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Don Hankey, who backed Donald Trump's bond, donated to Democrats

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -5% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : After helping Trump pay his bond, Hankey told ABC News that he is a Trump supporter.
48% : "This is what we do at Knight Insurance, and we're happy to be able to accommodate the ex-president in this situation," Hankey said "I'd say it's more of a business decision, but I happen to be a supporter also.""It was a relatively low number, and Donald Trump put up all the collateral in cash," he added.
37% : ""As promised, President Trump has posted bond," Alina Habba, Trump's attorney, said in a statement on April 1.
35% : "Trump claims he's a billionaire.
31% : Don Hankey, the chair of the company that helped Donald Trump pay his $175 million civil fraud bond, previously donated to California Democrats Ted Lieu and Bob Hertzberg according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings.
20% : "Two weeks ago, Lieu chided Trump on X, formerly Twitter, after the former president's attorneys said that he could not pay a $464 million bond in the case that was later lowered to the $175 million amount.

*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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