YahooTrump taps conservative media pundit Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary
- Bias Rating
26% Somewhat Conservative
- Reliability
45% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
48% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-21% Negative
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-8% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
47% : "With Pete at the helm, America's enemies are on notice - Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down," Trump said in a statement Tuesday night.40% : In the statement announcing Hegseth's selection, Trump noted he is "an Army Combat Veteran who did tours in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
38% : He also has been involved in conservative politics and wrote a book "The War on Warriors," that Trump lauded in his statement as revealing "the leftwing betrayal of our Warriors, and how we must return our Military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence.
25% : In elevating a conservative TV personality to his Cabinet, Trump is stepping outside the traditional mold for government service.
*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.