Mother Jones magazine: on Principles & Values
Donald Trump:
Paid hush money to porn star, lied about Moscow deal
Trump directed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to make illegal hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the election to keep her from talking about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump. Trump secretly tried to score a
development project in Moscow that could have earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, and his company asked Vladimir Putin's office for assistance in sealing the deal. (Trump falsely told American voters that he had no business interests in Russia.)
Source: Mother Jones magazine on impeaching Trump
Dec 18, 2019
Marianne Williamson:
Politics steeped in religion is divisive
She's an evangelical, to be sure, but also an unembarrassed political liberal whose latest book,
The Healing of America, warns that spirituality can unite the country while politics steeped in religion can only divide it.
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 presidential hopefuls
Dec 1, 1997
Ralph Nader:
Chose 16-hour day work instead of personal life
Q: You are known for your 16-hour days and seven-day-a-week work ethic. Has it been worth it? Do you regret never having married and not having started a family? A: This work is very personal -- it is my personal life. If you love your work, you
don't divide life into impersonal work and personal enjoyment. Of course, you >can't have it all. I don't believe in being an absentee father, so I had to choose.
Source: Mother Jones magazine
Jun 3, 1996
Thomas Ravenel:
Fiscally conservative and socially moderate libertarian
During the course of the first season of "Southern Charm" --a show that, per Bravo, "goes behind the walls of Charleston, South Carolina's most aristocratic families to reveal a world of exclusivity, money and scandal that goes back generations"
and drew, on average, 1.1 million viewers per episode--Ravenel has consistently described himself as a fiscally conservative and socially moderate libertarian.
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2014 South Carolina Senate race
May 12, 2014
Tommy Tuberville:
We've got to put Jesus and God before everything else
"[W]e've got to put Jesus and God before everything else. And if we don't do that we're going to be brought down to our knees again," he
said."I think God brought [Trump] to us, and gave us the opportunity to have somebody just take the gloves off, start swinging, try to run these people back in their holes," he said. "I want to go to Washington to help him."
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Alabama Senate race
Aug 7, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard:
Hillary Clinton & military-industrial complex smearing me
Gabbard released a video blasting Hillary Clinton, claiming that Clinton and the "war machine" are trying to "destroy" and "discredit" her. Gabbard also told an NBC reporter the comments were part of a "smear campaign" "coming from people like
Hillary Clinton and her proxies, the foreign policy establishment, the military-industrial complex, who obviously feel threatened by my message and by my campaign because they know that they can't control me."
Source: Mother Jones on 2019 Democratic primary
Oct 20, 2019
Donald Trump:
The insurrection took place on November 3rd, not January 6th
The ex-president sat down at Mar-a-Lago and was asked whether he thought it was "a mistake" to have held a rally at the White House Ellipse on January 6. It was during that rally that Trump directed his supporters to march to the Capitol Building
and "show strength" against the congressional certification of Joe Biden's victory or risk losing their country forever."It was a massive rally, with hundreds of thousands of people," Trump claimed in response to the question. "I think it was the
largest crowd I've ever spoken before. And the real--I reverse it--the insurrection took place on November 3rd, that was Election Day, and before and after. That was to me, the insurrection. And January 6th was a protest."
Trump then reiterated his
claims about crowd size along with another familiar tactic meant to deceive the public about the horrific events at the Capitol: "And then, unfortunately, some bad things happened," he said, "but also, the other side had some very bad things happen."
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2020 Election Denialism
Dec 8, 2021
Amanda Chase:
When you back citizens into the corner, they'll push back
Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase attended Trump's rally and said in a video posted to her Facebook page, "When you back good people--law-abiding citizens--into the corner, they will push back." Chase, who said she left
Trump's speech early on the advice of her security team, blamed the riots on "antifa or BLM agents of destruction." A spokesperson for Chase said in an email that she "was on her way home when the violence broke out."
Source: Mother Jones magazine on 2021 Virginia Governor race
Jan 16, 2021
Eleni Kounalakis:
Trump motivated me to run for office, defend democracy
There's no question that Trump was a motivating factor for me to run for lieutenant governor. It takes courage to run for office. I don't know that I had the courage to do it before Donald Trump, but I certainly knew immediately after that
I would do whatever it took to do whatever it took to help my country and the vision of American democracy that we have worked so hard to perpetuate in the world, that it was time to fight for it here at home.
Source: Mother Jones on 2024 California Lt. Gubernatorial race
Aug 6, 2018
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