A Senate Intelligence Committee Report Reveals Damning New Information About Trump’s Russia Ties
Donald Trump, Paul Manafort and Ivanka Trump during the 2016 Republican National ConventionMark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.During the 2016 presidential race, while Vladimir Putin attacked the election in part to help Donald Trump, there was a “direct tie between senior Trump Campaign officials…
Report: Bipartisan Group of Senators Wanted DOJ to Investigate Stephen Bannon
Gonzales /Jarle H. Moe/Avalon via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As the president’s battles over mail voting, the US Postal Service, and COVID-19 funding dominate headlines, a significant piece of news touching on alleged criminal activity by several close Trump associates and family members flew…
Newly Released Transcript Shows Jared Kushner Misled Congress About a Contact Involving Russia
Jared Kushner after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on July 25, 2017.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.While President Trump uses Attorney General William Barr to try to erase the story of his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russia, information showing that Trump…
American Conservatives Have Fallen in Love with the Right-Wing Son of Brazil’s President
Eduardo Bolsonaro in São Paulo on October 14, 2019.Roberto Casimiro/Zuma In October, Eduardo Bolsonaro made a shocking statement. The son of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right authoritarian president of Brazil, suggested in an interview that his country may need to return to the tactics employed by its former military dictatorship to help crush his father’s enemies…
Trump Unleashed: The Trump Presidency Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase
Evan Vucci/AP Through the Trump Era, it’s been fashionable for some of his critics—especially on Twitter—to assail his actions as the coming of kleptocracy, autocracy, authoritarianism, and, yes, fascism to the United States. Recently, in an airport, an elderly women stopped me to say that she survived the Holocaust in a camp and now fears…
Trophy Hunters Can Bid for a Chance to Kill Deer With ‘Accomplished Conservationist’ Donald Trump Jr.
A Sitka black-tailed deer.Michael Penn/AP This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. A week-long “dream hunt” with the US president’s son Donald Trump Jr. is being auctioned at an annual trophy hunting convention in Reno, Nevada, alongside expeditions to shoot elephants, bears and giraffes. The four-day…