Trump Confused His Ex-Wife With the Rape Accuser He Called “Not My Type”
Donald Trump with Marla Maples—not E. Jean Carroll.Kathy Willens/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Donald Trump has given many denials to writer E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that he cornered her and raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. He’s called…
Florida State Colleges Will No Longer “Fund or Support” Critical Race Theory
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida’s ongoing war against so-called “wokeism” has reached a new low. On Wednesday, 28 presidents of Florida’s state and community colleges announced that they would seek to eliminate policies and academic programs that are viewed as forcing a “belief in critical…
Trump’s Return to Twitter and Facebook Will Fuel More Political Violence
Trump holding a rally near the White House shortly before the siege of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Soon after Elon Musk purchased Twitter in late October, the tech mogul reinstated Donald Trump’s account, which the company had…
NY Fund Manager Linked to Russian Oligarch Invested Big with Santos. Now He Claims He Was Conned.
Tom Williams/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There is something odd about the relationship between GOP fabulist George Santos and Andrew Intrater, a sophisticated and wealthy New York financier, Republican donor, and cousin to sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. Intrater was one of Santos’…
If Trump Returns to Twitter and Facebook, His Own Social Media Company Could Be Screwed
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is mulling a return to Twitter and Facebook for the former tweeter-in-chief. Such a move might help his stalled political operation, but it could also seriously undermine his most prominent current…
Two Years Ago This Brazilian Expert on the Far Right Predicted Their Insurrection
Supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, stand on the roof of the National Congress.Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two years and two days after the invasion of the US Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists, much of the world appeared to be astonished as…