Donald Trump is throwing a fit over Kellyanne Conway’s claim that she told him that he lost the election. I don’t care what the small handful of you say about not wanting me to post Trump stuff, sometimes they are just too much fun not to. pic.twitter.com/cBqeoUCsIx — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 26, 2022 […] More
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. A New York appellate court dealt Donald Trump another blow Thursday when it ruled that the former president and his daughter must sit for sworn depositions in the New York’s […] More
Donald Trump must testify under oath in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ witch hunt probe into the former president’s business practices. In February, state Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that former President Trump and his two children, Ivanka and Don Jr., must testify in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ investigation into Trump’s business practices. […] More
Donald J. Trump and two of his adult children must sit for questioning under oath as part of the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into their business practices, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday. Mr. Trump’s lawyers had argued that the inquiry by the state attorney general, Letitia James, was politically motivated and […] More
Dean Knudson and Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos Republican Dean Knudson, a republican member of the WEC, abruptly resigned today after serving five years. Knudson slammed President Trump on the way out the door saying there was no fraud in the 2020 Wisconsin Election. Knudson chose to ignore the voter fraud discovered by the Wisconsin Special […] More
Compared with the elementary school shooting in Texas, everything else about this week will be a political footnote. But some of the footnotes are certainly interesting. If we want to pick a theme for Tuesday’s elections, it might be that Donald Trump’s influence isn’t nearly as strong as he thinks it is, and that he […] More
Shortly after hundreds of rioters at the Capitol started chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” on Jan. 6, 2021, the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, left the dining room off the Oval Office, walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald J. Trump was complaining that the vice president was being whisked […] More
The Justice Department has stepped up its criminal investigation into the creation of alternate slates of pro-Trump electors seeking to overturn Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the 2020 election, with a particular focus on a team of lawyers that worked on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. […] More
Michael Conroy/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The massacre, inflicted on a group all huddled in one classroom, is now the country’s […] More
In Georgia, the former president made ousting Mr. Kemp a top priority after the governor refused to help overturn the 2020 election results. Yet Mr. Trump was scarcely consistent: The Kemp challenger he handpicked, former Senator David Perdue, had initially hesitated to question Mr. Biden’s victory in Georgia and only became more vocal about it […] More
The Jaffa school offered an interpretation of American history that might be described as Inception, Consummation and Corruption. Its Great Consummator was Lincoln, who restored the promise of the founding by fully establishing the “all men are created equal” absolutism of the Declaration of Independence. Its villains were John C. Calhoun and the progressives of […] More
Brian Kemp, center, walks with then President Donald Trump, and his challenger, former senator David Perdue at a rally in 2018. Mother Jones illustration; John Bazemore/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. In a rebuke of Donald Trump and his wild […] More
