Although Robert Mueller failed to find an election conspiracy between Donald Trump and Moscow, the former Special Counsel threw a lifeline to the Russiagate narrative by alleging that the Kremlin had engaged in a "sweeping and systematic" effort to get Trump elected and "sow discord" among Americans.

Six years later, that questionable but enduring claim continues to unravel.

According to newly declassified documents, U.S. intelligence leaders concealed high-level doubts about one of Russiagate's foundational allegations: that Russia stole and leaked Democratic Party material to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. In a September 2016 report that was never made public until now, the NSA and the FBI broke with their intelligence counterparts and expressed "low confidence" in the attribution to Russia.

It's not enough to say they hated Trump. That's the surface-level distraction they fed the public — tweets, tone, ego. But behind closed doors, the political elite weren't clutching their pearls over Trump's behavior. They were panicking over what he might expose.

The effort to sabotage Trump's presidency — before he even took office — was not about protecting democracy. It was about protecting the machine.

From George H.W. Bush to Barack Obama, the same interconnected network of intelligence operatives, political dynasties, and global financial interests built and maintained a shadow system of power.

Trump threatened to bring it all into the light.

US President Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of "treason," promising to "go after" him and his administration's top intelligence officials over their alleged plot to "rig elections" and stage the Russiagate hoax.

Trump made the remarks while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. The former US president should be targeted directly by the Department of Justice, Trump stated when asked about the report released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard last week that alleged Obama administration officials "manufactured intelligence" to falsely accuse Trump of colluding with Russia. Trump said:

"This was treason. Barack Hussein Obama is the ringleader. Hillary Clinton was right there with him, and so was Sleepy Joe Biden, and so were the rest of them: [former FBI Director James] Comey, [former DNI Director James] Clapper, the whole group.

"They tried to rig an election, and they got caught. And then they did rig the election in 2020. And then because I knew I won that election by a lot, I did it a third time, and I won in a landslide."

Gabbard's report was "like proof, irrefutable proof, that Obama was seditious," Trump said, accusing his predecessor of "trying to lead a coup."

"This is the biggest scandal in the history of our country."

The White House said the US president was "caught off guard" by the Israeli strikes on Syria.

The administration of US President Donald Trump increasingly views Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "madman" undermining Washington's diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, Axios has reported.

Israel conducted airstrikes last week on Syrian government forces and military headquarters in Damascus in response to bloody clashes between the Druze and Bedouin communities in southern Syria. A ceasefire announced on Saturday appears to be holding.

Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab wrote on X:

"After several bloody days in Suwayda Province, the Internal Security Forces have succeeded in calming the situation following their deployment in the northern and western areas."

Despite the truce, US officials have become "significantly more alarmed" by Netanyahu's behavior and policies, Axios reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The bloc has been busy portraying Russia as its enemy while ignoring domestic problems, the foreign minister has said.

The EU has been locked in an anti-Russian "frenzy," focusing exclusively on militarization instead of fixing domestic issues that plague the bloc, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Lavrov made the comments on Tuesday at a press conference in Moscow following talks with his Mozambican counterpart, Maria Manuela Lucas.

He condemned the increasingly hostile rhetoric and actions of the EU, claiming that:

"The 'lessons of history' have been "poorly learned by the current generations of Germans, French, and representatives of other European countries.

"Europe has gone into a frenzy... They are inciting their peoples in every way possible, instilling in them the spirit of Goebbels' propaganda that Russia is...an existential threat, and that Russia is about to attack Europe, so they have to forget about social problems, about failures in the economy, and about the process of deindustrialization, which is observed in Germany and other European countries, while focusing exclusively on 'the militarization of Europe'."

The US president has accused the Wall Street Journal of libel over its reporting about a supposed letter to Jeffrey Epstein.

US President Donald Trump has filed a libel lawsuit against billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his media empire over an article in the Wall Street Journal that claimed he sent a lewd birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.

The suit, filed Friday in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, names Murdoch, News Corp, Dow Jones, and two WSJ reporters as defendants, according to multiple media reports. While the full complaint was not immediately available, court records confirm the case has been docketed.

Trump wrote on Truth Social:

"I look forward to getting Rupert Murdoch to testify in my lawsuit against him and his 'pile of garbage' newspaper, the WSJ. That will be an interesting experience!!!"

The lawsuit stems from a WSJ article published Thursday, which claimed that Trump authored a suggestive letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday back in 2003. The report cited an alleged drawing of a nude woman signed "Donald," included in a leather-bound album compiled by Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

"I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam... But he did [print it], and now I'm going to sue his ass off," Trump wrote Thursday night.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has urged Washington to stop backing the Ukrainian leader, accusing him of refusing peace and clinging to power

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has labeled Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky "a dictator" and called for his removal, citing mass anti-corruption protests across Ukraine and accusing him of blocking peace efforts.

Her comments came after Zelensky signed a controversial bill into law that places the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) under the authority of the prosecutor general.

Baskut Tuncak is a prominent expert and advocate in the field of human rights and environmental law. He has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, where he highlighted the human rights impacts of pollution, toxic chemicals, and hazardous waste on vulnerable populations, including children.

He stated ina November 2017 article:

Our children are growing up exposed to a toxic cocktail of weedkillers, insecticides, and fungicides. It's on their food and in their water, and it's even doused over their parks and playgrounds."

In February 2020, Tuncak rejected the idea that the risks posed by highly hazardous pesticides could be managed safely. He told Unearthed (Greenpeace UK's journalism website) that there is nothing sustainable about the widespread use of highly hazardous pesticides for agriculture.

Whether they poison workers, extinguish biodiversity, persist in the environment or accumulate in a mother's breast milk, Tuncak argued that these are unsustainable, cannot be used safely and should have been phased out of use long ago.

In his 2017 article, he stated:

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child... makes it clear that states have an explicit obligation to protect children from exposure to toxic chemicals, from contaminated food and polluted water, and to ensure that every child can realise their right to the highest attainable standard of health. These and many other rights of the child are abused by the current pesticide regime. These chemicals are everywhere, and they are invisible."

Tuncak added that paediatricians have referred to childhood exposure to pesticides as creating a "silent pandemic" of disease and disability. He noted that exposure in pregnancy and childhood is linked to birth defects, diabetes and cancer and stated that children are particularly vulnerable to these toxic chemicals: increasing evidence shows that even at 'low' doses of childhood exposure, irreversible health impacts can result.

He concluded that the overwhelming reliance of regulators on industry- funded studies, the exclusion of independent science from assessments and the confidentiality of studies relied upon by authorities must change.

'Time to go after people'

President Trump called for criminal charges Tuesday against Barack Obama for allegedly ordering an assessment that Russia meddled to help Trump with the 2016 election — an idea the former president's office blasted as "outrageous."

"After what they did to me, whether it's right or wrong, it's time to go after people. Obama has been caught directly," Trump, 79, said in the Oval Office.

"If you look at those papers, they have them stone cold, and it was President Obama... the leader of the gang was President Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?"

Trump was referring to a document declassified last week indicating that Obama, now 63, ordered an intelligence report damaging to Trump after his surprise election win.

In her July 17, 2025 briefing in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded to a question about the future of Russia-Germany relations. She emphasized that Russia had once extended forgiveness to Germany for the horrors of World War II — millions of deaths, destruction, and inhumane treatment — but now sees Berlin betraying that historical reconciliation. Zakharova accused the current German leadership of historical amnesia, open hostility toward Russia, and direct military involvement in the Ukraine conflict. She warned that Germany is once again heading toward catastrophe, not because of Russia's actions, but due to its own destructive political course.