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You call this a club? Carter was the prickly outsider, now Trump is the disrupter

Jan 09, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump was seated next to Obama, the two men chatting and smiling.
52% : "Yet Trump, 11 days away from being inaugurated for a second term, showed up at the funeral with his wife, Melania.
26% : Even George W. Bush, a lifelong Republican, didn't vote for Trump in 2020, instead writing in the name of his former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
13% : "Sitting in the front row of the vaulted cathedral were not only Biden but also former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Trump.
13% : Trump responded by calling him a "terrible president.
9% : But neither Clinton nor Bush shook hands with Trump when they entered to be seated down the row from him, though Bush did give Obama a passing, affectionate, belly tap.
8% : James Earl Carter was always the odd man out in the former president's club, at least until Donald Trump joined their ranks.
1% : He made clear his contempt for Ronald Reagan and his policies, criticized Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, called the younger Bush's administration "the worst in history," and suggested that because of Russian interference Trump hadn't won the 2016 election fair and square.
1% : Biden, Obama and Clinton depicted Trump as a danger to democracy itself, a more consequential concern than anything ever leveled at Carter, who was honored for his work worldwide to strengthen democracies.

*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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