Deadline Looms for Donald Trump to Decide Whether to Testify in E. Jean Carroll Rape Case
E Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday.Photo by Catherine Nance / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Lawyers will make their closing arguments on Monday in the lawsuit against former president Donald Trump accusing him of sexual…
Rough News for Trump: A Georgia Prosecutor Has Bagged Eight Fake Electors
This week, the ex-president golfed at his Irish resort.Brian Lawless/AP/PA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, Fulton county prosecutors revealed in court documents that they have reached immunity deals with eight Georgia Republicans who pledged to represent Trump in the electoral college even…
Nevada Election Conspiracist Jim Marchant Is Running for Senate
Evangelical pastor Jimmy Morales, left, prays over Jim Marchant at the Las Vegas launch event for Marchant’s Senate campaign.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Republican Jim Marchant moved to Las Vegas in 2003 after his business career ended in financial ruin, but he…
Is Anyone Really Listening to E. Jean Carroll?
Mother Jones; Luiz C. Ribeiro/NY Daily News/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Is Donald Trump a rapist? The question is at the center of E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit against the former president, in which the writer and former advice columnist accuses him of…
GUILTY: 4 Proud Boys, Including Enrique Tarrio, Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
Mother Jones; Allison Dinner/AP, Paul Sancya/AP, Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Washington DC jury has convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys group of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for actions connected to the January 6, 2021, attack on…
Maybe Becoming President Takes More Than Just Being a Dick
DeSantis, complaining about Disney World at April 14, 2023 press conference.Joe Burbank/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The success of Donald Trump, an asshole who became president, created a fallacy: Americans want an asshole as their president. This misapprehension greatly appeals, of course, to…