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🗞️ Story file #1695

Biden reveals contents of trump's 2021 Oval Office letter

Nov 10, 3 PM ET to Nov 10, 5 PM ET

📰 read it at: HuffPost Raw Story CNN Mediaite New York Times Newsweek New York Post The Daily Wire The Gateway Pundit

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  1. Nov 10, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Nov 10, 4 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 4 times in 10 (169 stories)

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 10, 3 PM to Nov 10, 5 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Nov 10, 2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PMNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Nov 10, 1:02 PM ET: What Trump Said in His Letter to Biden in 2021Raw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Nov 10, 2:03 PM ET: Biden memoir finally reveals what Trump wrote in his private Oval Office letterCNNCNNCNN, Nov 10, 2:03 PM ET: NYT: Trump wished Biden well in newly disclosed 2021 letterHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Nov 10, 3:02 PM ET: Trump Was Effusive To Biden In Oval Office Letter, New Biden Book Excerpt RevealsMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Nov 10, 3:02 PM ET: READ IT: Trump Offers Shocking Tone in Letter to Biden Detailed in Former President’s BookNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Nov 10, 3:02 PM ET: Biden Reveals Details of Trump’s ‘Very Generous’ 2021 Oval Office LetterThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Nov 10, 3:02 PM ET: READ IT: Biden Reveals Surprisingly Warm Letter Trump Left HimThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Nov 10, 4:02 PM ET: WOW: Joe Biden Reveals The “Very Generous” Letter President Trump Left for Him Upon Exiting the Oval Office in 2021New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Nov 10, 4:02 PM ET: Trump praised Biden in ‘very generous’ letter upon exiting White House, ex-prez reveals in memoir
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💬 Quoted

  1. “Very Generous”3

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📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire

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📡 Broadcast

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📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 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

Donald TrumpJoe BidenBiden bookOval Office

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Biden-Trump friendship claims

  1. Biden says Trump once suggested they could have been good friends

    Nov 9, 6 PM ET

  2. Biden reveals contents of trump's 2021 Oval Office letter (this story)

    Nov 10, 3 PM ET