Just 2 in 10 confident Trump DOJ will act fairly: Survey
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Just two in 10 Americans are “extremely” or “very” confident that President-elect Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) will act in a non-partisan and fair manner, according to a new survey that was released on Wednesday. 

The Associated Press (AP)-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that only 17 percent of respondents were “extremely” or “very” confident DOJ will operate in a non-partisan and fair way during President-elect Trump’s second term. Roughly a third, 32 percent, said they were “somewhat” confident while nearly half, 49 percent, told the pollster they have very little or no confidence in the department’s neutrality. 

GOP voters are divided when it comes to their faith in the DOJ being neutral even with the incoming Republican administration being led by President-elect Trump. Nearly one-third, 30 percent, said they were “extremely” or “very” confident, 42 percent were “somewhat” confident while 29 percent said they were not very or confident at all in DOJ acting neutrally and fair during the president-elect’s second term. 

DOJ and the FBI are among the agencies and departments that have received heavy scrutiny in recent years by Trump and his supporters. 

Trump tapped former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) as his next U.S. attorney general in November. Bondi, a close Trump ally, will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

Bondi previously slammed former DOJ special counsel Jack Smith and other prosecutors as  “horrible” people who were trying to build a name off of “going after Donald Trump and weaponizing our legal system.”

The poll was conducted from Jan. 9-13 among 1,147 adults. The margin of error was 3.9 percentage points.

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