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In a week where former President Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time, a
majority (63%) of Americans say that the charges approved by a grand jury in
Georgia related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state
are serious (47%) or somewhat serious (16%), according to a new ABC News/Ipsos
poll.



Trump's latest indictment was handed up on Monday in Fulton County and charges
him and 18 others in what District Attorney Fani Willis alleged was a "criminal
racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election results."

Trump maintains he did nothing wrong and has claimed the four cases against him
are politically motivated and "un-American," which prosecutors deny. He has
pleaded not guilty to his three previous indictments but has not yet appeared in
court in Georgia.

The public’s view on the gravity of Trump’s latest charges is similar to an ABC
News/Ipsos poll conducted in early August right after Trump was indicted by a
federal grand jury in the nation's capital on charges related to Jan. 6 and
efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to Joe Biden.

That poll found that 65% of Americans thought Trump’s federal indictment was
serious or somewhat serious.

MORE: Sweeping indictment could be Trump's biggest legal challenge yet: ANALYSIS


Only a quarter of adults say the indictment this week is not too serious (10%)
or not serious at all (15%). Earlier in August, a similar number (24%) said
Trump’s Jan.6-related charges were not serious.

A plurality of Americans -- 49% -- think Trump should have been charged with a
crime in the Georgia case, while 32% do not think he should have been. Fifty
percent of Americans say Trump should suspend his presidential campaign, while
33% don’t think he should, per the ABC News/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos'
KnowledgePanel.

At the same time, a plurality (49%) think that the charges in Georgia against
Trump are politically motivated, while 35% think they are not. All of these
findings are similar to the poll taken right after Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment.

These results depict a public that thinks Trump’s charges in Georgia are more
serious than his two non-election-related indictments earlier this year.




In ABC News/Ipsos polls in the wake of those previous indictments, 42% of
Americans said the charges in the federal case in Florida concerning Trump’s
alleged mishandling of and refusal to return government secrets after leaving
office were very serious; and fewer, 30%, said the state case in New York City
over hush money payments to an adult film actress in the days before the 2016
election was very serious.



In this week’s poll, 47% think the Georgia counts are very serious. By contrast,
51% thought Trump’s charges related to Jan. 6 were very serious.

The new ABC News/Ipsos poll also comes on the heels of Attorney General Merrick
Garland’s appointment on Friday of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as a
special counsel in his investigation of President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden,
who has pleaded not guilty to tax charges.

A plurality of Americans (48%) are not confident that the U.S. Justice
Department is handling its investigation of Hunter Biden in a fair and
nonpartisan manner, while only 32% express confidence in the investigation.



And during the week that the investigation into the president's son was assigned
a special prosecutor and the former president was criminally indicted again, the
favorability numbers for both Biden and Trump -- their parties’ 2024
front-runners -- remain well under water but unchanged in the two weeks since
the last Trump indictment.

Biden and Trump’s favorability ratings both stand at 31%, and most Americans
view both Biden (54%) and Trump (55%) unfavorably.

METHODOLOGY – This ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted using Ipsos Public Affairs'
KnowledgePanel® August 15-16, 2023, in English and Spanish, among a random
national sample of 508 U.S. adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of
4.7 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 26-25-41
percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents. See the poll’s topline results and
details on the methodology here.

ABC News' Ken Goldstein and Dan Merkle contributed to this report.




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absolutely worst pictures" of him including one where he appears orange with "my
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"Why doesn't Fox and Friends show all of the Polls where I am beating Biden, by
a lot," Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth. "They just won't do it!
Also, they purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the
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Trump's threat is about more than just his own vanity. In the same message, he
once again flirted with skipping the first GOP presidential primary debate that
Fox is hosting in less than a week.




"Just like 2016 all over again…And then they want me to debate!" he wrote.

It's not immediately clear what photo miffed Trump so clearly. Fox and Friends
discussed the former president at length during their Thursday morning show.

Journalist Aaron Rupar suggested it could be this one:



A spokesperson for Fox did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This isn't the first time the image-conscious Trump has complained about how Fox
portrays him. 

Fox News anchor Brett Baier, who will be moderating the debate alongside fellow
network host Martha MacCallum, told Politico that even if the former president
doesn't show up in Milwaukee his presence will still be felt.

"If he's not there, he'll still be there," Baier said. "In other words, he'll be
a part of questioning. There may be sound bites, there may be elements where
'this is what the leader of the primary says about this issue.' He'll be there,
even if he's not there."






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