Billionaire received pardon after $50 million deal with Ex-Trump Lawyer

🗞️ Story file #764

Billionaire received pardon after $50 million deal with Ex-Trump Lawyer

Oct 21, 1 PM ET to Oct 22, 1 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏8 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
1 dayon the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
53 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 21, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Independent
Oct 21, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 21, 5 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 21, 1 PM to Oct 22, 1 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left

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: “Send This to the New Trump Fraud Tip Line”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

New York Magazine (2 wordings): “Who Is Alina Habba, Ex-Trump Lawyer Enmeshed in Scandals? The latest controversy involves a billionaire banker, a $50 million deal, and a Trump pardon.” → “Who Is Alina Habba, the Ex-Trump Lawyer in the Thick of Multiple Scandals? The latest controversy involves a billionaire banker, a $50 million deal, and a Trump pardon.”

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN49 min

MSNOW4 min

NY TIMES: BILLIONAIRE GOT TRUMP PARDON AFTER $350M DEAL WITH ALINA HABBA CNN, 29 min
HABBA: I NEVER MET WITH ANYONE AT WH OR DOJ ABOUT A PARDON CNN, 12 min
HABBA DENIES DEAL WITH BILLIONAIRE WHO GOT TRUMP PARDON CNN, 4 min
HABBA: "I WAS NEVER PAID TO SECURE A PARDON" CNN, 3 min
BILLIONAIRE GIVES ALINA HABBA $50M DEAL AHEAD MSNOW, 2 min
NYT: BILLIONAIRE GOT PARDON AFTER FAMILY HIRED TRUMP ATTY MSNOW, 86 s
FOR $50M JOB AS FATHER SOUGHT TRUMP PARDON MSNOW, 75 s
BOMBSHELL REPORT ON TRUMP'S BILLIONAIRE PARDON MSNOW, 18 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 The Young Turks 📺 MeidasTouch

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Pay to play 🫏 4 left shows 🐘 1 right show
“A billionaire received a Trump pardon after his family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.” and 1 more
🧩 Selling indulgences 🫏 4 left shows 🐘 1 right show
“A billionaire received a Trump pardon after his family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal.” and 1 more
🧩 The family business 🫏 4 left shows 🐘 1 right show
“A billionaire's family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal because he wanted a Trump pardon.”

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Alina Habba Donald Trump Trump Fraud Tip Line Habba

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.