🗞️ Story file #625
Obama criticizes Trump administration's investigation of Ilhan Omar
Oct 19, 1 AM ET to Oct 21, 8 AM ET
- 13outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 2 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 2.3 dayson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 25 minof TV captions
- 10people retold it online
- 5 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 19, 1 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 19, 2 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 19, 8 PM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
- Oct 20, 4 AM ETretold online by 10 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Real Clear Politics Google News
💬 quoted: “so appalling” 2 “besmirching his brand” “appalling” 3 “outrage all Americans” “Appalling” 2
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 obama calls trump 🫏 omar appalling 🐘 defending ilhan
✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Breitbart (5 wordings): “Obama Defends Ilhan Omar After Federal Raid on Her Home” → “Schweizer: Obama Defending Ilhan Omar Shows Dems Are Worried”
- Just the News (2 wordings): “Obama defends Omar after federal raid at her home” → “Obama calls Justice Department probe into fellow Democrat, Rep Ilhan Omar 'appalling'”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Obama backs Ilhan Omar amid probe, accuses Trump admin of weaponizing federal government: ‘So appalling’” → “Obama backs Ilhan Omar amid probe, accuses Trump admin of weaponizing federal govt”
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Obama backs Ilhan Omar amid probe, accuses Trump admin of 'appalling' targeting in lengthy statement” → “Obama calls Trump administration’s investigation into Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’”
Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
‘Appalling’: Obama Denounces Trump Admin’s Investigation Into Rep. Ilhan Omar Oct 19, 1 AM ET
Axios
Obama blasts Trump admin's Omar crackdown Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Mediaite
Obama Unloads on Trump DOJ’s Ilhan Omar Investigation and Raid at Her Home: ‘Appalling’ Oct 19, 10 AM ET
NBC News
Obama calls Trump officials’ investigation of Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’ Oct 19, 7 AM ET
Yahoo News
Obama backs Ilhan Omar amid probe, accuses Trump admin of 'appalling' targeting in lengthy statement Oct 18, 8 PM ET
BBC
Obama blasts federal probe of congresswoman Ilhan Omar as 'so appalling' Oct 19, 1 PM ET
The Hill
Obama: Omar investigation should ‘outrage all Americans’ Oct 18, 7 PM ET
Just the News
Obama defends Omar after federal raid at her home Oct 18, 11 AM ET
Washington Examiner
Obama ‘besmirching his brand’ by defending Ilhan Omar amid fraud probe: Tiana Lowe Doescher Oct 20, 1 PM ET
Breitbart
Obama Defends Ilhan Omar After Federal Raid on Her Home Oct 18, 6 PM ET
New York Post
Obama backs Ilhan Omar amid probe, accuses Trump admin of weaponizing federal government: ‘So appalling’ Oct 18, 1 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Obama gets brutally DEBUNKED by fact-checkers after attempting to white-knight for Ilhan Omar Oct 18, 8 PM ET
The Western Journal
Barack Obama's Attempt to Defend Ilhan Omar Crashes and Burns When His Own Past Gets Brought Up Oct 19, 7 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- OBAMA: TRUMP ADMIN. INVESTIGATION OF REP. OMAR "APPALLING" CNN, 8 min
- OBAMA: PROBE OF REP. OMAR SHOULD "OUTRAGE ALL AMERICANS" CNN, 8 min
- WH BORDER CZAR: INVESTIGATORS HAVE A "STRONG CASE" AGAINST OMAR CNN, 85 s
- OBAMA CALLS INVESTIGATION INTO OMAR "APPALLING" Fox News, 76 s
- ILHAN OMAR'S HOME SEARCHED BY FEDERAL AGENTS Fox News, 50 s
- OBAMA'S MAGIC IS ALL USED UP Fox News, 43 s
- OBAMA: "FULL WEIGHT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS BEING BROUGHT DOWN" ON REP. OMAR "BECAUSE SHE HAS DARED TO CRITICIZE" TRUMP CNN, 36 s
- NEWS CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR (D-MN) INVESTIGATION Fox News, 34 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Barack Obama condemned the Trump administration's investigation into Ilhan Omar as an attempt to intimidate and deport her. Oct 20: told by 10 people
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🗣️ names in it: Barack Obama Donald Trump Federal Bureau of Investigation Ilhan Omar U.S. government
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Ilhan Omar immigration probe
Trump criticizes Omar following raid
Oct 13, 2 PM ET
Federal raid on Rep. Omar's home criticized by Democrats
Oct 13, 8 PM ET
Federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on citizenship status
Oct 16, 8 PM ET
Border czar says investigators have strong case against Ilhan Omar
Oct 19, 9 AM ET
Obama criticizes Trump administration's investigation of Ilhan Omar (this story)
Oct 19, 1 AM ET
Feds have dna evidence in ilhan omar immigration fraud probe
Oct 17, 4 PM ET
Federal investigators question Ilhan Omar's sister
Oct 12, 9 AM ET
Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar's DC home
Oct 21, 12 PM ET