Roanoke Times Article RatingHow a hush money scandal tied to a porn star led to Trump's first criminal trial
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "Within 70 days, special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump in Florida with keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Fifty-four days after that, Smith charged Trump in Washington with attempting to subvert the 2020 election in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump, reeling from the October surprise of the never-before-seen 2005 Access Hollywood tape in which he boasted about grabbing women's genitals, then directed Cohen to arrange the payment to Daniels, who was agitating to come forward with her claims that they had a sexual encounter at a 2006 celebrity golf outing in Lake Tahoe, California, according to the indictment." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Two weeks later, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta charged Trump with racketeering and other charges in a similar election subversion case." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "It heard from Cohen, now an outspoken critic of his ex-boss, and other witnesses, including the former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, which helped Trump by buying some negative stories and suppressing them in a practice known as catch-and-kill." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "They would revisit it, then abandon it again as they pursued Trump on multiple fronts over the last five years, going to the Supreme Court twice to obtain his tax records and prosecuting his company and a top executive for tax fraud." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "They later implicated Trump as directing Cohen's efforts, obliquely identifying him in court papers as Individual-1." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Tags Dcc Wire Apmediaapi Donald Trump Michael Cohen Stormy Daniels Courts Campaign Finance Indictments Legal Proceedings Voting Elections Scandals Politics Trials U.s." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "But on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Trump feared the story, which he says is false, would cost him votes." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Jeremy Saland, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney who now works as a criminal defense lawyer, said that because of the magnitude of the case, Bragg must believe he has a more wiable case against Trump." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER - Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) -- It was the kind of tawdry tale that Donald Trump might have relished before politics: a porn actor claiming they had had sex." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Trump denies the allegations, saying it is prosecutors who are engaging in election interference and a witch hunt." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Now, after years of fits and starts before an indictment last year, Trump is set to stand trial Monday in New York on state charges related to the very sex scandal that he and his aides strove to hide." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "Before the Daniels payment, prosecutors said, Cohen arranged for the National Enquirer to pay $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she had a monthslong affair with Trump." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Trump has tried repeatedly to get the New York trial delayed as well." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "The grand jury voted to indict on March 30, 2023, on charges that Trump had falsified his company's internal records to obscure the true nature of payments made to Cohen to reimburse him for his work covering up potentially embarrassing stories." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "The tabloid also paid $30,000 to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Within 70 days, special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump in Florida with keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Fifty-four days after that, Smith charged Trump in Washington with attempting to subvert the 2020 election in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Barring a last-minute delay, it will be the first of Trump's four criminal cases to go to trial." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our PodcastsIn a court filing, Bragg's office framed the prosecution as another of Trump's election interference cases, accusing the Republican of orchestrating an expansive and corrupt criminal scheme to conceal damaging information from the voting public and undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Trump's arraignment, five days after the indictment, was a spectacle attracting hordes of news media, supporters and protesters." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "After Trump's New York indictment, others followed in rapid succession." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Jury selection is set to start Monday in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In the indictment paperwork, prosecutors told of a multipart scheme dating to the early days of Trump's 2016 campaign to suppress stories alleging he had extramarital sexual encounters." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "While the New York case has progressed at a rapid clip, Trump's other criminal cases seem increasingly unlikely to come to trial before the November election." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It is arguably the least perilous of Trump's indictments, with others involving government secrets and threats to democracy." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In the ensuing years, the saga of sex, politics and coverups largely faded from the headlines, eclipsed by an investigation into Russian election interference, Trump's two impeachments and allegations that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election and hoarded classified documents after leaving office." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "They would revisit it, then abandon it again as they pursued Trump on multiple fronts over the last five years, going to the Supreme Court twice to obtain his tax records and prosecuting his company and a top executive for tax fraud." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In its allegations of hefty payments to stifle an election-year sex story, the case bears some cautionary parallels to the Justice Department's unsuccessful prosecution of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "They later implicated Trump as directing Cohen's efforts, obliquely identifying him in court papers as Individual-1." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Former Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. examined the circumstances of a $130,000 payout that Cohen made to Daniels and declined to take the politically explosive step of seeking Trump's indictment." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Edwards was ultimately acquitted on one charge while a jury deadlocked on five other counts." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Tags Dcc Wire Apmediaapi Donald Trump Michael Cohen Stormy Daniels Courts Campaign Finance Indictments Legal Proceedings Voting Elections Scandals Politics Trials U.s." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Trump feared the story, which he says is false, would cost him votes." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Jeremy Saland, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney who now works as a criminal defense lawyer, said that because of the magnitude of the case, Bragg must believe he has a more wiable case against Trump." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER - Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) -- It was the kind of tawdry tale that Donald Trump might have relished before politics: a porn actor claiming they had had sex." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Trump denies the allegations, saying it is prosecutors who are engaging in election interference and a witch hunt." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Many details of the case have been public since 2018, when federal prosecutors charged Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen with campaign finance crimes in coection with a scheme to bury not only Daniels' claims, but other potentially damaging stories from Trump's playboy past." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Many details of the case have been public since 2018, when federal prosecutors charged Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen with campaign finance crimes in coection with a scheme to bury not only Daniels' claims, but other potentially damaging stories from Trump's playboy past." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Now, after years of fits and starts before an indictment last year, Trump is set to stand trial Monday in New York on state charges related to the very sex scandal that he and his aides strove to hide." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Before the Daniels payment, prosecutors said, Cohen arranged for the National Enquirer to pay $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she had a monthslong affair with Trump." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Trump has tried repeatedly to get the New York trial delayed as well." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The grand jury voted to indict on March 30, 2023, on charges that Trump had falsified his company's internal records to obscure the true nature of payments made to Cohen to reimburse him for his work covering up potentially embarrassing stories." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "The tabloid also paid $30,000 to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
53% : Within 70 days, special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump in Florida with keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.50% : Fifty-four days after that, Smith charged Trump in Washington with attempting to subvert the 2020 election in the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
46% : Trump, reeling from the October surprise of the never-before-seen 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape in which he boasted about grabbing women's genitals, then directed Cohen to arrange the payment to Daniels, who was agitating to come forward with her claims that they had a sexual encounter at a 2006 celebrity golf outing in Lake Tahoe, California, according to the indictment.
40% : Two weeks later, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta charged Trump with racketeering and other charges in a similar election subversion case.
37% : It heard from Cohen, now an outspoken critic of his ex-boss, and other witnesses, including the former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, which helped Trump by buying some negative stories and suppressing them in a practice known as "catch-and-kill.
34% : They would revisit it, then abandon it again as they pursued Trump on multiple fronts over the last five years, going to the Supreme Court twice to obtain his tax records and prosecuting his company and a top executive for tax fraud.
33% : They later implicated Trump as directing Cohen's efforts, obliquely identifying him in court papers as "Individual-1."
33% : Tags Dcc Wire Apmediaapi Donald Trump Michael Cohen Stormy Daniels Courts Campaign Finance Indictments Legal Proceedings Voting Elections Scandals Politics Trials U.s.
29% : But on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Trump feared the story, which he says is false, would cost him votes.
26% : Jeremy Saland, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney who now works as a criminal defense lawyer, said that because of the magnitude of the case, Bragg must believe he has a more winnable case against Trump.
25% : By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ERIC TUCKER - Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) -- It was the kind of tawdry tale that Donald Trump might have relished before politics: a porn actor claiming they had had sex.
25% : Trump denies the allegations, saying it is prosecutors who are engaging in "election interference" and a "witch hunt."
23% : Now, after years of fits and starts before an indictment last year, Trump is set to stand trial Monday in New York on state charges related to the very sex scandal that he and his aides strove to hide.
22% : Before the Daniels payment, prosecutors said, Cohen arranged for the National Enquirer to pay $150,000 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she had a monthslong affair with Trump.
22% : Trump has tried repeatedly to get the New York trial delayed as well.
21% : "The grand jury voted to indict on March 30, 2023, on charges that Trump had falsified his company's internal records to obscure the true nature of payments made to Cohen to reimburse him for his work covering up potentially embarrassing stories.
19% : The tabloid also paid $30,000 to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock.
*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.