Trump Touts Support from Putin Over Impeachment
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg.ASS via ZUMA Press You can’t make it up. President Donald Trump on Friday night touted a statement from Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizing Trump’s impeachment. Trump did this amid continuing revelations that Putin helped sell him on…
Indicted Ukrainian Oligarch Paid $1 Million to Giuliani Pal, Prosecutors Say
Lev Parnas arrives at Federal Court on December 17, 2019 in New York City.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash paid $1 million to Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, federal prosecutors said in a court hearing Tuesday in Manhattan. Firtash, a natural gas mogul with Kremlin connections, lives in Vienna and is…
With This Impeachment, Trump Is Getting Off Easy
Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP; Getty Donald Trump got off easy. On Friday morning, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against the 45th president of the United States. In the historic move, Trump was cited for abusing his office and obstructing Congress’ investigation of that abuse. The abuse was a narrow matter:…
William Barr’s War on Reality, Truth, and the Law
Patrick Semansky/AP Note: David’s story doesn’t mince words because thanks to support from readers, we don’t have to. Please help Mother Jones reach our year-end goal with a tax-deductible donation. Journalism needs to call a spade a spade.—Monika Bauerlein, CEO This is how it works. The big lie. The endless spin. The outright denial of…
Inspector General’s Report Shows Trump’s “Spygate” Conspiracy Theory Was the Real Hoax
Evan Vucci/AP Sorry, Donald Trump. Sorry, Rudy Giuliani. Sorry, Devin Nunes. Sorry, Jim Jordan, Sorry, Sean Hannity. Sorry, Fox News watchers. There was no Deep State conspiracy to cook up a Russia investigation to sabotage Trump’s campaign and, then, his presidency. There was no witch hunt. There was no hoax. The Obama administration did not,…
Trump’s Sordid History of Accepting, Requesting, and Encouraging Foreign Interference in US Elections
Susan Walsh/AP One of the key lines in the House Democrats’ impeachment report distills the Trump-Ukraine scandal to a simple idea: “[T]he impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection.” And in…