John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress
Special counsel John Durham is sworn in during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia…
Trump’s Indictment Is Yet Another Stress Test for America
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As Biden Dispatches Disaster Relief to East Palestine, Trump Takes Credit
Gene J. Puskar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday evening, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the “breaking” news that father would visit East Palestine, Ohio, next week, in the wake of the train derailment there whose aftermath has cloaked the region in a toxic…
A Tax Guru Explains Why Donald Trump May Finally Be in Trouble
zz/KGC-375/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the Republican nominee in 2016, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he, like every other Oval Office contender in recent memory, would release his tax returns. As we now know, he likely had no intention of doing…
The Rise and Fall of Stop the Steal’s Favorite Conference
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The video was exceptionally violent even for a pro-Trump meme. With his face superimposed over that of Colin Firth from the 2014 movie Kingsman: The Secret Service, Donald Trump strides through the “Church of Fake News” and plunges a spear…
NY AG Asks Judge to Hold Donald Trump in Contempt for Failing to Turn Over Documents
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.New York Attorney General Letitia James appears to be at the end of her rope with Donald Trump’s legal delay tactics, asking a judge on Thursday to hold the former president…