The New York indictment of Donald Trump aims to disguise the fundamental weakness of the case against the former president by transforming a single hush payment into 34 felonies. Recent polling suggests that strategy has been successful.
In an ABC News/Ipsos poll of American adults conducted after a grand jury indicted Trump on March 30, 45 percent agreed that he should have been charged with a crime. That number rose to 50 percent in a second survey conducted after the indictment was unsealed last Tuesday. At the same time, the share of respondents who were undecided dropped from 23 percent to 17 percent.
