Trump Not Immune From Prosecution in Election Interference Case, Court Rules

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

11% Positive

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"Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, which would send the question to the nation's highest court."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Sometimes you just have to live with 'great but slightly imperfect,' Trump added."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Trump appealed her decision, and in December the Supreme Court declined a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith for an expedited ruling on the question of presidential immunity, instead sending the president's appeal back to the lower court."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump doubled down on his assertion that presidents should just be able to do whatever they want without legal consequences in a Truth Social post last month."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"EVEN EVENTS THAT 'CROSS THE LINE' MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD, Trump wrote."
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-40% Liberal
"In a ruling issued Tuesday, the three-judge panel, which heard oral arguments in the case last month, determined that Trump is not shielded from prosecution for potential crimes committed in office related to the subversion of the 2020 election."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Trump sought this legal get out jail free card as a way to undermine the Justice Department's ongoing election interference case against him."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"In August, Trump was charged with offenses related to his efforts to sabotage Joe Biden's 2020 election, including his role in fomenting the violent riot that took place in the Capitol on Jan. 6."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, which would send the question to the nation's highest court."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Sometimes you just have to live with 'great but slightly imperfect,' Trump added."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"During oral arguments before D.C.'s appeals courts, Trump's attorneys claimed that -- under their extremely convoluted interpretation of existing law -- that a president could only be tried for a crime committed while in office only if he was first impeached and convicted by the Senate."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Fani Willis Cops to Relationship With Prosecutor on Trump CaseDonald Trump's bid for presidential immunity in his federal election interference case has been summarily rejected by D.C.'s Federal Court of Appeals -- and is now likely headed to the Supreme Court."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Trump appealed her decision, and in December the Supreme Court declined a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith for an expedited ruling on the question of presidential immunity, instead sending the president's appeal back to the lower court."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"As it stands, the conflict over immunity could delay the official start of Trump's trial, which is scheduled to begin on March 4.D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the Justice Department's case against the former president, had previously ruled against Trump's bid to have the charges against him thrown out."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"As it stands, the conflict over immunity could delay the official start of Trump's trial, which is scheduled to begin on March 4.D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the Justice Department's case against the former president, had previously ruled against Trump's bid to have the charges against him thrown out."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Trump doubled down on his assertion that presidents should just be able to do whatever they want without legal consequences in a Truth Social post last month."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"EVEN EVENTS THAT 'CROSS THE LINE' MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD, Trump wrote."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant, the panel wrote."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant, the panel wrote."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"In a ruling issued Tuesday, the three-judge panel, which heard oral arguments in the case last month, determined that Trump is not shielded from prosecution for potential crimes committed in office related to the subversion of the 2020 election."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump sought this legal get out jail free card as a way to undermine the Justice Department's ongoing election interference case against him."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"In August, Trump was charged with offenses related to his efforts to sabotage Joe Biden's 2020 election, including his role in fomenting the violent riot that took place in the Capitol on Jan. 6."
Positive
0% Conservative
"In August, Trump was charged with offenses related to his efforts to sabotage Joe Biden's 2020 election, including his role in fomenting the violent riot that took place in the Capitol on Jan. 6."
Positive
0% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "Trump is expected to appeal the ruling, which would send the question to the nation's highest court.
43% : "Sometimes you just have to live with 'great but slightly imperfect,'" Trump added.
36% : Trump appealed her decision, and in December the Supreme Court declined a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith for an expedited ruling on the question of presidential immunity, instead sending the president's appeal back to the lower court.
33% : Trump doubled down on his assertion that presidents should just be able to do whatever they want without legal consequences in a Truth Social post last month.
30% : "EVEN EVENTS THAT 'CROSS THE LINE' MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD," Trump wrote.
24% : In a ruling issued Tuesday, the three-judge panel, which heard oral arguments in the case last month, determined that Trump is not shielded from prosecution for potential crimes committed in office related to the subversion of the 2020 election.
24% : "Trump sought this legal "get out jail free" card as a way to undermine the Justice Department's ongoing election interference case against him.
14% : In August, Trump was charged with offenses related to his efforts to sabotage Joe Biden's 2020 election, including his role in fomenting the violent riot that took place in the Capitol on Jan. 6.

*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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