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![Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on December 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0214-mitch-mcconnell-400x300.jpg)
Mitch McConnell Is Now at Odds With Trump. That Doesn’t Mean Mitch Is Good.
The enemies of our enemies aren't always our friends. Case in point: McConnell's stealth battle against Trump.
![President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, a member of the president's legal team, confer during an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0214-rudy-giuliani-400x300.jpg)
Giuliani in Talks to Negotiate Deposition With January 6 Committee
Giuliani was supposed to speak with the January 6 committee last week, per his subpoena order.
![Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0214-trump-biden-400x300.jpg)
Voters Want Alternatives to Biden and Trump in 2024 Election, Poll Shows
Fifty percent of GOP-leaning voters say they want Trump to run in 2024, while 45 percent of Democrats want Biden to run.
![Donald Trump addresses supporters during a rally at York Family Farms on August 21, 2021, in Cullman, Alabama.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/GettyImages-1335520706-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Illegal Document Shredding May Haunt Him in January 6 Investigation
All of this contempt for the rules of governance is being laid bare by the House committee investigating January 6.
![Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0211-capitol-breach-p-400x300.jpg)
Christian Nationalists Are Rewriting Jan 6 History. Alarmingly, It’s Working.
A new report shows Christian nationalist support for those who attacked the Capitol has doubled in the past year.
![President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 24, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0211-donald-trump-mar-400x300.jpg)
Trump Took “Top Secret” Classified Material to Mar-a-Lago Estate
One former federal prosecutor said that the FBI would want to review how and why Trump had the documents.
![Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill on February 1, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0210-mitch-mcconnell-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Post-Election Vengeance Campaign Has Split the Republican Party in Two
This is Mitch’s Republican Party as much as it is Trump’s.
![President Donald Trump speaks is seen in the Oval Office on October 23, 2020, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0210-trump-oval-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Phone Records From Capitol Attack Have Huge Gaps, Says Jan. 6 Committee
Members of the January 6 select committee are confident they can fill in the gaps through other means.
![President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on December 31, 2020, as he returns to Washington, D.C., after the Christmas holiday at Mar-a-Lago.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/2022_0210-donald-trump-a-400x300.jpg)
National Archives Requests DOJ Inquiry Into Trump’s Mishandling of Documents
Some of the documents that were recovered from Trump’s estate may be classified, sources say.
![An inflatable nuclear missile balloon stands at the ready before an anti-nuclear weapons protest at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2016.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/GettyImages-518566248-400x300.jpg)
Will Biden Declare a “No First Use” Approach to Nuclear Weapons?
In 2017, Joe Biden warned against the preemptive use of nuclear weapons but has yet to adopt that policy as president.