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The Mueller Report concluded that Russian leadership sought to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election, but the special counsel did not establish that the Trump campaign coordinated or conspired with ...
The short answer: there is no publicly verified, incontrovertible proof that Vladimir Putin personally possesses specific kompromat that controls Donald Trump, but multiple sources, leaks, and long-st...
The links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin run along three broad axes: public admiration and personal rapport that Trump has repeatedly signaled (before and during office) , business and financ...
Conservative outlets and social-media aligned actors circulated a range of allegations that John Podesta used his Clinton-era access and email correspondence to exert improper influence over media, po...
Donald Trump has repeatedly denied having loans from Russia, and public records do not show a direct, named loan from a Russian bank to Donald Trump personally . Reporting from multiple outlets and in...
The publicly released Mueller report was heavily redacted for four stated categories: grand‑jury material, classified/intelligence information, details that could harm ongoing investigations, and priv...
President Trump has submitted administrative claims seeking roughly $230 million from the Justice Department as compensation for multiple federal investigations into him, including the Russia inquiry ...
Mueller’s 2019 special‑counsel investigation documented extensive contacts between Trump associates and Russians and referred 14 criminal matters for prosecution, but it did not conclude there was a c...
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...
Jared Kushner’s real-estate ventures intersected repeatedly with foreign actors and political activities, prompting questions about whether deals created openings for Russian influence — for example, ...
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 ...
The Mueller Report concluded that , employing cyber intrusions, social-media "active measures," and the release of stolen materials to benefit Donald Trump’s candidacy, while the special counsel did n...
The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Paul Manafort’s relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik represented “a grave counterintelligence threat,” documenting repeated attempts by Man...
Multiple news outlets and court records report that a plaintiff using the name “Katie Johnson” filed a federal complaint in 2016 and that related “Jane Doe” allegations surfaced in late 2016; key cont...
U.S. institutions played a mix of constraining and enabling roles in relation to Donald Trump: courts, investigatory bodies and some parts of the Department of Justice provided legal brakes, while Con...
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (IG) concluded in December 2019 that FBI use of the Steele dossier in FISA applications contained serious errors and omissions — including 17 ...
Michael Cohen’s prior guilty pleas and admissions have been a double-edged sword in later proceedings: prosecutors and some judges treat them as evidence of contrition and as corroborated narrative th...
The federal executive has long relied on ad hoc special‑attorney or special‑counsel appointments—ranging from Teddy Roosevelt’s early 20th century special prosecutors to modern special counsels like M...
Federal and state indictments and court actions against Donald Trump through 2025 do not, in the provided sources, charge him with acting on behalf of Russian interests; major documented probes of Rus...
Classified U.S. intelligence assessments historically concluded that Russia sought to influence the 2016 election and favored Donald Trump; multiple official reports and later agency assessments reaff...