Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
6%
1 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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Commentary has none to count
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Same framing elsewhere
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
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you → bury → date
Martin here, delighted to be on deck for the final morning of another week in Trump’s America that has felt more like most of a year.
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that → feel → year
Here’s hoping you have fine weekend plans lined up.
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plans → hop → ?
You’ve earned it.
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You → earn → it
In today’s ‘First Draft,’ we consider a truly terrible AP-NORC poll for Donald Trump’s and his reaction to it, which was to rant about numbers, repeatedly, without the slightest concession to his deeply troubled reality.
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which → consider → reality
There was also a long interview with Time that may somehow have managed to be Trump’s most unhinged yet, and a report from CNN on a stunning conflict of interest involving Trump envoy Jared Kushner, the so-called Gaza peace process, and an Israeli company helping fund Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal machine.
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that → be → machine
With the midterms looming, Donald Trump is all in on the “numbers.”
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Trump → loom → numbers
He’s also high on his own supply.
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He → ’ → supply
In his alarmingly yet familiarly batshit interview with Time, asked about polling that has “never been lower,” the 80-year-old said: “They’re fake numbers.
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They → ask → polling
I would beat anybody running today by 20 points.
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I → beat → points
Your numbers that you have are fake.
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you → have → that
They’re almost as corrupt as the writers.”
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They → ’re → writers
Later on Thursday, landing in Texas, he said: “We have the best numbers of any president in history.
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We → land → history
The one thing we don’t do is we don’t get a fair shake from the media.
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we → do → media
They don’t report the numbers.
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They → report → numbers
The problem, of course, is that the media does report the numbers, from and about all sorts of things but particularly those produced by public polling.
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media → report → polling
On Thursday, AP-NORC released a new poll.
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NORC → release → poll
It was an absolute stinker for Trump, and the media duly reported it.
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media → report → it
The Aporia
