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🗞️ Story file #193

Trump threatens to fire advisers over pro-Russia ties

Oct 7, 2 PM ET to Oct 7, 6 PM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏5 · 3 · 4🐘left · center · right
4 hourson the front pages
12front pages at once, at its peak
21 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 7, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: Raw Story
Oct 7, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 7, 6 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 2 PM to Oct 7, 6 PM ET (peak 12), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire Google News

💬 quoted: “I will terminate them” 2 “If There's a Conflict” 2 “terminating” “top advisers” “if there's a conflict” 3 “Astonishing” “terminate”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump pledges

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Raw Story (2 wordings): “Trump pushes away 'top advisers' exposed for pro-Russian gig: 'I will terminate them'” → “'Astonishing': Trump orbit rocked as he threatens to fire top advisers over NYT report”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Trump says he'll fire advisers LaCivita, Blair 'if there's a conflict'” → “Trump threatens to fire political advisers if their interests conflict”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet Trump pledges to terminate Russia-linked advisers — 'if there’s a conflict' Oct 7, 1 PM ET
Raw Story Trump pushes away 'top advisers' exposed for pro-Russian gig: 'I will terminate them' Oct 7, 2 PM ET
Axios Trump threatens to fire GOP consultants over foreign work Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Mediaite Trump Pledges to Fire Consultants ‘If There’s a Conflict’ After Scathing NYT Report Oct 7, 2 PM ET
Yahoo News Trump floats firing top political advisers after report they helped a pro-Russian government Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Financial Times Trump considers ‘terminating’ campaign advisers over Balkans trip Oct 7, 6 PM ET
Reuters Trump says he'll fire advisers LaCivita, Blair 'if there's a conflict' Oct 7, 2 PM ET
The Hill Trump says he’ll terminate LaCivita, Blair if they have consulting conflicts Oct 7, 1 PM ET
Just the News Trump says he'll ditch embattled consultants if other clients are a conflict of interest Oct 7, 3 PM ET
The Washington Times Trump threatens to fire 2 aides working for pro-Russia group in Bosnia Oct 7, 2 PM ET
New York Post Trump threatens to ‘terminate’ top campaign advisers after revelation of work for pro-Russia Bosnia party Oct 7, 1 PM ET
Newsmax Trump Warns Advisers Over Consulting Conflicts Oct 7, 2 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN21 min

MSNOW36 s

NYT: TRUMP ADVISERS HELPED A PRO-RUSSIAN GOVT AMID U.S. MIDTERMS CNN, 12 min
TRUMP DEFENDS TOP ADVISERS' BALKANS TRIP: “THAT'S PRETTY COMMON" CNN, 3 min
SOURCES: TRUMP WAS UNAWARE THAT TOP ADVISERS DID WORK FOR A PRO-PUTIN GOVT UNTIL BEING BRIEFED ON IMPENDING NYT STORY CNN, 2 min
TRUMP FLOATS FIRING TOP POLITICAL ADVISERS AFTER REPORT THEY HELPED A PRO-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CNN, 2 min
TRUMP DEFENDS TOP ADVISERS’ BALKANS TRIP AS “PRETTY COMMON”. AFTER DESCRIBING THEM AS “INDEPENDENT PEOPLE” EARLIER TODAY CNN, 69 s
NYT: TRUMP ADVISERS HELPED A PRO-RUSSIAN GOVT AMID U.S. MIDTERMS. Sen. Thom Tillis | (R) North Carolina CNN, 51 s
NYT: TRUMP ADVISERS HELPING PRO-RUSSIA PARTY IN EUROPE MSNOW, 36 s
NOW: GOP SEN. THOM TILLIS ON NEW NYT REPORT ON TRUMP ADVISERS. Sen. Thom Tillis | (R) North Carolina CNN, 30 s

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 Trump Russia Bosnia LaCivita Blair

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Trump threatens to fire advisers over pro-Russia ties

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