24 sources checked · Left, Center, and Right included · 1h ago
Headlines vary from criticizing GOP senators' performance and defending Jack Smith, to directly asserting Trump's guilt.
DIFFERENT SPIN
HOW EACH SIDE WORDED IT
As of September 29, 2026 at 11:09 PM, this is how Optics News reads the wording differences in this story.
24 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
85/99 — headlines create a clearly different first impression.
WHAT EACH SIDE EMPHASIZED
Florida Phoenix · Center-left · News report
KABC / ABC7 Los Angeles · Center · News report
Al.com (Alabama News) · Center-right · News report
SEE THE HEADLINES
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alle...
Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he caught Smith in a lie when the Republican confused the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
The former special counsel said the records obtained by investigators were only toll records and did not contain the content of phone calls.
The prosecutor who led criminal investigations of President Trump for the Department of Justice faced questions from Senate Republicans on Tuesday. Former special counsel Jack Smith handled...
Former special counsel Jack Smith gathered reporters’ private messages as part of his “Arctic Frost” investigation, according to a whistleblower disclosure to Senate Judiciary Committee Cha...
Former Special Prosecutor Jack Smith testified under oath today that President Trump engaged in crimes against America. AP reported that Smith told Senators that his investigation had proof...
Elie Honig tore into Senate Republicans for squandering what he said were legitimate attacks against Jack Smith. The post CNN’s Elie Honig Rips Republicans for Whiffing on ‘Very Effective a...
A former special prosecutor’s epic takedown of a fumbled MAGA conspiracy theory before viewers on Tuesday had CNN anchor Kasie Hunt wondering if the GOP was finally done with pursuing half-...
Former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump.
Former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump.
Former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump.
Former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump.
Former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump.
Former special counsel Jack Smith appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his two criminal probes into President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alle...
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alle...
The former special counsel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by personal insults rather than new revelations.
Former special counsel Jack Smith's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee left a GOP senator with a look that set off howls of online laughter. On Tuesday, Smith appeared before the...
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alle...
In what advocates for lower drug prices call "a match made in hell," one of the pharmaceutical industry's most powerful lobbying groups is tapping a former Republican leader in the US House...
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alle...
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alle...
The Missouri senator’s shot at a gotcha moment against the former special counsel wound up being a very public miss.
SOURCE MAP CHANGES
Sep 29, 8:51 PM: NBC News - Politics joined the source map.
Sep 29, 8:55 PM: Wisconsin Examiner joined the source map.
Sep 29, 8:59 PM: Rhode Island Current joined the source map.
Sep 29, 9:05 PM: Common Dreams joined the source map.
Now: Wording Gap is 85/99 and story health is stable · 24 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.