President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort offered to provide "private briefings" on the 2016 race to a Russian billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin, The Hill reported citing The Washington Post.
While U.S. President Donald Trump is doing his best to undermine an investigation of his campaign's alleged ties to the Russian government, his Department of Justice is not backing off its pursuit of a Kremlin-backed Ukrainian oligarch, according to The Chicago Tribune.
Relations with the Russian Federation should be a combination of “strong deterrence and dialogue,” President of Romania Klaus Werner Iohannis said during a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington June 9, the White House reports.
Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.
James Comey is willing to speak to Congress following his sudden dismissal as head of the FBI earlier this week, but he wants the testimony to be public, according to a new report, The Hill wrote.
The acting head of the FBI has said the agency will continue to investigate alleged links between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign – but will not routinely update the White House, according to The Independent.
FBI Director James Comey, days before President Donald Trump fired him, told lawmakers he sought more resources for his agency's probe into possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 U.S. election, a congressional source told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), administered by the Department of Justice and other sources, provides evidence of both Democrats and Republicans having been hired as political consultants and lobbyists by pro-Russian Ukrainian kleptocrats. These are the very same political figures who have been routinely criticized by U.S. policymakers, Taras Kuzio wrote in an article for The Hill titled "Beyond Manafort: Both parties deal with pro-Russian Ukrainians."
Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by House and Senate investigators who are examining the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution, according to his lawyer and a congressional official, according to The New York Times.
A Russian bank under Western economic sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, in December, Reuters reports.
The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee Devin Nunes says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has volunteered to speak with the panel as part of its ongoing investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election, according to The Associated Press.