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David Corn is Mother Jones ' Washington bureau chief. For more of his stories, click here . He's also on Twitter and Facebook . RSS | TWITTER David is an MSNBC analyst & author of the new book, SHOWDOWN: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor & the Tea Party
SHARE Saturday, November 16, 2019 Marie Yovanovitch's Testimony Showcases Donald Trump's Obsession With Revenge
Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday morning as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry, Yovanovitch recalled how she had been "shocked," "appalled," and "devastated" to see a president undermine and threaten a US ambassador.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 24, 2019 Are Our Brains Wired to Reject Medicare for All?
If a known quantity (your existing health care insurance, as imperfect as it may be) is going to be taken away and replaced by an unknown (the promised better system), many voters may be hesitant to make the swap. The devil you know and all that.
SHARE Saturday, October 12, 2019 Who's the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani's Pals? We Found Some Clues.
When the US attorney for the Southern District of New York charged two associates of Rudy Giuliani and two other men on Wednesday with campaign finance violations, the indictment contained a big mystery. So far, not a single Russian has come forward to claim credit for underwriting the alleged criminal activity of Giuliani's dirt-digging pals and their comrades.
SHARE Friday, October 11, 2019 We Found the Corruption: Giuliani Pals Making Shady Donations to Pro-Trump GOPers for Ukrainians
As Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump squawk that the president's quid-pro-quo-ish call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was only prompted by Trump's heartfelt desire to address "corruption" in that former Soviet bloc nation, a new scandal has emerged in the United States that illustrates how corruption works here.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 28, 2019 How Trump's Response to the Ukraine Scandal Helped Russia
First Trump provided Moscow a set of highly useful talking points for its disinformation war against a nation it has partially occupied; then he endorsed Putin's strategic aim. Trump hurt himself this week, and he hurt Ukraine -- but somehow he managed to hand Putin a beautiful gift.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, September 6, 2019 How to Stop Russia From Attacking and Influencing the 2020 Election
The Russians are coming. That's the message about the 2020 election from FBI Director Chris Wray (who this summer said Moscow is determined to interfere in the next presidential contest) and from former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats (who warned that Vladimir Putin's regime and other foreign actors will concoct new methods for messing with American politics in 2020).
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 27, 2019 Mueller Reminds the Public: Trump Betrayed the United States
Whether or not Trump engaged in active collusion with Vladimir Putin's regime, he gained the presidency with covert foreign assistance and then abandoned his most fundamental duty: to protect the United States. Arguably, this is more significant than the obstruction issue, for Trump has permitted a foreign power to get away with perverting the foundation of American democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 19, 2019 Donald Trump's Politics of Hate Began With a "Cynical and Evil" GOP Memo
Trump is leading a crusade of fear, loathing, and lies, and preying on prejudice and ignorance. But our racist president didn't reach this dangerous position on his own. He is following a path -- and perhaps turning it into a superhighway -- established long ago by the party he now helms.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 29, 2019 Rex Tillerson: I Did Not Challenge Putin on 2016 Election Attack
Trump sent his new secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, to Moscow to meet Putin. At that meeting, Tillerson did not challenge or press Putin when the Russian president falsely denied that Moscow had perpetrated this assault on American democracy. Who says so? Tillerson himself.
SHARE Friday, June 14, 2019 Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan for Winning the White House, and Right Now It's Working
this uptick is more than a serendipitous development, for Warren has become the slow-and-steady candidate, slogging along and gaining ground inch by inch. That's how the law-professor-turned-senator and her team have always seen her -- and that's all part of her plan.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 31, 2019 A New Right-Wing Disinformation Campaign: Biden Was Part of a Deep State Plot Against Trump
Days after Biden declared his presidential bid in late April, Restoration PAC, a conservative political action committee generously funded by a Republican billionaire, posted on Facebook a video titled "Joe Biden's Involvement in the Fusion GPS/Steele Dossier." For right-wingers, any Biden connection to this document would mean that the Democratic 2020 front-runner was in the middle of the plot against Donald Trump.
SHARE Saturday, May 18, 2019 In Defamation Lawsuit, a Trump Donor Acknowledges Providing Chinese Execs "Access" in US
This complaint together with the GY US Investments website support the conclusion that Yang, who raised money for Trump, used her connections to bring Chinese executives into proximity of the president and Trump family members at his club and perhaps elsewhere.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, April 26, 2019 Joe Biden and the Iraq War: It's Complicated
As Joe Biden joins the far-too-wide 2020 Democratic field, various media outlets have published stories noting that his 2002 vote that granted President Bush the authority to invade Iraq could come to haunt his campaign. He did try to impede Bush's war. It was only after he failed that Biden yielded to the forces of conventional political reality and voted in sync with the prevailing pro-war sentiment of the moment.
SHARE Friday, April 19, 2019 The Mueller Report: A Detailed Account of Trump's Lies and Misconduct
Mueller has demonstrated that the Trump-Russia scandal is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory. He has not exonerated Trump. He has shown that even if Trump has not committed crimes, the president of the United States is guilty of many serious misdeeds and transgressions.
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, March 29, 2019 Here's the Real Trump-Russia Hoax
There were contacts with Russia and lies about those contacts -- and false denials that provided cover for the Russian attack. How can all this be regarded as not a scandal? Especially before the full contents of the Mueller report, which might contain new information about these parts of the story, is made public, if that ever happens.
(22 comments) SHARE Monday, March 25, 2019 Trump Aided and Abetted Russia's Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop.
So much of the truth is already out there. And the bottom line was established before Mueller submitted his report: Trump committed what is probably the most significant political misdeed in American history. The public did not need the Mueller report to confirm this. The foundation of this scandal -- Trump's villainy -- has for long resided within plain sight.
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2019 The Myth of the Mueller Report
Mueller is under no obligation to produce a final report that shares with the public the full breadth of what he has uncovered. The Justice Department guidelines governing the work of a special counsel do not compel Mueller to compile such a report. They only include one sentence about a report: "At the conclusion of the Special Counsel's work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Remember the Big Story in the Russia Scandal: Donald Trump Betrayed America
Whenever there is a rush of new details about one slice or another of this controversy -- or the other pending or possible cases involving the Trump Foundation, the Trump Organization, the Trump inauguration, the Trump family's alleged tax fraud, and more -- it's important for us (and the media) to keep the spotlight on a central element that has already been established beyond any doubt: Trump betrayed his fellow Americans.