Breitbart81%

Trump: We’ll Knock Out All of Iran’s Power Plants, Bridges Unless They Come to Table 63%

By Ian Hanchett73%

7/14/2026, 8:05:55 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Slippery Slope, Biased Writer Voice, and Pessimism Bias, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 27.9% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 305 faulty-reasoning hits from 215 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 57.6% and a BS Rank of 63% (8,299 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 62.10% of the article peer group.

During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” President Donald Trump stated that energy targets in Iran will be hit and “We’re going to knock out all of their power plants. 
We’re going to knock out all of their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate.” 
Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst asked, “Do you anticipate that the strikes we’re seeing this week against Iran will expand? 
Are you considering hitting energy targets or other locations inside of Iran?” 
Trump responded, “They’re going to expand. 
I’ll save the energy targets for last, but, ultimately, we’ll hit energy targets, yeah. 
But we’re going to hit them very hard tonight. 
We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. 
We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then, next week, it gets really bad for them, because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges. 
We’re going to knock out all of their power plants. 
We’re going to knock out all of their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate.” 
Trump also stated that strikes will “continue until I say that’s enough.” 
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215 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Trump • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 40 words • 100.0% coverageTrump • 17 words • 0.0% coverageTrey Yingst • 22 words • 0.0% coverageTrey Yingst • 12 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 6 words • 100.0% coverageTrump • 14 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 9 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 9 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 32 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 10 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 17 words • 0.0% coverageTrump • 12 words • 0.0% coverage
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Trump

89%flagged-word coverage
141 attributed words81% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%Trump: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+4.3 ptsWriter: 0.0%Trump: 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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