Exclusive: Leaked Messages Reveal the Origins of the Most Vile Hunter Biden Smear
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Late in the 2020 presidential campaign, trailing in the polls, Donald Trump and his allies worked to make a campaign issue out of a trove of files on a laptop that his opponent’s son, Hunter Biden,…
Trump’s Social Media Empire Is Flailing
Former former President Donald Trump enters the stage during a rally for Georgia GOP candidates at Banks County Dragway in Commerce on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.When Donald Trump announced he planned…
Why You Should Care That Ginni Thomas Is Bonkers
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas at funeral services for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our…
A 7-Hour Gap in Jan. 6 Phone Logs Raises the Question: Did Trump Use a Burner?
Oliver Contreras/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The ongoing mystery over what Donald Trump was doing behind closed doors on January 6 as his supporters stormed the US Capitol now includes a glaring, seven-hour gap in the phone records of the White…
The Trumps Did Business With an Oligarch Linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. They’d Like You to Forget.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As part of the ongoing negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal, diplomats have floated the possibility of removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from the United States’ official list of terrorist groups.…
Federal Judge Says Trump Likely Committed Felonies
Donald Trump speaking on the Ellipse on January 6, 2021. Shawn Thew/CNP via Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Former President Donald Trump probably broke the law by encouraging supporters to help him hang onto power after his defeat in the 2020…