New York Grand Jury Just Voted to Indict Tump
Mother Jones; Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict former president Donald Trump on charges related to his 2016 payoff of adult film star Stormy Daniels, as part of an effort to keep an alleged affair…
A MAGA Mogul Urged a “Flame Revolution.” After His Arrest, His Apartment Caught Fire.
The Sherry-Netherland Hotel, after a fire at the penthouse residence of Guo WenguiBebeto Matthews/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours after the arrest last week of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui at his Upper East Side penthouse apartment in the tony Sherry-Netherland Hotel, a…
Swords, Coats, a $24,000 Dagger: The Trumps Failed to Report 117 Foreign Gifts
Donald and Melania Trump admire a gift from India’s prime minister in 2020.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump and his family members accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from foreign leaders as they travelled the world and welcomed dignitaries to…
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire
Mother Jones; Anna Moneymaker/Getty, Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In late November 2021, Steve Bannon appeared in a live broadcast on GTV, a media outlet that he’d helped his friend Guo Wengui launch a year earlier. Bannon used the appearance to celebrate…
MAGA Mogul Guo Wengui Charged in $1 Billion Fraud Scheme
Guo Wengui at his Upper East side apartment on November 28, 2017.Timothy Clary/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Guo Wengui, a far-right mogul on the run from criminal charges in China, has worked for years with Steve Bannon to promote charitable organizations and for-profit…
Steve Bannon, an Exiled Mogul, and the Ukraine Rescue Effort That (Mostly) Wasn’t
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As Yana Ibragimov and her two young children waited at the Lviv train station, it was snowing. This was March 7, 2022, early in the war in Ukraine. Russian troops were advancing. A day earlier, Russian shells had killed…