Overview
- Only 23% approve and 52% disapprove of the president’s handling of the case, according to a Dec. 3–8 Reuters/Ipsos survey of 4,434 adults.
- Republican approval rose to 53% from 44% a month earlier, though it remains below his 85% approval among Republicans overall.
- Sixty-two percent say the government is hiding information about Epstein’s 2019 jail death, which was ruled a suicide.
- Seventy percent believe officials are concealing details about people who may have participated in Epstein’s alleged trafficking, and just 18% think it’s likely Trump was unaware before it became public.
- Congress required the Justice Department to release Epstein-related records by Dec. 19, and a federal judge approved making additional grand jury materials public.