It’s Not Just Trump. Right-Wing Defendants Keep Saying the DOJ Framed Them, Too.
Donald Trump claimed federal criminal charges against him are part of a conspiracy to undermine his 2024 candidacy.Brian Cahn/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Back in April, when Manhattan prosecutors charged Donald Trump with falsifying business records, the MAGA faithful who protested outside the…
DOJ Says No Immunity: Another E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit Against Trump Can Go Forward
AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, the Department of Justice reversed itself and said it would not oppose a lawsuit filed in federal court by writer E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump for defamation. The trial is…
Giuliani Sweats Disbarment as Lawyers Who Lied for Trump Finally Face Consequences
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Nov. 18 2020 press conference at Republican National Committee headquarters.Rod Lamkey/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two and a half years after January 6, lawyers who helped former president Donald Trump use lies about election fraud to try…
My Deeply Unsettling Return to the Moms for Liberty Conference
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Friday morning, at the beginning of a hot June day in Philadelphia, I walked through a phalanx of about a hundred protesters in order to make my way to the Joyful Warriors Summit, the annual convention of the…
Trump’s New Defamation Suit Against E. Jean Carroll Is a Silencing Tactic
Mother Jones; Brian Cahn/Zuma; Stephanie Keith/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s yearslong court battle to hold the man who sexually abused her legally accountable has been extraordinary in many ways. First, because that abuser is former President Donald Trump, who…
Breitbart Just Exposed a Right-Winger’s Racist Texts. How Did We Even Get Here?
Former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2019 at a rally celebrating Trump changing his legal residence to Florida.Paul Hennessy/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, Breitbart published a long report exposing racist and anti-semitic text messages from Pedro Gonzalez, a somewhat well-known…