Two jurors excused in Trump trial as judge struggles to find jury

Apr 18, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-7% Negative

  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"The prosecution on Monday sought a $3,000 fine against Trump over three Truth Social posts."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Inside the court, there's broad acknowledgement of the futility in trying to find jurors without knowledge of Trump, with a prosecutor this week saying that lawyers were not looking for people who had been living under a rock for the past eight years."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he feared could hurt his 2016 campaign."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"The allegations focus on payoffs to two women, porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump years earlier, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Trump says none of these supposed sexual encounters occurred."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"Prosecutors on Thursday also asked Merchan to sanction Trump over seven more social media posts they say violate a gag order that bars Trump from attacking witnesses."
Negative
-84% Liberal
"The case is the first of Trump's four indictments to reach trial."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Merchan had already scheduled a hearing for next week on the prosecution's request for contempt sanctions over Trump's posts."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Jury selection in Donald Trump's hush money case encountered more setbacks on Thursday as two previously sworn-on jurors were excused."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Inside the court, there's broad acknowledgement of the futility in trying to find jurors without knowledge of Trump, with a prosecutor this week saying that lawyers were not looking for people who had been living under a rock for the past eight years."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he feared could hurt his 2016 campaign."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The allegations focus on payoffs to two women, porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump years earlier, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Trump says none of these supposed sexual encounters occurred."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Prosecutors on Thursday also asked Merchan to sanction Trump over seven more social media posts they say violate a gag order that bars Trump from attacking witnesses."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Prosecutors on Thursday also asked Merchan to sanction Trump over seven more social media posts they say violate a gag order that bars Trump from attacking witnesses."
Negative
-56% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : The prosecution on Monday sought a $3,000 fine against Trump over three Truth Social posts.
31% : Inside the court, there's broad acknowledgement of the futility in trying to find jurors without knowledge of Trump, with a prosecutor this week saying that lawyers were not looking for people who had been "living under a rock for the past eight years.
27% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to bury stories he feared could hurt his 2016 campaign.
22% : The allegations focus on payoffs to two women, porn actor Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said they had extramarital sexual encounters with Trump years earlier, as well as to a Trump Tower doorman who claimed to have a story about a child he alleged Trump had out of wedlock.
21% : Trump says none of these supposed sexual encounters occurred.
8% : Prosecutors on Thursday also asked Merchan to sanction Trump over seven more social media posts they say violate a gag order that bars Trump from attacking witnesses.

*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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