No One Loves Donald Trump More Than Vladimir Putin
Hamburg, Germany, July 2017Mikhail Klimentyev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With his efforts to help Donald Trump become president by meddling in the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin has already done more to advance Russia’s foreign policy goals and worldview than anything he could have imagined in his wildest dreams as…
While America Sleeps: Trump’s Treachery and the Russia Scandal
Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Listen to David discuss the president’s cover-up of the Russia scandal on the Mother Jones Podcast. In 1938, Winston Churchill published a collection of his speeches warning that his homeland was not…
Trump Opens NATO Summit by Accusing Germany of Being “Totally Controlled by Russia”
Bernd Von Jutrczenka/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at President Donald Trump after he accused Germany of being “totally controlled by Russia”‘ and urged allies to look into the issue during a rant at the outset of this week’s NATO summit in Brussels. “I’ve…
A Former Klansman Talks About How He Left a Life of Hate
Alyssa Schukar Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shane Johnson was born into the Ku Klux Klan—now he works to convince others not to join hate groups. How did he get out? And what can we learn from his story? On the Mother Jones Podcast, senior editor Wes Enzinna shares insights from his…
Here’s What Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Talk About When No One Else Is Listening
Metzel Mikhail/TASS via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What do President Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin talk about during their occasional phone calls? According to a sobering piece from the Washington Post, it’s exactly what you’d expect—fake news, the deep state, and…friendship: Some White House officials…
The Russian Pop Star Behind the Trump Tower Meeting Has a New Music Video Trolling America
YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Emin Agalarov, the middling pop star who helped orchestrate the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian emissary, Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and the now-imprisoned Paul Manafort put out a new music video today that is…something else. It features…