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🗞️ Story file #30

Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape investigation

Oct 3, 12 PM ET to Oct 4, 2 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏3 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
1.1 dayson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
3 of 8parts of a saga

👣 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 3, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Yahoo News
Oct 4, 1 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 4, 1 PM to Oct 4, 2 PM ET (peak 7), 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.

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

Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump: AG James Won't Give Cornell Accused 'Fair Shake'” → “Trump: James Won't Give Cornell Accused 'Fair Shake'”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape probe” → “Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists because his nemesis is investigating them”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

The Daily Beast Trump Expresses Sympathy for Accused Cornell Seven Rapists Oct 2, 5 PM ET
The Independent Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape probe Oct 2, 5 PM ET
Yahoo News Trump says Cornell 7 'won't get fair shake' because NY AG Letitia James Oct 3, 4 PM ET
The Hill Trump: Cornell students ‘won’t get a fair shake’ with James leading probe Oct 2, 5 PM ET
Washington Examiner Trump says ‘Cornell 7’ won’t get fair shake under Letitia James Oct 2, 5 PM ET
New York Post Trump says ‘Cornell 7’ frat boys ‘won’t get a fair shake’ if Letitia James is involved in gang rape probe Oct 3, 8 AM ET
Newsmax Trump: AG James Won't Give Cornell Accused 'Fair Shake' Oct 3, 8 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit WATCH: “I Feel Badly” – Trump Says Cornell Frat Members Accused of Gang Rape “Won’t Get a Fair Shake” After Kathy Hochul Appoints Letitia James to Revive Case Oct 3, 8 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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

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 Letitia James Kathy Hochul Cornell University

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Cornell sexual assault scandal

New York governor appoints Attorney General as special prosecutor in Cornell rape case
Oct 2, 5 PM ET
Cornell university faces scrutiny over rape allegations and investigation
Oct 2, 5 PM ET
Letitia James takes over Cornell gang rape investigation (this story)
Oct 3, 12 PM ET
District attorney declined to review additional evidence in Cornell rape case
Oct 3, 2 PM ET
Woman in Cornell rape case faces threats, lawyer says
Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Defense attorney calls for NY AG to recuse from Cornell investigation
Oct 6, 8 AM ET
Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against administration
Oct 6, 10 AM ET
Cornell names former deputy AG to review sexual misconduct handling
Oct 6, 2 PM ET