Trump Spoke to a Russian Activist About Ending Sanctions—Just Weeks After Launching His Campaign
At FreedomFest in Las Vegas, July 2015John Locher/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While researching the strange story of two Russian gun aficionados who cultivated Donald Trump’s presidential campaign via the National Rifle Association, we came across a little-noticed but noteworthy episode concerning Trump and US sanctions against Russia. Sanctions…
Trump’s Lawyer Really Wants Jeff Sessions to Appoint a Second Special Counsel to Investigate the FBI
Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump’s personal legal team, in Virginia in October 2015 for a Republican presidential candidate forum.Steve Helber/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday he is considering bowing to demands from congressional Republicans who have called for the appointment of a second…
The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For more than a year now, reports have trickled out about deepening ties among prominent members of the National Rifle Association, conservative Republicans, a budding gun-rights movement in Russia—and their convergence in the Trump campaign. Now attention is focused around a middle-aged…
What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession With Putin Began
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the first of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones. The book will be…
Mueller Reportedly Has Evidence Blackwater Founder Tried to Set Up a Trump-Putin Back Channel
Blackwater founder Erik Prince arrives for a closed meeting with members of the House Intelligence Committee last November.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last April, the Washington Post reported that Blackwater founder Erik Prince had a secret meeting with a Russian close to Vladimir Putin to establish back channel communications between the Kremlin and…
How a Russian-Linked Shell Company Hired An Ex-Trump Aide to Boost Albania’s Right-Wing Party in DC
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images; Twitter; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A former Trump campaign aide working as a lobbyist, a half-million-dollar payment, a conservative Albanian political party, four Republican congressmen, Breitbart News, a kosher restaurateur in New York City, an online dating service that promotes “beautiful” Ukrainian women,…