BND - Trump denies considering firing chief of staff Susie Wiles

🗞️ Story file #578

Trump denies considering firing chief of staff Susie Wiles

Oct 16, 9 PM ET to Oct 18, 9 AM ET

12outlets carried it
🫏5 · 1 · 6🐘left · center · right
1.5 dayson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
16 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 16, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Raw Story
Oct 16, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 17, 6 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 16, 9 PM to Oct 18, 9 AM ET (peak 9), 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

💬 quoted: “has my COMPLETE confidence” “Zero Chance” 2 “She's Going to Be Here for a Long Time” “until the end” “every hour” “She's burned a lot of people”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 trump denies

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

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Trump Shoots Down Report Claiming He Is Considering Replacing Susie Wiles” → “Trump: ‘Zero Chance’ I Replace Susie Wiles, ‘She’s Going to Be Here for a Long Time’”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Dismisses Report He's Seeking to Replace Wiles” → “Trump Dismisses Report of Plan to Replace Wiles”

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

Raw Story Dirt on Susie Wiles reaches Trump ‘every hour’ as factions battle to replace her: report Oct 16, 9 PM ET
CNN Trump says ‘zero chance’ he’s replacing chief of staff Susie Wiles Oct 16, 5 PM ET
NBC News Trump says Susie Wiles will remain in her role at the White House ‘until the end’ Oct 17, 5 PM ET
Semafor Trump advisers reject talk of a Wiles firing Oct 16, 5 AM ET
The Independent Trump is reportedly looking to replace Susie Wiles: ‘She’s burned a lot of people’ Oct 15, 10 AM ET
Newsweek Susie Wiles: List of Potential Replacements if Trump Ousts Chief of Staff Oct 15, 2 PM ET
The Epoch Times Trump Denies Reports He’s Looking to Replace Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Oct 16, 6 PM ET
Breitbart Trump Shoots Down Report Claiming He Is Considering Replacing Susie Wiles Oct 15, 4 PM ET
Newsmax Trump Dismisses Report He's Seeking to Replace Wiles Oct 15, 10 PM ET
OAN Trump rebuts Politico report that he would fire Susie Wiles: She ‘has my COMPLETE confidence’ Oct 17, 6 PM ET
The Daily Caller Trump Denies Reports That He Was Considering Firing Susie Wiles Oct 17, 10 AM ET
The Gateway Pundit (VIDEO) Trump Responds to Rumors that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is on Thin Ice as Insiders Leak Potential Replacements Oct 16, 9 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

MSNOW11 min

CNN5 min

Fox News37 s

TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE IN CHAOS 19 DAYS OUT FROM MIDTERMS MSNOW, 7 min
TRUMP: “ZERO CHANCE” I'M REPLACING CHIEF OF STAFF SUSIE WILES CNN, 4 min
TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE IN CHAOS 18 DAYS OUT FROM MIDTERMS MSNOW, 2 min
WAPO: TRUMP AIDES SUSPECT SUSIE WILES JOB IN DOUBT MSNOW, 2 min
TRUMP: “ZERO CHANCE” I'M REPLACING CHIEF OF STAFF SUSIE WILES. Chris Whipple | Author, "The Gatekeepers" CNN, 45 s
WHITE HOUSE SHAKEUP Fox News, 37 s
WHIP: TRUMP AIDES SUSPECT SUSIE WILES' JOB IN DOUBT MSNOW, 18 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Pod Save America 📺 The Young Turks 📨 Erick Erickson 🎙️ Politico Playbook

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 Susie Wiles

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 denies considering firing chief of staff Susie Wiles

📰 Spread

📡 Broadcast

📺 On TV

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

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🧵 Persistence