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Trump-Russia investigation

Latest Trump-Russia inquiry news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice.

September 2023

  • Composite image of Donald Trump and Christopher Steele

    Trump suing ex-MI6 officer who alleged he was ‘compromised’ by Russian security service

    Christopher Steele’s dossier also alleged Putin ‘supported and directed’ plan to ‘cultivate’ Trump as a presidential candidate

May 2023

  • The final report by special prosecutor John Durham is photographed Monday, May 15, 2023. Durham ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The report offers withering criticism of the bureau but a meager court record that fell far short of the former president's prediction he would uncover the "crime of the century." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

    Trump-Russia: what we know about the Durham investigation of an investigation

  • Donald Trump in Nevada in October 2020. Durham accused the bureau of treating the 2016 Trump investigation differently from other politically sensitive investigations.

    FBI accused of failures but key report finds no deep-state plot against Trump

March 2023

  • John Bolton listens as Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in 2018.

    John Bolton chose not to brief Trump on Russia Havana syndrome suspicion

    Former national security adviser tells podcast ‘we didn’t feel we would get support’ from president during Russia investigation

August 2022

  • Paul Manafort arrives for an arraignment hearing on mortgage fraud charges in New York in June 2019.

    Political Prisoner review: Paul Manafort stays loyal to Trump – but still spills a few beans

    Aide jailed in Russia investigation and pardoned has written a memoir that is mostly – if not completely – forgettable

May 2022

  • Former Republican aide Kash Patel is followed by reporters in Washington

    Former Trump official Kash Patel writes children’s book repeating false claim over Steele dossier

    Story with characters such as King Donald and his enemy Hillary Queenton gives revisionist account of FBI inquiry that dogged Trump presidency

March 2022

  • Trump, nearly six years after beating Clinton, alleges his 2016 opponent is guilty of ‘racketeering’ and a ‘conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood’.

    Trump sues Hillary Clinton, alleging ‘plot’ to rig 2016 election against him

    Clinton, James Comey and others accused of orchestrating Russia conspiracy that makes Watergate ‘pale in comparison’

November 2021

  • Trump with Putin in Helsinki in 2018. Special counsel John Durham is examining the origins of the FBI’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

    Russian source for Steele’s Trump dossier arrested by US authorities

    Five-page indictment released by justice department accuses analyst Igor Danchenko of lying to FBI

September 2021

  • FILE - This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut's U.S. Attorney John Durham. Tasked with examining the U.S. government's investigation into Russian election interference, special counsel John Durham charged a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, with making a false statement to the FBI. The case against the attorney, Michael Sussmann of the Perkins Coie law firm, is just the second prosecution brought by special counsel John Durham in two-and-a-half years of work. U.S. Department of Justice via AP, File)

    Clinton lawyer charged with lying to FBI during Trump-Russia inquiry

    Michael Sussmann is second person to be indicted in William Barr-ordered investigation of the investigators

July 2021

  • Christopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer.

    Spooked review: exposé of murky world of private spies is a dodgy dossier itself

    Barry Meier brings distasteful characters and episodes to light but is happy to leave out that which does not suit his aims

June 2021

  • Don McGahn with Trump in 2018. McGahn will be questioned only about information attributed to him in publicly available portions of Mueller’s report.

    Trump’s ex-counsel quizzed on Russia investigation after two-year fight

    Don McGahn, whose testimony was originally sought as part of investigations into the former president, to testify to House judiciary committee

May 2021

  • Donald Trump and William Barr at Andrews air force base in Maryland on 1 September 2020.

    Judge orders release of memo on Trump obstruction decision

    DoJ attorneys ‘disingenuous’ in attempts to keep document at conclusion of Mueller investigation secret, judge says

February 2021

  • Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago club, February 2000.

    American Kompromat review: Trump, Russia, Epstein … and a lot we just don't know

    A new book on the old president is titillating but scattershot, a compendium of wild stories and salacious accusations

December 2020

  • Donald Trump leaves after a speech at the of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington.

    From A Very Stable Genius to After Trump: 2020 in US politics books

    The Trump administration, if not the Trump book, is nearly behind us. From Bob Woodward to Barack Obama, what were the best reads of another tumultuous American year?

October 2020

  • Rick Gates leaves federal court after being sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years probation, in Washington in December 2019.

    Wicked Game review: a fascinating but flawed memoir by Trump's jailed associate

  • William Barr ordered John Bash to investigate whether Obama administration officials had mishandled classified intelligence relating to the Russia investigation.

    'Unmasking' inquiry ordered by Barr finds no wrongdoing by Obama officials – report

September 2020

  • Robert Mueller in July last year. Andrew Weissmann said Mueller and a senior deputy, Aaron Zebley, were cowed by the power of the Trump presidency.

    Mueller rejects prosecutor's criticism of Trump-Russia investigation

  • The Department of Justice, in Washington DC.

    Where Law Ends review: why Mueller failed to hold Trump to account

  • Andrew Weissmann wades through the media, during proceedings against Enron CEO Kenneth Lay in Houston in 2004.

    Trump memo on Comey firing was 'tinfoil helmet material', Mueller prosecutor says

  • Robert Mueller testifies before Congress in July last year. Weissmann says Mueller was afraid of being fired.

    Mueller too timid in Trump-Russia investigation, top prosecutor claims

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