WHDH 7 Boston Article RatingCongressional hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battle - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News
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| "The need to show my work was especially strong here, Hur said." | Positive | 34% Conservative |
| "The hearing played out as both Biden and Trump were on the cusp of claiming their parties' nominations, and the party lines calcified almost immediately over which leader meant to hang on to classified documents, or rather, who willfully retained them -- and who didn't." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Hur, in his report, detailed how his findings about Biden were far different from those of special counsel Jack Smith about Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Republicans, meanwhile, insisted Trump was being unfairly singled out and vilified, questioning how the two cases were really all that different." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Republicans argued Biden was being given a pass by his own Justice Department and that Trump had been unfairly victimized by prosecutors." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Democrats, for their part, stressed Biden's cooperation in the investigation and strongly contrasted that with the separate criminal case against Trump, who refused to return classified documents requested by the National Archives that he had at his Florida estate." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Trump hyped Tuesday as a Big day in Congress for the Biden Documents Hoax, while casting himself as being unfairly targeted." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Trump, by contrast, is accused of enlisting the help of aides and lawyers to conceal the documents from the government and seeking to have potentially incriminating evidence destroyed." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump's being prosecuted for exactly the same act that you documented Joe Biden committed, he told Hur." | Negative | -76% Liberal |
| "Democrats started off their questioning by hitting hard at the contrast between Biden and Trump, focusing more on the latter's criminal case." | Negative | -90% Liberal |
| "Biden, by his own admission in the interviews, has retained such a sprawling assortment of photos, documents and artifacts from his more than 50 years in public life that he can't keep track of everything." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "The DOJ gave Biden, and virtually every other person and President, a free pass, he said." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "The transcript of hours of interviews between Biden and the special counsel released Tuesday provide a more textured picture of the roughly yearlong investigation, filling in some of the gaps left by Hur's and Biden's accounting of the exchanges." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The transcript of hours of interviews between Biden and the special counsel released Tuesday provide a more textured picture of the roughly yearlong investigation, filling in some of the gaps left by Hur's and Biden's accounting of the exchanges." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Biden's team returned the documents after they were discovered, and the president cooperated with the investigation by voluntarily sitting for an interview and consenting to searches of his homes." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Hur asked Biden about where he kept the things that he was actively working on while he was living in a rental home in Virginia immediately after leaving the vice presidency in January 2017." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Hur's report cited evidence that Biden willfully held on to highly classified information and shared it with a ghostwriter, based on audio of the conversations between the two men in which Biden said he had just come across some classified documents at his home." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Hur's report cited evidence that Biden willfully held on to highly classified information and shared it with a ghostwriter, based on audio of the conversations between the two men in which Biden said he had just come across some classified documents at his home." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Biden said that he left it to his staff to safeguard classified information that was presented to him, often leaving papers on his desk in heaps for aides to sort through and secure." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Biden went on to recount in detail the story contained in his book, Promise Me, Dad, of how his late son had encouraged him to remain engaged in public life after the Obama administration ended.___Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Alaa Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden went on to recount in detail the story contained in his book, Promise Me, Dad, of how his late son had encouraged him to remain engaged in public life after the Obama administration ended.___Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Alaa Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden mused, adding, Oh God, May 30th." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Special counsel Robert Hur, testifying for more than four hours before the House Judiciary Committee, stood steadfastly by the assessments in his 345-page report that questioned Biden's age and mental competence but recommended no criminal charges for the 81-year-old president, finding insufficient evidence to make a case stand up in court." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The hearing played out as both Biden and Trump were on the cusp of claiming their parties' nominations, and the party lines calcified almost immediately over which leader meant to hang on to classified documents, or rather, who willfully retained them -- and who didn't." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The hearing played out as both Biden and Trump were on the cusp of claiming their parties' nominations, and the party lines calcified almost immediately over which leader meant to hang on to classified documents, or rather, who willfully retained them -- and who didn't." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., called it a glaring double standard." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Biden insisted were his own property, a claim also asserted by previous presidents and vice presidents, and that he had a right to keep them." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "At multiple points, when Hur suggested a pause, Biden encouraged prosecutors to keep going, saying, I'll go all night if we get this done." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "I never asked anybody, Biden said." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the ranking Democrat, asked whether Biden's willingness to comply with investigators and turn over documents contributed to the decision not to charge him." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "While Biden was adamant that he treated classified information seriously, the transcript shows that he was at times fuzzy about dates and details and he said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Biden asked again." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "He said if he had discussed anything questionable with the ghostwriter, it was in referring to a 20-page sensitive memo he had written to then-President Barack Obama in 2009 arguing against surging troops in Afghanistan that he wanted to ensure didn't make it into publication." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "According to the transcript, Biden told Hur he did not recall the exchange, or that he had actually discovered any documents." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "In his interviews, Biden repeatedly told prosecutors that he did not know how classified documents ended up at his home and former Pe Biden Center office in Washington." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Confusion over the timing of the death of Biden's adult son Beau -- who died May 30, 2015 -- was highlighted by Hur in his report as an example of the president's memory lapses." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Biden first sat down with Hur during a time of crisis, one day after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "How in the hell dare he raise that, Biden said of Hur." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "And Hur was the rare witness vilified all around, by Republicans angry over his decision not to charge the president, and by Democrats for his unflattering commentary about Biden." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But the transcript shows that Hur never asked Biden about his son specifically, as a visibly angry Biden had suggested in comments to reporters the day the report was released." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But the transcript shows that Hur never asked Biden about his son specifically, as a visibly angry Biden had suggested in comments to reporters the day the report was released." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "And in that context, it was Biden himself who brought up Beau's illness and death as he talked about a book he'd published later in 2017 about that painful time." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Hur, in his report, detailed how his findings about Biden were far different from those of special counsel Jack Smith about Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Hur, in his report, detailed how his findings about Biden were far different from those of special counsel Jack Smith about Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Republicans, meanwhile, insisted Trump was being unfairly singled out and vilified, questioning how the two cases were really all that different." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But the Democrats quickly bored into Hur, who was handpicked by Biden's own attorney general, suggesting he was a political partisan doing Republican bidding via his written slights about Biden's age and memory." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "But the Democrats quickly bored into Hur, who was handpicked by Biden's own attorney general, suggesting he was a political partisan doing Republican bidding via his written slights about Biden's age and memory." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Republicans argued Biden was being given a pass by his own Justice Department and that Trump had been unfairly victimized by prosecutors." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But the transcript suggests that the exchange was less revealing about Biden's memory than Hur let on, and that Biden's recollection of it during his emotional White House remarks was incorrect." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "But the transcript suggests that the exchange was less revealing about Biden's memory than Hur let on, and that Biden's recollection of it during his emotional White House remarks was incorrect." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Lawmakers turned a Tuesday hearing on President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-ruer Donald Trump, as a newly released transcript of Biden's testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Lawmakers turned a Tuesday hearing on President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-ruer Donald Trump, as a newly released transcript of Biden's testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Lawmakers turned a Tuesday hearing on President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-ruer Donald Trump, as a newly released transcript of Biden's testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Democrats, for their part, stressed Biden's cooperation in the investigation and strongly contrasted that with the separate criminal case against Trump, who refused to return classified documents requested by the National Archives that he had at his Florida estate." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Democrats, for their part, stressed Biden's cooperation in the investigation and strongly contrasted that with the separate criminal case against Trump, who refused to return classified documents requested by the National Archives that he had at his Florida estate." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Trump hyped Tuesday as a Big day in Congress for the Biden Documents Hoax, while casting himself as being unfairly targeted." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Trump, by contrast, is accused of enlisting the help of aides and lawyers to conceal the documents from the government and seeking to have potentially incriminating evidence destroyed." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump's being prosecuted for exactly the same act that you documented Joe Biden committed, he told Hur." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Donald Trump's being prosecuted for exactly the same act that you documented Joe Biden committed, he told Hur." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Democrats started off their questioning by hitting hard at the contrast between Biden and Trump, focusing more on the latter's criminal case." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Democrats started off their questioning by hitting hard at the contrast between Biden and Trump, focusing more on the latter's criminal case." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
67% : "The need to show my work was especially strong here," Hur said.46% : The hearing played out as both Biden and Trump were on the cusp of claiming their parties' nominations, and the party lines calcified almost immediately over which leader meant to hang on to classified documents, or rather, who "willfully" retained them -- and who didn't.
31% : Hur, in his report, detailed how his findings about Biden were far different from those of special counsel Jack Smith about Trump, who has been charged with willfully retaining classified documents.
29% : Republicans, meanwhile, insisted Trump was being unfairly singled out and vilified, questioning how the two cases were really all that different.
22% : Republicans argued Biden was being given a pass by his own Justice Department and that Trump had been unfairly victimized by prosecutors.
19% : Democrats, for their part, stressed Biden's cooperation in the investigation and strongly contrasted that with the separate criminal case against Trump, who refused to return classified documents requested by the National Archives that he had at his Florida estate.
19% : Trump hyped Tuesday as a "Big day in Congress for the Biden Documents Hoax," while casting himself as being unfairly targeted.
16% : Trump, by contrast, is accused of enlisting the help of aides and lawyers to conceal the documents from the government and seeking to have potentially incriminating evidence destroyed.
12% : ""Donald Trump's being prosecuted for exactly the same act that you documented Joe Biden committed," he told Hur.
5% : Democrats started off their questioning by hitting hard at the contrast between Biden and Trump, focusing more on the latter's criminal case.
*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.