🧩 BND Motif Index · M1313
Even their own side says so
A charge is said to be beyond partisan dismissal because the accused's own camp raised or confirmed it first, the probe opened under their president or their own paper reported it, so it can't be called a witch hunt.
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Obama built the cages mirror: your side did it first, as excuse or as proof
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Where there's smoke, there's fire
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 3 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Obama-era probe found evidence of sham marriage allegations against Ilhan Omar 2026-10-29 to 2026-11-01
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “It's one thing when Democrats say it. It's one thing when left wingers say it. But I am talking about some of the most hardcore defenders of Trump” “Obama admin first launched the investigation” “The New York Times, of all places, confirming the federal investigation” “there is a vulnerability of the votes when they're transferred from the polling places to the county headquarters” “Who was sitting at the top of government in the summer of 2016 when this took place? Oh yeah, that was Barack Obama.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-07 “The Trump era is over: voters said screw you to Trump, his coalition has collapsed, and a Republican Congress gets almost nothing done.” 1
Told on the right 2
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-02 “Mark Ruffalo warns that vote tallies sent over the internet are vulnerable; a host says the leftist actor inadvertently made the case for the SAVE Act.” 1
- 2026-10-30 “The Obama administration investigated and found evidence that Ilhan Omar's marriage was fraudulent.” 2
M1313 · first seen 2026-10-30 · what this is · how the index works