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Americans are, as ever, split on their feelings to former president Donald Trump, who was this week awaiting an indictment over his alleged hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
There is good news and bad for the Republican, Ipsos pollsters found — 54 percent of respondents agree with Trump that politics has motivated the criminal case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
That includes 80 percent of his fellow Republicans and 32 percent of Democrats.
Still, an even bigger share — 70 percent of those surveyed — said it was 'believable' that Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign paid Daniels, an adult film actress, for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter.
Nearly two thirds of respondents, including a third of Republicans, said it was also believable that Trump falsified business records and committed fraud.
A majority of Americans say the New York allegations against Donald Trump are both 'believable' and 'politically motivated'
A supporter of former president Donald Trump argues outside at Trump Tower in New York as a grand jury weighed an indictment. Americans are divided over the prosecution
The survey of more than 1,000 US adults offers a snapshot of the US public attitudes toward the allegations, as the case was being weighed by a Manhattan grand jury.
The findings underscore the
