We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?
In These Times/Shutterstock Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article first appeared in InTheseTimes magazine’s special issue on the spread of the far Right. “Violence is a part of America’s culture,” the Black Power militant H. Rap Brown once said. ”It is as American…
Sidney Powell Is Apologizing to Georgians. Why Stop There?
Sidney Powell made false claims about an an extraordinary amount of people during this Nov. 19, 2020 press conference.Tom Williams/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, we learned Thursday, agreed to write a letter of apology to citizens of the…
Trump Ally Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Guilty in Georgia Fake Electors Case
Sidney Powell and Kenneth ChesebroFulton County Sheriff’s Office/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake electors plot Donald Trump used to try to steal the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in Fulton Country, Georgia, Friday to a felony count of conspiracy…
Release the Kraken! Sidney Powell Just Pleaded Guilty in Georgia Election Trial and Agreed to Testify.
Sidney Powell’s plea deal is bad for Rudy Giuliani.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who is charged along with the former president and 17 others in an election subversion case in Georgia, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor…
Win or Lose, Jim Jordan Reveals What Republicans (Don’t) Care About
Mother Jones; Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid to become speaker hasn’t worked, at least not yet. But Jordan has already succeeded in revealing that House Republicans mostly don’t care about his leading role in Donald Trump’s effort to…
Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees
Trump stiffing Giuliani has trickled down through the Trumpworld legal ecosystem.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Working as Donald Trump’s lawyer, or just being his lawyer’s lawyer, is a tough gig. The former president’s tight-fisted ways, not to mention his legal problems, are…