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Trump praises supporter who punched protester at rally

Oct 22, 12 AM ET to Oct 23, 12 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

12outlets carried it
🫏8 · 0 · 3🐘left · center · right
1.5 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions
1fact-check
9 of 49parts of a saga

📰 read it at: HuffPost Raw Story The Daily Beast The Guardian The New Republic Mediaite The Independent USA Today Just the News New York Post The Gateway Pundit Crooks and Liars

👣 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 22, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Beast
Oct 22, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 22, 6 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 12 AM to Oct 23, 12 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · right · not rated

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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. 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

“He Got Whacked!”2
“That was great,”2
“Man, I Loved That”1
“That was great”3
“You reminded me of Evander 'the Real Deal”1
“Man, I loved that”1
“Depraved”1
“LOSERS”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

🗣️ Only one side says

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trump cheers

🐘 right
nothing of its own

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Political Wire · Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

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

HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump Praises Rally Attendee For Punching Protester” → “‘Depraved’: Trump’s Reaction To Protester Getting ‘Whacked’ At Rally Is Condemned”
New York Post (2 wordings): ““You reminded me of Evander ‘the Real Deal’ Holyfield,” Trump told the senior-citizen who beat on a protester, likening him to the four-time heavyweight boxing champion, who attended the rally.” → “Trump’s SC rally turns into royal rumble with hecklers getting ‘whacked’ by MAGA supporters”

📰 Every outlet's headline 12left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Oct 21, 8 PM ET Trump Praises Rally Attendee For Punching Protester
Raw Story🕒 Oct 21, 9 PM ET Protesters dragged out of Trump rally as president erupts over repeated disruptions
The Daily Beast🕒 Oct 22, 12 AM ET Trump Cheers On Violent Attacks on Protesters at Chaotic Rally
The Guardian🕒 Oct 21, 10 PM ET ‘Man, I loved that’: Trump cheers South Carolina rally attender who hit protester
The New Republic🕒 Oct 22, 12 PM ET “Man, I Loved That’: Trump Celebrates as MAGA Fans Attack Protester
Mediaite🕒 Oct 21, 9 PM ET Trump Commends Rally-Goer for Punching Heckler: ‘He Got Whacked!’
The Independent🕒 Oct 22, 9 AM ET Trump praises supporter who punched heckler at rally and compares him to Evander Holyfield: ‘That was great’
USA Today🕒 Oct 22, 5 PM ET 'That was great,' says Trump as man punches protester at SC rally
Just the News🕒 Oct 21, 11 PM ET Trump praises supporter for allegedly punching protester at South Carolina rally: 'That was great'
New York Post🕒 Oct 21, 10 PM ET “You reminded me of Evander ‘the Real Deal’ Holyfield,” Trump told the senior-citizen who beat on a protester, likening him to the four-time heavyweight boxing champion, who attended the rally.
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Oct 20, 11 PM ET WATCH: Multiple Protesters Hauled Out of Trump Rally Again as Crowd Chants “USA!” and Trump Trolls “LOSERS” – “They Get Home and Smacked in the Face by Mom and Dad”
Crooks and Liars🕒 Oct 22, 2 PM ET Trump Nearly Foamed At The Mouth After Watching His Heckler Get Punched

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

left
leans left
center

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

🫏 CNN 4 min

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

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 TrumpSouth CarolinaProtestersTrump Rally AttendeeHeckler

what the fact-checkers looked into

🔎 Snopes: Fake image depicting real attack on protester at Trump rally spreads online

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