David Corn

Washington, D.C.

DC bureau chief of Mother Jones, MSNBC analyst. Best-selling author of "American Psychosis." Sign up for my newsletter "Our Land" at https://t.co/73HtPJKNLk.

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We still don’t know what Kash Patel did as a consultant for Qatar

9 hours ago | motherjones.com | David Corn |Dan Friedman

In a curious twist during his confirmation process, Kash Patel failed to disclose significant personal financial information until after the Senate hearing in January on his nomination to become FBI director. Consequently, one peculiar item listed on his financial disclosure form received no attention during that hearing: Patel’s work as a consultant for the embassy of Qatar. On this document, Patel did not specify what he did for Qatar or how much he was paid.
A Holocaust tale for today

1 week ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Imagine a situation in which the threat of fascism is so pressing that you consider sending your children to another country.
How the Establishment is helping Trump’s revenge-a-thon

4 weeks ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Let’s go back to June 2, 2024. That morning, Fox & Friends Weekend aired an interview with Donald Trump conducted by the show’s hosts—Pete Hegseth, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Will Cain.
Trump to the USA: There is no rule of law

1 month ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the future, April 14, 2025, may well be recognized as a monumental day in US history. That is, of course, if there is honest history in the future. Becausethis is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of law in the United States. It happened in the Oval Office.
Gabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary group

1 month ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

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Trump and Musk are running a disinformation campaign on Social Security

1 month ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

Donald Trump keeps saying he has no intention of slashing Social Security, but…he and his mini-me, Elon Musk, won’t stop making outlandish claims about the program and appear to be setting the table for cuts that they will try to call something other than “cuts.”Just about every time they mention the program and entitlement spending, they lie. Musk recently denigrated Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme.” It isn’t, but if it were, shouldn’t you whack away at it?
Tulsi Gabbard wanted a promoter of pro-Putin commentators to be her deputy

2 months ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

This week, Tulsi Gabbard had her first brush with controversy as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, when it became known that she had picked as her deputy a right-wing podcaster named Daniel Davis, who had regularly assailed the Israeli government and its war in Gaza, accusing Israel of “pursuing ethnic cleansing” and criticizing US support for what he called “Netanyahu’s war.” Within hours of Jewish Insider breaking this story on Wednesday, which sparked immediate...
Why the right is to blame for distrust in the media

2 months ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial.
Trump’s NIH Pick Made a Big Mistake on Covid

2 months ago | motherjones.com | David Corn

Senate Republicans seem to be cruising toward confirming as the director of the National Institutes of Health an academic who made a huge mistake about the most serious health crisis to confront the United States in a century and who refuses to acknowledge he erred big-time.
Democrats Are MIA-Just When the Country Needs Them to Counter the Trump-Musk Blitzkrieg

2 months ago | ourcommunitynow.com | David Corn

Share On Thursday afternoon, before I began to write this newsletter, I searched Hakeem Jeffries in Google News. I found but a handful of recent entries for the House Democratic leader from New York. On Sunday, he had appeared on ABC News’ This Week and slapped President Donald Trump and the Republicans for having done nothing to lower the cost of living for Americans and for preparing to push more tax cuts for the wealthy.