Trump endorses Netanyahu in Israeli election

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Trump endorses Netanyahu in Israeli election

Oct 18, 12 PM ET to Oct 21, 11 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

33outlets carried it
🫏13 · 6 · 13🐘left · center · right
3 dayson the front pages
32front pages at once, at its peak
23 minof TV captions
7radio newscasts
1 of 2parts of a saga

👣 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 18, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 18, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 18, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 19, 9 AM ETpeak: on 32 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 18, 12 PM to Oct 21, 11 AM ET (peak 32), 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.

📡 wire copy: 4 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Epoch Times, The Washington Sun)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Has Been Strong, Brave, & Brilliant” “Total Endorsement” “Great Warrior Prime Minister” “Strong, Brave, and Brilliant” “Will never let you down” “Has Been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant” 2 “Great warrior” “Complete and Total Endorsement”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 benjamin netanyahu

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Axios (2 wordings): “Trump endorses Netanyahu 9 days before Israel election” → “Trump tells Axios why he endorsed Netanyahu's reelection”
Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Trump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection as Israeli Leader” → “Trump’s Endorsement of Netanyahu Falls Flat With Israeli Voters”
Breitbart (4 wordings): “Trump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection: ‘Has Been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant’” → “Trump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection: ‘Has Been Strong, Brave, & Brilliant’”
CNN (2 wordings): “Breaking News Nine days before Israeli elections, Trump finally endorses Netanyahu” → “Nine days before Israeli elections, Trump finally endorses Netanyahu”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Netanyahu praises Trump's 'wicked sense of humor,' defends ironclad alliance ahead of historic Israel vote” → “Trump warns Israel against picking a leader other than Netanyahu in election”
Independent Journal Review (3 wordings): “Trump Endorses Netanyahu, Warns on Iran” → “Trump Warns of Iran Conflict in Netanyahu Endorsement”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Trump Endorses Netanyahu as Best U.S. Partner in Tight Israeli Election” → “Will Trump’s Endorsement of Netanyahu Fire Up His Campaign or Fizzle?”
Newsmax (4 wordings): “Trump Backs Netanyahu: ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ Ahead of Israeli Election” → “Trump Backs Netanyahu: 'Total Endorsement'”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “Trump Endorses Netanyahu as Officials Pressure Israel Over Settler Violence” → “Trump Endorsed Netanyahu. Israelis Must Prepare for What’s Next | Opinion”
Red State (3 wordings): “Trump Gives Ringing Endorsement to Netanyahu for Re-Election Ward Clark” → “Benjamin Netanyahu Trump Gives Ringing Endorsement to Netanyahu for Re-Election Ward Clark”
Reuters (3 wordings): “Trump endorses Netanyahu in Israeli election” → “Trump endorses Netanyahu in close Israeli election - Reuters”
The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Trump endorses Netanyahu in reelection bid nine days ahead of Israeli election” → “Netanyahu gets Trump endorsement in reelection bid just nine days ahead of Israeli election”

Every outlet's first headline (33), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Trump Gives Benjamin Netanyahu The Endorsement He's Been Waiting For Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Salon Trump wades into Israel’s election to back ally Netanyahu Oct 18, 2 PM ET
The Daily Kos How Trump’s Netanyahu endorsement could hamper Republicans Oct 19, 7 PM ET
AP Trump endorses embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Axios Trump endorses Netanyahu 9 days before Israel election Oct 18, 12 PM ET
CBS News Trump endorses Israel's Netanyahu ahead of reelection bid Oct 18, 1 PM ET
CNN Breaking News Nine days before Israeli elections, Trump finally endorses Netanyahu Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Trump endorses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection Oct 18, 3 PM ET
NBC News Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of pivotal Israeli election Oct 18, 12 PM ET
New York Times Trump Endorses Netanyahu as Best U.S. Partner in Tight Israeli Election Oct 19, 6 AM ET
Semafor Trump endorses Netanyahu in tight Israel elections Oct 18, 7 PM ET
The Independent Trump endorses ally Netanyahu in upcoming Israeli election: 'Strong, Brave, and Brilliant' Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Time Trump Endorses Netanyahu Days Before Election Oct 19, 9 AM ET
Bloomberg Trump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection as Israeli Leader Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Chicago Tribune President Donald Trump endorses embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Newsweek Trump Endorses Netanyahu as Officials Pressure Israel Over Settler Violence Oct 18, 3 PM ET
Reuters Trump endorses Netanyahu in Israeli election Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Scripps News Politics Trump endorses embattled Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for reelection AP via Scripps News Group Oct 18, 1 PM ET
The Hill Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Just the News Trump endorses Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection: 'Great warrior' Oct 18, 12 PM ET
The Epoch Times Trump Endorses Netanyahu in Israeli Election Oct 18, 5 PM ET
The Washington Times Trump endorses Netanyahu in reelection bid nine days ahead of Israeli election Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Washington Examiner Trump backs Netanyahu for reelection, says Israeli PM critical ally against Iran Oct 18, 1 PM ET
Breitbart Trump Endorses Netanyahu for Reelection: ‘Has Been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant’ Oct 18, 3 PM ET
Fox News Netanyahu praises Trump's 'wicked sense of humor,' defends ironclad alliance ahead of historic Israel vote Oct 17, 2 PM ET
IJR Trump Endorses Netanyahu, Warns on Iran Oct 18, 8 PM ET
New York Post Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s elections: ‘Will never let you down’ Oct 18, 12 PM ET
Newsmax Trump Backs Netanyahu: ‘Complete and Total Endorsement’ Ahead of Israeli Election Oct 18, 12 PM ET
OAN ‘Great Warrior Prime Minister’: Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel elections Oct 18, 8 PM ET
Red State Trump Gives Ringing Endorsement to Netanyahu for Re-Election Ward Clark Oct 18, 4 PM ET
The Daily Wire Trump Makes Endorsement Ahead Of Israeli Elections Oct 18, 4 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit JUST IN: Trump Endorses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Upcoming Israeli Election Oct 18, 1 PM ET
The Washington Sun Trump Endorses Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Reelection Oct 18, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN23 min

Fox News28 s

TRUMP ENDORSES NETANYAHU DAYS BEFORE ISRAELI ELECTIONS CNN, 9 min
Does the panel think it's appropriate for Trump to have endorsed Bibi and to say anyone else would be the wrong leader? CNN, 7 min
TRUMP ENDORSES NETANYAHU DAYS BEFORE ISRAELI ELECTION CNN, 3 min
Trump Backs Netanyahu Ahead Of Israeli Elections CNN, 2 min
TRUMP ENDORSES NETANYAHU CNN, 64 s
NETANYAHU CITES TRUMP'S SUPPORT IN APPEAL TO VOTERS CNN, 38 s
TRUMP ENDORSES NETANYAHU FOR REELECTION Fox News, 17 s
PRESIDENT TRUMP ENDORSES ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU Fox News, 11 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 20, 7:10 PM ET: story 2 of 8
NPR News Now, Oct 19, 10:10 PM ET: story 3 of 8
NPR News Now, Oct 19, 9:09 AM ET: story 3 of 3
NPR News Now, Oct 19, 3:09 AM ET: story 2 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 19, 12:09 AM ET: the lead
ABC News Update, Oct 18, 11:32 PM ET: the lead
ABC News Update, Oct 18, 2:32 PM ET: story 2 of 3

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🧩 Political coercion ⚖️ 1 center show
↔️ its answer: Lapdog
“Trump is using the threat of withdrawing support for the war against Iran as leverage to ensure Netanyahu is reelected.”

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Donald Trump Israeli Prime Minister

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Israeli election and Trump's endorsement

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