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Ex-GOP operative appalled as Trump builds 'barrier of corruption' for donor's payout ⁠78%

By Bennito L. Kelty⁠84%

7/1/2026, 10:30:49 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Biased Writer Voice, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 62.4% saturation with 201 hits. Analysis detected 1,104 faulty-reasoning hits from 322 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 69.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠78% (4,641 of 20,882 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 77.80% of the article peer group.

A former Republican operative flagged how badly President Donald Trump damaged a relationship with a close U.S. ally to help a donor. 
Steve Schmidt focused on Canada for his Wednesday episode of The Warning to mark July 1, which is Canada Day. 
He talked in particular about the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit. 
"Look at this bridge. 
It's brand new, paid for by Canada, though the American side gets to keep half the revenue," Schmidt explained. 
"It is a vital pipeline, an artery for commerce that flows back and forth, a trillion dollars a year." 
The bridge also "sustains jobs" and "creates opportunity across both sides of the border," Schmidt continued. 
However, Schmidt was only talking about the bridge's potential because Trump "will now not allow the Gordie Howe Bridge to open," he said. 
Schmidt noted that Matthew T. 
Moroun, a Detroit billionaire, owns the nearby Ambassador Bridge. 
He claimed that Moroun "donated $1 million to Donald Trump," and blamed that connection for the reason the Gordie Howe Bridge has yet to open. 
"The Ambassador Bridge is jam-packed. 
It's a toll bridge," Schmidt explained. 
"When the new bridge opens, it will diminish the traffic and decrease the profit for the ownership group on the [Ambassador] bridge." 
Schmidt blasted the refusal by Trump to open the bridge, and noted the soured relationship between the U.S. and Canada is even "killing the bourbon industry." 
He said, "The next president has an absolute moral obligation to repair this relationship." 
He called on Americans to "look north and think this thought: we're sorry," for Canada Day. 
"Donald Trump has erected a barrier of corruption as if he's generalissimo of some banana republic, and it's appalling," Schmidt said. 
"He has vandalized a relationship that is steeped in friendship that goes back beyond the moment of his birth, and it is appalling." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 21.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 12.0%Rawstory: 7.7%Confirmation Bias21.7%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.8%Rawstory: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 2.8%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.5%Rawstory: 4.4%Availability Heuristic2.8%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.8%Rawstory: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.2%Rawstory: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.5%Rawstory: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 17.1%Bennito L. Kelty: 11.4%Rawstory: 13.7%Framing Effect17.1%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.3%Rawstory: 0.7%Optimism Bias5.0%This article: 4.3%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.7%Rawstory: 2.8%Pessimism Bias4.3%This article: 62.4%Bennito L. Kelty: 18.4%Rawstory: 21.8%Negativity Bias62.4%This article: 6.8%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.5%Rawstory: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias6.8%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.6%Rawstory: 2.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.5%Rawstory: 2.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 1.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.1%Rawstory: 0.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.8%Rawstory: 0.9%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.7%Rawstory: 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.7%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 6.5%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.6%Rawstory: 6.4%Ad Hominem6.5%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.2%Rawstory: 0.7%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 4.9%Rawstory: 3.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 7.1%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.6%Rawstory: 2.9%False Dilemma7.1%This article: 8.1%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.1%Rawstory: 1.2%Slippery Slope8.1%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.9%Rawstory: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 11.8%Bennito L. Kelty: 6.9%Rawstory: 11.9%Hasty Generalization11.8%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.5%Rawstory: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 31.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 7.5%Rawstory: 9.2%Appeal to Emotion31.7%This article: 4.3%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.7%Rawstory: 1.6%Begging the Question4.3%This article: 22.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 9.3%Rawstory: 3.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)22.7%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 21.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 2.4%Rawstory: 1.5%Burden of Proof21.7%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 14.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.5%Rawstory: 3.9%Anecdotal14.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.3%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 3.0%Rawstory: 2.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.0%Rawstory: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 42.2%Bennito L. Kelty: 8.9%Rawstory: 5.4%Unattributed Quote42.2%This article: 3.7%Bennito L. Kelty: 4.3%Rawstory: 4.2%Quote-first Misdirection3.7%This article: 39.4%Bennito L. Kelty: 9.5%Rawstory: 15.6%Biased Writer Voice39.4%This article: 9.3%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.1%Rawstory: 3.2%Indoctrination9.3%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 7.6%Rawstory: 8.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 0.9%Rawstory: 0.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bennito L. Kelty: 1.3%Rawstory: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

322 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker89%attributed speech34writer words
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Steve Schmidt

81%flagged-word coverage
288 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-67.7 ptsWriter: 100.0%Steve Schmidt: 32.3%32.3%Unattributed Quote+47.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Steve Schmidt: 47.2%47.2%Quote-first Misdirection-35.3 ptsWriter: 35.3%Steve Schmidt: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination+10.4 ptsWriter: 0.0%Steve Schmidt: 10.4%10.4%

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

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Analysis

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