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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Feb 23, 2017, 02:33 PM Feb 2017

Majority of Americans trust the media more than Trump: poll

When it boils down to matters of trust, a majority of Americans say they trust the media more than President Trump, according to a new poll.

The Quinnipiac University poll, released on Wednesday, asked participants if the media or Trump "tell you the truth about important issues." The survey said that 52% of voters trust the media, with only 37% saying they trusted Trump more.

Among Democrat voters, 86% said they were more inclined to believe the media than the president, while 78% of Republican voters said that Trump tells them the truth, not the media, according to the poll.

The survey comes after Trump repeated his criticism of the press, calling the "fake news media" the "enemy of the American people" in a Twitter post last week. Trump, who has increasingly called news coverage he does not agree with "fake," has also bashed on polls, tweeting earlier this month, "Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election," in reference to surveys conducted on his controversial travel ban. 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/majority-of-americans-trust-the-media-more-than-trump-poll/ar-AAnfg8N?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

But that's fake news - Donald J. Trump

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Majority of Americans trust the media more than Trump: poll (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
The "media" is fairly tenable with a healthy dose of skepticism... Wounded Bear Feb 2017 #1

Wounded Bear

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1. The "media" is fairly tenable with a healthy dose of skepticism...
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 02:37 PM
Feb 2017

Trump is a liar. It is always safe to assume that the first thing out of Trump's mouth will be mostly untrue.

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