what law enforcement does in America.