Majorities of Voters Call Indictment of Trump ‘Banana Republic’ Tactic, Bad for America – and Say Bidens Took Bribes

As Vice President, Joe Biden took bribes from foreign nationals, and the Biden Administration Justice Department’s current prosecution of Pres. Biden’s leading 2024 Republican challenger is a “Banana Republic” tactic that’s bad for America, majorities of U.S. likely voters say in two new polls.

In a national survey of U.S. likely voters conducted June 12-14, Rasmussen Reports asked the following question regarding a comment made by Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy about the 37 counts of document-handling charges against former and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump:

“Do you agree or disagree with this statement: ’This is an affront to every citizen: we cannot devolve into a banana republic where the party in power uses police force to arrest its political opponents. It’s hypocritical for the DOJ to selectively prosecute Trump but not Biden’?”

Fifty-eight (58%) of all likely voters agree with Ramaswamy’s “Banana Republic” characterization of the Biden Administration’s prosecution of a political rival, including nearly half (46%) who “strongly agree.”

What’s more, 62% of unaffiliated voters at least somewhat agree with Ramaswamy, with about half (47%) “strongly” agreeing the Biden Administration has stooped to a Banana Republic tactic.

Unsurprisingly, self-described Republican voters (78%) are much more likely than Democrat voters (37%) to voice any level of agreement with the statement.

In a separate question, voters were asked whether they thought the Justice Department charging Trump with multiple felony counts was “good for America or bad for America.”

Here, 54% all of U.S. likely voters – and 59% of unaffiliated voters – say the Justice Department’s prosecution of Trump is bad for America. Thirty-five percent (35%) think Trump’s indictment is good for the nation, while 11% aren’t sure. And again, Republicans and Democrats largely disagree on the subject, though more than a third (36%) of Democrat voters say charging the Republican former president is bad for the country. ‘Do’

Meanwhile, a majority of voters say that they believe Biden and his family have taken bribes from foreign officials, according to a Convention of States Action-Trafalgar Group survey conducted June 5-9.

In this survey, voters were asked the following questions about the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of payments previously made to then-Vice President Joe Biden and his family by foreign nationals:

“As a result of the ongoing Congressional investigation into Hunter Biden, do you believe the Biden family received payments from foreign nationals to influence policy in Washington, DC?”

More than half (53.3%) of all voters – and 50.7% of independent voters – said they believe the Biden family has accepted bribes from foreign nationals in order to influence politics. Another 31.4% indicated that they believe Biden and his family are innocent.

Only 11.2% of Democrats say that they do believe the White House family accepted payments and 23.5% aren’t sure.

In contrast, 65.2% of Democrats say they don’t believe the Bidens took bribes, a sentiment shared by 31.4% of all voters, 29.8% of independents, and 4.8% of Republicans.

The investigation by House Republicans centers on their efforts to compel FBI Director Christopher Wray to release a series of unclassified documents detailing an FBI whistleblower’s accounts alleging then-Vice President Joe Biden’s involvement in a “pay to play” scheme, in which foreign nationals allegedly funneled money to Biden and his family, in exchange for influence on U.S. policy.

On May 10, the Oversight Committee published a report stating that the Biden family received millions of dollars from multiple Romanian and Chinese sources over a span of years. Now, the committee is seeking to identify and document the reason for the payments.