A MAGA Mogul Urged a “Flame Revolution.” After His Arrest, His Apartment Caught Fire.
The Sherry-Netherland Hotel, after a fire at the penthouse residence of Guo WenguiBebeto Matthews/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours after the arrest last week of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui at his Upper East Side penthouse apartment in the tony Sherry-Netherland Hotel, a…
Steve Bannon Is Neck-Deep in Guo Wengui’s Allegedly Fraudulent Business Empire
Mother Jones; Anna Moneymaker/Getty, Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In late November 2021, Steve Bannon appeared in a live broadcast on GTV, a media outlet that he’d helped his friend Guo Wengui launch a year earlier. Bannon used the appearance to celebrate…
Steve Bannon, an Exiled Mogul, and the Ukraine Rescue Effort That (Mostly) Wasn’t
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As Yana Ibragimov and her two young children waited at the Lviv train station, it was snowing. This was March 7, 2022, early in the war in Ukraine. Russian troops were advancing. A day earlier, Russian shells had killed…
Hunter Biden Threatens to Sue Steve Bannon and Exiled Mogul Guo Wengui
Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui in 2018.Don Emmert/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A lawyer for Hunter Biden has threatened to sue Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese mogul closely linked to Steve Bannon, over Guo’s role in disseminating material reputedly copied from Biden’s laptop. In…
Why Twitter Was Right to Suppress (Some of) the Material From Hunter’s Laptop
Hunter Biden boards Air Force One with the president on Feb. 4, 2023.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Shortly before Election Day in 2020, Steve Bannon was bragging about his success with the “laptop from hell.” He and his allies had been spreading…
Federal Judge Orders Bannon Ally to End Harassment Campaign Against Creditors
Members of Guo Wengui’s and Steve Bannon’s New Federal State of China at a 2020 protestAnthony Behar/Sipa USA/via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal bankruptcy judge slapped exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui with new restrictions this week after finding that Guo had defied an earlier…