“Mr. Trump Explicitly Sanctioning Tax Fraud! That’s What This Document Shows!”
José Luis Villegas/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Manhattan prosecutors on Friday flatly accused Donald Trump of helping executives at his companies commit tax fraud. The allegations came during closing arguments of a trial in which the ex-president’s businesses are charged with allowing key employees…
Donald Trump’s Lawyers Might Have Made a Huge Mistake
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During closing arguments on Thursday in the criminal tax fraud case against Donald Trump’s companies, Trump’s attorneys did their best to blame everyone but Trump himself. They told the jury that the alleged fraud was the…
It Took Ye Praising Hitler Before the House Judiciary GOP Took Down Its Infamous Tweet
Photo taken before Balenciaga dropped West—which also predated the House Judiciary GOP’s deletion of its tweet.Jana Call Me J/Abaca/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On October 3, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West (now Ye) attended Paris fashion week wearing a shirt that…
Herschel Walker Said He Got Into Law School. That Seems Highly Unlikely.
Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker brought his Evict Warnock Tour to the northeast of Georgia on November 28, 2022.Sue Dorfman/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2014, Herschel Walker delivered a speech to a group of National Guard members in Wichita, Kansas, about overcoming…
This MAGA PAC Raised Nearly $2 Million Off the Trucker Protests. Where Did All the Money Go?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Alex Phillips was standing one block from the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, when he warned an interviewer that members of Congress who went along with certifying the results of the presidential election would suffer the consequences in…
Forced Labor, Child Miners, Payment in Drugs—Clean Energy Supply Chain Has Issues
Child miners on the back of a vehicle en route to Numbi, DRC.Stephen Digges / Zuma Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Australian clean energy industry has warned of growing evidence linking renewable energy supply chains to modern slavery and urged companies and governments…