The Daily Signal Article Rating8 Takeaways From Robert Hur's Testimony on Biden Docs, Memory
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "What you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning and explanation to the attorney general for political reasons, Hur said." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I don't think Trump should have been charged." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, noted that Trump has been charged with trying to obstruct the FBI's investigation into classified documents stored at his Florida estate." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Nadler moved on to talking more about Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Committee Democrats repeatedly suggested that Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, aggressively sought changes in a special counsel's report on Trump." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "It's a memory test for all of America, Raskin, who was instrumental in both House impeachments of Trump, said." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Trump repeatedly said that report exonerated him." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "While we play pin the tail on the donkey in this wild goose chase and all these silly games, Donald Trump entertains authoritarian hustler Viktor Orban." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said this matter and House investigations of Biden are only about getting Trump reelected, which Raskin suggested would end democracy." | Negative | -80% Liberal |
| "You don't gratuitously add language that you know will be useful in a campaign, Schiff said." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Mr. Raskin mentioned about us not remembering communism -- I actually grew up under communism, and I have a very good recollection of what it is, Spartz said." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Mr. Raskin mentioned about us not remembering communism -- I actually grew up under communism, and I have a very good recollection of what it is, Spartz said." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The special counsel named by Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden appointee, referred to the Feb. 8 report from his office." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "What you did write was deeply prejudicial to the interests of the president, Schiff said." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Why did Joe Biden, in your words, 'willfully retain and disclose classified materials?' Jordan asked the special counsel." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Why did Joe Biden, in your words, 'willfully retain and disclose classified materials?' Jordan asked the special counsel." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "But other committee members talked significantly about Biden's sharing information with his ghostwriter for the 2017 book Promise Me, Dad, which the special counsel's report said Biden was getting up to $8 million to produce for the publisher." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "But other committee members talked significantly about Biden's sharing information with his ghostwriter for the 2017 book Promise Me, Dad, which the special counsel's report said Biden was getting up to $8 million to produce for the publisher." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Hur said his job was to provide a report for Garland, Biden's attorney general." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Hur released his final report last month, concluding that Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency ended in early 2009." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Democrats criticized Hur's references to Biden's memory." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Jordan disagreed, saying, I think you told us, Mr. Hur, then read from Hur's report." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Gaetz read again from the transcript, quoting Biden as saying: All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were locked or able to be locked." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Gaetz read again from the transcript, quoting Biden as saying: All the stuff that was in my home was in filing cabinets that were locked or able to be locked." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Gaetz said." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Jordan followed by asking: Once they got the report, before it went public, did the White House try to weigh in with your investigation on elements of that report and, frankly, get that report changed?Hur responded: They did request certain edits and changes to the draft report." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "President Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures for safeguarding the classified information in his new book, Jordan read out loud." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "President Biden had strong motivations to ignore the proper procedures for safeguarding the classified information in his new book, Jordan read out loud." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "During another exchange, Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., asked, So a reasonable juror could have voted to convict based on the facts that you presented?Hur responded, Correct." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "I don't think Biden should have been charged." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Gaetz asked." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Another lie, people might say, Gaetz said." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "This is a memory test, but it's not a memory test for President Biden." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, talked about Biden's five decades in federal elective office and how he should know the rules and law on classified information." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, talked about Biden's five decades in federal elective office and how he should know the rules and law on classified information." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Later in the hearing, Gaetz, the Florida Republican, asked more about the matter, reading aloud from the transcript in which a federal prosecutor questions Biden." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Later in the hearing, Gaetz, the Florida Republican, asked more about the matter, reading aloud from the transcript in which a federal prosecutor questions Biden." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Special counsel Robert Hur took fire Tuesday from both Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee while testifying about his report on President Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents from his eight years as vice president and 36 years in the Senate." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Jordan asked." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "During crosstalk, Jayapal said, You exonerated him." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "I don't think Trump should have been charged." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "However, later in the hearing, Hur said his team didn't want to charge Biden's ghostwriter since he did maintain a transcript of that interview with Biden." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "However, later in the hearing, Hur said his team didn't want to charge Biden's ghostwriter since he did maintain a transcript of that interview with Biden." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, noted that Trump has been charged with trying to obstruct the FBI's investigation into classified documents stored at his Florida estate." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Gaetz followed by asking: It's a lie is what regular people would say, right?Hur smiled, but didn't answer directly." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Schiff responded angrily." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Joe Biden had 8 million reasons to break the rules." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Later in the hearing, Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., who grew up in Ukraine when it was under Soviet control, took exception to Raskin's trivializing comments on communism." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Later in the hearing, Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., who grew up in Ukraine when it was under Soviet control, took exception to Raskin's trivializing comments on communism." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Hur said he didn't sanitize his report on Biden nor did he disparage the president, as he fended off repeated assertions from committee Democrats that he was partisan, a registered Republican, and Trump's appointee as U.S. attorney for Maryland." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Hur said he didn't sanitize his report on Biden nor did he disparage the president, as he fended off repeated assertions from committee Democrats that he was partisan, a registered Republican, and Trump's appointee as U.S. attorney for Maryland." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In a follow-up question, Issa asked: You did not reach an idea that he committed no wrong." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "You find in your report that the elements of a federal criminal violation are met, but then you apply this 'senile cooperator' theory that because Joe Biden cooperated and the elevator doesn't go to the top floor, you don't think you can get a conviction, Gaetz told Hur." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "You find in your report that the elements of a federal criminal violation are met, but then you apply this 'senile cooperator' theory that because Joe Biden cooperated and the elevator doesn't go to the top floor, you don't think you can get a conviction, Gaetz told Hur." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Hur made a similar point later when Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said that this lengthy, expensive, and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of Joe Biden." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Hur made a similar point later when Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said that this lengthy, expensive, and independent investigation resulted in a complete exoneration of Joe Biden." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Several Republicans on the committee asked whether, had Biden been younger, the special counsel would have reached a different conclusion about criminal charges." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Jayapal went on to talk about other issues." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "However, the special counsel opted not to bring charges, writing that a jury would be unlikely to convict because of Biden's diminished faculties in advancing age, including a failing memory." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., more bluntly, said Biden got off on a senility defense." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., more bluntly, said Biden got off on a senility defense." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "At any point in your investigation, do you have any reason to believe that President Biden lied to you?" | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "During Hur's six hours of testimony, committee Democrats expressed anger that the special counsel's report brings up Biden's memory issues." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked Hur about Biden: In this case, did you reach a conclusion that this man was outright iocent?That conclusion is not reflected in my report, Hur replied." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked Hur about Biden: In this case, did you reach a conclusion that this man was outright iocent?That conclusion is not reflected in my report, Hur replied." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was removed from the House Intelligence Committee for making unfounded statements about Russia, attacked Hur for including information in his report about Biden's memory." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was removed from the House Intelligence Committee for making unfounded statements about Russia, attacked Hur for including information in his report about Biden's memory." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Committee Democrats repeatedly suggested that Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, aggressively sought changes in a special counsel's report on Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Committee Democrats repeatedly suggested that Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, aggressively sought changes in a special counsel's report on Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Committee Democrats repeatedly suggested that Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, aggressively sought changes in a special counsel's report on Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Republicans, for their part, were aoyed that Hur's report didn't recommend criminally charging Biden for mishandling classified information -- particularly when former President Donald Trump was charged earlier for holding on to classified documents from his four years in office." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Republicans, for their part, were aoyed that Hur's report didn't recommend criminally charging Biden for mishandling classified information -- particularly when former President Donald Trump was charged earlier for holding on to classified documents from his four years in office." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "It's a memory test for all of America, Raskin, who was instrumental in both House impeachments of Trump, said." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "It's a memory test for all of America, Raskin, who was instrumental in both House impeachments of Trump, said." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Trump repeatedly said that report exonerated him." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Schiff accused Hur of being partisan and said he would be naive to think Republicans wouldn't use the report against Biden in the 2024 presidential campaign." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Schiff accused Hur of being partisan and said he would be naive to think Republicans wouldn't use the report against Biden in the 2024 presidential campaign." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Unfortunately, they've been involved with President [Barack] Obama and now President Biden too." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Unfortunately, they've been involved with President [Barack] Obama and now President Biden too." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Unfortunately, they've been involved with President [Barack] Obama and now President Biden too." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Jordan noted the ghostwriter of Biden's 2017 book Promise Me, Dad destroyed a recording in which Biden said he was sharing classified information with him." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Jordan noted the ghostwriter of Biden's 2017 book Promise Me, Dad destroyed a recording in which Biden said he was sharing classified information with him." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Jordan noted the ghostwriter of Biden's 2017 book Promise Me, Dad destroyed a recording in which Biden said he was sharing classified information with him." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "While we play pin the tail on the donkey in this wild goose chase and all these silly games, Donald Trump entertains authoritarian hustler Viktor Orban." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said this matter and House investigations of Biden are only about getting Trump reelected, which Raskin suggested would end democracy." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said this matter and House investigations of Biden are only about getting Trump reelected, which Raskin suggested would end democracy." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said this matter and House investigations of Biden are only about getting Trump reelected, which Raskin suggested would end democracy." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said this matter and House investigations of Biden are only about getting Trump reelected, which Raskin suggested would end democracy." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
50% : "What you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning and explanation to the attorney general for political reasons," Hur said.41% : I don't think Trump should have been charged.
39% : Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, noted that Trump has been charged with trying to obstruct the FBI's investigation into classified documents stored at his Florida estate.
36% : Nadler moved on to talking more about Trump.
25% : "Committee Democrats repeatedly suggested that Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, aggressively sought changes in a special counsel's report on Trump.
24% : It's a memory test for all of America," Raskin, who was instrumental in both House impeachments of Trump, said.
23% : Trump repeatedly said that report "exonerated" him.
18% : While we play pin the tail on the donkey in this wild goose chase and all these silly games, Donald Trump entertains authoritarian hustler Viktor Orban.
10% : During the hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said this matter and House investigations of Biden are only about getting Trump reelected, which Raskin suggested would end democracy.
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