Election 2020
Even Fox News Wants to See Proof of Trump's Vote Fraud Claims
The president took no questions from reporters because his bogus claims of mass vote fraud evaporate under scrutiny.
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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Election 2020
Enraged Trump Supporters Swarm Election Offices Spouting Conspiracy Theories
Trump voters in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada want more counting in some states, less in others.
Election 2020
Anatomy of a Lie: How the Trump Campaign Edited Video of Biden to Create a Fake Gaffe
Trump wants Fox News to stop showing Obama's speeches and focus instead on deceptively edited clips of Biden.
Trump's Pathetic Attempt to Get Netanyahu to Attack Biden Falls Flat
Donald Trump offered a public performance of the abuse of office he was impeached for last year, this time as farce.
Trump Campaign Embraces "Blacks for Trump" Founder Who Belonged to Violent Cult
A former cult member who promotes anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy theories shares the spotlight with Trump.
Trump Boasts About Federal Task Force Killing Anti-Fascist Wanted for Murder in Portland
“We got him,” the president said of a fugitive killed by federal deputies. Witnesses say officers made no attempt to arrest him first.
Far-Right Twitter Trolls Won't Admit They Were Wrong About Killing of a "Patriot" in Denver
It was a reporter’s bodyguard, not an anti-fascist activist, who shot and killed a right-wing demonstrator who had assaulted him.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Infected Trump Returns to White House, Risking Lives Just to Shoot Video Pro-Virus PSA
The infected president removed his mask, endangering White House staff to record a video downplaying Covid-19.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Trump Is Hospitalized With Covid-19, Days After Mocking Biden for Wearing a Mask
For months, the president recklessly disregarded mask-wearing, and aides and supporters followed his lead.
Neo-Fascist Proud Boys Exult Over Trump Telling Them to "Stand By," Not Stand Down
Asked to tell white supremacists and militia groups to stay away from protests, the president told some to be on alert.