Trump Suggests Navy Sent $5 Billion to Wisconsin Firm to Help Him Win Election
The president told workers at a shipyard that "one of the big factors" in the Navy awarding a contract to their firm was, "your location in Wisconsin."
Robert Mackey
Robert Mackey wrote about national and international news through the prism of social media for The Intercept. Before joining as a Senior Writer, he was a reporter and columnist for the New York Times, where he anchored the newspaper’s breaking news blog, The Lede, for five years, and wrote a news analysis column, Open Source, from 2014 to 2016. His work is focused on making sense of events through the close reading of firsthand accounts, photographs, and video posted on social networks by witnesses and participants.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
His writing has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Slate, and The Guardian.
As a television producer, he has looked at the role played by soccer hooligans in the war between Serbia and Croatia for Britain’s Channel 4, and spent a year and a half making a series of video letters from refugees for a United Nations-sponsored program broadcast in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and Belgrade during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
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Trump Made a Racist Joke in a Phoenix Megachurch and the Crowd Went Wild
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Trump's New Favorite Channel, OAN, Keeps Lying About Buffalo Protester Assaulted by Police
One America News, or OAN, has spent a week trying to smear Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old Catholic peace activist assaulted on camera by the Buffalo police.
Protests for Black Lives
Trump Campaign Aide Shared Praise for Racist With Chainsaw Who Assaulted Protesters
A Trump campaign adviser shared praise for a man in Texas who assaulted Black Lives Matter protesters while screaming a racist slur and waving a chainsaw.
Protests for Black Lives
Buffalo Police Said Protester With Head Wound "Tripped and Fell." Video Shows They Lied.
Police officers in Buffalo, New York were caught on camera shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground, injuring him at a protest against police brutality.
Protests for Black Lives
White House Forced to Retract Claim Viral Videos Prove Antifa Is Plotting Violence
Within minutes, journalists discovered that most of the viral clips of bricks included in a White House video had already been investigated and debunked.
Protests for Black Lives
Trump Boosts Video of Dallas Clash Edited to Cast Machete-Wielding Vigilante as Victim
A right-wing video blogger captured a shocking act of violence on camera, but posted a misleadingly edited version on Twitter that duped the president.
Protests for Black Lives
Racist History Behind Trump's Threat to Shoot Minneapolis Protesters Spurs Twitter to Act
Donald Trump's bloodthirsty threat to have protesters in Minneapolis shot echoed the words used by a racist Miami police chief in the 1960s.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
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Fox News viewers were warned not to take medical advice from the president, following Donald Trump's announcement that he takes the drug hydroxychloroquine.