Melania Pushes Conspiracy Theory About Trump Shooting to Promote Her Memoir
Former first lady Melania Trump is questioning how the attempted assassination of former President Trump came to pass…while also trying to hawk her forthcoming memoir.Annabelle Gordon/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Melania Trump broke her months-long silence on the assassination attempt against her…
Project 2025 Backers Push Propaganda About the Trump Shooting
Mother Jones; Heritage Foundation; Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Just hours after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, high-profile allies of the ex-president began promoting unfounded conspiracy theories and blaming President Joe Biden and Democrats,…
JD Vance Has Yet Another Connection to Project 2025
Turns out Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has yet another connection to the group behind Project 2025.Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Bad news for the Trump campaign: Despite their candidate’s desperation to distance himself from Project 2025, connections keep emerging between Trump, his…
John McCain’s Son Puts Trump on Blast for Cemetery Stunt
Jimmy McCain spoke at the 2018 memorial service for his father, the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Try as they might, Trump aides cannot seem to quell criticism of their recent photo op at Arlington…
The Two States Where the GOP Is Taking on Ableist Language
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Nevada State Sen. Robin Titus—at the time a member of its state House—received an email from a speech pathologist in rural Nevada. The pathologist and his students had noticed that the state constitution used…
JD Vance Responds to Trump Team’s Arlington Altercation With Lies and Telling Harris to “Go to Hell”
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) omitted some inconvenient facts when he tried to defend Trump’s photo op at Arlington National Cemetery.Gene J. Puskar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Wednesday, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) weighed in on the Trump team’s tussle with an employee…