A Federal Judge Fined Trump and His Lawyer Nearly $1 Million
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is not afraid to file a lawsuit, and he certainly no stranger to being sued himself. Once in court, Trump and his attorneys are prodigious filers of complaints, appeals, and protests. In fact,…
How Kevin McCarthy Became the Last “Young Gun” Standing
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the summer of 2011, as Washington deadlocked over the once routine task of raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Kevin McCarthy, then the House GOP whip, decided to mix things up. At a closed-door caucus meeting, the California Republican…
Trump Confused His Ex-Wife With the Rape Accuser He Called “Not My Type”
Donald Trump with Marla Maples—not E. Jean Carroll.Kathy Willens/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Donald Trump has given many denials to writer E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that he cornered her and raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. He’s called…
Florida State Colleges Will No Longer “Fund or Support” Critical Race Theory
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida’s ongoing war against so-called “wokeism” has reached a new low. On Wednesday, 28 presidents of Florida’s state and community colleges announced that they would seek to eliminate policies and academic programs that are viewed as forcing a “belief in critical…
Trump’s Return to Twitter and Facebook Will Fuel More Political Violence
Trump holding a rally near the White House shortly before the siege of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Soon after Elon Musk purchased Twitter in late October, the tech mogul reinstated Donald Trump’s account, which the company had…
NY Fund Manager Linked to Russian Oligarch Invested Big with Santos. Now He Claims He Was Conned.
Tom Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There is something odd about the relationship between GOP fabulist George Santos and Andrew Intrater, a sophisticated and wealthy New York financier, Republican donor, and cousin to sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. Intrater was one of Santos’…