New York AG says Trump's company misled banks, tax officials | US | Journal Gazette

Jan 20, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

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.

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"The Trump Organization, James' office said, overstated the value of land donations made in New York and California on paperwork submitted to the IRS to justify several million dollars in tax deductions."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Investigators, the court papers said, have developed significant additional evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations to obtain a host of economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"He held his first rally of the new year last weekend in Arizona, where he slammed the monsters that are using law enforcement for political retribution at the local, state and federal level and aired an anti-James video that highlighted her past anti-Trump statements."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Weisselberg pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he and the company evaded taxes on fringe benefits paid to executives."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In the court papers, James' office said evidence shows that Trump's company:"
Positive
14% Conservative
"The disclosure comes as Trump has been laying the groundwork for a potential comeback campaign for president in 2024."
Positive
6% Conservative
"The disclosures about the attorney general's investigation came the same day as Trump ally Rudy Giuliani and other members of the legal team that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election were subpoenaed by a House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"She defrauded New Yorkers by basing her entire candidacy on a promise to get Trump at all costs without having seen a shred of evidence and in violation of every conceivable ethical rule, they wrote."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"One judge previously sided with James on an earlier request to question another Trump son, Trump Organization executive Eric Trump, who ultimately sat for a deposition but declined to answer some questions."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The court documents contain the attorney general's most detailed accounting yet of a long-ruing investigation into allegations that Trump's company exaggerated the value of its holdings to impress lenders or misstated what land was worth to slash its tax burden."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"James' office detailed its findings in a court motion seeking to force Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. to comply with subpoenas seeking their testimony."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"James' office detailed its findings in a court motion seeking to force Trump, his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. to comply with subpoenas seeking their testimony."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"In a court filing late Tuesday, lawyers for Attorney General Letitia James told a judge they have not decided whether to bring a lawsuit in coection with the allegations, but that investigators should be allowed to question Trump and his two eldest children under oath as part of the civil probe."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Trump's legal team has sought to block the subpoenas, and it asked a federal court last month to put an end to James' investigation."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"When giving estimates of Trump's wealth, the company misreported the size of his Manhattan penthouse, saying it was nearly three times its actual size -- a difference in value of about $200 million, James' office said, citing deposition testimony from Trump's longtime financial chief Allen Weisselberg, who was charged last year with tax fraud in a parallel criminal investigation."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"When giving estimates of Trump's wealth, the company misreported the size of his Manhattan penthouse, saying it was nearly three times its actual size -- a difference in value of about $200 million, James' office said, citing deposition testimony from Trump's longtime financial chief Allen Weisselberg, who was charged last year with tax fraud in a parallel criminal investigation."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The New York attorney general says her investigators have uncovered evidence that former President Donald Trump's company used fraudulent or misleading valuations of its golf clubs, skyscrapers and other property to get loans and tax benefits."
Negative
-44% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The Trump Organization, James' office said, overstated the value of land donations made in New York and California on paperwork submitted to the IRS to justify several million dollars in tax deductions.
46% : Investigators, the court papers said, have "developed significant additional evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent or misleading asset valuations to obtain a host of economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions."
44% : He held his first rally of the new year last weekend in Arizona, where he slammed the "monsters that are using law enforcement for political retribution at the local, state and federal level" and aired an anti-James video that highlighted her past anti-Trump statements.
42% : Weisselberg pleaded not guilty to charges alleging he and the company evaded taxes on fringe benefits paid to executives.

*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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