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🗞️ Story file #1221

DHS says it sent DOJ a large case in probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar

Oct 31, 6 PM ET to Nov 2, 12 PM ET

📰 read it at: Just the News Breitbart New York Post The Daily Wire The Gateway Pundit The National Desk The Post Millennial

👣 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 31, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Gateway Pundit
  2. Oct 31, 7 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Nov 1, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Nov 111 AM11 PM11 AM47right
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 6 PM to Nov 2, 12 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: right
Oct 3112 PMNov 111 AM11 PM11 AMBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 30, 11:01 PM ET: Mullin Says DHS Has Presented DOJ a ‘Large Case’ on Ilhan OmarBreitbart, Oct 31, 10:01 AM ET: Sec. Mullin Says DHS Has Presented DOJ a ‘Large Case’ Against Ilhan Omar ‘Lying on Your Application Has NO Expiration Date’New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 31, 12:01 PM ET: Ilhan Omar case is ‘large’ and targeting multiple people, reveals DHS SecretaryNew York Post, Oct 31, 3:01 PM ET: Case by case Ilhan Omar case is ‘large’ and targeting multiple people, reveals DHS SecretaryNew York Post, Nov 1, 2:01 AM ET: Ilhan Omar case is ‘large’ and targeting multiple people: DHS bossThe Post MillennialThe Post MillennialThe Post Millennial, Oct 31, 2:01 PM ET: DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin says Ilhan Omar investigation is ‘large’ case targeting multiple peopleThe National DeskThe National DeskThe National Desk, Oct 31, 3:01 PM ET: DHS says it sent DOJ a 'large case' in probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar after home searchThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 31, 3:01 PM ET: DHS Chief Says Omar Investigation Is ‘Large Case’ Involving Multiple PeopleThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit, Oct 31, 6:01 PM ET: DHS Secretary Mullin Says HSI Handed DOJ a ‘Large Case’ on Ilhan Omar and OthersJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Nov 1, 4:01 PM ET: Mullin defends Trump administration’s 'large' investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar📺 TVFox News, 7:41 PM ET: GHOST STUDENTS. DOJ CHARGES FIVE IN FEDERAL AID FRAUD SCHEMEFox News, 7:41 PM ET: WHO YOU GONNA CALL?. DOJ'S OPERATION TARGETS FEDERAL AID FRAUDFox News, 7:42 PM ET: "OPERATION GHOSTBUSTERS". FIVE ARRESTED IN 'GHOST STUDENTS' FRAUD SCHEMEFox News, 7:42 PM ET: YEARS OF FRAUD. DOJ: FRAUD SCHEME GOING SINCE AT LEAST 2021Fox News, 7:42 PM ET: WHO YOU GONNA CALL?. DOJ'S OPERATION TARGETS FEDERAL AID FRAUDFox News, 7:43 PM ET: "OPERATION GHOSTBUSTERS". FIVE ARRESTED IN 'GHOST STUDENTS' FRAUD SCHEMEFox News, 7:44 PM ET: "OPERATION GHOSTBUSTERS"Fox News, 7:44 PM ET: GHOST STUDENTSFox News, 7:44 PM ET: "OPERATION GHOSTBUSTERS"Fox News, 7:44 PM ET: FIVE ARRESTED IN 'GHOST STUDENTS' FRAUD SCHEMEFox News, 7:44 PM ET: "OPERATION GHOSTBUSTERS". FIVE ARRESTED IN 'GHOST STUDENTS' FRAUD SCHEMEFox News, 7:45 PM ET: "OPERATION GHOSTBUSTERS". FIVE ARRESTED IN 'GHOST STUDENTS' FRAUD SCHEMEFox News, 8:23 PM ET: BETRAYING THE PARTYFox News, 8:44 PM ET: CALLING HER OUT. TRUMP: OMAR (D) MUST RESIGN FROM CONGRESS IMMEDIATELYFox News, 8:45 PM ET: OMAR UNDER FIRE. TURLEY: QUESTION IS ABOUT HER ELIGIBILITY TO SERVEFox News, 8:46 PM ET: CALLING HER OUTFox News, 8:47 PM ET: CALLING HER OUT. TRUMP: OMAR (D) MUST RESIGN FROM CONGRESS IMMEDIATELYFox News, 8:47 PM ET: CALLING HER OUT. TRUMP: OMAR (D) MUST RESIGN FROM CONGRESS IMMEDIATELYFox News, 2:16 AM ET: THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF REP. ILHAN OMAR (D-MN)Fox News, 10:09 AM ET: HULLIN: OMAR PROBE A 'LARGE CASE WITH MANY PEOPLE
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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “Large Case”6
  2. “Lying on Your Application Has NO Expiration Date”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “Mullin Says DHS Has Presented DOJ a ‘Large Case’ on Ilhan Omar” → “Sec. Mullin Says DHS Has Presented DOJ a ‘Large Case’ Against Ilhan Omar ‘Lying on Your Application Has NO Expiration Date’”
  • New York Post (3 wordings): “Ilhan Omar case is ‘large’ and targeting multiple people, reveals DHS Secretary” → “Ilhan Omar case is ‘large’ and targeting multiple people: DHS boss”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🐘 Fox News 6 min

📻 On the radio

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🎙️ On the shows

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

  1. 🐘 Ben Shapiro 1
  2. 🐘 Morning Wire 1
  3. 🐘 Erick Erickson 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

  1. 🃏 The Babylon Bee 1

🧶 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

Ilhan OmarHomeland Security InvestigationsDHS Secretary

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ilhan Omar investigation

  1. Trump criticizes Omar following raid

    Oct 13, 2 PM ET

  2. Federal raid on Rep. Omar's home criticized by Democrats

    Oct 13, 8 PM ET

  3. Federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on citizenship status

    Oct 16, 8 PM ET

  4. Border czar says investigators have strong case against Ilhan Omar

    Oct 19, 9 AM ET

  5. Obama criticizes Trump administration's investigation of Ilhan Omar

    Oct 19, 1 AM ET

  6. Feds have dna evidence in ilhan omar immigration fraud probe

    Oct 17, 4 PM ET

  7. Federal investigators question Ilhan Omar's sister

    Oct 12, 9 AM ET

  8. Federal filing reveals ilhan omar's alias and name history

    Oct 22, 6 PM ET

  9. Rep. Ilhan Omar to move from D.C. home after federal raid

    Oct 24, 1 AM ET

  10. Rep. Ilhan Omar faces expulsion calls over name and marriage allegations

    Oct 21, 12 PM ET

  11. Rep. Omar's deleted tweet linked to alleged marriage to brother

    Oct 24, 7 AM ET

  12. Ilhan Omar's marriage to brother alleged in new claims

    Oct 31, 6 AM ET

  13. Obama-era probe found evidence of sham marriage allegations against Ilhan Omar

    Oct 29, 11 AM ET

  14. DHS says it sent DOJ a large case in probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar (this story)

    Oct 31, 6 PM ET