Trump Says He Has “Nothing to Do” With Project 2025. Here Are His Connections to It.
Mother Jones illustration; Xpb/Action Press/ZUMA; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump has spent much of this week freaking out about Project 2025, the initiative that produced the 900-page extremist right-wing guidebook for the next conservative administration. This weekend, at…
The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On March 19, Staci Lindberg, the elected clerk of Nevada’s Lyon County, was hit with some unsettling news: She was being sued for the first time in her life. The plaintiff? Her own political party. The Republican National Committee had…
Kamala Harris Is Running as the Prosecutor Taking on Trump
In the first official speech of her campaign for the presidency, Vice President Harris cut a stark contrast to former President Trump.Dominic Gwinn/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Vice President Kamala Harris’ days as a courtroom prosecutor are long behind her. But in…
Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt
At the 2024 GOP convention in MilwaukeeTom Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since a 20-year-old gunman opened fire more than a week ago at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI has conducted hundreds of interviews and scrutinized…
The Myth of Kamala Harris as “Border Czar”
Vice President Kamala Harris Harris talks to the media on arrival to El Paso, Texas.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Even before President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race on Sunday afternoon, Republicans already had a line of…
After Biden Drops Out, Trump Lashes Out
Former President Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris would be easier to beat than President Biden—but it’s not so simple.Annabelle Gordon/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Despite his calls for “unity” this week, former President Trump denigrated President Biden within minutes of the…