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Jack Smith's election interference report against Trump is out

  • Bias Rating

    46% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -36% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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11% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Smith, in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland prefacing the report, defended his work and his team, as well as his impartiality in pursuing the federal cases against Trump, whom prosecutors ended up charging with election interference in Washington, D.C., and with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and refusing to return them to the FBI.
38% : "Florida district judge Aileen Cannon on Monday evening paved the way for the DOJ to release the first part of Smith's inquiry into Trump, covering the investigation and charges against him tied to the 2020 presidential election.
38% : But it wants to release the first volume, covering the investigation and charges against Trump tied to the 2020 presidential election.
28% : Prosecutors dropped the two criminal cases against Trump after he won the 2024 election, and the final report by Smith is their last chance to explain their decisions.
26% : When the DOJ shared news of Smith's resignation in a court filing, Trump celebrated the news on Truth Social, adding: "Deranged Jack accomplished nothing, except to show what complete losers my political opponents are!!!
23% : Trump has argued the special counsel was appointed unlawfully, and that any public report would be legally invalid and hurt his transition into the White House.

*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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