Rasmussen questioned voters if they agreed or disagreed with the announcement: "The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of politicization":
| • | 41% strongly agree. |
| • | 16% somewhat agree. |
| • | 11% somewhat disagree. |
| • | 24% strongly disagree. |
| • | 8% are not sure. |
The survey further asked voters across the nation regarding the DOJ's investigation into "former President Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of government documents":
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| • | 44% said that they strongly approve of the investigation. |
| • | 10% somewhat approve. |
| • | 9% somewhat disapprove. |
| • | 32% strongly disapprove. |
| • | 4% are not sure. |
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The survey further discovered that most voters think that the continuous investigation into Trump is likely politically motivated:
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| • | 46% announced it's extremely probable that the investigation is politically motivated. |
| • | 14% somewhat likely. |
| • | 17% not very likely. |
| • | 19% not at all likely. |
| • | 5% not sure. |
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Rasmussen polled 1,000 U.S. likely voters from August 23-24, with a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points.
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Meanwhile, The raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on former President Donald Trump's home has hurt the agency's standing with Republican and independent voters, according to a new survey, which found that a majority agree with the idea that it has become "Biden's Gestapo."
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The search of Mar-a-Lago has emboldened Trump followers and generated a wave of donations to the former president's political organizations.
And close allies, including Steve Bannon, have used the public platforms to compare the FBI with Hitler's Gestapo or East Germany's brutal secret police force, the Stasi.
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In a new poll, Rasmussen Reports questioned 1000 probable voters whether they agreed with Trump loyalist Roger Stone, who last year announced the FBI had become President Joe Biden's "personal Gestapo."
At the time he announced it, some 46 percent of voters agreed with that assessment.
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Now, roughly 53 percent of voters agree - including 34 percent, who strongly agree.
The numbers divide along party lines. Seventy-six percent of Republicans agree with Stone, while 57 percent of Democrats disagree.
The FBI has become the target of Republican attacks since the raid to recover White House documents from Mar-a-Lago last Monday.
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A property receipt unsealed later showed the FBI took 11 sets of classified documents.
Some were marked not just top secret yet further "sensitive compartmented information," a category designed to safeguard the country's most important secrets.
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Even so, Trump and his allies have denounced the investigation, blaming the government for using all its resources to prevent him from running again in 2024.
For example Sebastian Gorka, a Trump administration official turned firebrand radio host, denounced the agents on the raid.
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