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Trump Prepares to Wipe Out Years of Progress on Gun Violence

Trump Prepares to Wipe Out Years of Progress on Gun Violence

By the time Joe Biden became president in January 2021, guns were the top killer of children and teens in America, overtaking car crashes and cancer...

14.02.2025 40

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“Incredibly Damaging”: the Fallout From Trump’s January 6 Pardons

In the four years since Donald Trump set off an insurrection at the US Capitol, the Department of Justice and the FBI conducted one of the largest...

24.01.2025 20

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The Looming Danger of Trump’s January 6 Pardons

Trump supporters clash with police at the US Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021 Mother Jones illustration; Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Four years ago, after...

18.12.2024 4

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Trump’s Long Legacy of Inciting Violence

Mother Jones illustration; Tasos Katopodis/Getty It was no surprise. Instead, call it the October reveal. In the final days of the 2024 election,...

03.11.2024 10

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Trump’s Extreme Rhetoric Is Echoing in Threats of Violence

Donald Trump in silhouette Abaca Press/AP Donald Trump’s rhetoric during his 2024 campaign has been the darkest in modern memory. He has emphasized...

24.10.2024 2

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Trump Used Site of First Assassination Attempt to Boost Falsehoods

A supporter at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, PA, on Oct. 5 Jen Golbeck/AP Donald Trump has faced two assassination attempts in the past three...

07.10.2024 3

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Trump Amplifies His Dangerous Hate Speech Against Migrants

Trump speaks at a campaign event on Sept. 28, 2024, in Prairie du Chien, Wis. Morry Gash/AP For much of 2024, Donald Trump has used demagoguery...

01.10.2024 20

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Trump Seeks to Exploit Assassination Attempts for Political Gain

Alex Brandon/AP In the early afternoon on Sunday, a suspected gunman got within several hundred yards of former President Donald Trump at his golf...

17.09.2024 30

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A New Reckoning for Parents of School Shooters

Flags fly at half-staff outside Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Mike Stewart/AP In the aftermath of the bloodbath on Wednesday at...

06.09.2024 3

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Project 2025 Backers Push Propaganda About the Trump Shooting

Mother Jones; Heritage Foundation; Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Just hours after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler,...

04.09.2024 10

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Trump’s Baseless Claims About the Assassination Attempt Are Dangerous

Mark Peterson/Pool/Getty Ever since the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the former president and his allies have promoted...

29.08.2024 3

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Trump’s Dangerous Campaign of Hatred Against Migrant “Invaders”

Mother Jones; Carol Guzy/ZUMA (2) On the morning of August 3, 2019, a 21-year-old man walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and opened fire with...

12.08.2024 10

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JD Vance Reiterates False Claim That Democrats “Tried to Kill” Trump

Vance introducing Trump at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2024 Ben Gray/AP Campaigning in Atlanta on Saturday, Republican vice presidential...

05.08.2024 4

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Trump Allies Promote Conspiracy Theories About the Assassination Attempt

Mother Jones; ZUMA In the two-plus weeks since a gunman opened fire at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, some details have...

30.07.2024 10

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Four Key Questions Still Loom Over the Trump Shooting

Trump speaks at the RNC in Milwaukee, July 18, 2024 Mark Hertzberg/ZUMA One certainty about the assassination attempt two weeks ago on former...

26.07.2024 1

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Trump’s Sons Keep Falsely Blaming Democrats for the Assassination Attempt

At the 2024 GOP convention in Milwaukee Tom Williams/AP Since a 20-year-old gunman opened fire more than a week ago at former President Donald...

23.07.2024 2

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