Trump and DeSantis Are Competing to Show Who Hates Immigrants the Most
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis hold a Covid-19 and storm preparedness roundtable on July 31, 2020. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After signing one of the most draconian anti-immigrant laws in the country last month, 2024 presidential hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron…
The GOP 2024 Presidential Candidates Just Can’t Stop Talking About Abortion
Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For GOP presidential hopefuls, the weekend that marked the anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs…
John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress
Special counsel John Durham is sworn in during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.Graeme Sloan/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia…
Imagine a Country Where a President Peddling Election Lies May Become Ineligible to Run for Office
Donald Trump is seated before a dinner with Jair Bolsonaro. Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Watching the political developments in Brazil from the United States for the past several years has often felt like a kind of Groundhog Day series of parallel…
Hunter Biden Will Plead Guilty to Misdemeanor Tax Charges
Patrick Semansky/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hunter Biden has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors, finally ending a five-year investigation into the 53-year-old’s failure to pay $1 million in federal taxes and his illegal purchase of a firearm, according to…
Kevin McCarthy Is Fundraising Off Trump’s Indictment Lies
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There is no better representative of the moral slide of the Republican Party in the Trump years than House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This congressman from California, as the ranking House Republican, excoriated Donald Trump after the January…