Before Maria Butina became notorious as an alleged Russian spy and mistress of Republican operative Paul Erickson, she was just a college student who really, really loved Russia, according to a new report from the Washington Post.
Some people love surprises. I am not one of them. Neither, it seems, is Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
Faced with lingering questions about President Donald Trump’s disastrous appearance with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, his subsequent semi-walking-back of his remarks there, and then a third round of waffling about Russian intervention in American politics, Sarah Huckabee Sanders had her work cut out…
Just one day after kinda-sorta walking back his mind-bending Helsinki press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump partially walked back his walkback on Wednesday by once again contradicting his own national security advisers and telling reporters that actually, Russia isn’t targeting…
President Donald Trump attempted to course correct Tuesday afternoon after more than 24 hours of resounding criticism—from both sides of the aisle and U.S. allies around the world—over his disastrously friendly press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. His solution? Claim that he meant the exact opposite…
You know things are bad in Trumpland when even the president’s cheerleaders at Fox News are completely at a loss as to how to react to his bugfuck insane press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, he’s really done it now!!!
Maria Butina, a 29-year old Russian woman who reportedly aided an attempt to to set up a ‘backdoor’ meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in May 2016, was arrested on Sunday and charged on Monday with “conspiracy to act as an agent of foreign government.”
Donald Trump’s performance at his dumb summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki today has been nearly universally panned, with even the both sides-worshipping pundit class finally putting their foot down and doing their best impression of this classic Clickhole article. Now, even Trump’s own people are getting in on the…
Did you miss the big news about the World Cup, the violent protests in Chicago, or even Trump and Putin’s latest meeting? We’re here to help.
Perhaps you heard that Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had their much-anticipated summit in Finland today. Suffice it to say, things did not go particularly well—least of all for members of the idiotic pundit class, many of whom are currently in the midst of losing their goddamned minds.
Few things pain me as much as typing these proper nouns in the same sentence: This morning, President Trump refused to rebuke Russia for its role interfering with the 2016 election while standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin during their hotly-awaited summit in Helsinki.
Well, that was a thing.
Just hours after the U.S. Justice Department announced indictments against members of Russia’s military intelligence agency for waging cyberwarfare against U.S. elections in 2016, Donald Trump, instead of condemning Russia’s actions, attacked our strongest allies again, calling the European Union a “foe” of the United…
As President Donald Trump was meeting the British royal family on Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that 12 members of the Russian GRU military intelligence agency had been indicted for allegedly hacking the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election.
Following a trip this week to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton made the rounds of Sunday news talk shows to normalize President Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with the leader behind attacks on U.S. elections.
While the administration of President Donald Trump continues alienating the strongest allies of the United States, and the president and members of his family and inner circle are under investigation for allegedly conspiring with Russia to rig the 2016 elections, Trump’s next move seems to be negotiating a summit with…
Donald Trump likely ending the Iran nuclear deal. Torture proponent Gina Haspel’s worsening prospects for being confirmed as the head of the CIA. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigning over his reported physical and emotional abuse of multiple women.
It’s increasingly apparent that Trump family members and some of their closest associates are in serious legal jeopardy over their involvement with Kremlin–linked figures both before and after the 2016 presidential election.
President Donald Trump has called out his pal Vladimir Putin in an unusual criticism of the Russian president following a chemical weapons attack on a hospital Saturday in the Syrian city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta.
