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Trump Vows to Get Anti-Weaponization fund ‘PASSED’  a Day After Calling it ‘Dead’ 48%

By Kathianne Boniello88%

8/1/2026, 5:26:57 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Loss Aversion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 31.4% saturation with 111 hits. Analysis detected 849 faulty-reasoning hits from 354 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43% and a BS Rank of 48% (14,140 of 27,117 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 52.10% of the article peer group.

A day after admitting his controversial anti-weaponization fund was “dead,” President Donald Trump pledged to get the effort “PASSED” in a fiery Truth Social post slamming Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC). 
The president’s apparent pivot came after he spoke about the fund  which has sparked bipartisan pushback  at a Friday Cabinet meeting held at Camp David. 
“Well, it is dead, but, you know, I wish it weren’t , to be honest with you,” Trump told a reporter when asked about the fund. 
By Saturday morning, Trump insisted in a Truth Social post the $1.8 billion fund would become a reality: 
If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche , one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard to get the Anti-Weaponization Bill, which takes care of those who have been so badly treated by the Crooked Joe Biden (and Obuma!) 
Administration (I get nothing, although I was treated horribly!), PASSED. 
Todd Blanche was a voice of reason! 
It will immediately be back on the table, and I will get it done. 
Thank you for your attention to this matter! 
President DJT 
The president’s message comes amid a standoff between the lame duck senators and Trump, with Cornyn and Tillis refusing to vote to confirm Blanche as U.S. 
Attorney General until they get a written guarantee the anti-weaponization fund is dead. 
Trump’s Justice Department said earlier this summer it would drop the fund amid outcry from both Democrats and Republicans, with critics claiming it would be a taxpayer-fueled “slush fund” for the president’s allies. 
Tillis is not seeking re-election while Cornyn lost his primary race to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, after Trump endorsed Paxton over the incumbent. 
The post Trump Vows to Get Anti-Weaponization fund ‘PASSED’  a Day After Calling it ‘Dead’ first appeared on Mediaite . 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 21.8%Kathianne Boniello: 4.5%Mediaite: 4.5%Confirmation Bias21.8%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Kathianne Boniello: 4.9%Mediaite: 3.3%Availability Heuristic9.3%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.8%Mediaite: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 2.1%Mediaite: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 9.6%Kathianne Boniello: 9.6%Mediaite: 8.1%Framing Effect9.6%This article: 21.8%Kathianne Boniello: 0.8%Mediaite: 0.4%Loss Aversion21.8%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 2.8%Kathianne Boniello: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect2.8%This article: 25.7%Kathianne Boniello: 1.8%Mediaite: 1.2%Optimism Bias25.7%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 2.6%Mediaite: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 9.6%Kathianne Boniello: 18.7%Mediaite: 13.6%Negativity Bias9.6%This article: 21.8%Kathianne Boniello: 2.9%Mediaite: 1.9%Self-Serving Bias21.8%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.7%Mediaite: 1.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 3.2%Mediaite: 1.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.4%Mediaite: 1.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 2.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.4%Mediaite: 1.1%Halo Effect2.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.8%Mediaite: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.8%Mediaite: 2.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 21.8%Kathianne Boniello: 7.3%Mediaite: 3.8%Ad Hominem21.8%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 2.1%Mediaite: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 2.0%Kathianne Boniello: 4.3%Mediaite: 3.3%Appeal to Authority2.0%This article: 21.8%Kathianne Boniello: 2.8%Mediaite: 2.2%False Dilemma21.8%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.0%Mediaite: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 8.9%Mediaite: 6.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.6%Mediaite: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 8.0%Mediaite: 5.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.5%Mediaite: 1.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 1.7%Mediaite: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 21.8%Kathianne Boniello: 1.5%Mediaite: 1.1%Burden of Proof21.8%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 5.1%Mediaite: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 3.4%Mediaite: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 7.3%Kathianne Boniello: 3.3%Mediaite: 3.1%Unattributed Quote7.3%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 3.1%Mediaite: 2.9%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 31.4%Kathianne Boniello: 9.1%Mediaite: 7.4%Biased Writer Voice31.4%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 3.6%Mediaite: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 2.0%Mediaite: 1.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 9.6%Kathianne Boniello: 2.2%Mediaite: 1.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias9.6%This article: 0.0%Kathianne Boniello: 0.2%Mediaite: 1.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

354 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker29%attributed speech251writer words
Selected voice

Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
103 attributed words100% of attributed speech39% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Biased Writer Voice+61.2 ptsWriter: 13.5%Trump: 74.8%74.8%Unattributed Quote+25.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Trump: 25.2%25.2%Politically Right Leaning -13.5 ptsWriter: 13.5%Trump: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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