White House weighs mass pardons for junior staffers

🗞️ Story file #938

White House weighs mass pardons for junior staffers

Oct 25, 7 AM ET to Oct 25, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

6outlets carried it
🫏3 · 0 · 2🐘left · center · right
7 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
19 sof TV captions
6people retold it online

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Oct 25, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
Oct 25, 7 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Oct 25, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 26, 8 AM ETretold online by 6 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 25, 7 AM to Oct 25, 2 PM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · right · not rated

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💬 quoted: “Allowed” “Don't Want to See Innocent People Go Through Hell” “Mass Pardons” “allowed”

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

Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump says he’s ‘allowed’ to preemptively pardon junior administration staffers” → “Trump: 'Allowed’ to preemptively pardon junior staffers”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet White House is already talking about mass pardons for all staffers Oct 24, 10 AM ET
HuffPost White House Weighing Mass Pardons For Junior Staffers: Report Oct 24, 2 PM ET
Mediaite Trump Confirms He Could Issue ‘Mass Pardons’ to Staffers: ‘Don’t Want to See Innocent People Go Through Hell’ Oct 24, 6 PM ET
Washington Examiner Trump says he’s ‘allowed’ to preemptively pardon junior administration staffers Oct 24, 7 PM ET
Newsmax Report: White House Weighs Broad Pardons for Staff Oct 25, 7 AM ET
The Washington Sun White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff Oct 24, 9 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News19 s

TRUMP ADDRESSES POTENTIAL PARDONS FOR JUNIOR STAFF Fox News, 19 s

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 Get out of jail free 🐘 1 right show 🧶 online
↔️ its answer: No one is above the law
“Trump will have to issue mass pardons to protect low-level West Wing employees from prosecution.” and 1 more
🧩 Institutional cover-up 🐘 1 right show
“Trump will have to issue mass pardons to protect low-level West Wing employees from prosecution.”
🧩 Lawfare 🐘 1 right show
↔️ its answer: No one is above the law
“Trump will have to issue mass pardons to protect low-level West Wing employees from prosecution.”
🧩 No one is above the law 🐘 1 right show
↔️ its answer: Lawfare, Get out of jail free
“Trump will have to issue mass pardons to protect low-level West Wing employees from prosecution.”

🧶 Retold online

Trump's pardons will prevent his appointees from taking the Fifth Amendment when subpoenaed to testify. Oct 26: told by 6 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: White House Donald Trump Report Junior Staffers Staffers

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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