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Donald Trump puts Fox News host in charge of world's most powerful military

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    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "Hegseth became friends with Trump after the president-elect appeared on his Fox News show multiple times.
67% : In a statement Trump said: "With Pete at the helm, America's enemies are on notice -- Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down.""Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our 'Peace through Strength' policy."
58% : Trump passed over a number of candidates with extensive national security experience in favour of Hegseth.
51% : Pete Hegseth, an Army National Guard captain, co-hosts Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends Weekend," on which Trump has appeared multiple times.
51% : Trump has praised Hegseth as "tough, smart and a true believer in America First," however others have pointed out his lack of experience, with some suggesting he could be Pentagon chief in name only as the Trump White House runs the department.
39% : Pete Hegseth pictured at Fox News All American New Year party, Trump has chosen him to be head of America's armed forcesDonald Trump has caused alarm by nominating a Fox News host with no political experience to be head on the US armed forces.
38% : "I think Trump was tired of fighting with his secretaries of defence and picked one who would be loyal to him," Cancian said.

*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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