🗞️ Story file #732
Trump warns of potential national crisis if Democrats win midterms
Oct 20, 8 PM ET to Oct 21, 12 PM ET
- 3outlets carried it
- 🫏1 · 0 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 16 hourson the front pages
- 6front pages at once, at its peak
- 3 minof TV captions
- 1 of 2parts 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 20, 8 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
- Oct 21, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report
💬 quoted: “burn” “Muslim city”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump: US Could Burn Like France If Dems Win Midterms” → “Trump: US Will Burn Like France If Dems Win”
Every outlet's first headline (3), left to right by AllSides rating
The New Republic
Washington Examiner
Newsmax📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- FEARS OF TRUMP'S ANGER AFTER MIDTERMS FUEL "BRUTAL" WH JOCKEYING CNN, 2 min
- SOURCES: OFFICIALS FEAR TRUMP REACTION IF MAJOR GOP MIDTERM LOSSES CNN, 78 s
🧶 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: Donald Trump France Republican Party Kansas
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Trump warns of France-style chaos in midterms
Trump warns of potential national crisis if Democrats win midterms (this story)
Oct 20, 8 PM ET
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Oct 19, 6 PM ET