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U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor (born 1958)
Donald Trump’s most controversial pardons clustered around three themes: clemency for January 6 defendants and allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election; pardons for political allies, donors, an...
There is no proven evidence that President Obama personally ordered or carried out illegal spying on the incoming Trump administration; reporting and later congressional activity show a complicated mi...
Available reporting does not produce verified evidence that Melania Trump’s modeling or business career involved formal Russian intelligence handlers, business partners, or a Russian state role; major...
No contemporaneous, attributable press release or quote from an official Trump campaign spokesperson explicitly endorsing the Pizzagate conspiracy appears in the provided reporting; instead, the recor...
Public figures and organizations across the right-wing media ecosystem, some politicians, and foreign state media have amplified QAnon themes: researchers and reporting name former national-security a...
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...
Several former Trump administration officials and associates have faced criminal charges in years around and after the first Trump presidency — notable examples from the prior administration include M...
A careful review of the available materials shows of people indicted or convicted “in relation to the Russian hoax”; counts vary by definition and by which investigations and timeframes are included. ...
Yes — the public record shows numerous actions and episodes widely characterized as negative: a long list of controversies, ethics and legal entanglements, policy rollbacks affecting civil and human r...
President Trump issued a full, unconditional pardon for Michael Flynn on November 25, 2020, wiping out Flynn’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI about contact with Russia’s ambassador and broadly cover...
The Mueller report documented extensive contacts — dozens of meetings, communications and attempted outreach — between people tied to the Trump campaign and Russian-linked individuals, but it conclude...
A dozen-plus figures who orbited Donald Trump have been criminally convicted or pleaded guilty in cases tied to campaigns, the Trump Organization and the January 6 aftermath; their penalties ranged fr...
A federal magistrate judge in Denver denied former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters’ federal habeas petition and request for release while her state appeal proceeds, finding federal courts should not int...
Pizzagate coalesced in early November 2016 after WikiLeaks published John Podesta’s hacked emails; anonymous users on 4chan’s /pol/ began parsing mundane references (like “pizza”) as coded language, a...
The Mueller special counsel investigation produced indictments against roughly 34–37 individuals and three companies, yielded about seven to eight guilty pleas, and resulted in one trial conviction fr...
Donald Trump’s campaign and close allies did not uniformly embrace or officially promote the Pizzagate conspiracy, but multiple Trump-aligned figures—most prominently Michael Flynn and other fringe su...
Donald Trump used the presidential pardon and commutation powers to free a mix of high‑profile political allies, celebrities, and lesser‑known defendants; notable names repeatedly cited across sources...
Donald J. Trump’s 2017–2021 clemency actions included a substantial number of , reflecting a pattern noted across multiple reports and compilations of his 237 clemency actions . Contemporary news outl...
The Mueller report concluded that , using social-media influence operations and computer intrusions to favor Donald Trump and damage Hillary Clinton. The Special Counsel documented numerous links and ...
Yes: multiple and associates had direct meetings, calls, emails, or other contacts with nationals and Russian government-linked figures during the 2016 campaign, including a documented June 9, 2016, m...