Donald Trump told to pay The New York Times and reporters £308,000 in legal fees
- Bias Rating
72% Very Conservative
- Reliability
30% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
98% Very Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-67% Negative
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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.
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
44% : The Times says its report was based on more than 100,000 pages of financial documents, including confidential tax returns for the father and his companies.42% : Donald Trump's lawsuit, filed in 2021, accused the Times and its reporters of relentlessly seeking out Mary Trump as a source of information and convincing her to turn over confidential tax records.
42% : The Times' reporting challenged Donald Trump's claims of self-made wealth by documenting how his father, Fred Trump, had given him at least 413 million dollars (£324 million) over the decades, including through tax avoidance schemes.
41% : Such lawsuits are known as SLAPPs or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
24% : The Times' story said that Donald Trump and his father avoided gift and inheritance taxes by methods including setting up a sham corporation and undervaluing assets to tax authorities.
15% : Donald Trump, who sought 100 million dollars (£78 million) in damages, alleged Mary Trump, the Times and the reporters "were motivated by a personal vendetta" against him.
9% : In July, Mary Trump filed a counterclaim against Donald Trump under New York's anti-SLAPP law, arguing that Donald Trump's lawsuit was "purely retaliatory and lacking in merit" and intended to "chill her and others from criticising him in the future".
7% : New York Judge Robert Reed said that given the "complexity of the issues" in the case and other factors, it was reasonable that Donald Trump be forced to pay lawyers for the Times and the reporters a total of 392,638 dollars (£308,015) in legal fees.
*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.