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   With the first full week of hearings for the House select committee's   
   investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now complete,   
   nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be   
   charged with a crime for his role in the incident, a new ABC News/Ipsos   
   poll finds.   
      
   Six in 10 Americans also believe the committee is conducting a fair and   
   impartial investigation, according to the poll.   
      
   In the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News   
   using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel, 58% of Americans think Trump should be   
   charged with a crime for his role in the riot. That's up slightly from   
   late April, before the hearings began, when an ABC News/Washington Post   
   poll found that 52% of Americans thought the former president should be   
   charged.   
      
   An ABC News/Washington Post poll that asked a similar question days after   
   the attack in January 2021 found that 54% of Americans thought Trump   
   should be charged with the crime of inciting a riot.   
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   Attitudes on whether Americans think Trump is responsible for the attack   
   on the U.S. Capitol remain relatively stable. In the new ABC News/Ipsos   
   poll, 58% of Americans think Trump bears a "great deal" or a "good   
   amount" of responsibility for the attack on the Capitol. This is unchanged   
   from an ABC News/Ipsos poll in December 2021 and similar to the findings   
   of an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted just after the attack in   
   January 2021.   
      
   The poll divides along party lines, with 91% of Democrats thinking Trump   
   should be charged with a crime compared to 19% of Republicans. On whether   
   Trump bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility for the   
   attack, 91% of Democrats and 21% of Republicans say he does.   
      
   Among self-described independents, 62% think Trump should be charged and   
   61% think he bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility.   
   PHOTO: In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, President Donald Trumps   
   supporters gather outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.   
   In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, supporters of then-President Donald   
   Trump gather outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.   
   Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, FILE   
      
   The ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted after the committee held its third   
   of seven public hearings scheduled for this month, which detail what the   
   committee says was a "sophisticated, seven-part plan" by Trump and his   
   supporters to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.   
      
   On Friday, Trump lambasted the hearing, calling the panel "con artists,"   
   while continuing to air false claims about the 2020 election.   
   MORE: Trump fires back at Jan. 6 committee, calls hearings 'disgraceful   
   performance'   
      
   "There's no clearer example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the   
   American left than the disgraceful performance being staged by the   
   unselect committee," Trump said at a conference hosted by the Faith and   
   Freedom Coalition in Nashville, Tennessee.   
      
      
   Overall, 60% of Americans think the committee is conducting a fair and   
   impartial investigation while 38% say it is not, the new ABC News/Ipsos   
   poll found. That was evenly divided at 40% in the April ABC   
   News/Washington Post poll, which also found that 20% of Americans had no   
   opinion on the matter just two months ago.   
   MORE: Jan. 6 hearing key takeaways: Committee warns democracy 'in danger'   
      
   When it comes to the fairness of the committee, Americans are again   
   divided along party lines in the latest poll, with 85% of Democrats   
   finding the investigation fair and impartial, compared to 31% of   
   Republicans. Independents' views fall in-between at 63%.   
      
   Democrats are more likely to be following the hearings. Overall, 34% of   
   Americans are following the hearings very or somewhat closely, with 43% of   
   Democrats and 22% of Republicans saying so. In a reminder of where   
   political attention is, just under one in 10 (9%) Americans say they are   
   following the hearings very closely.   
      
   On whether the investigation will have an impact at the polls, just over   
   half (51%) of Americans say that what they've read, seen or heard about   
   the hearings has made no difference in who they plan to support in this   
   November's election. Meanwhile, 29% say they are more likely to support   
   Democratic candidates and 19% say they are more likely to support   
   Republican candidates.   
   PHOTO: Chairman Bennie Thompson, center, speaks as the House select   
   committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its   
   first public hearing on Capitol Hill, on June 9, 2022, in Washington, D.C.   
   Chairman Bennie Thompson, center, speaks as the House select committee   
   investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public   
   hearing to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol   
   Hill, on June 9, 2022, in Washington, D.C.   
   Andrew Harnik/AP   
      
   The bipartisan committee, led by chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and   
   vice-chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is in the midst of summing up its 11-month-   
   long investigation into the attack. So far the hearings have largely   
   focused on how Trump pushed the "big lie" of a stolen 2020 race and the   
   pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence.   
      
   The panel has also shared never-before-seen footage from the riot and   
   interviews with Trump administration and White House officials.   
      
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