Judge Orders Trump to Pay Stormy Daniels $44,000 in Legal Fees
Stormy Daniels and Michael Avanatti in 2019Mjt/AdMedia/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.It’s been a bad week in court for President Donald Trump. First, Steve Bannon—his former campaign chief and White House aide—was arrested and charged with defrauding donors who had supported a privately funded effort to…
You Can Get a Photo With Donald Trump for Only $580,600
Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Donald Trump fumes and fulminates in the White House, amid a pandemic, economic calamity, and widespread civil unrest, he and his political team are not taking their eyes off the big picture: raising money for his reelection campaign. With…
Mike Bloomberg Is Way Richer Than People Realize
Michael Bloomberg is rich. Really, really rich. With $62.8 billion to his name, the former New York City mayor and CEO of the eponymous Bloomberg L.P. has a greater net worth—a far greater net worth—than all the other Democratic presidential candidates combined. (Tom Steyer’s $1.6 billion? That’s quaint.) It’s a fortune that is more than…
Trump to Payday Lenders: Let’s Rip America Off Again
A cash advance provider in Orpington, Kent, UKGrant Falvey/London News Pictures/Zuma When South Dakotans voted 3–to–1 to ban payday loans, they must have hoped it would stick. Interest on the predatory cash advances averaged an eye-popping 652 percent—borrow a dollar, owe $6.50—until the state axed them in 2016, capping rates at a fraction of that in…
Bloomberg Is Saying All the Right Things About Party Unity—For Now
Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Michael Bloomberg hasn’t been a Democrat for long. The billionaire White House hopeful began his adult life in the party of FDR, but he switched to the GOP when he ran for mayor of New York City in 2001, winning the endorsement of Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg later became an independent…
Jim Jordan Is Lying About Voting Rights
Alex Brandon/AP Last week, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent an alarming email to his supporters. Jordan, who is one of Donald Trump’s most vocal defenders on Capitol Hill, warned that Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder is on the cusp of using the courts to “steal” his congressional seat and replace him with a “radical liberal.”…