Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt said Americans “can’t trust the FBI” after revealing results from a Fox News poll suggesting only about a third of Americans believe the FBI didn’t break the law as the federal Russia investigation got underway.
“There was a Fox News poll and folks were asked how likely intelligence agencies like the FBI broke the law to investigate President Trump,” Earhardt said during “Fox & Friends” on Friday. “Look at that — 58% said extremely, very, or somewhat, and only 31% said not at all.”
Earhardt pointed to numbers indicating that 24% of voters responded that intelligence agencies broke the law to investigate President Trump and his campaign, 14% said it was very likely, and 20% said it was somewhat likely. The poll was conducted from May 11-14 among registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
“That’s pretty scary, that we can’t trust the FBI,” she said. “I’m not saying anything about the field offices. We know there are a lot of amazing people that work for the FBI as investigators.”
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Earhardt’s comments come after Attorney General William Barr assigned a federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation. It is the third known federal probe dedicated to unearthing information about the genesis of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, which was later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller’s effort.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse to monitor members of the Trump campaign, and U.S. Attorney John Huber is also conducting an investigation into the federal Russia probe.
