NPR⁠84%

Pellet found in Secret Service agent's vest links suspect to WHCD attack, Pirro says ⁠25%

By Rob Stein⁠0%

5/3/2026, 9:09:20 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Availability Heuristic, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 28.3% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 511 faulty-reasoning hits from 350 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠25% (15,928 of 21,180 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.20% of the article peer group.

Investigators have recovered a buckshot pellet from the bulletproof vest worn by a Secret Service agent who was shot at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, according to Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. 
The pellet links the suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., to the attack, Pirro told CNN on Sunday. 
"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," Pirro said during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union. 
"It is definitively his bullet." 
Allen allegedly ran through a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton where the dinner was underway on April 25 and fired a shotgun at the agent. 
Allen has been charged with attempted assassination, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and illegally transporting guns and ammunition across state lines. 
"He hit at that Secret Service agent. 
He had every intention to kill him and anyone who got in his way on his way to killing the president of the United States," Pirro said. 
Pirro argued it is clear that President Trump was his target. 
"We have a lot of evidence that indicates his intent and the fact that everything that he did thereafter, whether it was following what the president was doing, where he was going to the day of the event at the hotel, tracking on his phone, 'Is the president in the ballroom yet? 
Has the president sat down yet? 
What time will dinner be served?'" 
she said. 
Acting U.S. 
Attorney General Todd Blanche told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that Allen could face more charges. 
"I expect in the next week or so, there will be more information coming out. 
Obviously, assuming the investigation moves forward, there will be an indictment forthcoming. 
And all that is typical of what happens," Blanche said. 
An attorney for Allen did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 18.6%Rob Stein: 6.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias18.6%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 1.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 14.9%Rob Stein: 4.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic14.9%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 28.3%Rob Stein: 5.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias28.3%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 18.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 6.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 2.9%Rob Stein: 6.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias2.9%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 4.3%Rob Stein: 2.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias4.3%This article: 3.4%Rob Stein: 5.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias3.4%This article: 7.7%Rob Stein: 15.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias7.7%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 2.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 1.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 2.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 1.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 3.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 1.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 12.0%Rob Stein: 14.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority12.0%This article: 3.4%Rob Stein: 1.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma3.4%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 5.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 2.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 2.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 7.7%Rob Stein: 11.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion7.7%This article: 3.1%Rob Stein: 3.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question3.1%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 1.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 1.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 14.9%Rob Stein: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal14.9%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 16.3%Rob Stein: 1.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)16.3%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 2.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 2.0%Rob Stein: 0.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Unattributed Quote2.0%This article: 6.6%Rob Stein: 1.3%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Quote-first Misdirection6.6%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rob Stein: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

350 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers62%attributed speech132writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 37 words • 0.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 20 words • 0.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 42 words • 0.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 7 words • 100.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 27 words • 0.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 11 words • 100.0% coverageJeanine Pirro • 52 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageTodd Blanche • 17 words • 0.0% coverageTodd Blanche • 15 words • 0.0% coverageTodd Blanche • 12 words • 0.0% coverageTodd Blanche • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jeanine Pirro

100%flagged-word coverage
164 attributed words75% of attributed speech9.1% writer coverage
0%5.0%10.0%Quote-first Misdirection-2.4 ptsWriter: 9.1%Jeanine Pirro: 6.7%6.7%Unattributed Quote+4.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Jeanine Pirro: 4.3%4.3%

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

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Analysis

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