Washington Monthly Article RatingRefusing to Prosecute Trump Is a Political Act | Washington Monthly
Mar 23, 2022 View Original Article
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| "Trump considered the Department of Justice and the attorney general his personal attorneys, making countless attempts to use federal law enforcement to aid his own ambition." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Trump considered the Department of Justice and the attorney general his personal attorneys, making countless attempts to use federal law enforcement to aid his own ambition." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "If the facts warrant prosecuting Donald Trump and anyone in his circle, they should be charged." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The second possibility is that the Department of Justice hasn't prosecuted Trump because of political pressure." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "If Trump isn't held accountable, why would any future president obey these or any other laws?" | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Their anger is particularly directed toward the House January 6 committee, which concluded that there is adequate evidence to implicate Trump and several of his allies in serious crimes." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Republicans had the chance to convict Trump of the high crime of leading an attempted coup on January 6, 2021, and prevent him from seeking the presidency again." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Second, Republicans themselves blocked the normal accountability mechanisms under the Constitution from applying to Trump." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It is possible that prosecutors do not believe there is enough evidence against Trump to convince a jury of his guilt." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "More than 1,000 former prosecutors signed a letter stating that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "More than 1,000 former prosecutors signed a letter stating that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Perhaps prosecutors feel there is not enough evidence to show that Trump knew explicitly that he had lost the election." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Perhaps they feel Trump has enough plausible deniability in terms of explicitly sending his mob to ransack and threaten Congress on that day." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Unfortunately, Republican elected officials are lobbing heavy threats at both the DOJ and Democrats, insisting that prosecuting Trump over January 6 (or anything else) would be seen as a political act -- and that they would seek revenge." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "There is clear, prima facie evidence that Trump obstructed justice in the Robert Mueller investigation." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "There is clear, prima facie evidence that Trump obstructed justice in the Robert Mueller investigation." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But there is a deeper question as to why Attorney General Merrick Garland and the DOJ have not prosecuted Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "There is also ample evidence that Trump committed other crimes, ranging from campaign finance violations to Hatch Act violations to violations of classification law and presidential records law." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But if Garland is succumbing to either internal or external pressure to avoid charging Trump out of fears of civil conflict, or the appearance of political motivation, that would be a grave error -- not prosecutorial discretion but prosecutorial dereliction." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Reports that the Manhattan district attorney has essentially given up on prosecuting Trump underscores how quickly a criminal case can deflate because of a lack of will." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "When Republicans had the chance to convict Trump for the high crime of attempting to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- by threatening to withhold weapons from Ukraine in exchange for Zelensky framing his domestic political opponent, Joe Biden -- the GOP refused." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "When Republicans had the chance to convict Trump for the high crime of attempting to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- by threatening to withhold weapons from Ukraine in exchange for Zelensky framing his domestic political opponent, Joe Biden -- the GOP refused." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The senior Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissma wrote convincingly that Trump should be prosecuted for obstruction." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The senior Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissma wrote convincingly that Trump should be prosecuted for obstruction." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Trump and Republicans claimed vindication from the Mueller Report for failing to find a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign despite ample circumstantial evidence to the contrary -- but that is largely because Trump obstructed the investigation on multiple fronts." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Trump and Republicans claimed vindication from the Mueller Report for failing to find a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign despite ample circumstantial evidence to the contrary -- but that is largely because Trump obstructed the investigation on multiple fronts." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Trump and Republicans claimed vindication from the Mueller Report for failing to find a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign despite ample circumstantial evidence to the contrary -- but that is largely because Trump obstructed the investigation on multiple fronts." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
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58% : Trump considered the Department of Justice and the attorney general his personal attorneys, making countless attempts to use federal law enforcement to aid his own ambition.*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.