🗞️ Story file #1654
Biden says Trump once suggested they could have been good friends
Nov 9, 6 PM ET to Nov 10, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 0 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 20 hourson the front pages
- 7front pages at once, at its peak
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
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Alternet 
HuffPost 
Raw Story 
The Daily Beast 
The Independent 
Washington Examiner 
Crooks and Liars
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- Nov 9, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Crooks and Liars
- Nov 10, 12 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 Quoted
- “Too stunned to respond”4
- “good friends”1
- “I Think I Blinked”1
- “too stunned to respond”4
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- HuffPost (2 wordings): “Biden Says Trump Once Mused About An Alternate Reality Where They Were Friends” → “BAFFLING: Biden Reveals Moment Trump Said To Imagine Their Relationship Without Politics”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating
- Alternet🕒 Nov 9, 7 AM ET
'Too stunned to respond': What Trump said to Biden behind closed doors
- HuffPost🕒 Nov 10, 12 AM ET
Biden Says Trump Once Mused About An Alternate Reality Where They Were Friends
- Raw Story🕒 Nov 9, 11 AM ET
Biden spills on what Trump told him in private that left him 'too stunned to respond'
- The Daily Beast🕒 Nov 9, 2 PM ET
Biden Reveals Weird Trump Moment That Left Him Speechless
- The Independent🕒 Nov 9, 9 AM ET
Trump told Biden they’d be ‘good friends’ if not for politics, ex-president reveals
- Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 9, 11 AM ET
Biden was ‘stunned’ after Trump told him they would have been ‘good friends’
- Crooks and Liars🕒 Nov 9, 6 PM ET
‘I Think I Blinked’: Biden Spills How Trump’s Oval Office Confession ‘Stunned’ Him
📡 Broadcast
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- left
🎙️ On the shows
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🕵️ Investigated, joked about
🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces
🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.
🧶 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.
Donald TrumpJoe Biden
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Biden-Trump friendship claims
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Nov 9, 6 PM ET
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