BND - Feds have dna evidence in ilhan omar immigration fraud probe

🗞️ Story file #595

Feds have dna evidence in ilhan omar immigration fraud probe

Oct 17, 4 PM ET to Oct 21, 2 PM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏0 · 2 · 9🐘left · center · right
3.9 dayson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
7 minof TV captions
6 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 17, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Post Millennial
Oct 17, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 19, 10 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 17, 4 PM to Oct 21, 2 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: 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

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (9 wordings): “Report: Feds Collected Garbage from Ilhan Omar’s Home, Searching for Her DNA” → “…Feds to Use Her DNA to Prove Immigration Fraud”
News Nation (2 wordings): “Feds dumpster-dive for Rep. Ilhan Omar's DNA: Sources” → “Feds dumpster-dive for Rep. Ilhan Omar DNA...”
The Gateway Pundit (6 wordings): “NEW: Feds Have DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigation Into Ilhan Omar’s Immigration Fraud” → “64.5K views NEW: Feds Have DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigation Into Ilhan Omar’s Immigration Fraud”
The Western Journal (2 wordings): “Uh-Oh: Looks Like Feds Took DNA From Ilhan Omar and Family, Sources Say” → “Breaking: Feds Have DNA Evidence That Ilhan Omar Committed Voter Fraud, Married Her Brother - Source”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Federal Agents Are Searching Ilhan Omar's Trash. Something Else Might Be Going On” → “The Feds Have That DNA Evidence on Ilhan Omar...and It Could Totally Wreck Her”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating

News Nation Feds dumpster-dive for Rep. Ilhan Omar's DNA: Sources Oct 16, 10 PM ET
The Hill Federal agents searched Omar’s trash for DNA before raid: Sources Oct 16, 10 PM ET
Breitbart Report: Feds Collected Garbage from Ilhan Omar’s Home, Searching for Her DNA Oct 19, 4 PM ET
New York Post Feds have DNA evidence that can prove Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud, wed her brother: sources Oct 19, 6 PM ET
Newsmax Report: Feds Have DNA Evidence in Omar Fraud Probe Oct 19, 10 PM ET
Red State Things Just Got Worse for Ilhan Omar After Agents Searched Her Trash for DNA Oct 17, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire Feds Have DNA Evidence In Ilhan Omar Immigration Fraud Probe: Report Oct 19, 9 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit NEW: Feds Have DNA Evidence in Criminal Investigation Into Ilhan Omar’s Immigration Fraud Oct 19, 8 PM ET
The Post Millennial Federal agents searched Ilhan Omar’s trash for DNA evidence leading up to DHS raid: report Oct 17, 4 PM ET
The Western Journal Uh-Oh: Looks Like Feds Took DNA From Ilhan Omar and Family, Sources Say Oct 17, 3 PM ET
Townhall Federal Agents Are Searching Ilhan Omar's Trash. Something Else Might Be Going On Oct 17, 10 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News5 min

BBC News2 min

CNN15 s

Mohammad Alias Yousaf made claim to undercover reporter BBC News, 2 min
TRUMP: ILHAN OMAR COULD GO TO JAIL OR BE DEPORTED Fox News, 46 s
REP ILHAN OMAR UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR POSSIBLY PARTICIPATING IN AN IMMIGRATION FRAUD SCHEME Fox News, 35 s
UNDER INVESTIGATION Fox News, 34 s
EMMER: OMAR SHOULD BE DEPORTED IF FRAUD PROVEN Fox News, 19 s
NEW DETAILS IN INVESTIGATION INTO ILHAN OMAR Fox News, 19 s
DUAL INVESTIGATIONS. AUTHORITIES HAVE OMAR DNA AND PERSONAL PASSPORT Fox News, 18 s
p. Daycare Centers Across NYC CNN, 15 s