Talking About Politics: How much support will Donald Trump lose if Mueller reveals unequivocal evidence that he conspired with Russia to win the election?

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How much support will Donald Trump lose if Mueller reveals unequivocal evidence that he conspired with Russia to win the election?
Based on my interactions with Trump supporters, as well as observations of what they say on Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Quora, I’d say that the current President will lose less than 1 percent of his supporters if Mueller provides them with unequivocal evidence that he colluded with Russia to win the election.
Consider, Trump supporters have so far stayed loyal to Donald John Trump, Sr. for over two years in spite of the firing and/or resignations of two National Security Advisers, one Attorney General, one Secretary of State, two communications directors, one Secretary of Defense, and one Press Secretary for a plethora of reasons. In addition, several individuals who were investigated for Russiagate and election-related shenanigans have been arrested, pleaded guilty, or made plea deals with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and other entities, including former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen.

You’d think that Republican voters, who often consider themselves true believers in law and order (a claim they have made since the 1968 Presidential election) would have ditched Trump faster than you could say “Great Ronald’s Ghost!” after the indictment of Michael Flynn. At the very least, they could have criticized the White House for dissembling over the Inauguration Day crowds that Trump himself claimed had been larger than former President Obama’s in 2009 and 2013, despite photographic evidence from the National Park Service to the contrary.

Nope. Trump supporters not only never chastised Kellyanne Conway or the Dissembler in Chief when Conway used the term “alternative facts” to defend Trump’s claims, but they doubled down on their support by calling any news reports they didn’t like “fake news.”
The irony of that, of course, is that Trump supporters tend to disseminate “fake news” and spread weird conspiracies, including the ridiculous fairy tale that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and that he was a Muslim. (Other right-wing fantasies: Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a Washington, DC pizzeria, and that she colluded with Russia to win the election.)

I mean, seriously; if Trump supporters didn’t bat an eye when their beloved candidate mocked New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team who uncovered the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal several years before, for his disability (arthrogryposis multiplex congenita), they obviously have no limits as to how low Trump can go.
And, lest anyone reading this forgets, Donald J. Trump, Sr. is the same person who said, half-jokingly: “They say I have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
So if the Mueller Report is released to the American people in its entirety - something that the Republicans will shamelessly attempt to prevent - the reaction from Trump supporters will not be outrage or chants of “Lock him up!”
This is how 99.9% of Trump supporters will react:

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