--- title: Voters Think Russia Has Information on Donald Trump: Poll description: A slim majority of American voters believe that the Russian government has compromising information on President Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/5347593/donald-trump-kompromat-poll/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-24T19:43:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:35:24.921Z article:section: Politics og:title: Majority of U.S. Voters Think Russia Has Compromising Information on President Trump og:description: Only Republican respondents did not agree. og:url: https://time.com/5347593/donald-trump-kompromat-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13709e0f3b656826/6989357e0a4a2278389d3341/putin-fox-news-political-opponents-end-up-dead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3406 og:image:height: 1916 og:image:alt: President Trump And President Putin Hold A Joint Press Conference After Summit og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Majority of U.S. Voters Think Russia Has Compromising Information on President Trump twitter:description: Only Republican respondents did not agree. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt13709e0f3b656826/6989357e0a4a2278389d3341/putin-fox-news-political-opponents-end-up-dead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Majority of U.S. Voters Think Russia Has Compromising Information on President Trump > Sponsored content. 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Instead, he complained about a Democratic National Committee computer server and emails belonging to Hillary Clinton, the Democrat he defeated to win the presidency._ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 24, 2018 7:43 PM UTC Trump resisted when asked Monday to condemn Russian meddling in the election. Instead, he complained about a Democratic National Committee computer server and emails belonging to Hillary Clinton, the Democrat he defeated to win the presidency. by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jul 24, 2018 7:43 PM UTC A slim majority of American voters believes that the Russian government has compromising information on President Donald Trump, according to a [poll released Tuesday](https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2557). According to a Quinnipiac University poll taken after a summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, 51% of American voters said Russia had compromising information, while 35% did not believe it. Most Republicans have the opposite view, however. Seventy percent of GOP respondents told pollsters they do not believe there was compromising information, while only 18% said there was. **Read More:** [_Trump Wanted a Summit With Putin. He Got Way More Than He Bargained For_](http://time.com/5342747/donald-trump-vla…r-putin-summit-2/) Republicans were the only demographic group — whether party, gender, education, age or race — where a majority did not believe there was compromising information. White voters without a college degree and white men were evenly divided. During a [joint press conference after the Helsinki summit](https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/trump-putin-news-conference-transcript/index.html), Putin was asked if he had compromising information on Trump. He laughed, noting that 500 American businessmen, including Trump, once came to an economic forum in Russia. “Do you think that we try to collect compromising material on each and every single one of them?” he said. “Well, it’s difficult to imagine an utter nonsense of a bigger scale than this.” For his part, Trump argued that if Russia had compromising information on him “it would have been out long ago.” The poll also found low ratings for the summit, with voters saying it was a failure for the U.S., 52% to 27%, and a success for Russia, 73% to 8%. “President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia has delivered a small blow to his already poor standing with the American people,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. The poll of 1,177 voters nationwide was taken from July 18-23\. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. ## Transcript [00:00] Once again president Trump mentioned the issue of [00:04] the so called interference of Russia when the American [00:07] elections. And I had to literate things [00:12] I said several times including during out personal [00:15] context that the Russian state has never interfered and [00:18] it's not going to interfere Into internal American affairs, [00:22] including election process. During today's meeting, I [00:25] addressed directly with President Putin the issue of [00:27] Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was [00:32] a message best delivered in person, spent a great [00:36] deal of time talking about it. And President Putin [00:40] may very well want to address it and very [00:45] strongly. Because he feels very strongly about it and he [00:47] has an interesting idea. To say it one time again and I [00:50] say it all the time, there was no collusion. I didn't even [00:54] know the President. There was nobody to collude with. [00:59] There was no collusion with the campaign and every [01:01] time you hear these you know all of these twelve and [01:03] fourteen and frankly they admit these [01:07] are not people involved in the campaign. But to the [01:11] average reader maybe it does. It [01:15] doesn't. I think that the probe is a disaster [01:19] for our country. I think it's kept us apart. It's kept us [01:23] separated. There was no collusion at all. Everybody [01:27] knows it. People are being brought out to the floor. So [01:32] far, that I know, virtually none of it related to the [01:35] campaign. And they're gonna have to try really hard to [01:37] find somebody that did relate to the campaign. It was [01:40] a clean campaign. Zero collusion. And it has had [01:44] a negative impact upon the relationship of the two [01:48] largest nuclear powers in the world. We have 90 % of [01:53] nuclear power between the two countries. 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