US elections 2020

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‘Everything is possible’: a worrying new book explores the danger of disinformation
In Attack from Within, ex-national security prosecutor Barbara McQuade looks at the history of how lies are widely spread

David Smith in Washington

16, Mar, 2024 @7:18 AM

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Judge in Georgia election case dismisses six charges against Trump and others
Charges for soliciting officials to violate their oath of office were dismissed, although the other charges remain

Sam Levine

13, Mar, 2024 @4:16 PM

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Man who sent bomb threat to Arizona election officials jailed for 42 months
James Clark, 38, gets prison time and three years on probation as judge says he inflicted trauma on government employees

Ed Pilkington in Phoenix, Arizona

13, Mar, 2024 @1:23 AM

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House Republicans’ report contradicts witness account of Trump’s wheel-grab
Report includes White House employees’ January 6 testimonies that dispute former aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s

Martin Pengelly in Washington

11, Mar, 2024 @11:54 PM

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Texts reveal Trump co-defendant Chesebro’s role in ‘fake electors’ plot
Scheme was critical part of anti-democratic effort to overturn 2020 election and is now at center of two criminal cases against Trump

Sam Levine in New York and Alice Herman in Madison, Wisconsin

05, Mar, 2024 @9:20 PM

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Tense Fani Willis hearing ends as judge plans to decide on disqualification
Judge Scott McAfee says he hopes to issue decision on what Trump defendants say is conflict of interest in next two weeks

Sam Levine in New York

01, Mar, 2024 @10:03 PM

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Liz Cheney: supreme court delay will deny voters ‘crucial evidence’ on Trump
Republican demands that justices come to a speedy verdict after supreme court decision to hear Trump election interference case

Richard Luscombe

29, Feb, 2024 @7:03 PM

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Supreme court to hear Trump immunity claim in election interference case
Justices to consider whether former president is immune from prosecution over effort to overturn election loss to Biden

Hugo Lowell in Washington

28, Feb, 2024 @11:45 PM

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Six out of 10 South Carolina Republican primary voters think Biden wasn’t legitimately elected
Exit polls show election denialism has become mainstream among Republicans despite studies finding no widespread fraud in 2020

Sam Levine

25, Feb, 2024 @7:33 PM

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CPAC: Noem and Stefanik lead charge of the wannabe Trump VPs
Vice-president hopefuls slammed Democrats and tried to top each other with their Trumpian bona fides

Martin Pengelly in Oxon Hill, Maryland

24, Feb, 2024 @2:50 PM

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Trump now owes more than $500m. How will he pay?
The clock is ticking on a major financial decision following costly court losses that could threaten his prized real estate assets

Cameron Joseph

22, Feb, 2024 @11:56 AM

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Top Maricopa county official quits as election looms: ‘All I do is play defense’
Clint Hickman, who helped lead Arizona’s largest county through the pandemic and 2020 election, has faced endless harassment for the last few years

Rachel Leingang

18, Feb, 2024 @1:00 PM

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