QC verdict — trump-nuclear-financial-stake (FAIL, attempt 1)

{"ts": "2026-08-16T16:36:04+00:00", "slug": "trump-nuclear-financial-stake", "run_id": "2026-08-16T16-24-52Z", "draft_sha": "5e75f45722aed2df", "verdict": "FAIL", "checks": {"kind": "COVERAGE BRIEF", "words": 1958, "sources": 6, "spans_total": 6, "spans_unlocatable": 2, "vector_groups_located": 0, "failures": ["2/6 spans unlocatable (>20%) — grounding is broken", "unlocatable span in \"the_conflict_characterization\": There is a clear conflict of interest here....", "unlocatable span in \"the White House sentence\": Neither the President nor his family have ever engaged, or will ever e..."], "warnings": ["cold open echoes uss-abraham-lincoln-trump-dismissal (tri 0.21, seq 0.30)", "cold open echoes fox-voter-roll-the-direction (tri 0.00, seq 0.38)", "no hero image (announcer will fall back to the receipt card)"]}, "judge": {"voice": 6, "evenhanded": 8, "grounding": 6, "headline": 8, "comic": 5, "key": "dry", "devices": ["number-that-wont-hold-still", "incapacity-riff", "read-block-motive-reads", "figure-mismatch-reconciliation", "coverage-null-search", "shared-sentence-diff"], "idiom": "", "failed_assertion": "reconciliation", "repetition": "The seven READ blocks (anchor/objective/motive/innocent/confidence:tentative) reuse RECENT PIECE 3's exact template near-verbatim, scaled from ~2 instances there to 7 here — same speculative motive/objective device, not rotated.", "notes": "Seven READ blocks lift piece 3's anchor/objective/motive/innocent/confidence template almost intact and use it to assign speculative editorial motive to each outlet — recycled wholesale rather than rotated, and it drifts toward the ungrounded-psychoanalysis failure this desk has been dinged for before."}, "judge_skipped": false, "judge_brain": "claude", "judge_model": "claude-sonnet-5", "voice_sha": "98b971d24454", "squawk_sha": "46dfb6289382", "voice_register": "audit", "qc_attempt": 1, "cap_shipped": false}