Internal FBI Emails Offer Glimpse Into Trump 2020 Election Investigation

A series of internal F.B.I. emails released on Thursday showed that agents and officials followed standard procedure nearly three years ago when they opened the historic criminal investigation into Donald…

Kash Patel’s Loyalty to Trump Raises Doubts Over F.B.I.’s Independence

Kash Patel spent years ingratiating himself with Donald J. Trump — regularly popping into the Oval Office in the first term, writing a children’s book starring “King Donald” during the…

Trump’s F.B.I. Pick Sees ‘Deep State’ Plotters in Government, and Some Good in QAnon

Kash Patel, President Trump’s choice to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has a favorite saying: “There are no coincidences.” In podcasts, television interviews and public appearances, Mr. Patel supplies…

F.B.I. Pick Pushed False and Misleading Claims About Trump Investigations

But the dossier was not the root or the start of the investigation. According to the inspector general and special counsel reports, the dossier reached officials working on the Russia…

Judge Stops Justice Dept. From Releasing Report on Trump Documents Case

A federal judge in Florida stopped the Justice Department on Tuesday from releasing to Congress a potentially damning section of a report by the former special counsel, Jack Smith, detailing…

A List of Those Who Could Be in Line for Trump’s ‘Retribution’

President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised at times to use the vast powers of his office to seek revenge against politicians and officials who he contends have wronged him. Over…

The Art of the Image: Trump as His Own Executive Producer

Not long after Donald J. Trump surrendered himself for booking at an Atlanta jail in 2023, he told a clutch of allies and advisers about his experience posing for America’s…

Judge Cannon Mulls Release of Trump Documents Report to Congress

A federal judge in Florida put off making a ruling on Friday about whether the Justice Department can give members of Congress a report by the special counsel, Jack Smith,…

Jack Smith’s Accountability Effort Ends With More Freedom for Trump

In a closing argument he never got to make to a jury, Jack Smith, the former special counsel who investigated Donald J. Trump, insisted that his thwarted prosecution was righteous…

Takeaways From Jack Smith’s Report on the Trump Election Case

The Justice Department released a 137-page volume early Tuesday morning laying out the details of the investigation that the former special counsel Jack Smith conducted into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s…