JD Vance Once Said “Some People Who Voted for Trump Were Racists”
Screenshot/UChicago IoP/YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In early February 2017, just as Donald Trump was settling into the White House, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics snagged a special guest for an event: JD Vance. His bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy had…
A Right-Wing Mogul Is on Trial for a Massive Fraud Scheme. He Blames China.
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Richard B. Levine/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Lawyers for Guo Wengui—the exiled Chinese mogul on trial in New York for allegedly stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from investors in business ventures he launched—rested their case this…
Steve Bannon Has a Lot to Say Before Going to Prison Monday
Steve Bannon speaks at the Turning Point USA ”People’s Convention,” in Detroit, MichiganDominic Gwinn/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump confidante and far-right agitator Steve Bannon talks for nearly four hours most days of the week on his show, War…
Trial of Steve Bannon-Linked Chinese Mogul Set to Begin With Anonymous Jury
Mother Jones; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Opening statements in the trial of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui are expected Friday with the selection of an anonymous jury consuming the first few days of the proceeding. US District…
A Chinese Mogul With Deep MAGA Ties Is Going on Trial for Massive Fraud
Mother Jones; Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA; Anna Moneymaker; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty (2) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The trial of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui kicks off in New York Wednesday, as federal prosecutors prepare to lay out what they have called a “complex” conspiracy involving elaborate…
Steve Bannon Still Isn’t in Prison, but He’s a Little Closer
Steve Bannon, a free man, on February 24, 2024, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.Ron Sachs/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Steve Bannon’s odds of going to prison ticked up on Friday when DC’s Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal of…