RedState⁠96%

It Happened Again – Armed Lunatic Caught Scoping Out Trump Security Ahead of President's Arrival ⁠68%

By Teri Christoph⁠96%

8/4/2026, 1:40:24 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.2% saturation with 136 hits. Analysis detected 786 faulty-reasoning hits from 338 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 52.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠68% (9,927 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 67.50% of the article peer group.

In what appears to be yet another close call for President Trump, authorities have revealed that an armed man was taken into custody Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. 
Concerningly, it appears the man was caught while observing security practices being implemented at the resort. 
Plainclothes federal agents spotted Jeanine John Taele, 38, of Downey, California, walking around the golf club while photographing and recording activities taking place on the property. 
One of those activities was reportedly the security preparations being made for the president's Tuesday-night Republican fundraiser at the club. 
Authorities said Taele appeared to be watching or documenting security preparations when Lomita Sheriff's Station deputies arrived around 3:30 PM PT and detained him. 
After he was detained, it was determined that Taele was already under investigation for robbery by the El Segundo Police Department. 
During a pat-down, deputies allegedly recovered a 16-round magazine loaded with hollow-point ammunition from Taele's pants pocket. 
Authorities then searched his vehicle, which was parked in the golf course parking lot, and recovered a loaded pistol with a round chambered, along with another loaded magazine containing hollow-point ammunition. 
Taele was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm and possessing prohibited ammunition. 
When searching Taele's home, investigators reportedly recovered "an illegally modified AR-platform rifle; a 1911 .45-caliber pistol; an AR-platform upper receiver; body armor; high-capacity magazines; bulk pistol and rifle ammunition; two radio signal devices; and multiple notebooks containing what authorities described as 'concerning statements.'" 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 12.1%Teri Christoph: 5.5%RedState: 6.2%Confirmation Bias12.1%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 12.7%Teri Christoph: 2.6%RedState: 3.2%Availability Heuristic12.7%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.6%RedState: 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.1%RedState: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 34.6%Teri Christoph: 10.0%RedState: 8.6%Framing Effect34.6%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.2%RedState: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.6%RedState: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 2.7%Teri Christoph: 1.9%RedState: 1.6%Optimism Bias2.7%This article: 9.2%Teri Christoph: 1.6%RedState: 1.6%Pessimism Bias9.2%This article: 40.2%Teri Christoph: 15.6%RedState: 13.0%Negativity Bias40.2%This article: 4.1%Teri Christoph: 2.8%RedState: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias4.1%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.6%RedState: 1.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 6.2%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias6.2%This article: 8.3%Teri Christoph: 7.3%RedState: 4.2%In-Group Bias8.3%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.9%RedState: 2.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.5%RedState: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.8%RedState: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.1%RedState: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.2%RedState: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 9.1%RedState: 6.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.5%RedState: 2.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 4.1%Teri Christoph: 2.7%RedState: 2.9%Appeal to Authority4.1%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.3%RedState: 2.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 1.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 6.2%Teri Christoph: 7.6%RedState: 9.0%Hasty Generalization6.2%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.6%Red Herring0.0%This article: 8.3%Teri Christoph: 0.5%RedState: 0.8%Bandwagon8.3%This article: 12.7%Teri Christoph: 9.9%RedState: 7.7%Appeal to Emotion12.7%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 2.0%RedState: 1.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 1.1%RedState: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.8%RedState: 0.7%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 7.1%Teri Christoph: 0.7%RedState: 1.0%Burden of Proof7.1%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 12.7%Teri Christoph: 2.0%RedState: 2.4%Anecdotal12.7%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 9.2%Teri Christoph: 1.0%RedState: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)9.2%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.0%RedState: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.1%RedState: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.3%RedState: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.2%RedState: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 3.0%RedState: 2.3%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 12.7%Teri Christoph: 1.6%RedState: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection12.7%This article: 4.4%Teri Christoph: 23.7%RedState: 19.3%Biased Writer Voice4.4%This article: 8.3%Teri Christoph: 5.1%RedState: 4.4%Indoctrination8.3%This article: 0.0%Teri Christoph: 0.4%RedState: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 12.4%Teri Christoph: 14.3%RedState: 14.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias12.4%This article: 4.1%Teri Christoph: 4.8%RedState: 3.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…4.1%

338 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker6.2%attributed speech317writer words
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67%flagged-word coverage
21 attributed words100% of attributed speech71% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +66.7 ptsWriter: 0.0%RedState: 66.7%66.7%Quote-first Misdirection-13.6 ptsWriter: 13.6%RedState: 0.0%0.0%Politically Right Leaning -13.2 ptsWriter: 13.2%RedState: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-8.8 ptsWriter: 8.8%RedState: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-4.7 ptsWriter: 4.7%RedState: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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