Dana Rohrabacher Says Anyone “In This Town” Would Meet With Russians Peddling Political Dirt
Bill Clark/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Capitol Hill on Friday evening, I ran into Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has earned the moniker “Putin’s favorite congressman.” In recent days, he has been linked in news reports to Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian woman who had spent years cozying…
Rudy Giuliani Is Now Claiming Collusion May Not Be a Crime
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During two separate television interviews Monday morning, President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani openly questioned whether collusion with the Russian government—a reported focus of the special counsel’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to the Kremlin—is a criminal offense. The attempts to downplay the gravity…
Senators Question Russian-Oligarch-Linked Firm That Hired Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen leaves court in Manhattan on April 16, 2018.Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four Democratic senators want a New York financial firm linked to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg to explain its hiring last year of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney and emerging legal adversary.…
Why Russian Spies Really Like American Universities
Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia in 2013.AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Under the alias Cynthia Murphy, Russian spy Lydia Guryeva…
The FBI Released Documents on the Carter Page Wiretap. Then Trump Had a Twitter Meltdown.
Former Trump campaign advisor Carter PageJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the Justice Department released previously-classified documents on the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. The documents, a redacted version of the bureau’s 2016 application for a top-secret warrant to surveil Page under the…
Michael Cohen Reportedly Taped Conversation With Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
Go Nakamura/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two months before the 2016 election, Michael Cohen—President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney and fixer—surreptitiously recorded Trump discussing a payment to a Playboy model who alleged she’d had an affair with the president. The New York Times reported Friday that the FBI discovered the…