Trump praises supporter who punched protester at rally

🗞️ Story file #795

Trump praises supporter who punched protester at rally

Oct 22, 12 AM ET to Oct 23, 12 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

12outlets carried it
🫏8 · 0 · 3🐘left · center · right
1.5 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions
1fact-check
2 of 3parts 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 22, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Beast
Oct 22, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 22, 6 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 12 AM to Oct 23, 12 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · 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: Political Wire Google News

💬 quoted: “He Got Whacked!” 2 “That was great,” 2 “Man, I Loved That” “That was great” 3 “You reminded me of Evander 'the Real Deal” “Man, I loved that” “Depraved” “LOSERS”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump cheers

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump Praises Rally Attendee For Punching Protester” → “‘Depraved’: Trump’s Reaction To Protester Getting ‘Whacked’ At Rally Is Condemned”
New York Post (2 wordings): ““You reminded me of Evander ‘the Real Deal’ Holyfield,” Trump told the senior-citizen who beat on a protester, likening him to the four-time heavyweight boxing champion, who attended the rally.” → “Trump’s SC rally turns into royal rumble with hecklers getting ‘whacked’ by MAGA supporters”

Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating