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Trump’s Obsession With Revenge: A Big Post-Verdict Danger
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Three days after a New York City jury turned Donald Trump into the first former president branded a felon, the onetime reality television host told Fox News, “My revenge will be success.” This above-the-fray rhetoric was not to be believed, for Trump, through much of his life, has exhibited an intense obsession with vengeance and seeking retribution against those he considers his foes and detractors. And in a subsequent interview with Newsmax, Trump said that if he is elected his political opponents might face prosecution.
“We Were Scammed”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The saga of Guo Wengui—the Chinese mogul-turned-MAGA-influencer who is on trial in Manhattan federal court—involves an international political movement with the audacious stated goal of overthrowing China’s government. It includes former top advisers to Donald Trump. There is talk of intelligence operations, an FBI counterintelligence probe, and allegations that Guo may actually be a Chinese double agent, which he denies. Guo has underwritten crackpot claims that Covid is a Chinese bioweapon, spread smut from Hunter Biden’s laptop, and secretly steered funds to help Trump try to steal the 2020 election.
Disgraced General Michael Flynn Has Made a New Movie—About Himself
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. To hear Michael Flynn tell it, he belongs in the pantheon of great American martyrs alongside President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders who spoke truth to power and paid for it with their lives. “I’m surprised they haven’t killed me,” the former Trump National Security Adviser says in his new eponymous film. “I’m surprised that they let me continue to live…we’ve gone from a physical assassination of a president of the United States to a character assassination of a national security adviser.”
Sure, Biden’s Climate Policy Could Be Better, but Consider What a Second Trump Term Would Be Like
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This April, at a steak dinner with oil and gas executives at the Mar-a-Lago Club, in Florida, former President Donald Trump made a request backed by a hefty promise: If the CEOs in attendance raised $1 billion to support his reelection bid, he would lower their taxes and eviscerate environmental and public health protections once he became president, clearing away the “regulatory burdens” that stand in the way of their companies injecting more carbon into the atmosphere—and profiting handsomely from it.
Biden Announces New Border Crackdown
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, the Biden administration issued a new sweeping executive order further limiting access to asylum at the US-Mexico border. The long-anticipated move, which relies on an authority previously invoked by the Trump administration to restrict immigration, will allow border officials to temporarily suspend asylum processing between official ports of entry and swiftly return migrants to neighboring Mexico and countries of origin at times when crossings rise to a certain threshold. The directive, which mirrors a now-defunct Senate border deal, is set to go into effect on Tuesday at midnight.
It’s Time to Restore Some Sanity to the Internet
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. There is a vigorous debate as to whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be repealed, reformed, or replaced. Close to 30 bills have been introduced in Congress proposing to repeal or revise Section 230, the almost accidental law that protects platforms from liability and helped launch the internet, and Congress continues to hold hearings on reform. Politicians of all stripes—from Amy Klobuchar to Josh Hawley—have called for changes to the law. Even Mark Zuckerberg, whose Facebook platform depends on Section 230, has agreed that changes are probably needed. There’s been no shortage of news about the law and the controversy over it, but unless you are a lobbyist or a lawyer, you may not know what’s at stake or why it’s so important to take a hard look at changing Section 230 now.
Sen. Robert Menendez Is Scoring Big Wins in His Gold-Bar Bribery Trial
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Federal prosecutors went to court last month with what seemed like a slam-dunk case that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez had accepted bribes to help the governments of Egypt and Qatar while he was the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
How a Battle Over Solar Power Tore One New York Community Apart
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “There are lots of people who say, ‘Nimby, nimby, nimby,’ and the people who say, ‘Nimby, nimby, nimby,’ they don’t live right next door to it.”. That’s what...
Columbia Students Start New Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday evening, dozens of student activists at Columbia University started another tent encampment on the campus, in an effort to disrupt the university’s upcoming alumni weekend. As Israel’s ground invasion of...
“Make Them Pay”—The Far Right Responds to Trump’s Conviction
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the wake of Donald Trump’s conviction yesterday, far-right influencers have taken to Twitter to express their dismay—and desire for revenge. While some have simply urged Trump supporters to show their support at the ballot box in November, others have gone full apocalypse, urging retribution through thinly disguised calls for violence. Here are a few of the suggestions they have for standing up for their hero during his time of need.
Steve Bannon Isn’t On Trial. But He Keeps Coming Up in a MAGA Mogul’s Fraud Case.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, prosecutors in the federal trial of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui introduced a video that, they said, marked the precise moment Guo began executing a massive fraud against backers of his anti-Communist political movement.
Biden Announces New Ceasefire Proposal, Urges Israel to “Step Back”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. President Biden on Friday announced a new three-stage deal to end Israel’s military operations in Gaza, adding that it was “time for the suffering to stop.”. “At this point, Hamas is...
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