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Donald Trump says he'll designate antifa as a terrorist group but offers few details

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  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -44% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump, who is on a state visit to the United Kingdom, made the announcement in a social media post shortly before 1:30 a.m. Thursday local time.
53% : "It's something I would do, yeah," Trump said.
44% : In an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said he would pursue a domestic terrorism designation for antifa if such a move had the support of Attorney General Pam Bondi and others in his Cabinet.
30% : In 2020, in the midst of the George Floyd protests, Trump also raised the idea of designating antifa as a terror organization.

*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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