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Sixth director of the FBI; American attorney
Reporting and official inquiries establish that Russia mounted a broad, state-directed influence campaign in 2016 that sought to help Donald Trump win, and investigators documented numerous contacts a...
Reporting and investigations show multiple, recurring channels through which Russian-linked money or actors flowed into Trump businesses and projects since the late 1990s: Reuters documented at least ...
Roger Stone was convicted in federal court on seven felony counts arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false s...
Rachel Maddow’s reporting has been repeatedly scrutinized: independent fact‑checkers like PolitiFact catalog multiple checks of her claims (including false rulings) and analyses such as Ad Fontes Medi...
The claim that is false with respect to 2016 and contested but supported for 2024 by multiple U.S. government reports and major press investigations. U.S. intelligence agencies, special counsel findin...
Roger Stone was convicted in November 2019 on seven federal counts — five counts of making false statements to Congress, one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of an official pro...
The answer depends on definitions: criminal "collusion" or "conspiracy" was not proven by the special counsel, but multiple official investigations concluded Russia interfered to help Trump and docume...
The available special counsel investigations reached a consistent legal conclusion: , though both found troubling conduct and intelligence shortcomings. The Mueller report documented extensive Russian...
The claim that “created a fake Russian hoax to stop Trump from being president” is a political allegation rooted in recent declassifications and partisan statements, not settled legal fact; major publ...
Public reporting and mainstream fact‑checking show a flurry of online conspiracy theories that is or was a n asset, but the major investigations into Russian interference and Trump‑Russia ties that ar...
Documented financial ties between Trump-related businesses and Russian or Soviet-linked individuals trace at least to the 1980s, with reporting showing purchases of Trump-condominiums by people later ...
Paul Manafort’s years-long consulting for pro‑Russian Ukrainian political interests shaped both the vulnerabilities he brought to the 2016 Trump campaign and the legal and intelligence scrutiny that f...
The FBI under Director James Comey opened and led an inquiry in 2016 into and possible links to the Trump campaign, a probe that later became the basis for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s work after ...
refers broadly to investigations and reporting about efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and the ensuing inquiries into contacts between that interference and the . Official probes ...
is a 2016 collection of memos by alleging ties and kompromat between and ; it was paid for by while working for Democratic clients and published by in January 2017 as unverified “raw intelligence” . T...
The Mueller Report documented 10 episodes while Donald Trump was president (and one before his election) that the special counsel identified as potentially obstructive, and it described “substantial e...
The FBI director is nominated by the President and must be confirmed by the Senate; Congress capped the term at a single 10‑year appointment in 1976 to insulate the office from politics . When the off...
The Mueller report documented a series of presidential actions and communications that investigators treated as , and Special Counsel Robert Mueller expressly testified that his investigation did not ...
A series of civil lawsuits alleging that and sexually assaulted a teenage girl who used the pseudonym “” (also reported as “”) were filed in 2016; those suits were repeatedly dismissed or withdrawn an...
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...