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Category: January 6

The Bonkers Story of How Trump Tried to Corrupt the DOJ to Steal the Election

Jeffery ClarkMother Jones Illustration; Susan Walsh/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.It was an odd coincidence of history: On Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the “Smoking Gun” conversation that forced Richard Nixon to resign his presidency, the House select committee investigating…

Justice Department Questions Sidney Powell’s Funding for January 6 Defendants

Sidney Powell launched outlandish election fraud conspiracy theories at a November 19, 2020 presser.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The US Justice Department on Wednesday questioned payments to high-profile January 6 defendants from a nonprofit run by…

A Republican Stood Up to Trump. So Right-Wingers Smeared Him as a “Pedophile.”

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers.Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. Notions of white innocence and victimhood—which oftentimes but not always concentrate on the idealized child and family—are incredibly potent…Those ideas helped propel the (bipartisan) war on…

Trump Sycophants Advanced a Coup Plot They Knew Was Illegal

John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani at the Jan. 6, 2021 rally at the Ellipse.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Beware the yes men. Donald Trump couldn’t have caused January 6 alone. The defeated president’s attempted putsch would not have gone…