The Trump Files: Donald’s Near-Death Experience (That He Invented)
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files”—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current President—on July 15, 2016. After a chartered helicopter crashed and…
John Bolton Provides a Harrowing Portrait of Trump’s Surrender to Putin
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.John Bolton’s too-late book has produced a string of revelations that warrant headlines and outrage. President Donald Trump, in this account, encouraged Chinese President Xi Jinping to build concentration camps as part of China’s genocidal war on its Uighur population.…
Nazis Put This Symbol on Political Opponents’ Arms. Now Trump is Using It.
Facebook screenshot For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The first result for a Google search of “upside down red triangle” is a Wikipedia page detailing Nazi concentration camp badges. Google’s official “knowledge panel” reiterates this, linking the same Wikipedia page. The results on the rest of the first…
Say It Under Oath, Asshole
John Bolton on August 29, 2019, Minsk, Belarus.Yuri Oreshkin/TASS via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last October, President Donald Trump said, on television, that “China should start an investigation into the Bidens” and reiterated his previously private push for Ukraine to investigate the former vice…
John Bolton’s Book Claims Trump Called Muslim Concentration Camps in China the “Right Thing to Do”
Ivanov Artyom/TASS/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump reportedly said China’s decision to detain Uighur Muslims in concentration camps was “exactly the right thing to do” and encouraged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to “go ahead with building the camps,” according to a book excerpt published…
The Trump Files: Donald Accuses “Miss Nude Southern USA” of Trademark Infringement
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files”—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current President—on November 7, 2016. Donald Trump is a litigious man.…