Tom Emmer Didn’t Help Trump Steal the 2020 Election. It’s Payback Time.
Matthew Putney/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After Republicans finally dethroned Jim Jordan as their speaker of the House nominee Friday, GOP eyes turned to Rep. Tom Emmer. The Minnesota congressman seemed like the natural choice: He engineered his party’s successful effort to retake…
How Donald Trump and Jared Kushner Overlooked the Key to Middle East Peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with then-President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan after signing the Abraham Accords in September 2020.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On September…
Trump Ally Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Guilty in Georgia Fake Electors Case
Sidney Powell and Kenneth ChesebroFulton County Sheriff’s Office/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake electors plot Donald Trump used to try to steal the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in Fulton Country, Georgia, Friday to a felony count of conspiracy…
Release the Kraken! Sidney Powell Just Pleaded Guilty in Georgia Election Trial and Agreed to Testify.
Sidney Powell’s plea deal is bad for Rudy Giuliani.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who is charged along with the former president and 17 others in an election subversion case in Georgia, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor…
Win or Lose, Jim Jordan Reveals What Republicans (Don’t) Care About
Mother Jones; Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid to become speaker hasn’t worked, at least not yet. But Jordan has already succeeded in revealing that House Republicans mostly don’t care about his leading role in Donald Trump’s effort to…
Allen Weisselberg Still Wants to Be Trump’s Fall Guy
Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr., at a press conference on Jan. 11, 2017, with then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last year, Allen Weisselberg did everything he could to protect Donald Trump from New York prosectors.…