A Fugitive Chinese Mogul Spent Big to Overturn the 2020 Election
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Drew Angerer/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A fugitive Chinese mogul who has worked closely with Steve Bannon—and who is under federal investigation for fraud—spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to support efforts to overturn the 2020…
Exclusive: Leaked Messages Reveal the Origins of the Most Vile Hunter Biden Smear
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Late in the 2020 presidential campaign, trailing in the polls, Donald Trump and his allies worked to make a campaign issue out of a trove of files on a laptop that his opponent’s son, Hunter Biden,…
The Misinformation Empire Steve Bannon Built With a Fugitive Chinese Tycoon Is in Trouble
Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui at a November 20, 2018 news conference.Don Emmert /AFP via Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.GTV, a Chinese language video streaming site launched in 2020 by Steve Bannon and fugitive Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui, shut down…
Bannon, Milo, and Other Right-Wing Activists Are Hellbent on Transforming the Catholic Church
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At around the fifth hour of November’s “Enough Is Enough” prayer rally, hosted by the Catholic right media outlet Church Militant, event emcee and fallen alt-right star Milo Yiannopoulos bounded onstage to reveal a dramatic wardrobe change.…
Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is the New Red Scare
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Peter Navarro is hopelessly devoted to Donald Trump, easily goaded into extended and semi-coherent monologues, and obsessed with the Chinese Communist Party. That makes the former Trump administration trade czar the perfect regular guest for War Room,…
A Fugitive Chinese Tycoon Met Steve Bannon. Misinformation Mayhem Ensued.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On June 3, a collection of some of the right’s most prominent purveyors of election-fraud lies and coronavirus misinformation congregated in the window-lined observatory atop One World Trade Center, with views of the Hudson River and Manhattan’s…