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🗞️ Story file #1654

Biden says Trump once suggested they could have been good friends

Nov 9, 6 PM ET to Nov 10, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

📰 read it at: Alternet HuffPost Raw Story The Daily Beast The Independent Washington Examiner Crooks and Liars

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  1. Nov 9, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Crooks and Liars
  2. Nov 10, 12 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

4712 PM6 PMTue6 AM12 PMpeak: 7 front pages, Tue 12 AMMon Nov 9, 7 AM ET: on 1 front pages (1 left)Mon Nov 9, 8 AM ET: on 1 front pages (1 left)Mon Nov 9, 9 AM ET: on 2 front pages (1 left, 1 leans left)Mon Nov 9, 10 AM ET: on 2 front pages (1 left, 1 leans left)Mon Nov 9, 11 AM ET: on 4 front pages (2 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 12 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 1 PM ET: on 4 front pages (2 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 2 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 3 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 4 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 5 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right)Mon Nov 9, 6 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Mon Nov 9, 7 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Mon Nov 9, 8 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Mon Nov 9, 9 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Mon Nov 9, 10 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Mon Nov 9, 11 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 12 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 1 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 2 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 3 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 4 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 5 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 6 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 7 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 8 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 9 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 10 AM ET: on 7 front pages (4 left, 1 leans left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 11 AM ET: on 6 front pages (4 left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 12 PM ET: on 6 front pages (4 left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 1 PM ET: on 6 front pages (4 left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)Tue Nov 10, 2 PM ET: on 6 front pages (4 left, 1 leans right, 1 not rated)
Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean:leftleans leftleans rightnot rated. First: Alternet, Mon 7:02 AM ET.
Nov 9, 12 PM6 PMNov 106 AM12 PMAlternetAlternetAlternet, Nov 9, 7:02 AM ET: 'Too stunned to respond': What Trump said to Biden behind closed doorsThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Nov 9, 9:02 AM ET: Trump told Biden they’d be ‘good friends’ if not for politics, ex-president revealsRaw StoryRaw StoryRaw Story, Nov 9, 11:02 AM ET: Biden spills on what Trump told him in private that left him 'too stunned to respond'Washington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Nov 9, 11:02 AM ET: Biden was ‘stunned’ after Trump told him they would have been ‘good friends’The Daily BeastThe Daily BeastThe Daily Beast, Nov 9, 2:03 PM ET: Biden Reveals Weird Trump Moment That Left Him SpeechlessCrooks and LiarsCrooks and LiarsCrooks and Liars, Nov 9, 6:02 PM ET: ‘I Think I Blinked’: Biden Spills How Trump’s Oval Office Confession ‘Stunned’ HimHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Nov 10, 12:02 AM ET: Biden Says Trump Once Mused About An Alternate Reality Where They Were FriendsHuffPost, Nov 10, 1:02 AM ET: BAFFLING: Biden Reveals Moment Trump Said To Imagine Their Relationship Without Politics
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. “Too stunned to respond”4
  2. “good friends”1
  3. “I Think I Blinked”1
  4. “too stunned to respond”4

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

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • HuffPost (2 wordings): “Biden Says Trump Once Mused About An Alternate Reality Where They Were Friends” → “BAFFLING: Biden Reveals Moment Trump Said To Imagine Their Relationship Without Politics”
📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ On the shows

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  1. 🫏 CNN 5 Things 1

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

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

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

🧶 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

Donald TrumpJoe Biden

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Biden-Trump friendship claims

  1. Biden says Trump once suggested they could have been good friends (this story)

    Nov 9, 6 PM ET

  2. Biden memoir reveals details of Trump's 2021 Oval Office letter and comments on Jan. 6

    Nov 10, 3 PM ET

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