How Michael Cohen may help Trump walk free in Stormy Daniels case

  • Bias Rating

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  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

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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

-16% Negative

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"Trump will make history on Monday by becoming the first former president to go on trial."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Newsweek sought email comment from attorneys representing Cohen and Trump on Friday."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The prosecution will try to prove that, before the 2016 presidential election, Trump paid two women -- adult film star Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal -- not to reveal his alleged affairs with them."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Trump has strongly denied all allegations and says he is the target of a political witch hunt."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"The District Attorney's Office is relying on a former porn star and a felon and admitted liar in Michael Cohen as their star witnesses, so skeptics on the panel help Trump, he said."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"He is also accused of making payments to a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed to know that Trump allegedly fathered a child with another woman."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"Kerwick said that the defense will be screening the jury to find out if any of them had read Michael Cohen's memoir, Disloyal, about the time he served as Trump's attorney."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Trump will make history on Monday by becoming the first former president to go on trial."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Newsweek sought email comment from attorneys representing Cohen and Trump on Friday."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The evidence presented by former lawyer Michael Cohen may prove distasteful for some jurors in former President Donald Trump's upcoming hush money case, several legal experts have told Newsweek."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"She said they will also want to remove anyone who had read People V. Donald Trump, written by Manhattan prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, about his time investigating Trump's financial dealings."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"In both cases, Trump's alleged motive was to avoid scandal while he was campaigning against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidency."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"In both cases, Trump's alleged motive was to avoid scandal while he was campaigning against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidency."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The prosecution will try to prove that, before the 2016 presidential election, Trump paid two women -- adult film star Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal -- not to reveal his alleged affairs with them."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Trump has strongly denied all allegations and says he is the target of a political witch hunt."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The District Attorney's Office is relying on a former porn star and a felon and admitted liar in Michael Cohen as their star witnesses, so skeptics on the panel help Trump, he said."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"He is also accused of making payments to a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed to know that Trump allegedly fathered a child with another woman."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Trump will make history on Monday by becoming the first former president to go on trial.
39% : Newsweek sought email comment from attorneys representing Cohen and Trump on Friday.
22% : The prosecution will try to prove that, before the 2016 presidential election, Trump paid two women -- adult film star Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal -- not to reveal his alleged affairs with them.
22% : Trump has strongly denied all allegations and says he is the target of a political witch hunt.
21% : The District Attorney's Office is relying on a former porn star and a felon and admitted liar in Michael Cohen as their star witnesses, so skeptics on the panel help Trump," he said.
20% : He is also accused of making payments to a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed to know that Trump allegedly fathered a child with another woman.

*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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