BND - Trump says leakers should be shot

🗞️ Story file #494

Trump says leakers should be shot

Oct 14, 8 PM ET to Oct 17, 7 AM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

19outlets carried it
🫏8 · 3 · 6🐘left · center · right
2.5 dayson the front pages
19front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions

👣 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.

Oct 14, 8 PM ETfirst on a front page: USA Today
Oct 15, 1 PM ETpeak: on 19 front pages
Oct 17, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 8 PM to Oct 17, 7 AM ET (peak 19), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “should be shot.” 2 “should be shot” 3 “murder someone” “Sleazebag, Scum” “Should Be Shot” 5 “They're the scum of the earth” “Leakers Should Be Shot!” 4

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 plans deserve

✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Trump Says Leakers Should Be Shot, Veering Off Midterm Pitch” → “Trump Says People Who Leak to News Outlets ‘Should Be Shot’”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump Reveals What He Thinks Should Happen To Those Who Leak Military Secrets” → “Trump: People Who Leak Military Secrets 'Should Be Shot'”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Says Iran Raid Leakers 'Should Be Shot'” → “Trump: Iran Raid Leakers 'Should Be Shot'”
Red State (3 wordings): “Sleaze-Bags Who Leak Attack Plans Deserve a Bullet, Trump Tells Cheering Arizona Crowd Rusty Weiss” → “Donald Trump Sleaze-Bags Who Leak Attack Plans Deserve a Bullet, Trump Tells Cheering Arizona Crowd Rusty Weiss”
Straight Arrow News (2 wordings): “Trump says leakers should be shot; Ukraine drones hit by new Starlink restrictions” → “US reportedly weighs new Iran strikes as Trump says ‘leakers should be shot’”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump says government ‘leakers should be shot’” → “Trump says government leakers 'should be shot’”

Every outlet's first headline (19), left to right by AllSides rating