The Federal Indictment of Donald J. Trump: Historic…and Wild
Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The federal indictment of Donald Trump and his valet Waltine Nauta on 38 counts of retaining and withholding national security information, conspiring to obstruct justice, and lying to the FBI that was unsealed today is historic…and wild.…
Trump Indicted Again, Trump Says
Mother Jones; Sean Rayford/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Donald Trump wrote on his social media site Thursday that he had been indicted for a second time, this time for taking classified documents with him to Florida when he left office in…
Trump’s Tirades Couldn’t Save Ken Paxton From Impeachment
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a rally in support of President Donald Trump called the “Save America Rally” in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to impeach…
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes Isn’t Sorry for January 6. A Judge Gave Him 18 Years.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The leader of the far-right Oath Keepers, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy last year, received an 18-year…
John Durham’s Report Used Sketchy Intelligence That Might Be Russian Disinformation
Mother Jones; Ron Sachs/Zuma; Jon Elswick/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham’s final report blasts the FBI for using the so-called Steele dossier, a compilation of unconfirmed claims about Donald Trump and Russia, without sufficiently considering the chance that Steele’s findings contained deliberate…
How John Durham Succeeded by Failing
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham succeeded. Not in the conventional sense. This special counsel, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr and handed the task of proving Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal had been…