Donald Trump Taps John Bolton to Replace H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser
John Bolton, warmonger and devotee of bad facial hair. Bolton believes that Trump’s sanctions against North Korea are worthless and we should just invade them instead. He also wants to bomb Iran. He will soon be Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor.Jeff Malet/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. H.R.…
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk”
FBI Director Christopher Wray. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For the FBI, the long-standing failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s ability…
Retired Four-Star General Calls Donald Trump a “Serious Threat” to National Security
Metzel Mikhail/TASS/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, a retired four-star Army general tweeted that President Donald Trump is a “serious threat” to national security. Barry McCaffrey, who worked as the White House’s drug czar during the Bill Clinton administration, said Trump is refusing to protect the United States from…
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…
What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the first of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones. The book will be…