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Trump’s speech, election facts — and the real burden on voters ⁠60%

By MS NOW⁠77%

7/18/2026, 10:03:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Ad Hominem, and Negativity Bias, with Politically Left Leaning Bias as the most egregious example at 34.9% saturation with 98 hits. Analysis detected 714 faulty-reasoning hits from 281 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠60% (8,952 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 59.10% of the article peer group.

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I am writing in response to Matthew Bartlett’s July 17 op-ed, “ The omissions from Trump’s primetime address tell their own story ”: 
I am a retired independent voter. 
I believe in facts, such as Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election by 306 to 232 electoral votes and approximately 51.3% of the popular vote, vs 46.8% of the popular vote for Donald Trump. 
In 2024, Trump played the same tired election fraud campaign, begging the American people to distrust our elections. 
He won by 312 electoral votes to 226 for Vice President Kamala Harris. 
The popular vote totals were much closer than in 2020, with Trump at 49.8% and Harris getting 48.3%. 
If our elections are rife with fraud, how does Trump explain his 2024 win? 
Remember when he said on the campaign trail, “ Get out and vote, just this time. 
You won’t have to do it anymore. 
Four more years, you know what, it’ll be fixed. 
It’ll be fine. 
You won’t have to vote anymore .” 
We’ve witnessed the extreme lengths Trump and his administration are willing to go to demoralize voters, to demonize people and to audaciously engage in unscrupulous, unethical means to interfere in the 2026 elections. 
He is the epitome of pot-kettle. 
And Trump ignorantly thinks American citizens consider voting to be a burden. 
Kansas City, Missouri 
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281 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker17%attributed speech234writer words
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Selected voice

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47 attributed words100% of attributed speech93% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +68.1 ptsWriter: 0.0%MS NOW: 68.1%68.1%Politically Left Leaning B-41.9 ptsWriter: 41.9%MS NOW: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-40.2 ptsWriter: 40.2%MS NOW: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-11.1 ptsWriter: 11.1%MS NOW: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-6.8 ptsWriter: 6.8%MS NOW: 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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