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'Modern day Hitler': Experts sound alarm over Trump heaping praise on 'autocrat' Orbán

  • Bias Rating

    -88% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -31% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : While addressing a crowd at Mar-a-Lago, Trump extolled his leadership style publicly, saying "there's nobody that's better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán, he's fantastic...
49% : Trump's friendliness with the Hungarian prime minister is likely due to the fact that Orbán's central guiding philosophy and preferred method of governing are similar to Trump's, and could provide insight as to what a second Trump presidency would look like.
36% : "Just because it's old news that Donald Trump loves autocrats doesn't mean it doesn't deserve wall-to-wall coverage when he does things like this," she wrote.
32% : The vile reason Hungary's Viktor Orban is manipulating US politicsTrump's comments caused significant alarm on social media, with journalists, commentators and elected officials urging voters to pay attention to the former president's praise of an "autocrat.""How many different ways does Trump need to tell you he's going to rule as a dictator before you believe him?"
25% : Journalist and lawyer Daniel Miller called on the New York Times in particular to publish a "massive headline about Trump wanting to be a dictator" every day until the election.
23% : Like Trump, Orbán is hostile toward immigrants, and notably built a massive border fence in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis to keep asylum-seekers out of Hungary.
14% : "READ MORE: 'Path to dictatorship': Columnist says Trump's 'thirst for vengeance' would go unchecked in 2nd termOthers viewed the video as an illuminating preview of what Trump hopes to do if he retakes the White House.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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