Trump’s Campaign: Screw What You’ve Seen With Your Own Eyes, We’ve Been Super Safe
White House For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.You don’t need me to tell you this: The Trump campaign gaslights you every day. That’s even more the case with a president holed up in hospital signing blank pieces of paper. On Sunday morning, the…
More Than 1,500 Alums From Barrett’s College “Firmly and Passionately” Oppose Her SCOTUS Nomination
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When President Donald Trump announced that 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett was his nominee to fill the seat on the Supreme Court vacated after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
WH Physician’s Briefing Leaves Serious Questions About When Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19
The team of doctors treating President Donald Trump for COVID-19 briefs reporters on the president’s condition on October 3, 2020.Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.White House physician Sean Conley said they were “extremely happy with the progress the…
How the GOP Turned Washington, DC, Into a COVID Hotspot
First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence sit among guests attending a ceremony celebrating the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in the White House Rose Garden on September 26, 2020.Shealah Craighead/White House via Zuma Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the…
Watch Trump Emerge from the White House and Fly to Hospital After Testing Positive
Sarah Silbiger/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.President Donald Trump was airlifted to Washington D.C.’s Walter Reed Military Medical Center Friday evening on Marine One after announcing he was sick with COVID-19 just hours earlier. The president’s hospitalization marked an…
“It Affects Virtually Nobody”: The Three Weeks of Denial Leading Up To Trump’s Diagnosis
President Donald Trump leaves the White House to go to Walter Reed Military Medical Center on October 2.Saul Loeb/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Even by the warped standards of the Trump era, the past few weeks have been an unusually exhausting blur,…