Swords, Coats, a $24,000 Dagger: The Trumps Failed to Report 117 Foreign Gifts
Donald and Melania Trump admire a gift from India’s prime minister in 2020.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump and his family members accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts from foreign leaders as they travelled the world and welcomed dignitaries to…
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire
Mother Jones; Anna Moneymaker/Getty, Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In late November 2021, Steve Bannon appeared in a live broadcast on GTV, a media outlet that he’d helped his friend Guo Wengui launch a year earlier. Bannon used the appearance to celebrate…
MAGA Mogul Guo Wengui Charged in $1 Billion Fraud Scheme
Guo Wengui at his Upper East side apartment on November 28, 2017.Timothy Clary/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Guo Wengui, a far-right mogul on the run from criminal charges in China, has worked for years with Steve Bannon to promote charitable organizations and for-profit…
Trump Said He Might Have Let Russia “Take Over” Parts of Ukraine. Fox News Edited It Out.
Donald Trump greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin on July 7, 2017. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, Donald Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he could have stopped the invasion of Ukraine by allowing Russia…
How the Case of Arrested FBI Agent Charles McGonigal Is Tied to a Russia-Linked Influence Effort
Joe Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was shocking news: Charles McGonigal, a former counterintelligence chief for the FBI, was arrested for his alleged role in two separate schemes. In one, he purportedly accepted $225,000 from an Albanian American businessman, while he was…
Of Course Steve Bannon and January 6 Fans Are Cheering on the Brazilian Insurrection
Steve Bannon is backing Brazilians attacking their Congress.Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Steve Bannon and others involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress lauded supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro as they stormed government buildings in their capital on…