Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
18%
3 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
65/100
CBS News's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
3
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
More than two years after President Trump was convicted of
tied to a to an adult film star, his lawyers are set to argue their Thursday in New York.
asserted
lawyers → convict → York
Mr. Trump's attorneys in the case have changed — one former defense attorney, Todd Blanche, is now U.S. attorney general, and another, Emil Bove III, is a federal judge — but his new team of personal lawyers has continued in filings to echo the arguments he made throughout the trial in 2024.
asserted
he → change → 2024
An Oct. 16 filing by Mr. Trump's attorney Robert Giuffra, the powerful co-chair of the white shoe firm Sullivan & Cromwell, began with a line that Mr. Trump himself frequently said and posted on social media: The case, "should have never been brought."
asserted
case → begin → media
Lawyers for Mr. Trump and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will each get 15 minutes to respond to questions from New York's mid-level appeals panel, the Appellate Division, First Department.
asserted
Lawyers → get → panel
Each side has indicated that the case is destined for the state's highest court, called the Court of Appeals, and potentially the U.S. Supreme Court.
asserted
case → indicate → Appeals
A unanimous jury convicted Mr. Trump in May 2024 for his part in a scheme to falsify business records related to reimbursements made to Michael Cohen, his attorney at the time.
uncertain
jury → convict → time
Cohen had paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels, days before the 2016 election, in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump years earlier.
asserted
Cohen → pay → Trump
Mr. Trump has denied the allegations.
asserted
Trump → deny → allegations
The payment, Mr. Trump's attorney argued, should have been subject to federal election laws that they say preempt state prosecutions.
asserted
they → argue → prosecutions
They also claim the prosecutors violated presidential immunity and failed to show Mr. Trump had an "intent to defraud."
uncertain
Trump → claim → intent
"The question here is whether the White House statements and strategy introduced at trial in this criminal case—responding to public allegations of personal wrongdoing bearing directly on the President's integrity and fitness for office—were official," Giuffra wrote.
asserted
Giuffra → introduce → office
Lawyers for Bragg have characterized the 2016 "hush money" plan as "a conspiracy to defraud the American public and government regulators."
asserted
Lawyers → characterize → public
"The criminal charges here arose from [Mr. Trump's] unofficial, non-presidential conduct—as multiple courts have already found," they wrote in a July brief.
asserted
they → arise → brief
The arguments come a week after the death of a judge who was presiding over a yearslong parallel effort by Mr. Trump to move the case from state to criminal court.
asserted
who → come → court
The judge,
, repeatedly rejected Mr. Trump's arguments, and was particularly scathing in his response to Mr. Trump's claim that the reimbursements to Cohen were related to his official work as president.
uncertain
reimbursements → reject → president
"Reimbursing Cohen for advancing hush money to [Stormy Daniels] cannot be considered the performance of a constitutional duty," Hellerstein wrote.
asserted
Hellerstein → "reimburse → duty
"Falsifying business records to hide such reimbursement, and to transform the reimbursement into a business expense for Trump and income to Cohen, likewise does not relate to a presidential duty."
asserted
Falsifying → falsify → duty
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