Trump Pardoned Michael Flynn. Now Flynn’s Business Partner Will Get a New Trial.
Beowulf Sheehan/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Before Michael Flynn supported a coup attempt, became a QAnon proponent or pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about Russia, he secretly lobbied in the United States on behalf of Turkey’s president. And that…
A Top Advocate for a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine Has Some Baggage
Kurt Volker testifies on November 19, 2019.Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.US foreign policy establishment figures are calling for NATO to impose a “limited” no-fly zone over Ukraine. And one of the most vocal advocates downplaying the…
How We Let Ukraine—and the World—Down
Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack on the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February, 25.Emilio Morenatti/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, Our Land. But we wanted to…
Here’s How Trump’s Russia Hoax Led to Death and Destruction in Ukraine
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For years, Donald Trump has incessantly railed against what he called “the Russia hoax” and denied Vladimir Putin’s attack on the United States. Yet the real Russia con was that very dismissal. And this fraud, perpetuated by Trump,…
The January 6 Committee Subpoenaed Roger Stone’s Phone Records
Roger Stone speaking in Washington on January 5, 2021.Caroline Brehman/CQ via ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone said Thursday that he is suing the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on Congress after learning that…
Is John Durham Deliberately Stoking Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories?
U.S. Attorney John Durham speaks to reporters on the steps of U.S. District Court in New Haven, Connecticut.Bob Child/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Special counsel John Durham’s investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia scandal has turned into a conspiracy-theory-generating machine…