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Trump downplays troop injuries in 2020 missile strike: 'You mean because they had a headache?'

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Because the bombs never hit the fort," Trump said.
36% : Trump fielded questions from reporters during a campaign stop in Milwaukee and was asked by one journalist whether he should have responded more strongly to Iran after it launched missiles at U.S. forces stationed at a base in Iraq in 2020, leaving dozens with traumatic brain injuries.
36% : The missile strike on the Iraqi airbase was in retaliation to Trump ordering the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in early January 2020.
31% : Trump similarly downplayed the injuries at the time, saying he had "heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things.
24% : Trump, who withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Tehran during his first term, told reporters in Milwaukee there was "nobody ever tougher on Iran" than he was.
18% : "So just so you understand, there was nobody ever tougher on Iraq," Trump continued, saying Iraq instead of Iran.

*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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