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Claims that Donald Trump is or was a “Russian asset” exist in multiple forms — from long‑standing journalistic arguments that he was “cultivated” over decades to viral 2025 allegations he was codename...
On the public record, Donald Trump maintained extensive and sometimes controversial contacts, business pursuits, and campaign staff ties that intersected with Russian individuals and interests for dec...
Multiple investigations — most prominently the FBI probe, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, and a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee review — examined alleged links between Donald Trump,...
concluded that mounted an “unprecedented” and aggressive campaign in 2016 that probed and targeted across the country, including scanning activity affecting all 50 states, but found no evidence that v...
, and each had discrete, documented contacts with people tied to that the cataloged: with intermediaries who claimed Kremlin connections and tried to set up meetings between and Russian officials , an...
Multiple investigations and independent research conclude that the n government waged a deliberate interference campaign in —using and the Internet Research Agency’s —to harm Hillary Clinton’s campaig...
Multiple investigations and congressional probes have documented extensive financial interactions and business dealings between -related entities and people or firms with ties to or the former Soviet ...
and repeated contacts between Trump campaign associates and n-linked individuals have been corroborated in intelligence assessments, the Mueller special counsel report, and congressional inquiries; th...
The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Paul Manafort’s relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik represented “a grave counterintelligence threat,” documenting repeated attempts by Man...
The Mueller investigation produced a mix of direct criminal charges tied to discrete unlawful acts and referrals that spawned separate prosecutions; many of the convictions flowed from lies, financial...
The Mueller Report cataloged extensive "links" and contacts between Trump campaign officials and people tied to the Russian government—detailing meetings, communications, and offers of hacked material...
The Mueller report identified numerous Trump campaign officials who had contact with Russians or were implicated in related investigations; it led to 34 indictments overall and detailed episodes invol...
The Mueller report concluded that Russia mounted a broad, coordinated effort to interfere in the 2016 election and that investigators documented “numerous” contacts and links between Trump campaign fi...
Multiple, documented contacts occurred between Trump campaign officials and Russian nationals or intermediaries during 2016; reporting and bipartisan Congressional investigation found and an “extensiv...
A bipartisan review of the provided analyses shows , specifically Paul Manafort’s associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who is reported to have passed campaign polling and strategy information to Russian int...
Paul Manafort served as a senior official in the 2016 Trump campaign, rising to campaign chairman and handling convention operations, but his prior work for pro-Russian Ukrainian interests and later c...