🧩 BND Motif Index · M1756
Sins of the father
A leader's grudge against an enemy falls on the enemy's child: a son or daughter is fired, charged or hounded for whose child they are, and the punishment is read as aimed at the parent.
- 3claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ 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
🪜 rests on 🧩 Political retaliation
🔗 goes with: 🧩 It runs in the family
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (4 left-leaning, 1 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"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)
- 📰 Federal judge rules top LA prosecutor unlawfully serving 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-30
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, a Trump foe, was dismissed in 2025 despite her work being widely praised” “Maurene Comey believes she was let go from her job as a federal prosecutor because her father is the former FBI director.”
🧶 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 2
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-27 “Maureen Comey was wrongly terminated in violation of her due process rights.” 3
- 2026-10-27 “The Trump regime unlawfully fired Maureen Comey because she is the daughter of James Comey.” 2
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-27 “A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey.”
M1756 · first seen 2026-11-09 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works