Prosecutors Cite Mother Jones to Debunk Claim by Oath Keepers’ Founder
Mother Jones illustration; Jared Ramsdell/Journal Inquirer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Justice Department prosecutors cited Mother Jones on Tuesday in the trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. The defense had argued that messages Rhodes sent to a woman whom he later claimed was a…
“My Only Regret Is That They Should Have Brought Rifles”
Oath Keepers’s founder Stewart Rhodes at a 2017 event. Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department’s case against five members of the Oath Keepers militia group is so extensive that it is expected to take a month lay out. But it is…
Trump Continues to Escalate His Dangerous Incitement
Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio on September 17, 2022.Jeff Swensen/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For years, conventional wisdom has held that Donald Trump could wriggle his way out of any personal jeopardy, no matter how evident his alleged malfeasance. But now…
How Trump Spread Incitement of Violence Throughout the GOP
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just hours after federal agents entered Mar-a-Lago on August 8 to seize highly classified national security documents, Rep. Paul Gosar urged a fight to the finish. “The FBI raid on Trump’s home tells us one thing,” the far-right Arizona…
For Trump’s Attorneys, MAGA Has Nothing to Do With American Greatness
Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building before beginning his three-year prison term. Kevin Hagen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For many lawyers of former President Donald Trump and others who observe them, MAGA has a special meaning unrelated…
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely Right
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Yale, Lee…