🗞️ Story file #119
FBI monitored Trump family travel and Susie wiles' phone
Oct 5, 6 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏0 · 0 · 12🐘left · center · right
- 1 dayon the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 6 minof TV captions
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 5, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News
- Oct 5, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 6, 1 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Nixonian”
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Fox News (6 wordings): “Secret FBI probe tracked Wiles’ calls with Trump lawyers and journalists, docs show” → “FBI under Biden tracked Trump family travel in secret probe: docs”
- The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “FBI Tracked Trump Aide’s Phone, Monitored Melania Trump Before Mar-a-Lago Raid: Declassified Memos” → “FBI Monitored Melania Trump Before Mar-a-Lago Raid: Declassified Memos”
- The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Jack Smith’s FBI Ran a Secret ‘Pen Register’ on Susie Wiles’ Phone — Tracked Calls With 21 Trump Lawyers, Campaign Advisers, and at Least Five Journalists” → “Newly-Released Documents Reveal Biden’s FBI Tracked Melania and Barron Trump’s Travel”
- Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Jack Smith team tracked Susie Wiles calls, records show” → “Jack Smith team tracked Susie Wiles calls and kept tabs on Trump lawyers, records show”
Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating
Just the News
Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff's phone Oct 5, 9 AM ET
The Epoch Times
FBI Tracked Trump Aide’s Phone, Monitored Melania Trump Before Mar-a-Lago Raid: Declassified Memos Oct 6, 6 AM ET
The Washington Times
Biden DOJ secretly monitored Melania, Barron Trump ahead of Mar-a-Lago raid Oct 6, 1 PM ET
Washington Examiner
Jack Smith team tracked Susie Wiles calls, records show Oct 5, 5 PM ET
Fox News
Secret FBI probe tracked Wiles’ calls with Trump lawyers and journalists, docs show Oct 5, 6 PM ET
New York Post
Biden FBI tracked Melania and Barron Trump’s travel — and even tapped Susie Wiles phone, documents show Oct 5, 6 PM ET
Red State
It Gets Worse: Biden's DOJ Wasn't Just Spying on Wiles, They Were Monitoring Melania and Barron, Too Oct 5, 10 PM ET
The Daily Caller
REPORT: Biden FBI Tapped Susie Wiles’ Phone, Tracked Melania and Barron’s Travel Oct 6, 1 PM ET- The Daily Signal FBI Tracked Susie Wiles Phone, Email Communications With Journalists, Lawyers, Political Advisors, New Documents Show Oct 5, 7 AM ET
The Daily Wire
FBI Watched Melania And Barron Trump’s Travel Before Mar-a-Lago Raid — And It Went Further Oct 6, 1 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
Jack Smith’s FBI Ran a Secret ‘Pen Register’ on Susie Wiles’ Phone — Tracked Calls With 21 Trump Lawyers, Campaign Advisers, and at Least Five Journalists Oct 5, 2 PM ET
The Western Journal
Breaking: FBI Secretly Tracked Phone Activity of Susie Wiles and Trump's Defense Lawyers Oct 5, 1 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- NEW CLUES ABOUT TRUMP'S PLANS TO INTERFERE IN MIDTERMS MSNOW, 6 min
- WHITE HOUSE DOCS SHOW BIDEN-ERA FBI TRACKED TRUMP FAMILY TRAVEL AND WALES’ CALLS WITH LAWYERS Fox News, 7 s
- "PLASMIC ECHO" PROBE. RECORDS SHOW BIDEN-ERA FBI TRACKED TRUMP FAMILY TRAVEL Fox News, 7 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: FBI Jack Smith Susie Wiles Donald Trump Journalists
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.