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Special counsel report on Trump prosecution released - Roll Call

  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -59% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Trump said.
35% : The report only covers one of the criminal cases Smith pursued against Trump.
31% : The report lays out the decisionmaking and Smith's thoughts behind the effort to prosecute Trump in Washington for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.
29% : The Justice Department said in court filings that Attorney General Merrick B. Garland would not release the second, which dealt with charges that Trump illegally kept classified documents at his Florida club after his presidency, while the charges against two of his co-conspirators were still pending.
23% : Trump posted several times Tuesday on his social media platform Truth Social about the report, claiming without evidence that it was based on "illegally destroyed" evidence from the select panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
15% : Garland named Smith to head ongoing probes against Trump in 2022, after Trump announced his reelection bid.
6% : The report reiterated Smith's argument that Trump sought several avenues to overturn the results of the election, ranging from exhorting officials to stop counting votes in states he lost, organizing an effort to present false slates of electors and pressure Vice President Mike Pence to throw out the votes of states Trump lost.

*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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