The Seattle Times Article Rating

Biden quickly backtracks after saying Trump should be locked up

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -48% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

-8% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : Trump has been indicted four times and convicted of 34 felonies in one of the cases by a jury in New York.
34% : He has said that former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., should face a military tribunal for her part in a congressional investigation into his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, leading to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
30% : During this year's campaign, Trump has regularly said he would prosecute those who have angered him if he got back to the White House.
25% : Trump has suggested that a general who in his view crossed him deserved the death penalty.
24% : While Trump as a candidate and president has regularly used such language about his opponents, Biden typically refrains from that kind of talk to avoid fueling Republicans' claims that he is prosecuting his adversary.
23% : There is no known evidence of Biden or his White House staff playing any role in any of the prosecutions against Trump.

*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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