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Mark Epstein’s email that mentioned “Trump blowing Bubba” has prompted speculation that Donald Trump performed oral sex on someone nicknamed “Bubba,” a name often associated with Bill Clinton; Mark Ep...
Multiple analyses characterize a range of President Trump’s actions and rhetoric as aligning with authoritarian or fascist patterns: these include efforts to concentrate executive power, attacks on in...
The phrase “Trump… blowing Bubba” appears verbatim in a March 2018 email from Mark Epstein to his brother Jeffrey that was released in the recent Epstein file dumps; the note says “Ask him if Putin ha...
Russia has not achieved an outright, decisive victory in Ukraine despite recent territorial gains; ISW reports Russian forces gained roughly 243 square miles over four weeks to Dec. 9, 2025, and Russi...
Available reporting and document releases do not show credible evidence that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton had a sexual affair with one another; instead, recent attention centers on cryptic Jeffrey Ep...
Russia is unlikely to emerge as a clear, uncontested winner of the war over Ukraine in the foreseeable future: multiple expert scenario products and battlefield assessments point to a prolonged war of...
Since the Soviet breakup in 1991, major conflicts that sources attribute to Russian state action include the two Chechen wars (1994–2009 period), the 2008 Russo–Georgian War over South Ossetia and Abk...
The immediate risk of a direct all‑out war between Russia and the collective of European states remains limited but non‑negligible: most expert forecasting and intelligence products see a higher proba...
A direct Russia–NATO escalation over Ukraine is a real and treated-as-serious risk by officials and analysts, but most expert forecasts in the available reporting place a large-scale NATO–Russia war l...
Reporting shows Scott Ritter is a frequent contributor to Russian state media (RT, Sputnik) and has been welcomed and amplified by Russian outlets and officials; U.S. authorities searched his home in ...
No reputable sources in the provided set describe Russia’s presidential and parliamentary elections as “free and fair.” Multiple Western governments, international monitors and independent analysts ch...
Publicly available documents and mainstream reporting show a single, viral 2018 email from Mark Epstein referencing “photos of Trump blowing Bubba,” which prompted speculation that “Bubba” meant Bill ...
Available reporting shows multiple strands of concern about Jared Kushner’s past contacts and business ties with Russian-linked figures and entities, but no single source in the provided set says he h...
Public reporting shows the National Rifle Association disclosed it received roughly $2,500 — about $2,512 in one accounting — from around two dozen individuals with Russian links between 2015 and 2018...
Scholars and commentators widely describe a core of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters as forming a “personality cult”: recent peer‑reviewed research identifies a distinct, highly loyal subgroup who...
Multiple reporting threads claim a string of mysterious deaths and dismissals among Russia’s elite and interpret them as a coordinated Kremlin purge that reflects growing paranoia and internal consoli...
Multiple analysts and mental-health professionals have publicly raised concerns about Donald J. Trump’s cognitive function and personality traits, but the publicly cited claims vary in method, scope, ...
Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy in 2025 refocused U.S. strategy on “America First,” shrinking the stated purpose of engagement to “core national interests” and shifting burden-sharing onto a...
Available reporting shows a March 2018 email from Mark Epstein asking Jeffrey Epstein to “ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba,” which sparked widespread online speculation that “Bub...
Multiple post‑2016 government reviews and declassifications found that the Steele dossier contained unverified and, in some parts, unsubstantiated material and that the FBI relied on it in seeking FIS...