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🗞️ Story file #391

Senator Tillis says trump's Russian diesel deal may be illegal

Oct 12, 7 PM ET to Oct 13, 8 AM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 12, 7 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
  2. Oct 12, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 12, 8 PM10 PMOct 132 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM47leftright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 7 PM to Oct 13, 8 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · right
Oct 126 AM12 PM6 PMOct 136 AMNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 11, 12:00 PM ET: Sen. Tillis says he believes Trump’s fuel deal with Russia could be breaking the lawBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 11, 1:02 PM ET: Tillis: Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal Likely IllegalMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 11, 2:02 PM ET: GOP Senator Says Trump May Be Breaking the Law With Russia Deal in Fiery MTP Hit: ‘This Has Deadly Consequences!’USA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 11, 6:02 PM ET: Sen. Thom Tillis says Russian diesel deal may not be legalThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 11, 8:02 PM ET: (VIDEO) RINO Thom Tillis Says Trump’s Russia Diesel Deal is Illegal – Claims it “Absolutely” Puts American Lives at Risk to Promote His BookHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 11, 10:02 PM ET: GOP Senator Argues Trump May Be Breaking The Law With Russia DealNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 12, 12:02 PM ET: Tillis: Russian Diesel Deal May Be Breaking Law📺 TVMSNOW, 9:02 PM ET: BARRET ALLUDES GOP SEN. MARSHALL NOT PAYING $10M BILL
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.

💬 quoted: “Absolutely” “This Has Deadly Consequences!”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 gop senator 🐘 diesel deal 🐘 russian diesel

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

MSNOW21 s
  • BARRET ALLUDES GOP SEN. MARSHALL NOT PAYING $10M BILL MSNOW, 21 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Bloomberg News Now 📺 MeidasTouch 📺 Adam Mockler 🎙️ Today in Focus (Guardian) 🎙️ CNN 5 Things 🎙️ Bloomberg News Now 🎙️ WSJ What's News

🧶 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: Russia Donald Trump Mitchell Tillis MTP

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Trump Russia Ukraine Energy Deal

  1. U.s.-russia talks include oil deal linked to trump allies

    Oct 3, 5 PM ET

  2. Trump criticizes Ukraine after attack on Russian diesel hub

    Oct 10, 2 PM ET

  3. Trump claims Ukraine and Russia agreed to energy ceasefire

    Oct 11, 11 AM ET

  4. Russian attacks kill 15 in Ukraine after diesel deal with Trump

    Oct 10, 9 AM ET

  5. Senators urge Trump to reverse Russian diesel plan

    Oct 12, 12 PM ET

  6. US threatens to suspend arms shipments to Ukraine over refinery attacks

    Oct 12, 3 PM ET

  7. Senator Tillis says trump's Russian diesel deal may be illegal (this story)

    Oct 12, 7 PM ET

  8. Russia continues energy strikes in Ukraine despite Trump's ceasefire claims

    Oct 12, 9 AM ET

  9. Uk prime minister Burnham pledges support to Zelenskyy

    Oct 14, 4 PM ET

  10. Zelenskyy says he feels betrayed after Trump’s diesel deal with Russia

    Oct 14, 6 PM ET

  11. Zelenskyy meets EU leaders as rift with Trump deepens

    Oct 16, 1 PM ET

  12. Trump's Russian diesel deal faces bipartisan backlash

    Oct 9, 4 PM ET