NRA President Offered to Work With Accused Russian Spy’s Group in Moscow
The NRA’s David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an investigation published on Thursday, Mother Jones documented the deep ties between the National Rifle Association and two Russians accused by the FBI of carrying out a malign political influence operation inside the United States: Maria…
US Indicts Russian Gun Activist Who Interacted with NRA and the Trump Campaign
Federal prosecutors have charged Maria Butina, a Russia gun-rights activist with a long history of interactions with the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, for conspiring to act as a Russian agent without registering with the US Department of Justice. In a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday, federal prosecutors charge that Butina, 29,…
Scottish Police Search for an Anti-Trump Paraglider
A Greenpeace demonstrator flies over the Trump Turnberry golf resort.John Linton/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Scottish police are looking for information about the pilot of a Greenpeace paraglider who flew an anti-Trump banner within 100 yards of the president. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Williams of Scottish police told the…
Trump Has Already Spent 30 Percent of His Days as President at Trump Properties
Andrew Milligan/PA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If nothing else, President Donald Trump seems to know how to relax. After yet another week of pissing off international allies, the New York Times reports that he’s spending the weekend at Trump Turnberry, his luxury resort in Scotland, which means that…
London Stages Massive Protests as Trump Visits United Kingdom
Matt Dunham/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Tens of thousands of people marched across the streets of London Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the United Kingdom, with many demonstrators carrying signs condemning Trump’s policies both at home and abroad. Others mocked the president’s intelligence. The massive…
No One Loves Donald Trump More Than Vladimir Putin
Hamburg, Germany, July 2017Mikhail Klimentyev/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With his efforts to help Donald Trump become president by meddling in the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin has already done more to advance Russia’s foreign policy goals and worldview than anything he could have imagined in his wildest dreams as…