How Money Flowed From Moscow to the Seychelles to Belize to Scotland to a GOP Lobbyist
Lulzim Basha, then head of a Democratic Party of Albania, with President Donald Trump in June 2017Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Facebook Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Five years ago, Mother Jones broke a wild story: A mysterious Scotland-based shell company had paid a GOP-linked…
FBI Raids Home of Prominent Bureau Whistleblower
Beata Zawrzel/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Federal agents on Monday raided the Los Angeles-area home of an FBI whistleblower who has alleged that bureau higher-ups thwarted an investigation of Rudy Giuliani, two sources said. The whistleblower, FBI agent Johnathan Buma, has said that…
A Chinese Mogul Who Penetrated Trumpworld Was Investigated by FBI Counterintelligence Agents
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2019, Guo Wengui was building a political empire in the United States. Guo—a real estate mogul who had recently fled China and styled himself as a leading critic of the Chinese Communist…
Trump Rages About His Children Having to Testify at His Fraud Trial
John Nacion/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s three eldest adult children will testify this week in the $250 million civil fraud lawsuit that New York Attorney General Letitia James filed against him. It has long seemed likely that Trump,…
Sen. Bob Menendez Charged With Acting as a Foreign Agent for Egypt
Sen. Bob Menendez during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on January 26, 2023.Bill Clark/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department on Thursday issued a new indictment against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez and his wife, this time accusing the couple of acting as…
Allen Weisselberg Still Wants to Be Trump’s Fall Guy
Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr., at a press conference on Jan. 11, 2017, with then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last year, Allen Weisselberg did everything he could to protect Donald Trump from New York prosectors.…