Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
27%
6 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
59/100
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President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Wednesday when he told reporters he “could’ve done very bad things” to Hillary Clinton and former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
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he → raise → Clinton
Trump made the off-the-wall claim during an Oval Office announcement touting his “Trump Accounts” for children after returning to Washington, D.C. from a series of campaign events across the country ahead of the midterms.
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Trump → make → midterms
At the event, a reporter asked the president about his previous claim that Democrats would impeach him if they gained control of Congress in November.
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they → ask → November
“For what?” the reporter asked.
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reporter → ask → what
“They don’t know,” Trump said, before he pivoted to attacking his 2016 rival Clinton and his Democratic predecessors in the White House.
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he → know → House
“I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton,” Trump began.
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Trump → do → Clinton
“I could've done very, very bad things to Joe Biden.
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I → do → Biden
I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama.
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I → do → Obama
I …thought it was inappropriate to do so because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect.
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you → think → respect
“Then I found out that they impeached me twice and I certainly, to this moment, I can do whatever I want, if I want,” the president continued.
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president → find → whatever
“They’ve done some very bad things.”
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They → do → things
“I’ve had plenty of people say, Let’s go get them.’
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’s → have → them
And I said no, you can’t do that to the presidency,” Trump added.
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Trump → say → presidency
Trump was impeached twice during his first presidency, but was not removed from office by the Senate.
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Trump → impeach → Senate
Neither Clinton, Obama nor Biden had any hand in those actions, and the Constitution only empowers Congress with such power to impeach.
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Constitution → have → power
House Speaker Mike Johnson has warned that Democrats are “raring to go” and impeach Trump if they reclaim the House in November — which also serves as a rallying cry for him and his party as they face a tough road ahead in the midterms.
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they → warn → midterms
“It’s guaranteed, probably on the first day – first or second day,” Johnson told conservative commentator and CNN contributor Scott Jennings this week.
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Johnson → guarantee → day
“Remember, they’ve already filed articles of impeachment in this Congress.”
A handful of Democrats have floated impeachment should they win back the House in November, but others in the party have dialed down talk of the idea.
“This is something, oftentimes, I think the right-wing media wants us to talk about,” said California Rep. Pete Aguilar, chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
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Aguilar → remember → Caucus
“But it’s not anything that is top of the agenda for House Democrats.”
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that → ’ → Democrats
Last month, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Democrats “haven’t ruled anything out” but also added, “we haven’t ruled anything in.”
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we → say → anything
Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider, the chairman of the New Democrat Coalition, said earlier this year that “we've already seen twice unless you're going to get a two-thirds majority in the Senate ...
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you → say → Senate
the president will not be removed from office.”
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president → remove → office
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