Mediaite70%

‘Just Stunning’: CNN’s Erin Burnett Counts the Times Trump’s Talked ‘Rigged’ Elections In Just a Month 77%

By Zachary Leeman75%

7/15/2026, 12:57:38 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 31 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Burden of Proof, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 43.8% saturation with 202 hits. Analysis detected 1,363 faulty-reasoning hits from 461 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 68.6% and a BS Rank of 77% (5,095 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 76.70% of the article peer group.

CNN’s Erin Burnett counted all the times President Donald Trump has mentioned “rigged” elections publicly in just a month, calling it “just stunning.” 
On Tuesday’s OutFront , Burnett noted her team had found Trump mentioned “rigged” elections at least 18 times in speeches and public comments since Bill Pulte was made Acting Director of National Intelligence early last month. 
Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday, when he will reportedly discuss the 2020 presidential election . 
There’s been nothing in six years. 
And of course, audit after audit after audit and state after state after state. 
Jamal, on June 4th, Trump said his acting national intelligence director, Bill Pulte, who of course comes from the home building industry, would look into the rigged elections. 
That was specifically the reason they gave for him in that role as national intelligence director. 
Since that particular day, June 4th, the best we could find, Jamal, Trump has talked about rigged elections in at least 18 different interviews or speeches. 
Eighteen Which is just stunning. 
The president continues to claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent, though there has been no proof of the type of widespread fraud he’s alleged over the years. 
Pulte’s appointment raised concerns among critics, as he has no military or national security experience, and he faced accusations of targeting Trump’s political enemies through his role as the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. 
CNN political commentator Jamal Simmons argued on Tuesday that Trump is making specific comments to discourage people from voting. 
The president of the United States has been using his position to make political statements that are going to make it harder for people to vote. 
He’s looking not to enable people to vote, which is what we usually expect the Justice Department to do when the Justice Department goes into a community to monitor an election, it’s to help people vote  this looks like he’s trying to keep people from voting. 
Here’s the thing, the president keeps saying that the election was rigged but rigged against him. 
Everybody else in the country thinks that the economy is rigged against them. 
What they’re looking at is a trillionaire friend of the president. 
They’re looking at people making more and more money at the top of the income ladder, while they’re making less and less. 
And all the time the president’s talking about himself and one election that he lost, instead of thinking about how much the American people are [losing]. 
Watch above via CNN . 
The post ‘Just Stunning’: CNN’s Erin Burnett Counts the Times Trump’s Talked ‘Rigged’ Elections In Just a Month first appeared on Mediaite . 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 11.9%Zachary Leeman: 8.5%Mediaite: 5.0%Confirmation Bias11.9%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 1.0%Mediaite: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 13.4%Zachary Leeman: 4.9%Mediaite: 3.8%Availability Heuristic13.4%This article: 6.1%Zachary Leeman: 1.0%Mediaite: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic6.1%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 1.1%Mediaite: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 2.8%Mediaite: 2.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 13.0%Zachary Leeman: 6.9%Mediaite: 9.1%Framing Effect13.0%This article: 5.6%Zachary Leeman: 1.0%Mediaite: 0.4%Loss Aversion5.6%This article: 10.2%Zachary Leeman: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.4%Status Quo Bias10.2%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.4%Mediaite: 1.2%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 1.3%Mediaite: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 43.8%Zachary Leeman: 18.8%Mediaite: 14.7%Negativity Bias43.8%This article: 3.5%Zachary Leeman: 2.3%Mediaite: 1.6%Self-Serving Bias3.5%This article: 16.9%Zachary Leeman: 3.6%Mediaite: 1.7%Fundamental Attribution Error16.9%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 2.3%Mediaite: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 1.9%Mediaite: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.1%Mediaite: 1.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.8%Mediaite: 0.7%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.5%Mediaite: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 10.6%Zachary Leeman: 3.2%Mediaite: 2.3%Recency Bias10.6%This article: 3.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.6%Primacy Effect3.0%This article: 1.3%Zachary Leeman: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias1.3%This article: 7.8%Zachary Leeman: 3.9%Mediaite: 3.8%Ad Hominem7.8%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.9%Mediaite: 1.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 27.5%Zachary Leeman: 4.7%Mediaite: 3.5%Appeal to Authority27.5%This article: 11.3%Zachary Leeman: 3.4%Mediaite: 2.4%False Dilemma11.3%This article: 4.1%Zachary Leeman: 1.5%Mediaite: 1.3%Slippery Slope4.1%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.6%Mediaite: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 9.8%Zachary Leeman: 10.4%Mediaite: 7.6%Hasty Generalization9.8%This article: 2.4%Zachary Leeman: 0.7%Mediaite: 0.4%Red Herring2.4%This article: 2.8%Zachary Leeman: 1.2%Mediaite: 0.9%Bandwagon2.8%This article: 1.1%Zachary Leeman: 8.5%Mediaite: 6.6%Appeal to Emotion1.1%This article: 11.3%Zachary Leeman: 2.8%Mediaite: 1.6%Begging the Question11.3%This article: 7.8%Zachary Leeman: 4.6%Mediaite: 2.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)7.8%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 27.3%Zachary Leeman: 1.9%Mediaite: 1.2%Burden of Proof27.3%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.3%Mediaite: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 4.8%Zachary Leeman: 0.4%Mediaite: 0.3%Composition/Division4.8%This article: 8.0%Zachary Leeman: 4.2%Mediaite: 3.0%Anecdotal8.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.5%Zachary Leeman: 2.7%Mediaite: 2.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.5%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.0%Mediaite: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.1%Mediaite: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 6.1%Zachary Leeman: 0.2%Mediaite: 0.1%Special Pleading6.1%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.9%Mediaite: 0.6%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 3.5%Zachary Leeman: 5.7%Mediaite: 3.3%Unattributed Quote3.5%This article: 3.5%Zachary Leeman: 3.9%Mediaite: 3.2%Quote-first Misdirection3.5%This article: 4.6%Zachary Leeman: 8.7%Mediaite: 8.3%Biased Writer Voice4.6%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 1.8%Mediaite: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 2.6%Mediaite: 2.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Zachary Leeman: 0.3%Mediaite: 1.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 1.1%Zachary Leeman: 1.1%Mediaite: 1.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…1.1%

461 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers5.2%attributed speech437writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 0.0% coverageJamal Simmons • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 47 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageCNN • 5 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Jamal Simmons

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words79% of attributed speech90% writer coverage
0%2.5%5.0%Biased Writer Voice-4.8 ptsWriter: 4.8%Jamal Simmons: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-3.7 ptsWriter: 3.7%Jamal Simmons: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-3.7 ptsWriter: 3.7%Jamal Simmons: 0.0%0.0%

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

Loading…
Loading…
Loading…
Loading…

Analysis

Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.