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House Democratic report highlights Trump foreign payments - Roll Call

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -2% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight and Accountability Committee, wrote in a forward to the report that Trump, while in office, utilized his business entities to take in millions of dollars from foreign states and royalty and "never once went to Congress to seek its consent.
41% : "These countries spent -- often lavishly -- on apartments and hotel stays at Donald Trump's properties -- personally enriching President Trump while he made foreign policy decisions connected to their policy agendas with far-reaching ramifications for the United States," the report states.
35% : In a statement, House Oversight Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., said Trump has "legitimate businesses" while the Bidens do not.
26% : The House Oversight and Accountability Committee staff report, the result of a multiyear investigation, argues that Trump ignored the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from accepting money payments or gifts from foreign governments and monarchs, unless they get Congress' approval.
25% : The Supreme Court threw out two such cases as moot once Trump left office.
23% : Trump faced several lawsuits during his presidency over alleged constitutional violations that he profited off the office.
8% : Trump also remains the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in the 2024 election that appears likely to be a rematch against Biden, and the former president has criticized the younger Biden's overseas business dealings.

*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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