The Trump Files: When Donald Fat-Shamed Miss Universe
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files”—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president—on September 15, 2016. Donald Trump’s purchase of the Miss…
House Dems Demand Abuse of Power Investigation After Federal Agents Storm Portland
Alex Milan Tracy/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.House Democrats are demanding that the inspectors general of the Justice and Homeland Security departments open an immediate investigation into whether the Trump administration’s use of federal law enforcement agents to invade Portland, Oregon, constitutes an abuse of emergency…
Trump Plans to Expand Federal Invasion of American Cities
Donald Trump displays an executive order on “Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence,” on Friday, June 26.Tia Dufour/White House/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump plans to assert new authority this week to dispatch federal law enforcement agents to…
Roger Stone Appears to Use Racial Slur on a Black Radio Host’s Show
Graham Macgillivray/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Fresh off of receiving a presidential commutation, Roger Stone on Saturday appeared to use a racial slur during a live taping of a radio show hosted by a Black man. Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, has insisted that…
Trump Wants to Block Money For COVID-19 Testing
Meg Mclaughlin/Dispatch Argus via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I’m a writer. Words are all I have to express myself. So what do you do when words literally fail you? Trump administration pushing to block new money for testing, tracing and CDC in upcoming coronavirus relief…
“I’ll Be Right Eventually”: The Most Ridiculous Comments From Trump’s Fox News Interview
As the COVID-19 crisis escalates across the country, President Donald Trump is continuing to lie about the pandemic, attack his own public health officials, and insist that the virus will eventually disappear on its own. His latest remarks—in an interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace that aired Sunday—come at a crucial juncture in the nation’s fight…