Watch Trump Emerge from the White House and Fly to Hospital After Testing Positive
Sarah Silbiger/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.President Donald Trump was airlifted to Washington D.C.’s Walter Reed Military Medical Center Friday evening on Marine One after announcing he was sick with COVID-19 just hours earlier. The president’s hospitalization marked an…
Biden Tears Into Trump’s Pandemic Response
Morry Gash/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Joe Biden strongly condemned the Trump administration’s failed response to the coronavirus pandemic early in Tuesday’s presidential debate, using Trump’s infamous offhand remark about the disease’s death toll—”It is what it is”—against him. “It is what it…
David Corn Breaks Down the Full Trump “Hot-Mic” Tape, Moment By Moment
Last week, during the Hatch Act-shattering Republican National Convention, my colleague David Corn published a new hot-mic video of Donald Trump: a 13-minute conversation between Trump and his lawyer, captured during a break between videotaped depositions for the 2015 fraud lawsuit against Trump University. As David wrote: Trump boasted about how his company threatened the…
Watch Joe Biden’s Full Speech to the 2020 Democratic National Convention
Former vice president Joe Biden headlined the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention on Thursday after accepting his party’s nomination for president earlier this week. Biden’s speech serves as the capstone to this year’s Democratic National Convention. The virtual convention featured impassioned speeches from party powerhouses like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton,…
From a Shuttered Daycare, Elizabeth Warren Makes a Passionate Case for Affordable Childcare
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who was once a favorite to win her party’s nomination, used her speech in support of Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday night to highlight a signature issue: childcare. Noting that families have taken “one gut punch after another” as a result of the pandemic, Warren spoke from the Springfield Early…
Watch Sen. Kamala Harris’ Full Acceptance Speech to the 2020 Democratic National Convention
Sen. Kamala Harris accepted her party’s nomination for vice president on Wednesday night, in a history-making address during the third night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. In doing so, the 55-year-old Californian became the first Black woman, as well as the first woman of Indian descent, to appear on a major party ticket. “Right…