Steve Bannon to French Far-Right: “Let Them Call You Racist…Wear It as a Badge of Honor”
Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former White House strategist and Trump whisperer Steve Bannon has a message for members of France’s far-right, xenophobic National Front party. “Let them call you racist,” he told the crowd at the party’s congress in Lille on Saturday. “Let them…
Trump Spoke to a Russian Activist About Ending Sanctions—Just Weeks After Launching His Campaign
At FreedomFest in Las Vegas, July 2015John Locher/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While researching the strange story of two Russian gun aficionados who cultivated Donald Trump’s presidential campaign via the National Rifle Association, we came across a little-noticed but noteworthy episode concerning Trump and US sanctions against Russia. Sanctions…
The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For more than a year now, reports have trickled out about deepening ties among prominent members of the National Rifle Association, conservative Republicans, a budding gun-rights movement in Russia—and their convergence in the Trump campaign. Now attention is focused around a middle-aged…
Mueller’s Indictment of 13 Russians Strikes Fear Into the Trump White House
Andrew Harnik/AP; Dmitri Lovesky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the ongoing investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller issued an astounding 37-page indictment charging 13 Russians in a broad conspiracy to sabotage America’s 2016 elections. By Saturday, President Donald Trump and White House officials responded by tripling down…
From Fringe to Baby Oil, Here Are 9 Eye-Catching Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Looks
US Olympic luge veteran Erin Hamlin carries the US flag at the 2018 opening ceremony.Mark Reis via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fashion Week kicked off in New York City on Thursday, but nearly 7,000 miles away in Pyeongchang, almost 3,000 Olympic athletes from 92 countries were preparing for a fashion show…
At Davos, Trump Hobnobbed With His Dubai Business Partner
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump has pledged to keep his distance from his businesses and vowed that his company would not enter into any new foreign deals during his presidency. But during the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump hobnobbed with at least one of his foreign…