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Trump Showed Up to the Trial and Lost $83 Million 45%
By Sam Stein89%
7/30/2026, 5:16:09 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 56.1% saturation with 83 hits. Analysis detected 184 faulty-reasoning hits from 148 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 47.1% and a BS Rank of 45% (12,396 of 22,405 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 55.30% of the article peer group.
Sam Stein and George Conway discuss James Comey’s challenge to the “8647” prosecution, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court bid to overturn E.
Jean Carroll’s $83 million defamation judgment, and the administration’s push for new restrictions on mail-in voting.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
11.5%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
6.8%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
10.1%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
17.6%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
4.1%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
11.5%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
6.8%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
56.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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148 words analyzed.
Analysis
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