6 in 10 Americans say Trump Should be Charged for Jan. 6 Riot: Poll

Sunday, June 19, 2022

With the first full week of hearings for the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now complete, nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the incident, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.

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The other 4 would rather see America destroyed than admit they were duped by a con man.

#1 | Posted by cbob at 2022-06-19 11:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

The other 4 are losers who's primary driver is the loss of a class of people to look down upon.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2022-06-20 02:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The other 4 think reality tv shows are reality.

#3 | Posted by RJSquirrel at 2022-06-20 06:59 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The problem with not charging criminals like Trumpy and holding him accountable for his actions is that it emboldens him to continue committing more crimes.

Trumpy and his hateful followers are a clear and present danger to our national security.

Now the question is ... what will we do about that?

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2022-06-20 09:12 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

For as much as I and many others would like to see Der Dotard in an orange onesie, the application of asymetric tactics will probably be what takes this guy down. Tax evasion, business fraud, conspiracy to defraud a bank all seem as likely as any charges that might be made by the DOJ after the 1/6 hearings are completed...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2022-06-20 09:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

After Watergate, Americans who voted for Nixon had the luxury of lying about it.

Now, because of social media, that luxury no longer exists for many. So, Trump voters have dug in their heels and are pretending they did the right thing by supporting an authoritarian semi-literate gameshow host.

#6 | Posted by anton at 2022-06-20 11:40 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

ABC poll, that says it all......

#7 | Posted by MSgt at 2022-06-20 03:39 PM | Reply

ABC poll, that says it all......

#7 | Posted by MSgt

"If I like a poll I say it's true, if it's bad for me, I call it fake news"

-your cult leader who tried to overthrow democracy

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-20 04:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

ABC poll, that says it all......
#7 | POSTED BY MSGT

What did you do when there was only NBC, ABC and CBS?

#9 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2022-06-20 04:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What that malicious ------- needs is a solid a$$kicking.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2022-06-21 05:15 AM | Reply

"nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the incident, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds"

Charged with a crime? What crime exactly?

For his role in the incident? What was his role exactly?

ABC comes up with "6 in 10 Americans say Trump Should be Charged for Jan. 6 Riot"

Then look at the partisan spread in the details. This is a bunch of smoke.

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-06-21 11:15 AM | Reply

What crime exactly?

#11 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Sedition is at the top.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

For his role in the incident? What was his role exactly?

#11 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Traitor, exactly.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:29 AM | Reply

Sedition is at the top.

#12 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2022-06-21 11:28 AM

Can that be proven against Trump personally? If so, what proof exists? And, if it exists, why hasn't he been charged already?

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-06-21 11:30 AM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You wanted the coup to succeed. You gave up on America and being an American.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:31 AM | Reply

If so, what proof exists?

#14 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

You aren't paying attention or are being deliberately stupid.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:32 AM | Reply

And, if it exists, why hasn't he been charged already?

#14 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

People want to make sure they kill the snake.

Let's revisit your question after Georgia.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:33 AM | Reply

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and assume in addition to the 6/10 of America who sayTrump should be in prison that 3/10 of America know he's guilty they just don't want to admit it.

As for the remaining 1/10 .........I've gotta get in on this con. >;)

#18 | Posted by Tor at 2022-06-21 11:36 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

People want to make sure they kill the snake.
Let's revisit your question after Georgia.

#17 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2022-06-21 11:33 AM | REPLY

More garbage - "let's wait"

You want to wait because you have nothing.. Yeah, let's wait and let this bake till the midterms are over, gotcha.

#19 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-06-21 11:39 AM | Reply

You want to wait because you have nothing..

#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

So, you're being deliberately stupid. Thanks for the clarification.

I think that Trump will be criminally indicted before the midterms, starting with Georgia.

When that happens, your fallback will be....?

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:42 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

There's this old superstition about snakes. If you kill one then you must also sever the head, else the snake reanimates at sunset and crawls away.

We've never had to prosecute and ex-president before. Trump is going to be famous.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 11:44 AM | Reply

When that happens, your fallback will be....?

#20 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2022-06-21 11:42 AM | REPLY

I don't have a fall back. This ---- has been going on 2-1/2 years. If you have something, put it up or shut up.

#22 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-06-21 12:41 PM | Reply

"If you have something, put it up or shut up."

Be sure to come back and comment after the hearings.

#23 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 12:44 PM | Reply

Be sure to come back and comment after the hearings.

It's a ------- choreographed side show, Danforth.

It's theater designed to keep fringe dumbasses like yourself engaged and enraged in hopes that America doesn't thoroughly wipe its ass of your political ideology this November.

Unfortunately, it's not going to work.

Cope and Seethe, Swish.

#24 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 12:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"It's a ------- choreographed side show"

Anyone with opposing proof is welcome to come in and raise their right hand.

"It's theater"

Involving an attempted coup. You're not pretending the main threat to America were the folks who weren't inside the Capitol to begin, right?

"Swish."

Why do you feel the need to pretend I'm gay? Is there something you feel the need to compensate for, or are you a closet case?

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 12:55 PM | Reply

It is starting to seem inevitable that Trump will be indicted. There is just too much glaring evidence of his culpability for nobody anywhere to indict him. Maybe Georgia. Maybe the DOJ. But I think it will happen.

#26 | Posted by moder8 at 2022-06-21 01:00 PM | Reply

Be sure to come back and comment after the hearings.

#23 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2022-06-21 12:44 PM | REPLY

So I'll play along. You're telling me that the powers that be have been sitting on evidence that will lock Trump away for 2.5 years now, and some time later they're going to actually do something?

This is starting to sound like a "whitey tape"

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-06-21 01:10 PM | Reply

"You're telling me that the powers that be have been sitting on evidence that will lock Trump away for 2.5 years now, and some time later they're going to actually do something?"

No, I'm saying today you'll be hearing from Raffsenberger(-sp) and more excerpts from the call to Georgia. A prosecutor's favorite witness is a taped recording.

And for the record: what's your reaction to the losing candidate calling the guy responsible for counting and reporting the votes demanding they find an additional 11,780 votes so the losing candidate wins?

More to the point...if that's not illegal, what is?

#28 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:15 PM | Reply

"This is starting to sound like a "whitey tape""

Which didn't exist.

Are you the only person in America who hasn't heard the tape that exists???

#29 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:16 PM | Reply

Unfortunately, it's not going to work.
Co

#24 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

I dunno. Looks like it's working so far. Just saying.

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:17 PM | Reply

If you have something, put it up or shut up.

#22 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Be sure to come back and comment after the hearings.

#23 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:18 PM | Reply

More to the point...if that's not illegal, what is?

#28 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2022-06-21 01:15 PM | REPLY

Then it's your burden to explain why he isn't in prison.

#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-06-21 01:20 PM | Reply

To not prosecute Trump means that being an over-weight, lying, ignorant, traitorous bully is a path to political success in this country.

Good enough for MAO. Not good enough for Americans.

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Then it's your burden to explain why he isn't in prison.

#32 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

There's been no trail?

Just guessing.

#34 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:21 PM | Reply

Looks like it's working so far

That's because you exist entirely within a self-affirming, online feedback loop comprised entirely of people as stupid and deluded as yourself.

It's political theater for the Zed's of the world.

There's a better than average chance that Trump is gonna be your President again in a couple of years.

And I love that.

#35 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"it's your burden to explain why he isn't in prison."

The wheels of justice grind slowly. Haven't you noticed?

Your turn: is what Trump did illegal?

#36 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:22 PM | Reply

"That's because you exist entirely within a self-affirming, online feedback loop "

Well the Oath Keepers got indicted in this loop. And the Proud Boys got indicted in this loop. And more are undoubtedly to come (Eastman, for one).

Be sure to comment later today after you've heard the other excerpts from Trump's "perfect" phone call to Georgia.

#37 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:24 PM | Reply

Then it's your burden to explain why he isn't in prison.

#32 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

There's been no trial.

"If you strike at the Prince, you must kill him". That's Machiavelli and entirely true.

I agree completely that Trump can go free. It's always been a possibility. But today....Well, today it looks like he may very well be indicted.

That will be a great day. All of your Trumpites are of course welcome to defend the cause of barbarism as you've always done.

#38 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:24 PM | Reply

It's political theater for the Zed's of the world.

#35 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

It's an indictment against the MAO's of the world.

You have an awful, awful view of politics and life. Appropriate punishment would be if Trump wins and makes you live in it. You're less than nothing to him. It'll cost him nothing at all to make you suffer.

#39 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:27 PM | Reply

There's a better than average chance that Trump is gonna be your President again in a couple of years.

#35 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

If Trump gets in again, he won't leave office again unless he's carried out.

Because of that simple fact, someone like Ron DeSantis is likely to kill him.

#40 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:31 PM | Reply

Oath Keepers
Proud Boys

Who the ---- are these people?

You people just make up boogeymen to help you make sense of the world, apparently.

News Flash: This country is about to ensure your piece of ---- party going to spend a long, long time out of power. They ------- hate you.

That won't be the "Proud Boys" or "Oath Keepers" or "Tea -------" or whatever stupid ---- your propagandists come up with next who do it.

Enjoy it.

#41 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Who the ---- are these people?

#41 | POSTED BY MAO_

You know very well who. Why lie about it? I mean really. What possible advantage to you get from it?

#42 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:34 PM | Reply

"You people just make up boogeymen to help you make sense of the world, apparently."

You missed the military flanking and preplanning reports, apparently.

"This country is about to ensure your piece of ---- party going to spend a long, long time out of power."

You made that same prediction right before Obama won the first of his two terms.

#43 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:34 PM | Reply

News Flash: This country is about to ensure your piece of ---- party going to spend a long, long time out of power.

#41 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

You said that in 2016.

#44 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:36 PM | Reply

They ------- hate you.

#41 | POSTED BY MAO

You mean you and your friends hate us, and virtually everyone and everything else as far as can be seen.

Hate to break it to you, but no one likes your either. You aren't that popular, even in Texas.

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:38 PM | Reply

You mean you and your friends hate us

No.

The country hates you. You only got a few more months to stack the courts, federalize elections, and make Puerto Rico a State.

Hurry, Zed.

#46 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

The country hates you.

#46 | POSTED BY MAO

Your country hates me. I am having trouble deciding which that one is.

#47 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:42 PM | Reply

Maybe the Democrat Party can evolve into something beyond the party of Weak Men and Angry Women.

#48 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"The country hates you."

According to Actual Math, or Republican Math?

#49 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:43 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Maybe the Democrat Party can evolve into something beyond the party of Weak Men and Angry Women.

#48 | POSTED BY MAO

Perhaps we can all aspire to be fascists. Like some.

#50 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:44 PM | Reply

Trump is a fascist. His supporters are fascists. Their triumph is a fascist state. EVERYONE knows what that means.

#51 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Ein Reich
Ein Volk
Ein Fuhrer

LOL

Poor Zed.

#52 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:50 PM | Reply

If MAO doesn't think he's a fascist, the rest of us would be fascinated to know how he describes himself and his behavior.

#53 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:51 PM | Reply

According to Actual Math, or Republican Math?

According to political reality that's staring you in the ------- face every day.

Four more months.

#54 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:51 PM | Reply

"Ein Reich"

With "certain people" not part of the Ein.

Much like today's Republican Party.

#55 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:52 PM | Reply

I do think it's a sign of hope that MAO appears to be bothered by the description "fascist".

After the fascist revolution, he won't act like he's bothered at all. Ever again.

#56 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:52 PM | Reply

how he describes himself and his behavior.

Juche, Zed.

Juche.

#57 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 01:52 PM | Reply

"According to political reality"

Oh, so America hated Trump when he lost? Or do your barometers change based on the letter after the name?

#58 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:53 PM | Reply

According to political reality that's staring you in the ------- face every day.

#54 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

It's just the mid-terms, MAO. Or maybe you know something the rest of us don't?

#59 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 01:53 PM | Reply

"Four more months."

Until what? Until Biden is still president, the House turns, and Republicans "Todd Aiken" themselves out of the Senate majority?

So...we'll get Benghazi Redux. BFD.

#60 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 01:55 PM | Reply

It's just the mid-terms, MAO

Midterms are important, Zed.

The people running the Executive Branch are fundamentally un-American in their worldview. Midterms ensure a boot stays on the throat of their agenda until we can wipe our asses of them completely in 2024.

I'm looking forward to it.

#61 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-21 02:00 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT AT 2022-06-21 02:00 PM

You're full of that smelly brown stuff. Sorry it's the truth.

#62 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2022-06-21 02:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"The people running the Executive Branch are fundamentally un-American in their worldview..."
~supported Putin's Bitch, the guy who denigrated American intelligence in Helsinki

#63 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-06-21 02:06 PM | Reply

Midterms are important, Zed.

I'm looking forward to it.

#61 | Posted by Mao_Content

Your cult has the honor of being the only ones un american enough to prevent the peaceful transition of power. Your fascist cult leader didn't win so you chose loyalty to him over loyalty to your country.

#64 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-21 02:33 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"The people running the Executive Branch are fundamentally un-American in their worldview."

Got any examples?

Is withdrawing from Afghanistan one?

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-06-21 02:55 PM | Reply

The people running the Executive Branch are fundamentally un-American in their worldview.

#61 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

A completely apt description of Donald Trump when he was in power. As witness his coup and well....Like everything he did.

You live in a strange little warped fascist world, you Trump supporter you.

#66 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 02:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Midterms are important, Zed.

#61 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

In a democracy, MAO. Not in the system Trump tried to impose.

#67 | Posted by Zed at 2022-06-21 02:59 PM | Reply

fundamentally un-American in their worldview.

If you're calling the current administration, or anyone for that matter, un-American, what, then, is fundamentally American?

#68 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2022-06-21 04:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Was there ever any doubt? What's wrong with the other braindead 40%?

#69 | Posted by jakester at 2022-06-21 05:06 PM | Reply

#63 Exactly. After Helsinki, Republicans are foreclosed from ever questioning another person's allegiance to this country again.

#70 | Posted by JOE at 2022-06-21 05:17 PM | Reply

Was there ever any doubt? What's wrong with the other braindead 40%?

#69 | Posted by jakester

Decades of right wing brainwashing.

What's wrong with YOU that you'd support their party?

#71 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-21 05:26 PM | Reply