Mediaite Article Rating

Pete Hegseth Meets the Media for First Time as Secretary of Defense -- Vows to Execute Trump's Orders 'Without Excuse'

  • Bias Rating

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -36% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -11% Negative

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23% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Asked whether he was looking at the possibility that Trump may invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows for the deployment of military within the United States, Hegseth deferred to the executive branch: "Those will be decisions made by the White House.
30% : And as the Secretary of Defense, it's an honor to salute smartly, as I did as a junior officer and now as the Secretary of Defense, to ensure these orders are complied with rapidly and quickly.

*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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