How Putin Co-Opted the Republican Party

Donald Trump, the former President and current Republican frontrunner for renomination, has stubbornly refused to condemn Russia or President Vladimir Putin for their role in Navalny’s death in a remote arctic prison. In turn, he blamed Navalny for returning to Russia after an earlier attempt on his life—he would have been better served “staying away …

Indicted ex-FBI informant told investigators he got Hunter Biden dirt from Russian intelligence officials

The former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ dealings in Ukraine told investigators after his arrest that Russian intelligence officials were involved in passing information to him about Hunter Biden, prosecutors said Tuesday in a new court filing, noting that the information was false. Prosecutors also said Alexander Smirnov has been “actively peddling new lies …

Ukraine implicates 3 Giuliani [R] allies in plot to help Russia meddle in 2020 US election

A sitting Ukrainian lawmaker who helped Rudy Giuliani smear Joe Biden during the 2020 US presidential campaign has been jailed on suspicion of treason, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday, in a statement accusing him of carrying out a Russian disinformation operation. [...] The SBU has also implicated two former Ukrainian officials in the pro-Russia …

Fox News stars and executives privately trashed Trump’s election fraud claims, court document reveals

But the court document provided a mountain of evidence exposing Fox News as a right-wing talk channel void of the most basic journalistic ethics. The legal filing also underscored how worried Fox News executives and hosts were in the immediate aftermath of the election of losing its viewership to Newsmax, a smaller right-wing talk channel …

How Barr’s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled

But after almost four years — far longer than the Russia investigation itself — Mr. Durham’s work is coming to an end without uncovering anything like the deep state plot alleged by Mr. Trump and suspected by Mr. Barr. Moreover, a monthslong review by The New York Times found that the main thrust of the …

Takeaways from Monday’s Jan. 6 committee meeting

Members focused on how the former president’s direct involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election makes him responsible for the violence that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and unfit to hold future office. The committee laid out the case for both the public and the Justice Department that there’s evidence …

Trump’s Call for ‘Termination’ of Constitution Draws Rebukes

Inaccurately describing the contents of a just-released report about Twitter’s moderation decisions during the 2020 campaign, Mr. Trump again demanded that the 2020 election be overturned or rerun, for the first time explicitly calling to set aside the supreme law of the land. [...] The explicit suggestion of suspending the Constitution was astonishing even by …

Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers

A Georgia computer forensics firm, hired by the attorneys, placed the files on a server, where company records show they were downloaded dozens of times. Among the downloaders wereaccounts associated with a Texas meteorologist who has appeared on Sean Hannity’s radio show; a podcaster who suggested political enemies should be executed; a former pro surfer …

Conservative think tank aims to make the U.S. a fascist theocracy

Now a right-wing think tank has proferred a new set of guidelines for conservatives. The Edmund Burke Foundation has come up with National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles, which aims to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the old standards. By any measure, the statement is a frightening call to abandon democracy in …

“Any Republicans wanna speak out now?”: Alarm after Trump shares “civil war” post

Former President Donald Trump over the weekend shared a post on his Truth Social app invoking a "civil war." Trump on Saturday "retruthed" a post by a random Truth Social user called "MAGA King Thanos" either calling for or predicting a "Civil war." [...] Trump is the most prominent Republican to float a "civil war" …