'Can't make this up': Mark Kelly says Trump administration prosecuting him is ridiculous​

Raw Story is an established digital news outlet, but its partisan orientation and limited transparency about its reporting process warrant a moderate score. This short article relies heavily on televised remarks and attributed reporting rather than extensive independent sourcing.

• ▸Source type — An established national digital news outlet, though partisan in orientation.
• ▸Editorial standards — The article attributes key claims, but provides limited evidence of its reporting process or editorial safeguards.
• ▸Author attribution — A named author is identified.
• ▸Source selection — Relies on Kelly’s interview, an attributed Guardian report, and a former official’s assessment.

The article gives Kelly’s account and includes a former official’s view on the likelihood of conviction. It offers little context about the investigation’s legal basis or the administration’s rationale, and does not include a response from the administration.

The story reports Kelly’s criticism and includes a former official who doubts a conviction is likely, but it does not explain the administration’s case or include its response to Kelly.

• ▸Source diversity — Includes Kelly and a former administration official, but no current administration representative.
• ▸Counterarguments presented — The article includes a view on the prosecution’s prospects but not the administration’s justification for investigating Kelly.
• ▸Opinion vs reporting — The article is presented as reporting and attributes its critical claims to speakers.

The article is largely a report of Kelly’s comments, but gives substantial space to his criticism of Trump and Hegseth without presenting an administration response. That selection tilts the framing left.

• ▸Source selection — Kelly’s criticisms receive extensive quotation, while no administration response is included.
• ▸Framing — The focus is Kelly’s ridicule of the investigation and his criticism of Hegseth.
• ▸Language tone — Most charged characterizations are quoted or attributed to Kelly, rather than asserted by the article.