--- title: Poll: Half of Americans Think Trump Committed a Crime description: A Washington Post and ABC News poll says roughly half of Americans think Donald Trump committed a crime related to Russian interference. canonical: https://time.com/5007906/trump-russia-crime-poll/ author: Jamie Ducharme article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-02T19:15:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:05:55.218Z article:section: Politics og:title: Half of Americans Think Trump Committed a Crime Related to Russia, Poll Finds og:description: Related to Russian interference in the election og:url: https://time.com/5007906/trump-russia-crime-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta49d8d6fdd3d26c4/6988e466ab6d7738946b0786/trump-russia-poll.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Holds A Cabinet Meeting Amid Tax Bill Reveal Delay og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Half of Americans Think Trump Committed a Crime Related to Russia, Poll Finds twitter:description: Related to Russian interference in the election twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta49d8d6fdd3d26c4/6988e466ab6d7738946b0786/trump-russia-poll.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Half of Americans Think Trump Committed a Crime Related to Russia, Poll Finds  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Nov 2, 2017 7:15 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Jamie Ducharme](https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Nov 2, 2017 7:15 PM UTC Roughly half of Americans think President Donald Trump may have committed a crime related to Russian interference with the 2016 election, according to [a new poll from the Washington _Post_ and ABC News](https://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/11/02/National-Politics/Polling/release%5F500.xml?tid=a%5Finl). Forty-nine percent of respondents said the president likely committed a crime, though the majority of those individuals said they based their answer “on suspicion only.” Forty-four percent said it’s unlikely that Trump committed a crime, and 7% had no opinion. The poll, which was released Thursday, also revealed that more than half of Americans — 58% of survey respondents — approve of the way Robert Mueller, who is overseeing the investigation into possible collaboration between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, is handling the case. That’s higher than Trump’s third-quarter job approval rate ([almost 37%](http://news.gallup.com/poll/220742/trump-job-approval-slipped-third-quarter.aspx)), the Supreme Court’s approval rate ([42%](http://news.gallup.com/poll/194057/supreme-court-job-approval-rating-ties-record-low.aspx)) and Congress’ approval rate ([just under 14%](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional%5Fjob%5Fapproval-903.html)). Conversely, only 37% of the survey population felt that Trump is cooperating with Mueller’s investigation — roughly the same proportion that approves of his recent job performance. 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