It’s Official: The January 6 Committee Calls for Trump Prosecutions
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress voted unanimously on Monday to ask the Justice Department to charge former President Donald Trump with crimes. The committee referred charges against Trump of conspiracy to…
Mark Your Calendars: Monday Is “Trump Criminal Referral Day” for the Jan. 6 Panel
Hello darkness, my old friend.Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The January 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack will meet publicly on Monday to vote on a long-anticipated outcome of their deliberations: Whether to refer former president Donald Trump to the Department of…
Newly Revealed Texts Show Mark Meadows Is a Liar
Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mark Meadows is a liar—at least by omission. And newly revealed text messages prove it. In 2021, the former White House chief of staff for Donald Trump released a book, The Chief’s Chief, which offered a sycophantic…
Florida Judge Finally Forced to Dismiss Trump’s Mar-a-Lago “Special Master” Lawsuit
Andrew Harnik/ Associated Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of Donald Trump’s main tactics to delay the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago investigation was officially killed off on Monday. Following orders from an appeals court, a Trump-appointed judge was forced to formally dismiss the ex-president’s lawsuit…
We Found the Guys Behind the Hunter Biden Porn That Elon Musk Won’t Shut Up About
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the evening of October 24, 2020, a guy who goes by the name Wenyang tweeted a picture of Hunter Biden. Hunter was facing a mirror in what looked like a hotel room, with his penis…
The Media Still Don’t Know How to Cover Trump’s Extremism
Mother Jones; zz/KGC-375/STAR MAX/IPx/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The day after Donald Trump, a former president and the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, called for the “termination” of provisions of the US Constitution governing elections and essentially demanded…