{"id":257722,"date":"2022-08-23T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257722"},"modified":"2022-08-24T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T12:17:03","slug":"most-americans-view-fbi-as-bidens-gestapo-new-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=257722","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans view FBI as \u2018Biden\u2019s Gestapo,\u2019 new poll shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Aug 21, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Most Americans consider the country\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, the FBI, as US President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cpersonal Gestapo,\u201d a new survey shows, highlighting highly polarized attitudes about the FBI\u2019s recent role in raiding the Florida mansion of former president Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The public opinion poll — conducted by the conservative polling company further indicated a deep in the attitudes of Americans toward the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), with 44 percent of respondents expressing distrust in the bureau following the recent raid on Trump\u2019s home to seize illegally-kept classified government documents.<\/p>\n

However, the poll also showed that a significant 29 percent of the respondents said the move only increased their confidence in the FBI, while 23 percent expressed indifference about the effort.<\/p>\n

Moreover, when asked about previous remarks made by former Trump adviser Roger Stone \u2013 who said: \u201cpoliticized thugs at the top of the FBI\u201d\u00a0are using the agency as\u00a0\u201cJoe Biden\u2018s personal Gestapo\u201d\u00a0\u2013 the majority of respondents (53 percent) concurred, including 34 percent who \u201cstrongly\u201d agreed with the notion.<\/p>\n

The 53-percent figure marks a significant increase from the 46 percent that agreed with the comment in a similar survey conducted last December, although a more recent survey found that 36 percent disagree with Stone\u2019s characterization.<\/p>\n

The results were split along party lines, according to the polling company, with 76 percent of Republican and 37 percent of Democratic respondents agreeing with the\u00a0\u201cGestapo\u201d\u00a0label.<\/p>\n

According to officials and an unsealed property receipt, the federal raid on Trump\u2019s Florida home on August 8 was focused on a probe into classified documents allegedly taken from the White House \u2013 some of which are believed to be top-secret and even potentially related to nuclear weapons \u2013 with the bureau hoping to recover 11 different sets of materials from the residence.<\/p>\n

It still remains unclear, however, what has been discovered in the search and unnamed sources\u00a0cited by local press reports recently stated that agents will need time to sift through the seized documents.<\/p>\n

Trump, meanwhile, has accused the FBI of a politicized raid and claimed the agency\u00a0\u201cstole\u201d\u00a0his passports and privileged legal documents,\u00a0\u201cwhich they knowingly should not have taken,\u201d\u00a0although the passports had since been returned.<\/p>\n

The former president\u2019s lawyers were not permitted to observe the search of his property and insisted that FBI agents ordered them to shut off security cameras while it was conducted.<\/p>\n

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The majority of Americans questioned in a recent survey concurred with the statement that the FBI was acting as if it were \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s personal Gestapo\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":257251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257723,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257722\/revisions\/257723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}