BND - Justice Department investigates Corey Lewandowski over alleged contract misconduct at DHS

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Justice Department investigates Corey Lewandowski over alleged contract misconduct at DHS

Oct 22, 6 PM ET to Oct 23, 4 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

26outlets carried it
🫏13 · 4 · 8🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
26front pages at once, at its peak
10 minof TV captions
2 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 22, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 22, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Rolling Stone
Oct 23, 12 AM ETpeak: on 26 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 6 PM to Oct 23, 4 AM ET (peak 26), by the outlets' lean: left · center · 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. 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: Drudge Report Political Wire

💬 quoted: “I want my people to be honest” 2 “If they're not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted” “striking” “I Want My People to Be Honest”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 alleged contract misconduct 🫏 justice department investigating republican operative corey 🫏 trump ally corey

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

CNN (2 wordings): “Justice Department investigating Republican operative Corey Lewandowski, sources say The investigation is into alleged contract misconduct at DHS” → “Justice Department investigating Republican operative Corey Lewandowski, sources say”
NBC News (2 wordings): “BREAKING: DHS watchdog refers its Corey Lewandowski investigation to DOJ for review” → “Lewandowski’s handling of government contracts under scrutiny”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Corey Lewandowski Is Reportedly Facing a Justice Department Probe Cameron Arcand” → “DOJ Corey Lewandowski Is Reportedly Facing a Justice Department Probe Cameron Arcand”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “DOJ investigates whether Corey Lewandowski profited from DHS role: Report” → “Trump says dishonest people must be prosecuted amid Lewandowski probe”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Corey Lewandowski under federal investigation over DHS contracts, sources say” → “Justice Department investigating Republican operative Corey Lewandowski over alleged contract misconduct at DHS, sources say”

Every outlet's first headline (26), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost DOJ Looking At Allegations Against Trump Ally Corey Lewandowski: WSJ Oct 22, 7 PM ET
Raw Story Trump’s ‘striking’ reaction to Corey Lewandowski criminal probe stuns DOJ watchers Oct 22, 7 PM ET
Rolling Stone DOJ Probes Allegations of Corruption Against Corey Lewandowski Oct 22, 6 PM ET
The Guardian Department of Justice opens criminal investigation into Corey Lewandowski Oct 22, 9 PM ET
ABC News DOJ probing Trump ally Corey Lewandowski's actions at DHS after IG referral: Sources Oct 22, 8 PM ET
CBS News DOJ investigating Corey Lewandowski over DHS role, sources say Oct 22, 6 PM ET
CNN Justice Department investigating Republican operative Corey Lewandowski, sources say The investigation is into alleged contract misconduct at DHS Oct 22, 4 PM ET
Mediaite NEW: Trump’s DOJ Investigates Possible Corruption Charges For Corey Lewandowski Oct 22, 5 PM ET
NBC News BREAKING: DHS watchdog refers its Corey Lewandowski investigation to DOJ for review Oct 22, 8 PM ET
New York Times Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Corey Lewandowski Oct 22, 5 PM ET
Star Tribune Justice Department opens inquiry into Corey Lewandowski Oct 22, 5 PM ET
The Independent Trump’s DOJ looking to see if Corey Lewandowski profited working for Kristi Noem: report Oct 22, 10 PM ET
Yahoo News Corey Lewandowski under federal investigation over DHS contracts, sources say Oct 22, 5 PM ET
News Nation DOJ examining allegations Corey Lewandowski profited from DHS role Oct 22, 5 PM ET
Newsweek Trump Reacts to Reported Lewandowski Probe: ‘I Want My People to Be Honest’ Oct 22, 8 PM ET
Reuters Trump ally Lewandowski faces criminal investigation over DHS tenure, sources say Oct 22, 10 PM ET
The Hill Trump on Lewandowski probe reports: ‘I want my people to be honest’ Oct 23, 12 AM ET
Just the News DOJ investigating Corey Lewandowski over allegations he profited off of gov't job: WSJ Oct 22, 3 PM ET
Washington Examiner DOJ investigates whether Corey Lewandowski profited from DHS role: Report Oct 22, 6 PM ET
New York Post Trump responds to alleged DOJ Corey Lewandowski probe: ‘If they’re not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted’ Oct 22, 6 PM ET
Newsmax Report: DOJ Probes Lewandowski's DHS Role Oct 22, 6 PM ET
The Daily Caller DOJ Investigating Corey Lewandowski Over Alleged Profiteering At DHS Oct 22, 8 PM ET
The Daily Wire DOJ Investigates Whether Corey Lewandowski Cashed In On Homeland Security Role Oct 22, 10 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit Trump Weighs in Amid Reports Justice Department Probing Corey Lewandowski (VIDEO) Oct 22, 6 PM ET
Townhall Corey Lewandowski Is Reportedly Facing a Justice Department Probe Cameron Arcand Oct 22, 7 PM ET
The Washington Sun DOJ Investigating Corey Lewandowski Over Alleged Contract Misconduct At DHS: Reports Oct 22, 6 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN9 min

Fox News39 s

SOURCES: DOJ INVESTIGATING GOP OPERATIVE COREY LEWANDOWSKI CNN, 3 min
SOURCES: JUSTICE DEPT. INVESTIGATING GOP OPERATIVE COREY LEWANDOWSKI OVER ALLEGED CONTRACT MISCONDUCT AT DHS CNN, 2 min
TRUMP DOJ PROBING LEWODOWSKI OVER HANDLING OF DHS CONTRACTS CNN, 2 min
TRUMP DOJ PROBING LEWODOWSKI OVER HANDLING OF DHS CONTRACTS. Ty Cobb | Former Trump White House Lawyer CNN, 2 min
SOURCES: DOJ PROBING COREY LEWANDOWSKI OVER ALLEGED CONTRACT MISCONDUCT AT DHS CNN, 41 s
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROBES LEWANDOWSKI ALLEGATIONS Fox News, 39 s
TRUMP ON DOJ INVESTIGATING COREY LEWANDOWSKI CNN, 29 s

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: Corey Lewandowski DOJ DHS Donald Trump Justice Department

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Corey Lewandowski DOJ probe

Justice Department opens inquiry into Corey Lewandowski
Oct 22, 8 PM ET
Justice Department investigates Corey Lewandowski over alleged contract misconduct at DHS (this story)
Oct 22, 6 PM ET

Justice Department investigates Corey Lewandowski over alleged contract misconduct at DHS

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🧵 Corey Lewandowski DOJ probe