Donald Trump Jr. Defends Convicted Rapist Russell Brand
- Newsrooms
- 55
- Last 3 hours
- 4 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
9 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 5 of 3686).Part of a bigger story
Russell Brand: 2 developments since Mon 9 Nov.Related
Russell Brand's barrister slammed for 'shameful' remarks on rape as he sought lesser sentence (shares Russell Brand and Jemima Goldsmith)
1File photo: Donald Trump Jr.
Russell Brand, who became a celebrity darling in the early 2000s, was found guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault in a case brought by six women.
HuffPost didn’t include a summary, so this is NPR’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Donald Trump Jr.
, is an American businessman and political activist. He is the eldest child of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his first wife, Ivana Trump.4
The bigger story: Russell Brand
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
Inside Russell Brand's grim and startlingly inappropriate relationship with his own lothario father that sparked his obsessive need for sex
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The story so far
55 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 150
- Newsrooms and sources
- 55
- Last 3 hours
- 4
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (4 in the last three hours, 9 in the three before).
First with it: spiked, 19 hr 41 min before anyone else.
Reported by 55 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Guardian and Just the News (the same headline); Daily Express, The Mirror (all Reach); The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); The Times of India and BBC News (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 1 |
| Mon | 7 |
| Tue | 117 |
| Today | 25 |
Where the coverage is from
Sources and credits
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence)
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HuffPost: Donald Trump Jr. Defends Convicted Rapist Russell Brand
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NPR: British comedian Russell Brand sentenced to over 10 years for rape and sexual assault
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Background: “Donald Trump Jr.”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)



