Trump Seeks to Exploit Assassination Attempts for Political Gain
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the early afternoon on Sunday, a suspected gunman got within several hundred yards of former President Donald Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspect was shot at by a Secret…
Trump Allies Promote Conspiracy Theories About the Assassination Attempt
Mother Jones; ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the two-plus weeks since a gunman opened fire at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, some details have emerged about the catastrophic security failure. The 20-year-old perpetrator, who wounded the former president and…
Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting
Trump speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former President Donald Trump is that rampant conspiracy theories about it will endure—probably forever. The fascination with…
Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt
At the 2024 GOP convention in MilwaukeeTom Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since a 20-year-old gunman opened fire more than a week ago at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI has conducted hundreds of interviews and scrutinized…
Trump Supporters Are Donating to a GoFundMe To Pay His $355 Million Legal Fine
Trump’s supporters are turning to GoFundMe to raise money for his mounting legal fines.Tess Crowley/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.How will Trump pay his mounting legal bills? It’s a fair question, considering that a New York judge ruled on Friday that he owes…
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,…