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From the Right · Read · October 28, 2026

Oct 27 · A federal judge strikes the Justice Department's unsigned overnight complaint adding obstruction charges against two ex-FBI officials in the Hunter Biden probe case

Fox News: Judge who apologized to accused would-be Trump assassin lights up DOJ in Hunter Biden FBI case

Grade C (70/100). Fox reports Faruqui's rebuke of the overnight complaint, the obstruction charges it sought to add, the original allegations and the judge's earlier apology to a man accused of trying to kill Trump

C: Uses loaded words and uses an unnamed source or unsourced number.

  • Uses loaded words (minus 12 points): headline frames the judge as 'Judge who apologized to accused would-be Trump assassin' (unrelated case, loaded framing)
  • Relies on an unnamed source or a number with no source (minus 18 points): the judge's words are quoted 'according to reports from inside the courtroom' (no source named, ¶9)

Splits: Fox reports Faruqui's rebuke of the overnight complaint, the obstruction charges it sought to add, the original allegations and the judge's earlier apology to a man accused of trying to kill Trump

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Same story: NBC News, CNBC

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