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The Irish Times Article Rating

With 49 days left in office, Joe Biden pardons 'selectively, and unfairly' prosecuted son Hunter

Dec 02, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -6% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : He said most Americans "are almost never bought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form" and that those with serious addictions are usually given "non-criminal resolutions" for late tax payments.
54% : Biden's volte-face coincides with the latest appointment by Trump of Kash Patel, a MAGA loyalist, as director of the FBI and fears that the retribution will be general.
43% : But the Republicans have argued that the series of prosecutions which Trump dealt with this year, including his 34-count felony conviction in Manhattan, was a blatant use of the weaponisation of the justice system by the outgoing administration.
36% : Biden's decision prompted a series of condemnatory messages issued from the sofas of the gilded Republican households, starting with president elect Trump himself, who wondered, mostly in capitals: "Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?

*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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