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Who Donald Trump could pardon in his first 100 days

  • Bias Rating

    44% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.

Sentiments

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39% Positive

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : During a 2012 episode of The Apprentice, Trump referred to Diddy, now awaiting trial for sex trafficking and racketeering, as "a good guy" and "a good friend of mine.
53% : The prediction market's outcome-focused odds, as well as the fact that real money is on the line, have led many to consider it a more reliable form of prognostic tool than conventional polls or political analyses.Bettors on the platform, however, have had mixed successes in forecasting other political events, such as who Trump would pick to staff his White House cabinet.
48% : I have sympathy for President Biden, but I don't know that the extent of the pardons he granted was necessary, and I don't think any of us can be satisfied with the way that Trump or Biden used the pardon authority, one of the most extensive and sweeping executive powers that are available today.
47% : Others on the list include Trump himself (9 percent), Elon Musk (3 percent)
43% : "James Carafano, a former aide to the 2016 Trump transition team, said in an article for The Heritage Foundation think tank in October 2020: "Those who think Edward Snowden deserves a pardon are pressuring President Trump to act.
41% : Aside from January 6 rioter Jacob Chansley, also referred to as the QAnon Shaman, who was among the around 1,500 protesters Trump pardoned on Monday, Polymarket bettors are most confident in the President pardoning Ross Ulbricht, the creator and operator of the online black market Silk Road.
39% : "President Trump has previously indicated a willingness to pardon many of the individuals included in Polymarket's odds, although it remains unclear how intent he is on following through on these promises within his first 100 days.
37% : At a December press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Trump told reporters that he would consider pardoning Adams, adding that the mayor was "treated pretty unfairly.
36% : "Whistleblowers Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, whom Trump has previously expressed interest in pardoning, have odds of 22 percent and 14 percent respectively.
16% : "Representative and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said in response to Trump pardoning the January 6 protesters: "The President's actions are an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution.

*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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