Trump’s ‘Rigged Election’ Claims Are Short on Evidence, Again ⁠75%

By Stephen Richer⁠0%

7/17/2026, 4:40:47 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 60.7% saturation with 88 hits. Analysis detected 694 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠75% (5,537 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.70% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump’s speech Thursday night on election administration surprised me. 
He didn’t relitigate the 2020 election (although he did say we “can never watch a stolen election again”). 
He didn’t attack Georgia’s elections, as many had predicted. 
He had some criticisms of election administrators, but many more criticisms of his first term’s national security and law enforcement teams (it’s safe to say Trump hates Chris Krebs, his former director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure). 
It’s important to remember that, unlike in many European countries, U.S. elections are largely governed by state law and administered in more than 9,000 local jurisdictions (typically counties). 
There is no election mothership that can be hacked to corrupt the elections of the entire country. 
Each state has its own set of rules and its own election equipment, unconnected to other states. 
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