The Detroit News Article Rating

Michigan, national leaders celebrate return of Whelan from Russia; Trump decries the deal

Aug 01, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    80% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -1% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

13% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : At one point in 2019, Whelan appealed directly to Trump for help, saying from a Moscow courtroom, "Mr. President, we cannot keep America great unless we aggressively protect American citizens wherever they are in the world.
38% : Whelan was detained by the Russians when Trump was president.
36% : That's so nobody can figure out how bad it is!"After he left the White House, Trump in 2022 claimed that he had turned down a proposed one-to-one prisoner swap with Russia that would have brought Whelan home.
28% : ""They are extorting the United States of America," Trump wrote.
19% : "Trump, in a statement on his Truth Social platform, said the prisoner swap sets a "bad precedent.

*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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