Name Special Counsel’s Description No. of Interview Citations

Donald F. McGahn II White House counsel (January 2017 - October 2018) 157

Michael D. Cohen Former vice president to the Trump Organization and special counsel to Donald J. Trump who spearheaded an effort to build a Trump-branded property in Moscow. He admitted to lying to Congress about the project. 136

Michael T. Flynn National security adviser (Jan. 20, 2017 - Feb. 13, 2017), director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (July 2012 - Aug. 7, 2014), and Trump campaign advisor. He pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about communications with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016. 87

Hope Hicks White House communications director (August 2017 – March 2018) and press secretary for the Trump campaign 73

Reince Priebus White House chief of staff (January 2017 - July 2017); chair of the Republican National Committee (January 2011 - January 2017) 66

Rick Gates Deputy campaign manager for Trump campaign, Trump Inaugural Committee deputy chairman, and longtime employee of Paul Manafort. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States and violate U.S. laws, as well as making false statements to the F.B.I. 63

Jeff Sessions Attorney general (February 2017 – November 2018); U.S. senator (January 1997 – February 2017); head of the Trump campaign’s foreign policy advisory team 59

Dimitri Simes President and chief executive officer of the Center for the National Interest 49

K.T. McFarland Deputy White House national security adviser (January 2017 - May 2017) 48

Rob Porter White House staff secretary (January 2017 - February 2018) 44

James B. Comey Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Sept. 4, 2013 - May 9, 2017) 40

George Papadopoulos Foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who received information from Joseph Mifsud that Russians had “dirt” in the form of thousands of Clinton emails. He pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about his contact with Mifsud. 39

Carter Page Foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who advocated pro-Russian views and made July 2016 and December 2016 visits to Moscow. 36

Paul Manafort Trump campaign member (March 2016 – August 2016) and chairman and chief strategist (May 2016 – August 2016) 35

Stephen K. Bannon White House chief strategist and senior counselor to President Trump (January 2017 – August 2017); chief executive of the Trump campaign 33

J.D. Gordon National security adviser to the Trump campaign involved in changes to the Republican Party platform and who communicated with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Republican National Convention 33

Erik D. Prince Businessman and Trump Campaign supporter who met with presidential transition team officials after the election and traveled to the Seychelles to meet with Kirill Dmitriev in January 2017 30

Jared Kushner President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser to the president 28

Corey Lewandowski Campaign manager for the Trump campaign (January 2015 – June 2016) 26

George Nader Adviser to the United Arab Emirates crown prince who arranged a meeting between Kirill Dmitriev and Erik Prince during the transition period 26

Annie Donaldson Chief of staff to White House Counsel Donald McGahn (January 2017 - December 2018) 25

Chris Christie Former governor of New Jersey 24

Stephen Miller Senior adviser to the president 18

Paul Saunders Executive with the Center for the National Interest who worked on outlines and logistics of candidate Trump’s April 2016 foreign policy speech 18

Richard Burt Former U.S. ambassador who had done work [for] Alfa-Bank and was a board member of the Center for the National Interest 16

Rick Gerson New York hedge fund manager and associate of Jared Kushner. During the transition period, he worked with Kirill Dmitriev on a proposal for reconciliation between the United States and Russia. 16

Jody Hunt Chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions (February 2017 - October 2017) 16

Andrew G. McCabe Acting director of the F.B.I. (May 2017 – August 2017); deputy director of the F.B.I. (February 2016 - January 2018) 16

Uttam Dhillon Attorney in the White House Counsel’s Office (January 2017 – June 2018) 15

Sandra Luff Legislative director for Senator Jeff Sessions; attended a September 2016 meeting between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak 15

Petr Aven Chairman of the board of Alfa-Bank who attempted outreach to the presidential transition team in connection with anticipated post-election sanctions 12

John Eisenberg Attorney in the White House Counsel’s Office and legal counsel for the National Security Council 12

Rob Goldstone Publicist for Emin Agalarov who contacted Donald Trump Jr. to arrange the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower between Natalia Veselnitskaya and Trump Campaign officials 12

Irakly Kaveladze Vice president at Crocus Group and Aras Agalarov’s deputy in the United States. He participated in the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower between Natalia Veselnitskaya and Trump Campaign officials. 12

Anatoli Samochornov Translator who worked with Natalia Veselnitskaya and attended a June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower between Veselnitskaya and Trump campaign officials 12

Sally Q. Yates Acting attorney general (Jan. 20, 2017 – Jan. 30, 2017); deputy attorney general (Jan. 10, 2015 - Jan. 30, 2017) 12

Dana J. Boente Acting attorney general (January 2017 - February 2017); acting deputy attorney general (February 2017 – April 2017) 11

Dan Coats Director of National Intelligence 11

Diana Denman Delegate to 2016 Republican National Convention who proposed a platform plank amendment that included armed support for Ukraine 11

Mary McCord Acting assistant attorney general (October 2016 – May 2017) 11

Joshua Raffel White House communications adviser (April 2017 - February 2018) 11

James Rybicki F.B.I. chief of staff (May 2015 - February 2018) 10