Raw Story⁠93%

'Liars like you': Jubilant Trump and Cruz boast slapped down by frustrated fact-checker ⁠74%

By Kathleen Culliton⁠79%

7/15/2026, 5:41:48 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Quote-first Misdirection, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 47% saturation with 110 hits. Analysis detected 841 faulty-reasoning hits from 234 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠74% (5,691 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 74.00% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Wednesday morning to boast about a victory for his administration. 
There's just one problem, a political commentator noted — he didn't win. 
Trump's Truth Social post celebrated news that the consumer price index fell 0.4% in June and brought the annual inflation rate down to 3.5%, representing the largest decrease since April 2020. 
"Great News America!" 
Trump wrote. 
"The Dumocrat caused inflation is way down from what it had been, and we will bring it down still further. 
MAGA!" 
Among the MAGA Republicans to celebrate this victory — that inflation rose less than expected — was Sen. 
Ted Cruz (R-TX). 
"Media doesn’t want you to know this," Cruz wrote on X on Tuesday. 
Cruz bafflingly shared his opinion that the media was engaged in a coverup with a clip of the media — CNBC — sharing the news with the public. 
Cruz's post caught the attention of political podcaster Andy Ostroy who accused Cruz of stretching the truth on another point: inflation. 
As proof, Ostroy point to the rate of inflation when former President Joe Biden stepped down to allow Trump to resume office. 
"What liars like you don’t want people to know," Ostory slapped back, "is that inflation was 3% on 1/20/25, the day Biden left office, and that it’s 3.5% today…" 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 14.1%Kathleen Culliton: 7.4%Rawstory: 8.4%Confirmation Bias14.1%This article: 9.4%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.8%Anchoring Bias9.4%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 5.5%Rawstory: 4.5%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.1%Rawstory: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.8%Rawstory: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 18.4%Kathleen Culliton: 13.5%Rawstory: 13.4%Framing Effect18.4%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 8.5%Kathleen Culliton: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.7%Optimism Bias8.5%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 2.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 35.0%Kathleen Culliton: 21.4%Rawstory: 21.6%Negativity Bias35.0%This article: 7.7%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias7.7%This article: 12.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.7%Rawstory: 2.8%Fundamental Attribution Error12.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 9.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 2.5%In-Group Bias9.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 1.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 0.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.1%Rawstory: 0.9%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 12.4%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 1.8%Recency Bias12.4%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.7%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 17.9%Kathleen Culliton: 5.9%Rawstory: 6.3%Ad Hominem17.9%This article: 12.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.8%Rawstory: 0.7%Straw Man12.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 4.0%Rawstory: 4.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 5.1%Kathleen Culliton: 2.0%Rawstory: 3.0%False Dilemma5.1%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.7%Rawstory: 1.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 14.5%Kathleen Culliton: 12.4%Rawstory: 12.1%Hasty Generalization14.5%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 1.3%Rawstory: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.4%Kathleen Culliton: 1.4%Rawstory: 0.8%Bandwagon0.4%This article: 14.1%Kathleen Culliton: 8.4%Rawstory: 9.2%Appeal to Emotion14.1%This article: 8.5%Kathleen Culliton: 1.3%Rawstory: 1.6%Begging the Question8.5%This article: 31.2%Kathleen Culliton: 3.7%Rawstory: 3.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)31.2%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 9.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.4%Rawstory: 1.7%Burden of Proof9.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.6%Rawstory: 0.5%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 4.4%Rawstory: 3.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.3%Rawstory: 0.3%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 2.0%Rawstory: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 14.1%Kathleen Culliton: 4.9%Rawstory: 5.3%Unattributed Quote14.1%This article: 27.4%Kathleen Culliton: 5.8%Rawstory: 4.1%Quote-first Misdirection27.4%This article: 47.0%Kathleen Culliton: 16.5%Rawstory: 15.7%Biased Writer Voice47.0%This article: 5.6%Kathleen Culliton: 0.9%Rawstory: 3.2%Indoctrination5.6%This article: 0.0%Kathleen Culliton: 5.6%Rawstory: 8.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 20.9%Kathleen Culliton: 2.2%Rawstory: 1.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias20.9%This article: 5.1%Kathleen Culliton: 0.4%Rawstory: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…5.1%

234 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers49%attributed speech120writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 3 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 2 words • 0.0% coverageDonald Trump • 20 words • 100.0% coverageDonald Trump • 1 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageTed Cruz • 3 words • 0.0% coverageTed Cruz • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverageAndy Ostroy • 21 words • 100.0% coverageAndy Ostroy • 22 words • 100.0% coverageAndy Ostroy • 29 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donald Trump

92%flagged-word coverage
26 attributed words23% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%40.0%80.0%Biased Writer Voice+1.9 ptsWriter: 75.0%Donald Trump: 76.9%76.9%Politically Right Leaning -40.8 ptsWriter: 40.8%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-10.8 ptsWriter: 10.8%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-10.0 ptsWriter: 10.0%Donald Trump: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -10.0 ptsWriter: 10.0%Donald Trump: 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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