Do President Trump's Supporters Still Support Him?

The Appalachian Highway, or State Route 32, seen near Beaver, Ohio on July 12, 2017. Tim Reid

Tim Reid, Reuters: In Trump's Ohio bastion, supporters dismiss uproar over Donald Jr.

LITTLE HOCKING, Ohio (Reuters) - While revelations that Donald Trump Jr. welcomed Russian help in last year's presidential election roil Washington, asking about it along southern Ohio's Appalachian Highway can draw some pretty strange looks.

In the mostly rural, heavily Baptist and predominately Trump-supporting terrain, the collective reaction ranges from ignorance about the Russia investigation, to a belief that some media want to destroy Republican President Donald Trump and his family, to complete disinterest.

Many of the 20 people interviewed in several Ohio towns were dismissive of the barrage of
headlines about a June 2016 meeting between Trump's eldest son Donald Jr. and a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton.

The revelation was made when Trump Jr. released a series of emails on Tuesday amid investigations of U.S. intelligence agency conclusions that Moscow sought to help Trump win. Russia has denied allegations of interfering in the election and Trump has denied his campaign colluded with Russian officials, sometimes dismissing the notion as "fake news."

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WNU Editor: OMG!!!! Reuters actually sent someone out to fly-over country in the U.S. to find out what is the political sentiment is "over there" .... and no surprise .... found that there is no change in President Trump's support among his supporters.

Update: Zero Hedge has some interesting polls on what do Americans think on the current political debates in Washington .... Why Middle America Doesn't Care About The Trump Jr. Narrative: Reuters Explains (Zero Hedge).

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