This Shady Company Got a Coronavirus Relief Loan. Its Largest Shareholder Is Brad Parscale.
Brad Parscale at Trump’s Tulsa rally.Win McNamee/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.CloudCommerce, a company with a close relationship with Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, received $780,680 from the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal government’s effort to protect small businesses during the coronavirus…
The Trump Files: When Democrats Courted Donald
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 July 28, 2016. Democrats weren’t always bashing Donald Trump.…
Amy McGrath Wins Kentucky Primary to Take on Mitch McConnell
Lexington Herald-Leader/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.After a long primary season redefined by a pandemic and police brutality, Amy McGrath defeated her progressive challenger, Charles Booker, in the US Senate Democratic primary in Kentucky. McGrath will take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November. McGrath…
Trump Shared a Video of a Supporter Yelling “White Power”
Early this morning, President Donald Trump shared a video of a white man in a golf cart with Trump campaign posters yelling “white power!” The video, shot at the Villages, a retirement community in Florida, showed an expletive-filled confrontation between a line of Trump supporters riding in golf carts and protesters calling them “racists” and…
Why Do These Trump Campaign Ads Link to Brad Parscale’s Facebook Page?
Brad Parscale, campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, walks on stage during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 28 in National Harbor, Maryland. Samuel Corum/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump campaign is running Facebook ads from a page for campaign manager Brad…
Young Voters Want Elizabeth Warren as Biden’s VP
Elizabeth Warren in Nashua, New Hampshire, on February 5, 2020.Brian Cahn/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Joe Biden doesn’t really have any electoral weaknesses, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. The results, released Wednesday, put Biden 14 points ahead of Trump, beating him…