Full jury seated in Trump's hush money trial; man sets himself on fire outside NYC courthouse

  • Bias Rating

    82% Extremely Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    100% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    N/A

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-44% Negative

  •   Conservative
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"Trump would almost certainly appeal any conviction."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Another prospective juror got Trump's attention when he mentioned that he follows the White House Instagram account, including when Trump was in office."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"I wouldn't want someone who feels like this to judge my case either."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The judge has ruled that their names will be known only to prosecutors, Trump and their legal teams."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Prosecutors say Trump obscured the true nature of the payments in internal records when his company reimbursed Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 and is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels, and his lawyers argue that the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"As more potential jurors were questioned Friday, Trump appeared to lean over at the defense table, scribbling on some papers and exchanging notes with one of his lawyers."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Trump shot a grin at one man who was asked if he was married and joked that he had been trying to find a wife in his spare time, but it's not working."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Trump has spent the week sitting quietly in the courtroom as lawyers press potential jurors on their views about him in a search for any bias that could preclude them from hearing the case."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Appeals and legal wrangling have caused delays in the other three cases charging Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 election results and with illegally hoarding classified documents."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors."
Negative
-62% Liberal
"The trial centers on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, made to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the final days of the 2016 race."
Negative
-68% Liberal
"The trial will place Trump in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks, forcing him to juggle his dual role as criminal defendant and political candidate against the backdrop of his hotly contested race against President Joe Biden."
Negative
-76% Liberal
"Manhattan prosecutors have said they want to question Trump about his recent civil fraud trial that resulted in a $454 million judgment after a judge found Trump had lied about his wealth for years."
Negative
-84% Liberal
"Trump would almost certainly appeal any conviction."
Positive
0% Conservative
"He occasionally perked up and gazed at the jury box, including when one would-be juror said he had volunteered in a get out the vote effort for Hillary Clinton's campaign."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Another prospective juror got Trump's attention when he mentioned that he follows the White House Instagram account, including when Trump was in office."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Another prospective juror got Trump's attention when he mentioned that he follows the White House Instagram account, including when Trump was in office."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Judge Juan Merchan is also expected to hold a hearing Friday to consider a request from prosecutors to bring up Trump's prior legal entanglements if he takes the stand in the hush money case."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The fire happened in a park across the street from the courthouse that has been a gathering point for protesters and media outlets covering jury selection for Trump's trial."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"The judge has ruled that their names will be known only to prosecutors, Trump and their legal teams."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"NEW YORK -- A person who was on fire in a park outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump's hush money trial is taking place has been rushed away on a stretcher."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Where each Trump case standsClassified documents caseElection interferenceHush-money schemeGeorgia election indictmentCivil cases"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"A full jury of 12 people and six alternates had been seated in Trump's hush money case just minutes earlier, drawing the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president a step closer to opening statements."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Prosecutors say Trump obscured the true nature of the payments in internal records when his company reimbursed Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 and is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Trump has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels, and his lawyers argue that the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"The fire was extinguished Friday shortly after a jury and alternates had been seated in Trump's criminal case."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"As more potential jurors were questioned Friday, Trump appeared to lean over at the defense table, scribbling on some papers and exchanging notes with one of his lawyers."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Trump shot a grin at one man who was asked if he was married and joked that he had been trying to find a wife in his spare time, but it's not working."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Trump has spent the week sitting quietly in the courtroom as lawyers press potential jurors on their views about him in a search for any bias that could preclude them from hearing the case."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Appeals and legal wrangling have caused delays in the other three cases charging Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 election results and with illegally hoarding classified documents."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"The trial centers on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, made to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the final days of the 2016 race."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"The trial centers on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, made to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the final days of the 2016 race."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"The trial will place Trump in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks, forcing him to juggle his dual role as criminal defendant and political candidate against the backdrop of his hotly contested race against President Joe Biden."
Positive
6% Conservative
"The trial will place Trump in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks, forcing him to juggle his dual role as criminal defendant and political candidate against the backdrop of his hotly contested race against President Joe Biden."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Manhattan prosecutors have said they want to question Trump about his recent civil fraud trial that resulted in a $454 million judgment after a judge found Trump had lied about his wealth for years."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Manhattan prosecutors have said they want to question Trump about his recent civil fraud trial that resulted in a $454 million judgment after a judge found Trump had lied about his wealth for years."
Negative
-56% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump would almost certainly appeal any conviction.
47% : Another prospective juror got Trump's attention when he mentioned that he follows the White House Instagram account, including when Trump was in office.
46% : I wouldn't want someone who feels like this to judge my case either.
41% : The judge has ruled that their names will be known only to prosecutors, Trump and their legal teams.
37% : Prosecutors say Trump obscured the true nature of the payments in internal records when his company reimbursed Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2018 and is expected to be a star witness for the prosecution.
36% : Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
35% : Trump has denied having a sexual encounter with Daniels, and his lawyers argue that the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses.
33% : "As more potential jurors were questioned Friday, Trump appeared to lean over at the defense table, scribbling on some papers and exchanging notes with one of his lawyers.
33% : Trump shot a grin at one man who was asked if he was married and joked that he had been trying to find a wife in his spare time, but "it's not working.
32% : Trump has spent the week sitting quietly in the courtroom as lawyers press potential jurors on their views about him in a search for any bias that could preclude them from hearing the case.
21% : Appeals and legal wrangling have caused delays in the other three cases charging Trump with plotting to overturn the 2020 election results and with illegally hoarding classified documents.
19% : Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
16% : The trial centers on a $130,000 payment that Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and personal fixer, made to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump from becoming public in the final days of the 2016 race.
12% : The trial will place Trump in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks, forcing him to juggle his dual role as criminal defendant and political candidate against the backdrop of his hotly contested race against President Joe Biden.
8% : Manhattan prosecutors have said they want to question Trump about his recent civil fraud trial that resulted in a $454 million judgment after a judge found Trump had lied about his wealth for years.

*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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