The interactive AR documentary Terminal 3 turns viewers into customs officers at an airport terminal, where they interrogate the holograms of people who appear to be Muslim to decide whether they will let them into the country. The augmented reality experience was directed by artist Asad J. Malik in partnership with the immersive studio RYOT.
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Eminem surprised fans on Friday with a new album, Kamikaze. One thing that probably won’t surprise listeners, though, is the lyrical content, which contains the same intricate rhyme schemes, rapid-fire flow, and violent innuendo that’s been a staple of Eminem’s discography.
EW rounded up 10 of the most classically Slim Shady-esque lines on the record, which comes less than a year after his last LP, the chart-topping, critically reviled Revival.
Eminem is cranky from the get-go. On opening track “The Ringer,” he’s mad that fans and critics are embracing a new generation of colorful rappers with an unorthodox approach to the form (see: “Get this f——‘ audio out my Audi, yo, adiós/ I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though”) while maligning his 2017 record Revival. With fast flows and inventive rhymes — and his need to express rage using outdated words like “retarded” — Eminem is once again looking to put his stamp on rap today.
These lyrics invoke Eminem’s critically acclaimed 2000 album The Marshall Mathers EP, and its two most famous tracks: “Stan,” about a crazed Eminem devotee, and “The Real Slim Shady,” about Em’s effect on the masses. To this day, Eminem is still wrestling with what fans expect of him, and trying to distinguish himself from his many imitators.
From the beginning, Eminem has defined himself both by his complex storytelling and his technical abilities. Neither of those are common in today’s hip-hop scene, so Eminem uses both to elucidate his dissatisfaction with the current zeitgeist.
Not exactly a bar, but this line of dialogue from the album’s second Paul skit is as classic Eminem as you could get. Every album contains these conversations between the rapper and his manager, of course, but this one is doubly characteristic for both Eminem’s rage that his last album wasn’t reviewed highly enough, and his fantasies of inflicting violence on his critics.
There’s been beef brewing between Eminem and Shady Records signee Joe Budden for some time now, coming to a head late last year when Budden called “Untouchable” off Revival one of the worst records he’s ever heard. Now it’s Em’s turn to strike back, as he references domestic abuse charges against Budden (the charges were dismissed in 2016).
Sigh. This lyric became one of the most-discussed in the hours after Kamikaze’s release. Hip-hop has often been antagonistic toward homosexuality, not least because of Eminem’s own prolific use of slurs throughout his career. Though times have changed — Justin Vernon, who provides vocals on the song, denounced this song’s use of the F-word immediately after it dropped — Eminem hasn’t. So why pull out this slur against Tyler, the Creator, who has called Eminem’s 2009 album Relapse one of his favorite records of all time and came out as bisexual on his 2017 album Flower Boy? Because Tyler had the nerve to criticize a song from Revival.
There had been rumors that Eminem was doing music for Tom Hardy’s upcoming Venom film — and what could be more perfect? EW’s Darren Franich once described the Venom character as “the internet with teeth,” — but that could apply just as well to Eminem, whose rage-fueled raps feel more suited to the current angry internet than ever.
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WASHINGTON – Roberta McCain – the 106-year-old mother of Sen. John McCain – got her first chance to say goodbye to her son Friday during a memorial service at the U.S. Capitol.
Sitting in a wheelchair, McCain’s elegant white-haired mother was pushed up to her son’s flag-draped coffin, where she made the sign of the cross before being wheeled away.
The scene touched members of the public watching the funeral on television.
Susan Mitchell tweeted that the image “just about broke my heart.”
Republican strategist Ana Navarro – a friend of McCain’s – tweeted that she had last seen Roberta and John McCain together six years ago, at Roberta’s 100th birthday celebration. She said their mutual adoration was obvious.
The senator died last Saturday of brain cancer at the age of 81 at his home in Arizona.
Roberta McCain was unable to attend her son’s memorial services earlier this week in Phoenix, Ariz., but she lives in Washington, D.C., and joined the rest of the McCain family at the Capitol on Friday.
More: Nation’s political leaders pay tribute as John McCain lies in state at U.S. Capitol
During the service, Roberta McCain, dressed in white and black, held hands with her granddaughter, Meghan McCain, as they both wiped away tears.
Roberta McCain also plans to attend her son’s funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday. Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will both offer eulogies there.
On Sunday, Roberta McCain – an admiral’s widow – plans to attend a private service and burial ceremony for the senator at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. He graduated from the Naval college and will be buried near a friend.
In his 2008 speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, McCain said he would never have made it that far without his mother and “the strength of her character.”
“When I was growing up, my father was often at sea, and the job of raising my brother, sister and me would fall to my mother alone,” McCain said. “Roberta McCain gave us her love of life, her deep interest in the world, her strength, and her belief that we’re all meant to use our opportunities to make ourselves useful to our country.”
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A Washington consultant, who was a business associate of Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty Friday to failing to register as a lobbyist working on behalf of a Ukraine political party and agreed to cooperate with authorities, according to federal court records.
W. Samuel Patten, 47, was charged with one count of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register with the Justice Department, according to the four-page charging document from Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael DiLorenzo.
Patten was a business associate of Konstantin Kilimnik, who has ties to Russian intelligence. Kilimnik worked closely with Manafort and is a co-defendant in the pending case that accuses them both of witness tampering.
Patten pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who will also be hearing a case against Manafort starting Sept. 24 involving charges of money laundering and failing to file as a foreign agent.
Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted Aug. 21 of eight counts of tax and bank fraud in a separate trial in Virginia.
A federal jury has found the former Trump campaign manager guilty on five counts of submitting false tax returns, one count of failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts, and two counts of bank fraud.
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Patten surrendered his passport and was released on his own recognizance pending sentencing. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, referred Patten’s case to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Under the 10-page plea agreement requiring cooperation with the government, Patten no longer faces potential charges for making false statements or obstructing the Senate Intelligence Committee, or for causing foreign money to contribute to Trump’s 2016-2017 inauguration committee.
But Patten must cooperate fully, truthfully and completely with Mueller’s office and other law enforcement authorities, including testifying in court, under the agreement.
Patten represented the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party and its members, including a prominent oligarch, according to court records. For his work, the company that Patten created with a Russian national who isn’t named in the documents received more than $1 million through an offshore Cypriot account.
The work involved setting up meetings in January 2015 with officials in the executive branch and members of Congress, to influence U.S. policy. Patten and his partner drafted periodic op-ed articles for U.S. press, including in January and February 2017.
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Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary suffered an inauspicious start as President Joseph Kabila‘s anointed candidate for the highest political office in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
En route to filing his candidacy on August 8, the last day of registrations for December’s long-delayed elections, Shadary found the gates guarding the electoral commission offices in the capital, Kinshasa, barred shut.
A moment of confusion ensued but Shadary, known to supporters as the “man for difficult situations”, eventually found a way through to ensure his name will be on the ballot – effectively putting to rest years of speculation about whether Kabila would seek to prolong his 17-year rule.
Shadary said at the time running for the presidency was a “great honour” and pledged to outline a “social programme” to voters in the near future.
He also praised Kabila for “keeping his word” by standing aside.
Shadary’s comments came after almost two years of political limbo caused by Kabila’s refusal to step down when his second and final constitutional term officially expired in December 2016. His move sparked violent demonstrations during which security forces killed scores of anti-government protesters, as well as donor threats to withhold aid funding for the resource-rich country.
The president’s decision to obey the two-term limit may signal the beginning of a new era in which the DRC will finally have a new president, but analysts predict little change if Shadary – a die-hard Kabila loyalist currently sanctioned by the European Union for his role in the crackdowns on protesters – wins the December 23 poll.
On the contrary, Kabila, who will be eligible to run again in 2023, is expected to keep exercising considerable power behind the scenes in the event of a Shadary win.
“Shadary is someone Kabila knows he can control,” says Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, professor of African and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina.
“If there is no alternation of power, things are not going to change.”
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| Joseph Kabila (pictured) became president in December 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent-Desire Kabila [File: Kenny Katombe/Reuters] |
The DRC has never had a peaceful transition of power since the assassination of its first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, in 1961, one year after the country gained independence from Belgium.
Kabila took power in 2001 after the assassination of his father, Laurent-Desire Kabila, an opposition leader and former rebel who in 1997 had forced out President Mobutu Sese Seko, whose decades-long rule was marked by authoritarianism, brutality and corruption.
Joseph Kabila was declared the winner of elections in 2006 and 2011, but both polls were marred by violence and opposition allegations of widespread fraud.
The announcement on August 8 that he would not run again was welcomed by regional and international powers, but DRC’s already-tumultuous politics were complicated even further last week when electoral officials disqualified the candidacy of popular opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba.
In June, Bemba, a former rebel leader, was acquitted on appeal at the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by fighters he sent to suppress a coup in neighbouring Central African Republic between October 2002 and 2003.
Following his release after 10 years in prison at The Hague, the 55-year-old received a hero’s welcome by his supporters upon his return to Kinshasa in early August to register his candidacy.
But on August 24, the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) cited a separate ICC conviction for witness-tampering to deem Bemba inadmissible – according to DRC law, people convicted of corruption are barred from running for president.
The commission’s decision can be appealed before a final list of candidates is published on September 19.
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| Bemba has been banned from running in the election because of a prior corruption-related conviction from the International Criminal Court [File: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters] |
Bemba, a former vice president who finished second behind Kabila in the 2006 election, was widely tipped as a frontrunner in December’s vote.
In a rare opinion poll published by the Congo Research Group in late July, he ranked joint-first alongside opposition leaders Felix Tshisekedi, son of the late veteran politician Etienne Tshisekedi, and Moise Katumbi, a wealthy businessman who has been living in self-imposed exile since a 2016 conviction in absentia for alleged real estate fraud.
An erstwhile Kabila ally and governor of Katanga, Katumbi himself was also effectively barred from running for president after DRC’s authorities blocked his attempts to return to the country – first by airplane and then by car – and submit his candidacy before the deadline. The government subsequently issued an international arrest warrant for him on August 16.
According to Kris Berwouts, a political analyst and author of Congo’s Violent Peace: Conflict and Struggle since the Great African War, the events of the past few weeks laid bare the authorities’ intention to “organise the election in an environment which is as controlled as possible”.
“Keeping people out of the process, as they have done with Katumbi, and Bemba is reinforcing their own candidate,” Berwouts said, adding that the removal of key presidential challengers from the race cast doubt on the credibility of the election.
“This does not give many guarantees for free and fair elections.”
Nzongola-Ntalaja agreed.
“I don’t see the [possibility] that the elections are going to be free, fair, transparent and democratic,” he said, adding that upcoming poll promised “more of the same” following the votes in 2006 and 2011.
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| Anti-Kabila protests since December, 2016, have been dealt with violently by security forces, according to Human Rights Watch [File: Kenny Katombe/Reuters] |
Running against a curtailed opposition could prove critical to Shadary’s performance in the election, given that he remains relatively unknown outside the country’s political circles.
Shadary was born in the DRC’s eastern Maniema province in November 1960. He went on to study political science, first in Lubumbashi and then in Kinshasa, before being appointed in 1998 Maniema governor by then-President Laurent-Desire Kabila.
Four years later, Shadary co-founded the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) alongside Joseph Kabila, and has since proceeded to hold several roles in the party.
“Shadary is a creature of the Kabilas, both Lauren and Joseph,” Reuben Loffman, a lecturer in African history at UK-based Queen Mary University of London, told Al Jazeera.
“He is a very loyal, regime stalwart for the PPRD and latterly the FCC … and seen as a safe bet in terms of someone who will protect people from the international community,” Loffman said, referring to the ruling Common Front for Congo (FCC) coalition.
“For the PPRD and the Kabila camp, protection is absolutely crucial,” he added.
In February, after serving as the government’s interior minister for 13 months, Shadary was appointed permanent secretary of the PPRD, marking an elevation to the upper echelons of party politics and government.
During his time at the interior ministry, he oversaw several crackdowns on anti-government protesters, especially after Kabila’s refusal to step down as president. Last year, the European Union hit him with an asset freeze and travel ban for his involvement “in planning, directing, or committing acts that constitute serious human rights violations in DRC”.
“The regime has deployed repression and he has been part of that,” Berwouts said.
“He [Shadary] is someone within the regime machinery with his own power base,” he added. “[But] If the party wants to go to the election and win, there is immense work to do to sell him to the public,” he added.
According to Loffman, Shadary’s “instrumental” role in the suppression of opposition could mean he struggles to concoct a convincing narrative on which to campaign for support.
“Opposition politicians have stories; Felix Tshisekedi can call on his father’s legacy of opposition and Jean-Pierre Bemba can, albeit controversially, call on fighting in the Second Congo War,” he said.
“But Shadary is tainted by the past … his story seems to be ‘I have been oppressing you for a long time, please let me continue to oppress you’” he added, noting that Shadary’s candidacy is particularly jarring when weighed against the decision to ban Bemba from the vote.
“Bemba still has this outlying conviction, and I think it’s problematic, but given the fact that Shadary has sanctions against him it’s kind of glass houses and stones, I think there is a lot of political motivation and that the election commission is acting under a lot of pressure from the regime,” Loffman said.
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| Felix Tshisekedi (pictured) ranked joint-first alongside Bemba and Katumbi in a pre-election opinion poll published by the Congo Research Group in July [File: Kenny Katombe/Reuters] |
All of the candidates permitted to run for the presidency will have to confront a daunting set of issues currently afflicting the DRC, the world’s leading cobalt producer and Africa’s top copper miner.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 13.1 million people are in need of aid throughout the DRC and 4.5 million others are internally displaced – the highest number among all African countries.
In particular, violence in the southern Kasai region and throughout the Kivu provinces in the eastern DRC has left the country reeling under several ongoing security and humanitarian crises.
According to Human Rights Watch, more than 100 armed groups are operating in North and South Kivu, which, combined, border Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
Meanwhile, northern Kivu province has been hit by the country’s latest Ebola crisis – its 10th since 1976 – leaving health authorities scrambling for a response amid the “active conflict” zone.
The DRC’s turmoil has contributed to the fact that despite its vast natural resources and some 80m hectares of arable land, the country still ranks among the 11 poorest countries in the world.
“The level of violence, and the fact that there is an Ebola crisis going on, is going to mean in effect a lot of the election is about firefighting,” Loffman said.
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Support for many smart home platforms • Slim design that doesn’t block other outlets • Affordable price point
WeMo app gets in the weeds • No energy monitoring
The WeMo Mini doesn’t impress with the standalone app, but a slim design and a large compatibility list for smart home platforms makes it a winner.
The smart home realm of 2018 is a confusing world for a consumer. But Belkin WeMo is here with an outlet that works with many ecosystems, and we’ll take all the help we can get.
WeMo’s Mini smart plug can turn a basic electric outlet into a smart one for just $34.99. Better yet, the veteran brand is reliably good about frequent software updates. The latest update brings Apple HomeKit support without the need for a “bridge,” (that clunky hunk of hardware that’s needed to connect with different smart homes and can be a hassle to maintain).
WeMo wants to attract new and old customers to adapt to this smart plug, which is smaller than competitors, but at $34.99 cheaper options are abound on Amazon from lesser known brands.
That said, does the WeMo Mini smart plug pack a punch with a small, nearly $35-package?
The larger neon green box might fool you, but the Mini has a bare-bones design.
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There’s not much to the smart plug, physically speaking. It weighs 3.2-ounces and measures 3.8 inches wide x 1.4 inches tall x 2.4 inches thick. The design team went with a short, rectangular shape to allow space for two units to plug into the same outlet, which is an improvement upon previous models that were too big to share the use of other outlets.
The back has the name of the Mini, regulatory information, and instructions for restoring the plug.
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WeMo opted for an all-white colorway, likely to blend easily into your room; the front features a faint WeMo logo, standard power port, and a power button. There’s also a small LED light for status. The back has the serial number, some model information, and a plug. In all, super minimal.
WeMo needs to work on the companion app.
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The companion app, however, is a different story. In order to setup with WeMo Mini smart plug, you’ll have to use a proprietary WeMo app for iOS and Android. If you already have other WeMo devices or plan on getting more in the future, this will be home base for all of them. Updating them, naming them, and keeping them in check all happens in the app.
While the app’s aesthetics leave much to be desired, and it also lacks in features, the setup process is relatively simple, and WeMo makes it easy to connect to external smart home platforms.
The setup process begins automatically as soon as you plug the WeMo Mini into an outlet for the first time and open the app. Rather than pair via Bluetooth, Z-Wave, or ZigBee, it connects through a WiFi account named “WEMO.”
The setup process takes a few minutes, which is frustrating, and I ended up quitting out of the app, reopening it, and giving it a few minutes before it finally connected.
But once connected, it’s easy to turn your WeMo unit on or off, set a schedule, and customize actions, all right from the app’s screen, and if you connect it through HomeKit, you open up the option of control via Siri on any iOS device, Apple TV, or a HomePod.
The box doesn’t have a HomeKit logo, but support for this platform is available via a software update.
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Since HomeKit support was added in July, your WeMo Mini might have been packed prior and come to you without that update out of the box; it took about five minutes after I updated the unit before it appeared on my Home app, but once I saw it, the connection was easy.
The WeMo app makes it very simple to integrate with external platforms.
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The WeMo Mini is the only WeMo product with HomeKit compatibility out of the box (otherwise you’ll need the aforementioned WeMo Bridge), but the company says it plans to release updates that add support to other devices.
It’s also really easy to add compatibility with IFTTT, the Google Assistant, Nest, and Amazon Alexa.
The WeMo Mini is excellent at making older appliances smart ones.
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It’s been a hot, humid summer where I live in New Jersey, so I wanted to see how the WeMo Mini could handle a non-smart device (my wall-mounted AC unit) and turn it into a smart one. The integration with HomeKit and Alexa was quite useful here.
Even better, the WeMo Mini remembers the WiFi network unless you restore it, which allowed me to move the plug around my house efficiently.
Using the app, I was able to turn my AC on while still commuting home, and shut it off when I got cold in the middle of the night. Super convenient, but while some smart plugs offer ways to monitor your energy consumption, the WeMo Mini unfortunately does not have this feature.
At the end of the day, the WeMo Mini is an attractive item at just $34.99.
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Bottom line, at $34.99, the WeMo Mini is an affordable smart outlet that works with a plethora of smart home platforms. Without spending a chunk of change, you’re buying into a flexible system from a veteran brand that has a good chance of staying around for quite some time.
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Marvel’s Black Panther ruled the box office with a benevolent vibranium-clad fist. Now King T’Challa is coming to television, and Disney XD dropped the first trailer for the animated series, Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest.
Some of the best parts of the live-action movie are on display in the preview: the Dora Milaje strike like fierce jaguars from the brush, the Wakandans brandish lots of cool high-tech gadgets, and Shuri keeps joshing her older brother. (“Thank you, King Obvious!”)
Black Panther’s Quest, an expansion to Disney XD’s Avengers Assemble world, will see the rise of the mysterious Shadow Council, which seeks to challenge Wakanda. Teaming with Shuri — because, frankly, no other Avenger is capable of assisting here — T’Challa must decide whether his duties to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes come before his duties to his kingdom. Is he Wakanda’s shield or its sword? This international adventure will seek to answer these questions for our hero.
As for the big screen, it seems like Marvel Studios has big plans for T’Challa. The film’s Oscar chances continue to be under discussion, while Chadwick Boseman says, “If there’s a campaign, it’s for best picture, and that’s all there is to it” — a reference to the new “popular film” category.
And despite what happened in Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige previously told EW “we absolutely will do” a sequel to Black Panther.
In the meantime, Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest will premiere Sunday, Sep. 23 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Disney XD.
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It’s no secret there is little love lost between the McCains and President Trump. So when VP Mike Pence referred to the president during a memorial service for Sen. John McCain, social media users read a lot into the look on daughter Meghan’s face.
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Social media users read some hostility on Meghan McCain’s face as Vice President Mike Pence spoke during a memorial service for her father, the late Sen. John McCain, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Friday.
It’s no secret that there is little love lost between the McCains and President Donald Trump. Trump was not invited to McCain’s memorial services, making the president’s loyal VP the highest-ranking member of the White House present at the Capitol ceremony.
“The president asked me to be here, on behalf of a grateful nation, to pay a debt of honor and respect to a man who served his country throughout his life,” Pence said at the memorial.
Later, Pence added, “As President Trump said yesterday, we respect his service to the country.”
At that point during his remarks, Meghan McCain’s eyes appeared to snap on Pence, in a move some users identified as “side-eye.”
Merriam-Webster defines side-eye as, “a sidelong glance or gaze especially when expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval, or veiled curiosity.”
Over the years, Trump, who did not serve in the military, has demeaned McCain’s status as a former prisoner of war, implied he gave up information to his captors and mocked injuries he sustained as a prisoner.
The president has kept his condolences to a minimum since McCain’s death last weekend.
Observers on Twitter were certain Meghan McCain was channeling some of her anger at Trump in Pence’s direction as he spoke.
This side eye Meghan McCain is giving Mike Pence……..
— Michael
(@MichaelAlvarez_) August 31, 2018
Meghan McCain looks like she is ready to drop Mike Pence
— DeAnna
(@SprongStyle41) August 31, 2018
Throughout the memorial, Meghan McCain held the hand of her grandmother, Roberta.
More: Nation’s political leaders pay tribute as John McCain lies in state at U.S. Capitol
More: John McCain’s 106-year-old mother says goodbye to son at Capitol ceremony
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President Donald Trump’s disapproval rating reached a new high in an ABC/Washington Post poll released Friday, and almost half of the respondents said they favored impeachment proceedings.
Sixty percent of those surveyed said they were not happy with the president’s job performance, with a whopping 53 percent of them saying they strongly disapprove, a 9 percent increase since April.
His approval was at 36 percent, matching his previous low in an ABC/Washington Post poll.
The poll of a random sampling of 1,003 adults was conducted by Langer Research from Associates from Aug. 25-29 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percent.
“Trump’s average approval rating since taking office is the lowest for any president in modern polling since the 1940s,” read a press release of the poll’s results. “One factor: Contrary to his ‘drain the swamp’ rhetoric, 45 percent say corruption in Washington has increased under Trump, while just 13 percent say it’s declined.”
Forty-nine percent said they were in favor of Congress beginning impeachment proceedings against Trump, while 46 percent said they were opposed. Support for impeachment among women was even higher, at 57 percent. The highest support the poll ever found for the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton was 41 percent.
The poll comes after the president’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight fraud charges and his former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felonies, including campaign finance violations he claims were done at Trump’s direction.
Sixty-one percent said that if Cohen’s allegations are true, Trump broke the law.
The poll found strong support for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling. Overall, 63 percent support the investigation, with 52 percent saying they “strongly” support it, and only 29 percent oppose. Thirty-two percent of Republicans said they support Mueller’s work.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll released Wednesday found trust in Mueller’s investigation at 55 percent. The poll found similar, but slightly more tepid support for impeachment than the ABC poll, with 44 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed.
Trump has publicly derided Attorney General Jeff Sessions for allowing the investigation to continue, but 64 percent opposed firing Sessions and only 19 percent said they supported such a move.
When it comes to the Manafort case, 67 percent said his prosecution was justified. And 66 percent oppose a pardon, including 45 percent of Republicans.
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