Portland Press Herald Article RatingStandout moments from the hearing on the Biden classified documents probe
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "But that didn't stop Trump from being a central character in Tuesday's hearing." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "I can tell you that partisan politics had no place whatsoever in my work, Hur said." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Voters' views of Trump and Biden are deeply entrenched after years in the public eye." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "And he rejected Johnson's suggestion that he was trying to get Trump elected because he wants to become a federal judge or return to the Justice Department." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "But it delivered plenty of talk about the president's memory -- faulty, in Hur's assessment -- about the laws surrounding classified material and, of course, lots of discussion about Donald Trump." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Trump, by contrast, is accused of knowingly storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, obstructing FBI efforts to get them back, soliciting the help of aides to conceal the documents from the government and seeking to have incriminating evidence destroyed." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Nadler responded with a sizzle reel of Trump struggling to remember things or messing up names." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "But that didn't stop Trump from being a central character in Tuesday's hearing." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "And there was the story of his son Beau's death, which helped propel Biden back into public life and inspired the title of his memoir, Promise Me, Dad." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Biden gave Hur a photographic overview of his home, long discourses on his political life and humorous asides about his sports car." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Biden's team returned the documents after they were discovered, and the president cooperated with the investigation by voluntarily sitting for an interview and consenting to searches of his homes." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Here are a half dozen notable moments from Hur's testimony, the questioning surrounding it and the newly released transcript of Biden's fall interview with the investigator:Special Counsel Robert Hur listens to recorded remarks of President Biden during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Here are a half dozen notable moments from Hur's testimony, the questioning surrounding it and the newly released transcript of Biden's fall interview with the investigator:Special Counsel Robert Hur listens to recorded remarks of President Biden during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "SAME OLD STORYBiden has a stable of well-worn stories from his life and career that he uses when he speaks publicly." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "As Beau Biden was dying of brain cancer, he asked for a minute of his father's time, Biden recalled." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The transcript of his interviews with the special counsel shows how Biden revisited some of his most oft-told tales with the investigators who questioned him." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Voters' views of Trump and Biden are deeply entrenched after years in the public eye." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Voters' views of Trump and Biden are deeply entrenched after years in the public eye." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEMORYThe release of the transcript of Biden's interview with Hur and the special counsel's testimony were unlikely to change anyone's preconceived notions on the 81-year-old president's mental stamina and fitness for office." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "And then a young woman got killed, and I spoke to her mom, Biden said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, played a lengthy clip of a Biden press conference where he responded to Hur's report but accidentally referred to Egypt's leader as the president of Mexico." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, played a lengthy clip of a Biden press conference where he responded to Hur's report but accidentally referred to Egypt's leader as the president of Mexico." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Republican lawmakers appeared repeatedly aghast that Hur could have recommended against prosecution, particularly given the storage of classified documents in a garage as well as a recorded conversation in which Biden can be heard telling his ghostwriter that he had just found all the classified stuff downstairs." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Already the country's oldest president, Biden is seeking another term that if served out would have him at age 86 when he left office." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Related Headlines Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleInvalid username/password." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "It's a high standard that investigators in some other prominent probes have not met, such as in the Hillary Clinton email inquiry." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Biden repeatedly demonstrated a fuzzy recollection of some dates in his interviews with Hur, including the year of his son's death and the years of his service as vice president." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementOther Democrats also saw an opportunity to bring up Trump's legal troubles beyond those involving classified documents." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But it also suggests Hur's exchange with Biden about his son was less revealing about the president's memory than the special counsel had indicated when he cited the episode as an example of the president's confusion." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Tuesday's hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Biden's handling of classified information, broke little new legal or political ground." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "And he rejected Johnson's suggestion that he was trying to get Trump elected because he wants to become a federal judge or return to the Justice Department." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Nathan Howard/Associated PressDEMOCRATS ON THE ATTACKDemocrats sought to use Hur's Republican bona fides to paint him as a political partisan who set out to smear Biden to hurt the president's reelection campaign." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The interview transcript showed that Hur never asked Biden about the timing of his son Beau's death, as the president had angrily accused him of doing." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Though Hur concluded Biden should not face criminal charges, the special counsel also impugned Biden's age and competence, saying in his report that the president would probably come across to jurors as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Though Hur concluded Biden should not face criminal charges, the special counsel also impugned Biden's age and competence, saying in his report that the president would probably come across to jurors as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "But it delivered plenty of talk about the president's memory -- faulty, in Hur's assessment -- about the laws surrounding classified material and, of course, lots of discussion about Donald Trump." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Democrats time and again invoked the criminal case charging the ex-president with illegally hoarding classified documents and refusing to give them back as a way to a distinguish his behavior from that of Biden." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, asserted that Hur had found the elements of a criminal violation but had given the president a pass because Biden was senile." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, asserted that Hur had found the elements of a criminal violation but had given the president a pass because Biden was senile." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Johnson accused Hur of slamming Biden to try to boost Trump's campaign, saying Hur knew his characterization of the president's age and memory would play into the Republicans' narrative that the president is unfit for office because he's senile." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Johnson accused Hur of slamming Biden to try to boost Trump's campaign, saying Hur knew his characterization of the president's age and memory would play into the Republicans' narrative that the president is unfit for office because he's senile." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "TRUMP ON TRIALTrump, the former president and Biden's expected opponent in this year's election, was nowhere in the committee room and the prosecutor who investigated him, Jack Smith, wasn't on the committee witness list." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "TRUMP ON TRIALTrump, the former president and Biden's expected opponent in this year's election, was nowhere in the committee room and the prosecutor who investigated him, Jack Smith, wasn't on the committee witness list." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, asked Hur whether he uncovered evidence that Biden paid hush money to a porn actress or former Playboy model." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, asked Hur whether he uncovered evidence that Biden paid hush money to a porn actress or former Playboy model." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Trump, by contrast, is accused of knowingly storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, obstructing FBI efforts to get them back, soliciting the help of aides to conceal the documents from the government and seeking to have incriminating evidence destroyed." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not.Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges, Nadler said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Nadler responded with a sizzle reel of Trump struggling to remember things or messing up names." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Nadler responded with a sizzle reel of Trump struggling to remember things or messing up names." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
60% : But that didn't stop Trump from being a central character in Tuesday's hearing.52% : "I can tell you that partisan politics had no place whatsoever in my work," Hur said.
48% : Voters' views of Trump and Biden are deeply entrenched after years in the public eye.
36% : And he rejected Johnson's suggestion that he was trying to get Trump elected because he wants to become a federal judge or return to the Justice Department.
32% : But it delivered plenty of talk about the president's memory -- faulty, in Hur's assessment -- about the laws surrounding classified material and, of course, lots of discussion about Donald Trump.
19% : Trump, by contrast, is accused of knowingly storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate, obstructing FBI efforts to get them back, soliciting the help of aides to conceal the documents from the government and seeking to have incriminating evidence destroyed.
18% : Related Hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battleDemocratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York asked rhetorically why Trump was charged but Biden was not."Not because of some vast conspiracy, not because the so-called 'deep state' was out to get him, but because former President Trump was fundamentally incapable of taking advantage of even one of the many, many chances he was given to avoid those charges," Nadler said.
18% : "Nadler responded with a sizzle reel of Trump struggling to remember things or messing up names.
*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.