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Trump points to 'major' new investigation into people on 'the left' following Kirk slaying

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  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -38% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : In the aftermath of the shooting that claimed conservative activist Charlie Kirk's life, Donald Trump had an opportunity to deliver a unifying message.
47% : Just as serious, if not more so, are the signals Trump is sending to the right.
39% : Kirk's death has created an important leadership test for Trump, and he keeps finding new ways to flunk that test.
29% : "They're already under major investigation," Trump added.
27% : " The scripted comments suggested that Trump was eager to exploit Kirk's death to use the power of the state to go after his political opponents.
26% : "A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left [are] already under investigation," Trump said four days after Charlie Kirk's death.
26% : Trump added soon after that his advice to the right is to get "revenge at the voter box," though he quickly added, "But unfortunately we don't have so many ballot boxes because they have mail-in in voting, which is totally rigged.
20% : Trump has a track record of alerting the public to investigations that only exist in his imagination, so it's certainly possible that he was lying about this, too.

*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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