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🗞️ Story file #855

Justice Department opens inquiry into Corey Lewandowski

Oct 22, 8 PM ET to Oct 22, 8 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 22, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsweek
  2. Oct 22, 8 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 22, 6 PM7 PM8 PMStar TribuneStar TribuneStar Tribune, Oct 22, 5:00 PM ET: Justice Department opens inquiry into Corey LewandowskiNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 22, 5:00 PM ET: Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Corey LewandowskiThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 22, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Weighs in Amid Reports Justice Department Probing Corey Lewandowski (VIDEO)New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 22, 6:00 PM ET: Trump responds to alleged DOJ Corey Lewandowski probe: ‘If they’re not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted’TownhallTownhallTownhall, Oct 22, 7:00 PM ET: Corey Lewandowski Is Reportedly Facing a Justice Department Probe Cameron ArcandRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Oct 22, 7:00 PM ET: Trump’s ‘striking’ reaction to Corey Lewandowski criminal probe stuns DOJ watchersNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 22, 8:00 PM ET: Trump Reacts to Reported Lewandowski Probe: ‘I Want My People to Be Honest’Washington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 22, 8:00 PM ET: Trump says dishonest people must be prosecuted amid Lewandowski probe
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: Political Wire

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

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 opens inquiry

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

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📨 Erick Erickson

🧶 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: Corey Lewandowski Donald Trump United States Department of Justice

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Corey Lewandowski DOJ probe

  1. Justice Department investigates Corey Lewandowski over alleged contract misconduct at DHS

    Oct 22, 6 PM ET

  2. Justice Department opens inquiry into Corey Lewandowski (this story)

    Oct 22, 8 PM ET