Donald Trump’s Defense of Michael Flynn and Roger Stone Is a Giant Gaslight
Donald Trump takes questions from reporters on April 30.Jim Loscalzo/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A full-on freakout on the right over the revelation that the FBI planned for the prospect that then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would lie in a January 2016 interview,…
Trump’s Commerce Department Just Hired a Lawyer With Ties to White Nationalists
Jared Taylor, second from left, appears alongside Richard Spencer and other white nationalists during a panel in 2016. Taylor was represented in court by attorney Adam Candeub, a new hire in the Commerce Department.Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump…
Donald Trump Just Went on TV and Compared COVID-19 to a Campfire, We Think
Jabin Botsford/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At an industry roundtable on Wednesday, Trump set out to assure Americans that soon the country will reopen, the coronavirus will disappear, and things will be just as they were three months ago. And then he took questions. “Without a vaccine,…
Trump’s 100 Days of Deadly Coronavirus Denial
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. On January 22, two days after the first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed, President Donald Trump was asked if his administration was worried about an impending pandemic. “No, we’re not at all,” he replied. “And we have…
Pence Explains the Failure to Meet Testing Goals in a Supremely Unhelpful Way
Vice President Pence answers questions during Monday’s daily briefing from the coronavirus task force.Win McNamee/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.During Monday’s White House press briefing on coronavirus, a reporter asked Vice President Pence to explain the discrepancy between the number of tests he’d promised would be…
The Latest Injection of Trump Tweets Won’t Cure His Embarrassment
Chris Kleponis/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Americans continued to roll their eyes at his comments about injecting disinfectant to kill the coronavirus, President Donald Trump mainlined a fresh dose of misinformation and grievance into his Twitter stream yesterday. First, he continued to try to relitigate…