Tag: Russia

Special counsel Robert Mueller (left) and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort (right) are shown.

Manafort and Mueller to lock horns in court over whether lies breached plea deal

Kelly Cohen · January 25, 2019 5:04 pm

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone takes a question from a member of the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington.

Roger Stone released on $250K bond after indictment in special counsel’s investigation

Melissa Quinn · January 25, 2019 5:03 pm

A man walks into the Center for American Progress, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, at their office in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Top liberal think tank suddenly distressed by all that money it took from a foreign government

Becket Adams · January 25, 2019 4:47 pm

FILE: Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, stands outside beforeÂ a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., not pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Stone, a longtime Republican strategist and sometime confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested in Florida on Friday after being indicted in Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia before the 2016 U.S. election. Stone, 66, is facing seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Defiant Roger Stone lawyer says his client is ‘vindicated’ by Mueller indictment

Katelyn Caralle · January 25, 2019 3:18 pm

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone speaks to members of the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington. Stone says there is "not one shred of evidence" that he was involved with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Stone's interview comes as the House and Senate intelligence panels are looking into the Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign.

In new Mueller indictment, what is Roger Stone charged with doing?

Byron York · January 25, 2019 3:14 pm

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone departs after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington. Stone says there is "not one shred of evidence" that he was involved with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Stone's interview comes as the House and Senate intelligence panels are looking into the Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign.

Beltway Confidential

Romanticizing Roger Stone as a puckish ‘trickster’ was probably a bad idea, huh?

Becket Adams · January 25, 2019 2:08 pm

Randy Credico, a New York radio host and associate of Roger Stone, center, walks with his dog outside federal court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Credico testified before a grand jury working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Roger Stone accused of threatening radio host Randy Credico’s therapy dog and told him: ‘Prepare to die’

Katelyn Caralle · January 25, 2019 1:32 pm

Magazine - Features

The unstoppable envoy

Benjamin Weinthal · January 25, 2019 5:00 am

Even though Putin condemned the NSA's spy operation, he told Stone that Snowden shouldn't have leaked the documents they way he did. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

On NATO, Russia should pay attention to lawmakers’ support, not White House wavering

Erin Dunne · January 25, 2019 1:12 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Lanny Davis: Rudy Giuliani is ‘mentally unstable’

Naomi Lim · January 24, 2019 10:50 pm

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, and former Secretary of Defense William Perry unveil the Doomsday Clock during The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists news conference in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. The Doomsday Clock is set at two minutes to Midnight.

Doomsday Clock remains at two minutes to midnight, closest to disaster since the rise of the hydrogen bomb

Caitlin Yilek · January 24, 2019 5:07 pm

Juan Guaido, head of Venezuela's opposition-run congress, holds up a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution, after he declares himself interim president of the South American country until new elections can be called, at a rally demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019.

Pompeo pledges $20M aid package to Venezuela after request from Maduro opposition leader

Joel Gehrke · January 24, 2019 5:06 pm