So just what do we know about what Russia did or didn’t do involving the 2016 election and how the Trump campaign responded? Quite a bit actually, even though new Special Prosecutor Mueller has just started to get his feet on the ground.
[This timeline has been continued due to length]
- 1984 — David Bogatin — who is a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — meets with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened and begins using Trump properties to launder money.
- 1985 — Australian government rejects a bid for a Trump Casino in Sydney because of his alleged ties to the mafia.
- 1986 — Trump attempts to gain a posting to Russia as part of the Reagan Administration and says he could sit down with Gorbechev to negotiate an end to the cold war “in an hour.”
- 1987 — Trump makes his first all expenses paid trip to Moscow which was very likely arranged by the KGB after he's invited by Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin.
- 1988 — then U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani investigates Donald Trump for money-laundering after he was linked to being involved by mortgage broker Frank LaMagra, but Donald was dropped from the case right after promised to raise $2 Million for Rudy Giuliani if he ran for NYC Major. He ran and lost in 1989 before winning in 1993. LaMagra got no deal and was convicted, as was his mob associate, Louis (Louie HaHa) Attanasio, who was later also nailed for seven underworld murders. Robert Hopkins was convicted of running his gambling operation partly out of the Trump Tower apartment he had been sold by LaMagra, where he was arrested. FBI Agent Tony Lombardi closed the Trump investigation without giving it a case number, so it was never visible to the NJ Gambling authority.
- 1990 — Trump’s Taj Mahal casino, which is a favorite gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, is cited 106 times in 18 months for violating money laundering rules, particular failing to report when someone wins and withdraws more then $10,000. Russian mobster Semion Mogilevich’s ‘enforcer’ for his money-laundering operation in the U.S. is Vyachelsav Kirillovich Ivankov, who lives in Trump Tower and frequents the Trump Taj Mahal.
- 1991 — Taj Mahal files for bankrupcy protection, Trump sells his 50% share. After this and his other Casino bankruptcies most major banks no longer authorize loans to the Trump organization.
- 1992 — Michael Cohen whose famliy has ties to the Russian Mob through his uncle’s club El Caribe in Brooklyn starts a law practice with personal injury lawyer Melvyn Estrin who is eventually charged with insurance fraud.
- 1994 — Cohen marries Laura Shusterman, who was born in the Soviet Ukraine. Her father Fima Shusterman, also a taxi entrepreneur, pleaded guilty to a felony, conspiracy to defraud the IRS, the year before. Cohen eventually moves his law practice to a taxi garage owned by Simon Garber in Queens. Over the years, Garber has been convicted of assault in New York, arrested for battery in Miami and pleaded guilty in New Jersey to charges of criminal mischief involving him breaking into three neighbors’ homes, shattering glass doors, smearing blood all over and taking a shower.
- 1996 — James Comey was a Associate U.S. Attorney and deputy to Giuliani during this time and eventually replaces him as SDNY US Attorney in 2002.
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1998 -- Felix Sater a Russian born violent convict with ties to the Russian Mob including his father Michael Sheferofsky who is a reported capo in the Mogilevich crime family. Mobsters are frequently used by Russian intelligence to do their dirty work and fund blackbag operations — gets caught up in a $40 Million stock fraud case but is only fined $35,000 in exchange for becoming an FBI informant. FBI agent Gary Uhr escorts Sater back to the U.S. from Russia during this case, Uhr later becomes a bodyguard for Donald Trump. Sater later claims to have become an asset for the CIA with Russian spies. Trump proposes creating a Tower in Moscow.
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2000 —
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Former KGB Agent Alexander Litvinenko defects to Britain. His case officer with MI-6 is Christopher Steele.
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GAO does analysis of Russian-American oligarch Ike Kaveladze and his involvement in starting 2000 shell companies which could be involved in money laundering.
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2001-2007 — At least 63 Russian Oligarchs lease, rent or buy various Trump properties in South Florida spending upwards of $98.5 Million on them, many of these deals with Russian nationals in Manhattan reportedly are arranged through Bayrock Group LLC. Iliyas Khrapunov son-in-law of former BTA Bank Chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov purchase 3 condos in Trump Soho Tower, funds for this purchase may have come from $2 Billion embezzled by Ablayzov from the bank, as well as a shady deal involving a Chromium mine funded to the brother of Bayrocks’ Founder and a Troika of Metal magnates in Kazahkstan. Felix Sater becomes Bayrock’s managing director in 2003, who has had dealings with Khrapunov. Their first joint project together with Trump, also in 2003, is building a Trump Tower in Phoenix. They later work with them on the Trump International in Fort Lauterdale, Trump Camelback in Phoenix and Trump Soho in New York.
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2003 — James Comey becomes Deputy Attorney General under John Ashcroft. Trump agains seeks a Tower in Moscow.
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2005 —
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TrumpCo puts together it’s third proposal for Trump Tower Moscow in coordination with BayRock LLC.
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Konstine Kilimnik — who was trained in English by the GRU — goes to work for longtime GOP operative Paul Manafort in Ukraine, who reported has links to the to Russian Mobster Simion Mogilevich through wiring his funds through Lucicle Consultants Limited which is tied to Ukrainian Parliamentarian Ivan Fursin, who has ties to Mogilevich.
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AP reports that Manafort writes a strategy memo to Russian Billionaire Oleg Deripaska that he’d developed a plan that could “greatly benefit the Putin Government,”
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James Comey leaves the DOJ to go into private practice.
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2006 —
- 2008 —
- 2009 —
- U.S. investor Bill Browder is expelled from Russia and his assets are used to setup a $230 Million tax rebate scam. Browder’s lawyer Sergei Magnitski discovers the scam and testifies to reveal it, he is subsequently arrested, tortured and murdered in a Russian jail, beaten to death by the guards.
- Manafort stops working for Deripaska, for now.
- 2010 —
- 2011 —
- Trump Soho a joint venture condo project by TrumpCO and Bayrock is sued for defrauding buyers with their inflated claims. The suit is settled with a payout of $3.19 Million and a potential criminal case is avoided.
- Oleg Deripaska obtains a diplomatic passport from Russia allowing him to travel to America bypassing the fact he’s banned from the US due to allegations of his connection to Russian mobsters.
- Stephanie Clifford accepts an interview with In Touch Weekly to reveal her 2006 affair with Trump.
- March 2011 —
- May 2011 —
- 2012 —
- 2013 —
- Russian mobsters renting property in Trump Tower just three floors below the penthouse suite are arrested for money laundering and running an illegal gambling ring at the end of a 2 year investigation. One of the attorney’s for Denys Katsyv of Prevezon Group, the defendant in a related case, is Natalia Veselnitskaya, and the prosecutor is Preet Bharara, some of the stolen money is connected to Bill Browder’s investigation and the murder of Magnitski in Russia.
- James Comey leaves private practice after being nominated as FBI Director by Barack Obama.
- Several months later Trump holds the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the apparent money-laundering ring leader, Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who remains at large is welcomed on the Red Carpet at the event. While in Moscow Trump reportedly meets with several high ranking oligarchs including board members from Sperbank with ties to Putin at the restaurant Nobu, and with Billionaire Russian Real Estate developer Aras Agalarov and his Pop Star son Emil who partnered with Trump on the pageant.
- Video shot before the pageant shows Trump at dinner with Emin and Aras Agalarov, as well as Rob Goldstone Emin’s promoter. Michael Isakoff talks to Goldstone who reveals that Trump has plans to license a new Trump Tower in Russia with Agalarov as the local builder/owner. Don jr. is in charge of the project and Ivanka goes on location scouting trips with Emin. Ike Kaveladze who works for the Agalarov family is also present.
- Ukranian Oligarch Dmitry Firtash is indicted with five others with paying $18.5 million in bribes to Indian officials so they could mine titanium and sell it to Boeing Corporation to build the 787 Dreamliner jet, he’s currently fighting extradition to the U.S.
- 2014 —
- Michael Flynn is fired by the Obama administration as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his increasing “odd behavior.”
- Eric Trump says in an interview when discussing the funding of Trump Golf courses “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Eric later denies making this statement.
- Bayrock is functionally inactive, except for a few outstanding lawsuits.
- Putin releases Pussy Riot from prison for shooting a Punk Rock video in a Church.
- The Winter Olympics takes place in Sochi, Russia.
- Russia invades Crimea and begins sending Troops and equipment in the Ukraine to destabilize the Country, Obama rallies the international community to place Sanctions on Russia which crushes their economy — plans for the Rosneft/Exxon deal and Trump Tower Russia are both put on hold.
- The FBI requests a FISA Warrant for Paul Manafort due to his involvement with the Ukrainian government and Putin friendly officials such as Deripaska, this warrant ultimately lapse in early 2016.
- Paul Manafort and his partner Rick Gates were named in a racketeering lawsuit involving Dmitry Firtash, who also has ties to Putin. That suit, which was later dismissed, claimed Manafort and Gates helped Firtash launder ill-gotten gains as part of an $850 million deal to build luxury housing at the site of the Drake Hotel in New York City,
- 2015 —
- Trump and his kids are named as witnesses in a $250 Million tax evasion case connected to Bayrock and Trump Soho.
- Michael Flynn goes to Russia, meets and sits with Putin for dinner and is paid $45,000 for a speech at RT's 10th Anniversary Gala. He also receives $11,250 from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, and $11,250 from Volga-Dnepr Airlines. He doesn't get prior permission from the Pentagon for this trip or the payments. He also brokers a $100 Billion deal between Saudi Arabia and a state-owned Russian Nuclear power company Rosatom — who had bought Uranium One back in 2010 — pocketing another $25,000 from it that he doesn’t disclose.
- Taj Mahal is fined $10 Million for continued money laundering by Treasury’s FinCen unit.
- Putin critic and opponent Boris Nemtsov is murdered in the streets of Moscow shot in the back on a bridge right in the shadow of the Kremlin.
- U.S. intel captures discussion by Russians about Trump running for President, when he hasn’t announced his run yet, and talking about multiple contacts they’ve been having with Trump associates and planning to funnel money into the election.
- Trump Hotels are attacked by hackers potentially exposing the credit card numbers of customers to being stolen and cloned, the hotel chain covers up the intrusion and fails to update their software. Attacks like this are often done by mob connected hackers in Russia as a way to access easy cash, which then needs to be laundered ironically with real estate firms like Trump’s.
- Deripaska transfers $18.9 million to a private equity fund set up by Manafort to acquire a Ukrainian telecommunications company, but then he sues Manafort and his partner, Rick Gates, after they “simply disappear” with the money.
- June 17, 2015 -- Trump announces his run for President. He never releases his Taxes, his birth certificate or his school transcripts — all of which he demanded from Obama.
- Summer 2015 —
- Cyber hacking contractors working with the FSB (Cozy Bear) begin infiltrating and extracting copies of documents including their oppo-research on Trump and emails from the DNC servers. Their previous successful attacks include Yahoo Mail, the White House and State Dept. email systems.
- Cozy Bear also penetrates some RNC emails accounts and attack various Republicans who oppose Trump in the primaries such as Lindsey Graham.
- Dutch Intelligence services detect the Cozy Bear hack and manage to infiltrate their systems and surveillance cameras, they then document exactly who enters and exits the “hacking room” and inform the FBI.
- August 2015 — The DNC makes a co-fundraising deal with the Hillary Clinton campaign that gives them control of hiring, spending and other decisions with the DNC. Bernie Sander’s campaign is offered a similar deal, but never takes advantage of it.
- September 2015 — FBI detects the hack and begins trying to inform the DNC, but they start by going to their Helpdesk not simply calling Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. The hack continues.
- October 28, 2015 — On the same day as the 3rd GOP Debate Trump signs a nonbinding letter of intent to build Trump Tower Moscow. [This is attempt #5]
- November 2015 —
- Late 2015 —
- January 14, 2016 — Michael Cohen sends an email to Putin press secretary Dmitry Peskov trying to get talks regarding Trump Tower Moscow restarted. He claims that
they ignored him. [They Didn’t] Peskov also lies about not responding to this email to CNN, he is later rumored to be Putin’s point man on his campaign against Hillary.
- January 16th —
- Cohen emails Peskov again, asking to reach a high level official and for someone who spoke english to contact him.
- January 20th —
- Peskov’s assistant responds to Cohen’s emails and provides a Moscow based phone number him to call. They speak for at least 20 mins as Cohen requests assistance on the Moscow Tower project. The assistant takes notes and says they will follow up with others in Russia.
- January 21st —
- Sater emails Cohen asking for a call then tells him that he’s received a call “It’s about Putin, they called today.”
- March 2016 -—
- March 14, 2016 —
- March 16, 2016 -—
- March 21, 2016 —
- Trump lists Carter Page & George Papadopoulos as part of his foreign policy team along with 3 others to the Washington Post.
- March 24, 2016 —
- Papadopoulos writes an email to members of the campaign titled “Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin.” telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity. He also meets a Russian female Mifsud describes as ‘Putin’s Niece” [later identified as model Olga Vinogradova who isn’t his niece], as well as the Russian Ambassador to England and sought to setup more meetings between those reps and members of the Trump campaign. Some members of the Trump campaign are alarmed by the email including retired Navy Rear Adm. Charles Kubic, who cites legal concerns, including possible violations of U.S. sanctions against Russia and the Logan Act,
- March 28, 2016 —
- Trump hires Paul Manafort to handle the delegate process on his campaign.
- March 31, 2016 —
- Papadopoulos while introducing himself at a national security meeting says he has Russian connections that could help foster a meeting between “Trump and Putin”. Reportedly Jeff Sessions shuts this suggestion down — which means he knew full well at that time that “Trump surrogates were talking to Russians.” Papadopoulos later says that Sessions was “enthusiastic” about the idea of reaching out to the Russians, he apparently only objects to Trump being in the meeting.
- April 2016 —
- GRU Russian military intelligence also attacks the DNC systems with Fancy Bear. The DNC discovers the intrusion and calls in cyber security firm Crowdstrike to address it, they discover both intrusions, briefly monitor them to confirm their ID, then shut them down.
- About this time Paul Manafort — former advisor to Putin friendly ex-Ukrainian President Yanakovych who has a close associate Konstantin Kilimnik with links to the GRU, and who had previous been paid $Millions to allegedy secretly promote Putin’s agenda by Russian aluminum oligarch Oleg Deripaska and may still owe him $18 Million or more — becomes Trump campaign chairman.
- The Kremlin gives Rep. Dana Rohrabacher instructions to stage a “show trial” in Congress attacking Bill Browder in order to alter the Magnitski Act sanctions on Russia. Rohrabacher is provided a Russian propaganda film against Browder by the Russian Prosecutor Generals Office run by Yuri Chaika, the same person who had jailed Magnitski.
- Papadopoulos sends multiple emails to other members of the campaign about his efforts to “reach out” to the Russian, the responses back are very encouraging. “Great Work, George.”
- DNC subcontractor Perkins Coie picks up the contract for Fusion GPS for Oppo-research on the GOP after it's dropped by Washington Free Bacon, they continue to subcontract to Orbis Government Intelligence the firm operated by former MI-6 Officer Christopher Steele.
- CIA director John Brennan is given a tape of Russians discussing money from the Kremlin going into the Presidential election, which was generated by Estonia, since CIA can not act domestically a task force of six agencies including NSA, FBI, DOJ and Treasury begin looking into the matter.
- April 3, 2016 — the Panama papers are released revealing $3 Billion in shading dealings linked to Vladamir Putin.
- April 11, 2016 — Putin’s “Niece” emails Papadopoulos that she “would be very please to support the initiatives between our two countries.” He emails the professor “This has been already agreed, I’m flying to Moscow on the 18th for a Valdai meeting, plus other meetings at the Duma [Russian Congress]”
- April 18, 2016 — The Professor introduces Papadopoulos to an individual in Moscow with connections to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) — some reports allege this is Sergei Milian, who will be noted as “Source D” in the Steele memos — but ultimately it turns out to be Ivan Timofeev. [Or Timofeyev]
- April 22, 2016 — The MFA connection Timofeev emails Papadopoulos thanks him for an extensive talk, and suggests further meetings in London or Moscow, Papadopoulos responds suggesting meeting in London with the Russian Ambassador.
- April 25, 2016 -— Papadopoulos emails a Trump Senior Policy Advisor that “The Russian government has an open invitation for Putin to meet with Mr. Trump when he’s ready.”
- April 26, 2016
- Professor Mifsud meets with Papadopoulos in London and says that Russia has “thousands of emails” containing “dirt” on Hillary Clinton which indicates he has links to Russian intelligence. He also provides Papdopoulos with a “preview” of what those emails contain. At some point he shares this information with Jeff Sessions who tells Papadopoulos to “find out everything he can” about the emails, instead of reporting that an international cyber crime may have been committed.
- April 27, 2016
- Trump gives his first major foreign policy speech at a Mayflower Hotel event that had been largely arranged by Jeff Sessions Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn, Russian ambassador Kislyak is invited as a special guest, both Trump and Session briefly meet with him at a backstage reception before the speech.
- Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos writes in an email to campaign manager Corey Lewandowsk that he had fielded “a lot of calls over the past month” related to a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russia. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos says in a separate email to Paul Manafort.
- April 30, 2016 — Papadopoulos thanks the Professor via email for his “critical help. This is history in the making.”
- May 2016 —
- May 4th —
- Felix Sater writes to Michael Cohen that he’s heard back from Moscow about his trip for the Tower project. "I had a chat with Moscow . ASSUMING the trip does happen the question is before or after the convention . Obviously the pre - meeting trip (you only) can happen anytime you want but the 2 big guys where [sic] the question . I said I would confirm and revert ." COHEN responded , "My trip before Cleveland. [Trump] once he becomes the nominee after the convention."
- May 5th —
- Felix emails to Cohen: "[Dmitry Peskov] would like to invite you as his guest to the St .Petersburg Forum which is Russia ' s Davos it' s June 16- 19. He wants to meet there with you and possibly introduce you to either [Putin] or [Medvedev] , as they are not sure if 1 or both will be there. He said anything you want to discuss including dates and subjects are on the table to discuss. "
- May 6th -—
- Sater asks for Cohen to confirm his dates for St. Petersburg, he says “Works for me.”
- June 2016 —
- Russian Think Tank controlled by Putin publishes a blue print to use cyber bots, trolls and social media to push anti-Clinton/pro-Trump propaganda to help swing the election.
- Jeff Sessions Chief of staff Rick Dearborn who is an advisor to the Trump campaign writes an email to Lewandowski noting that he’d received an offer from someone referenced as “WV” — who has since been identified as a West Virginian named Rick Clay — to setup a meeting between Trump officials and Putin. [This appears to be the meeting Kushner turned down, but Don Jr. went to with Torshin.]
- Facebook notifies the FBI that they have detected activity by hacker group APT28 (Fancy Bear/GRU), later in the month they again notify the FBI that they’ve detected faked shadow “sock puppet" accounts being used to promote stolen emails and false memes.
- Trump hires Cambridge-Analytica for their data-mining operations and soon after Alexander Nix of CA reaches out to Julian Assange for copies of Hillary’s deleted emails. Steve Bannon is a VP at CA.
- The Kremlin investigation task force applies for a new FISA warrant but is rejected.
- At some point during the month Michael Cohen and Felix Sater continue to discuss efforts to obtain help from the Russian government on the Trump Tower Moscow project. Trump is updated on the current status of this at least 3 times as are members of his family. [Likely Don Jr. and Ivanka who had selected the Architect for the project.]
- June 2, 2016 — Hillary gives a major speech criticizing Trump’s closeness to Russia and Putin accusing him of praising “dictators like Vladimir Putin” and having a “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.”
- June 3, 2016 — Music Promoter Rob Goldstone emails Don Jr, and says he has information from the Russian Government about shady dealings by Hillary and DNC. Don Jr. says “If it's what you say,I Love it” and plans to discuss it further on a phone call and eventually a meeting. [Two years later Michael Cohen will reportedly state that he personally overhead Don Jr. telling Trump about this meeting with others present as he nodded his approval.]
- June 7, 2016 —
- June 9, 2016 —
- Donald Jr, Kushner and Manafort secretly meet with a prominent Russia lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower after (again) being offered “dirt” about the Clinton Campaign and the DNC being funded illegally by a Bill Browder and the Ziff Bros who supposedly dodged Russian taxes [info which seem to have originated with Fusion GPS, likely when they were under contract to Washington Free Beacon]. The information comes through their Miss Universe Moscow partner Aras Agalarov via his son’s Emin’s promoter Rob Goldstone who had received it directly from the “Crown Prosecutor” [actually the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika] of Russia because the Russian Government “supports Trump.” They also discuss the Russian adoption program which had been cancelled in the wake of the Magnitski Act, which is a law that blacklists Russian Human Rights violators. Don Jr. alleged says “Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it,” Junior then ask for financial documents to prove the illegal contributions to Clinton but Veselnitskaya says she doesn’t have those, so Junior abruptly ends the meeting.
- Felix Sater begins sending Michael Cohen forms to fill out for his trip to Russia.
- Later that day Donald tweets for the first time about Clinton’s “33,000 missing emails.”
- June 12, 2016 —
- June 13, 2016 — Trump blames the Pulse attack on Obama’s sympathy with “Radical Islam” and on immigrants even though the shooter was a native born American citizen from New Hyde Park, NY.
- June 14, 2016 -—
- Wapo Reports that the DNC has been hacked by the Russian government, the DNC goes public about the cyber intrusion, confirming Assange’s claim from 2 days previously.
- Goldstone forwarded an CNN story on Russia's hacking of DNC emails to his client, Russian pop star Emin Agalarov, and Ike Kaveladze who was also at the June 9th meeting, describing the news as "eerily weird" given what they had discussed at Trump Tower five days earlier. [Yeah, “weird" ain't it?]
- Sometime around this point Goldstone also emails Trump digital communications director Dan Scavino about creating a page on the Russian social networking site VK, telling him that "Don [Jr.] and Paul [Manafort]" were on board with the idea.
- Cohen tells Sater in the Lobby of Trump Tower that he’s not going to Russia.
- June 15, 2016 —
- Guccifer 2.0 releases the DNC’s opposition research file on Donald Trump — which is the first data dump from the hacks.
- Dana Rohrabacher’s scheduled “show trial” hearing on Bill Browder in opposition to the Magnitski Act is cancelled by his committee chairman.
- Rep. Kevin McCarthy jokes behind scenes that the only people Putin pays are Rohrabacher and Trump.
- June 16, 2016 —
- Guccifer 2.0 uses DCLeaks to reveal the first set of hacked DNC emails, they have Cyrillic characters and Russian urls in their metadata.
- Not long after this Australian officials pass information about Papadopoulos bragging about having “Dirt on Hillary” to their American counterparts. [Something no one in the Trump campaign bothered to do.] This alleged Officially starts the Russia Collusion Investigation which is codenamed: Crossfire Hurricane.
- June 17, 2016 — Putin says the Trump is a “bright” individual.[Actually the word he used translates more accurately into “Colorful”]
- June 19, 2016 —
- June 20, 2016 —
- Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is fired after a controversy where he physically grabbed and yanked a Brietbart reporter away from Trump as she asked a question. At first Corey and the Trump campaign denies it ever happened, but it’s on video — then he claims he would’ve “apologized if he knew she was from Breitbart” but he doesn’t. She files a criminal complaint, but it’s thrown out. Eventually he goes to work for CNN while still being paid by Trump.
- Steele while working on oppo-research for the DNC via Fusion GPS begins writing memos to the FBI, which talks about Trump being compromised by the Russia and includes the fact that the Russian’s have hacked the DNC email system — he doesn’t share this info with Fusion GPS. .
- June 22, 2016 — Trump finally gives his big anti-Clinton speech over a week late, he complains about Benghazi, Free Trade, Temperament and that her “Deleted emails could make her vulnerable to blackmail by hostile states.” He doesn’t mention Russian money going into the DNC.
- June 24, 2016 —
- June 27, 2016 — Bill Clinton meets privately with AG Loretta Lynch on her plane at the Pheonix Airport while they are both their during a layover. Reportedly they discuss family, golf and travel because Lynch used to work for Clinton, but there are calls of “obstruction” and “undue influence” — even though there is absolutely no evidence to that effect — still this meeting eventually causes her to defer any decision on the Clinton email investigation to the FBI.
- July 2016 —
- Business Insider publishes a report on the Kremlin’s Troll army based in St. Petersburg. They pose online as Pro-Trump and Pro-Bernie Americans and incessantly attack Clinton.
- Cyber attacks are also made on the DCCC in order to impact House races in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina.
- U.S. intel intercepts Russian Operatives discussing a request for “Help damaging Clinton’s campaign” from the Trump campaign which mentions Manafort. FBI begins an investigation into this with the Kremlin Investigation task force and applies again for a FISA Warrant which is again rejected.
- Sometime during this month Roger Stone contacted his from Jerome Corsi from Infowars asking him to get in touch with WIkileaks and ask if they had any materials related to the election they hadn’t yet released. Corsi told him this could be subject to investigation and refused, but in fact he did make the contact with a person located in London who could reach Wikileaks. [This contact appears to be Londoner and Trump supporter Ted Malloch.] According to his indictment he also contacts “Senior Members” of Trump's campaign that Wikileaks has info damaging to Hillary.
- July 5, 2016 —
- July 7, 2016 —
- Comey testifies to Congress about Hillary’s server and manages to debunk just about every Right-wing conspiracy about it, she didn’t lie, deliberately violate a subpoena or break State Dept rules because they do allow private email accounts. Also only 3 emails were marked with a (C) for Confidential and two of those were by mistake.
- Manafort sends an email through Kilimnik offering to give his previous Putin supporting benefactor and official Russia government agent — as diplomatic passport holder — Oleg Deripaska a personal status briefing on the Trump campaign in exchange to “get whole” on his outstanding $18-50 Million debt.
- July 10, 2016 — DNC aide Seth Rich is killed on the streets of DC.
- July 13, 2016 — Russia’s SVR Intelligence unit starts the conpiracy theory that Seth Rich was responsible for the DNC email hack.
- July 14, 2016 — Guccifer 2.0 sends Wikileaks a 1GB archive of emails from the DNC and DCCC.
- July 10-18th —
- July 18-21, 2016 —
- The Republican National Convention takes place during which Trump National Security Advisor J.D. Gordon torpedoes a platform plank supporting the arming of Ukrainian rebels against pro-Russian forces, then lies about it.
- Kislyak attends and briefly meets Sessions again at a Heritage Foundation event, as well as Carter Page and J.D. Gordon.
- Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd’s “Lock her up!” chant. “If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today”
- Mike Pence also chants “Lock Her Up” over Hillary’s emails — even though she’s been cleared already — and he himself has AOL for his email for official business as Governor and his account had been hacked.
- Flynn fills out his SF-86 form to reactivate his security clearance related to his being selected by Trump as national security advisor. Flynn fails to include that he had received $530,000 from Turkey or that he had taken another $45,000 from Russia in 2015.
- Carter Page travels to Moscow, approved by Trump Natsec advisor JD Gordon and Corey Lewandowski via email on June 19th, to give several paid speeches. He informs Jeff Sessions of his trip before he goes. While there he later admits he meets the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Andrey Baranov, Rosneft's head of investor relations who tells him of an impending sale of large portion of their stock.
- Steele receives intel that Page also has secret meetings with Russian government oil firm Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin who allegedly offers him broker fees on the sale of 19% of Rosneft stock supposedly as a payoff for influencing Trump to drop sanctions on Russia. He also reports thatPage was also informed by Kremlin Official Igor Divyekin that “Russia had compromising materials on Hillary Clinton” making him the 3rd person in the Trump campaign after Papadopoulos & Don Jr. to be informed of this — yet none of them informed the FBI. Page eventually denies all of this, but then he does admit to Baranov telling him about the Rosneft stock sale which is weird since Rosneft is sanctioned — so what can he legally do with this information?
- July 22, 2016 —
- One day after end of RNC Wikileaks reveals their first set of DNC emails.
- A senior Trump official is then directed to contact Roger Stone about what else Wikileaks might have on Hillary. [Best guess: This is RIck Gates under direction from Manafort who is Stone’s former business partner.]
- Russia Today, Sputnik News, Breitbart and other right-wing outlets begin doing incessant stories about every little negative revelation in them as well as numerous false and inflammatory rumors these are further pushed by bots and trolls on Facebook and Twitter until they trend.
- The FBI begin to look into the Russia hack based on information from Crowdstrike, they don’t get direct access to DNC servers presumably as that would cause them to shutdown their entire email capability in middle of an election until a replacement set of servers could be installed [I sent a question to the DNC’s Deputy Communications Director on this point after we’d discussed some other matters via email and phone, he didn’t respond on this and has since left his position].
- FBI is also looking into links to Trump due to Steele memos and concerns raised by CIA head Brennan.
- Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook points the finger at Russia for the DNC hacks and Don Jr. argues “It just shows you their exact moral compass. I mean, they’ll say anything to be able to win this. I mean, this is time and time again and lie after lie.” He responds to Mook “I can’t think of bigger lies.”
- July 25, 2016 —
- Democratic Convention starts, because of the brouhaha from the Wikileaks email dump, Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigns and Donna Brazille takes over, RT/Sputnik heightened and amplified rumors swirl about the DNC “rigging the Primary” for Clinton and against Sanders.
- Stone contacts Corsi with an email titled “Get to Assange at Ecuadorian embassy and get pending Clinton emails, they deal with Foundation allegedly.” Corsi forwards this to his contact in London [Ted Malloch]
- July 26, 2016 —
- July 27, 2016 — Trump asks Russia to hack and/or release Hillary’s missing emails.
- July 28, 2016 — Sputnik news claims Wikileaks proves the primary and DNC was rigged against Sanders.
- July 31, 2016 —
- Manafort denies that the Trump campaign made any changes to the RNC platform. Various Trump affiliates will repeat these denials 20 more times before finally admitting the truth; Donald personally ordered the change in a meeting with Gordon during the RNC in which Sessions attended. Kilimnik brags that he engineered this change. [If this was done as a pay off to Russia to ensure their continued support in their hacking/propaganda efforts, it proves Donald’s direct involvement in a criminal conspiracy.]
- Stone emails Corsi: “Call me Mon” and says that Corsi’s contact [Malloch] “should see Assange.”
- August 2016 —
- August 2, 2016 —
- Kilimnik again travels to the U.S. and meet with Manafort where they allegedly discuss the DNC hack. That same day Oleg Deripaska’s Gulfstream G550 is spotted on the tarmac in Newark New Jersey. It arrives after midnight and leaves the next day.
- RT goes to the Ecuadorian embassy and interviews Assange. [Later reports are that RT reporter Afshin Rattansi who has had Ted Malloch on his show five times leaks some of the interview to Malloch who then notifies Corsi.]
- Corsi who is on vacation in Europe for his 25th Anniversary responds to Stone via email: “Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.… Time to let more than [Podesta] to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton]. That appears to be the game hackers are now about. Would not hurt to start suggesting HRC old, memory bad, has stroke -- neither he nor she well. I expect that much of next dump focus, setting stage for Foundation debacle.” He and Stone later concoct a cover story about all this.
- August 3, 2016 — Don Jr met at Trump Tower with George Nader who represents the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, along with Erik Prince and social media expert Joel Zamel whose company Psy Group which employs former Israeli spies to discuss ways they could help the Trump campaign using social media which the UAE & Saudis would fund. Junior is reportedly “receptive” but no deal is struck. The meeting is setup by Erik Prince former CEO of Blackwater, giant Christian Supremacist and Mike Pence supporter.
- August 4, 2016 —
- August 5, 2016 — Stone tweets “Hillary lies about Russian Involvement in DNC Hack- Julian Assange is a hero.”
- August 8, 2016 — Roger Stone confirms he is in contact with Wikileaks ”I actually have communicated with Assange. I believe the next tranche of these documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation.”
- August 9, 2016 — Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000.
- August 16, 2016 — Manafort pushes a false RT/Sputnik News story about terrorist sabotage at a NATO base in Turkey. Trump also pushes the same false story.
- August 15, 2016 — Papadopoulos is advised by the Trump Campaign Supervisor (Clovis) to “Make the Trip” to Moscow.
- August 17, 2016 — Trump receives his first classified briefing. Flynn is with him. He his staff are warned that Russians may try to influence them and to report all “suspicious’” contacts. They don’t.
- August 19, 2016 —
- Manafort leaves the Trump campaign amidst allegations that he accepted a $12 Million under-the-table cash payment from his former Putin friendly client, ex-Ukraine President Yanakovych. Pollster Kellyanne Conway, who is a Mercer employee, takes over.
- Credico texts Stone: “I’m going to have Assange on my show next Thursday.”
- August 21, 2016 -— Trump pal Roger Stone tweets “it will soon be the Podestas time in the barrel.” He later claims he was talking about Podesta’s “business dealings” not his email, although Stone had also been sending DM’s to Guccifer 2.0 and the dealings he was referring to were with Podesta’s brother, not John who isn’t associated with that.
- August 23, 2016 — Credico interviews Stone: “You’ve been in touch indirectly with Assange. . . . Can you give us any kind of insight? Is there an October surprise happening?” STONE responded, “Well, first of all, I don’t want to intimate in any way that I control or have influence with Assange because I do not. . . . We have a mutual friend, somebody we both trust and therefore I am a recipient of pretty good information.” [This indicates that Credico isn’t Stone’s source on Wikileaks, it’s Corsi.]
- August 25, 2016 — Assange appears on Credico's radio show for the first time, then texts Stone again: “He didn’t say anything bad we were talking about how the Press is trying to make it look like you and he are in cahoots.”
- August 27, 2016 — Randy Credico texts Roger Stone: “Julian Assange has kryptonite on Hillary”
- September 2016 —
- September 2nd —
- FBI Agent Strzok texts his girlfriend Lisa Page “Potus wants to know everything we’re doing.” — Which since the Hillary case is now closed, is most likely about the Russian hacking case.
- September 4th —
- Later that day Don Jr. Tweets for the first time about Wikileaks claiming “Hillary shared thousands of emails marked ‘C’ for confidential.” [But there were only 3 marked “C” and two were by mistake.]
- Obama meets Putin at a summit and personally tells him to “Cut it out” with the hacking.
- September 7th —
- September 14th —
- September 18th —
- Stone texts Credico: “I am e-mailing u a request to pass on to Assange” Credico responded “Ok,” and added in a later text message, “[j]ust remember do not name me as your connection to Wikileaks you had one before that you referred to.” [Corsi.] Stone later emails Credico a link to a Clinton Foundation story and asks him to ask Assange for “State or HRC emails between August 10-30, 2011.]
- September 19th —
- Flynn and James Woolsey attend a secret meeting with others who discusse “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy [Gulen] away.”
- Peter W. Smith employee Charles “Chuck” Johnson posts an article claiming : “a George Soros-tied PR firm that is launching a website to spread conspiracy theories about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia.” — that site is PutinTrump.org.
- Stone texts Credico to “pass my message to Assange." Credico “I did.” then he emails an attorney link to Assange and blind-copies Stone.
- September 20th —
- Flynn meets with Dana Rohrabacher — “Putin’s favorite congressman” — for an undisclosed reason.
- Wikileaks sends a DM to Trump Junior about the website PutinTrump.org founded by Rob Glaser — which was just mentioned by Chuck Johnson — and gives him what they think is the password and asks him to check it out — He says “Thanks” and emails Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Kushner, telling them WikiLeaks had made contact. Kushner forwards a copy to Hope Hicks [which is the quickest way to have the information shared with Trump]
- September 22nd —
- DCLeaks sends Wikileaks another 1GB archive file of John Podestas emails.
- September 23rd —
- September 30th — Credico texts Stone a picture of himself outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
- October 2016 —
- October 1, 2016 —
- NYTimes publishes a portion of one of Trump’s tax returns.
- Randy Credico texts Roger Stone: ”“big news Wednesday . . . now pretend u don’t know me… Hillary's campaign will die this week.”
- October 2, 2016 —
- Roger Stone tweets about an impending big dump of Clinton info from Wikileaks on Tuesday, but Assange canceled and moved it to Wednesday due to “security concerns.”
- October 3, 2016 —
- Wikileaks DMs Junior again “Hiya, it’d be great if you guys could comment on/push this story,” WikiLeaks suggested, attaching a quote which is questionably sourced from then-Democratic by Hillary Clinton about wanting to “just drone” WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.
- Junior responds 90 minutes later “Already did that earlier today, It’s amazing what she can get away with.” 2 mins later he asks “What’s behind this Wednesday leak I keep reading about?” that Stone and others had mentioned.
- Stone emails a Trump campaign member: “Spoke to my friend in London last night. The payload is still coming.”
- Brietbart Editor Matthew Boyle emails Stone to ask about the upcoming Wikileaks dump, about which Assange has a press conference scheduled for Wednesday (Oct 5th). “Assange — what’s he got? Hope it’s good”. Stone replies that “It is. I’d tell Bannon but he doesn’t call me back.” Boyle forwards this to Bannon with “You should call Roger. See below. You didn’t get from me.”
- October 4, 2016 —
- Guccifer 2.0 Post documents stolen from the Clinton Foundation.
- Bannon emails back to Boyle “I've got important stuff to worry about.” And Boyle responds “Well clearly he knows what Assange has. I’d say that’s important.”
- October 5, 2016 —
- Buzzfeed reports that Trump financial attorneys regularly meet with him in pairs. “...It’s always been our practice to make sure two people are present, and we don’t have a problem of people lying.” and “We tried to do it with Donald always if we could because Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory.”
- Hacker Yevgenly Nikulin, a Russian citizen, is arrested in a restaurant in Prague shortly after arriving in the city during a holiday with his girlfriend. Nikulin is alleged to have stolen 115 Million passwords from LinkedIn, Formsping and other hacks of online money transfer services, one of the sites he allegedly hacked, was the platform used for sexting by Anthony Weiner,
- Assange does a press teleconference with reporters in Berlin and claims that he has more material that will impact the U.S. elections, but he doesn’t actually release the information like he had promised.
- Bannon emails Stone “What was that this morning???” and asks if Assange cut a deal with the Clintons. Stones responds that Assange is afraid that he’s going to be killed, but that he’ll be releasing “a load every week going forward.” Then Stone says he’s raised $140k for a “black digital campaign” through a 501(c4) and asks Bannon for contributions from Breitbart owner Rebecca Mercer essentially in exchange for insider info he’s providing on Assange.
- The Trump campaign member also emails Stone with questions about what Assange has.
- October 7, 2016 —
- October 9, 2016 — Media Matters David Brock offers to pay the $5 Million “NDA Leak Fee” to access the behind the scenes Apprentice Tapes which accord to former producer Bill Pruitt feature Trump making multiple racist and vile comments.
- October 10, 2016 —
- October 11, 2016 — Trump uses false talking points from RT to blame HIllary for Benghazi. He says “I hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks. She is unfit to run.”
- October 12, 2016 —
- Wikileaks DMs Junior “Hey Donald, great to see you and your dad talking about our publications! Strongly suggest your dad tweets this link if he mentions us.” And gives him a link to wlsearch.tk where their info can be easily searched. They also mention that part 4 of the Podesta emails have dropped.
- 15 Mins later Trump tweets “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!”
- October 14, 2016 -—
- October 20, 2016 —
- The Kremlin investigation task force files a third application for a FISA Warrant looking at Russian banks, Carter Page, Manafort who has a residence in Trump Tower and one other Trump associate [likely Papadopoulos]. This one is approved.
- October 21, 2016 —
- Hillary Clinton states during a debate that 17 Intelligence Agencies have confirmed Russia’s attempt to influence the election. Trump denies it, says “nobody knows” and it could be “China, North Korea or a 300lbs. Fat Guy.” which is also a Sputnik News Talking point.
- Wikileaks DMs Junior “Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns.” arguing that it would make them look more “credible” if they provided info on Trump like the NYTimes as well as on Hillary. “What we’ve published about Hillary will have more impact if it’s not seen as coming from pro-Trump, pro-Russian sources.” [Which means they’re pro-Trump and pro-Russian.]
- October 23, 2016 —
- October 25, 2016 — Agent Strzok writes a draft letter about the Abedine Emails strongly supporting analyzing them and potentialy re-opening the Hillary case, but he expresses concern to Lisa Page about Comey making this too public. They both also discuss multiple leaks they suspect are coming from the NY FBI Office formerly headed by Rudy Giuliani’s pal Jim Kallstrom.
- October 27, 2016 — Rudy Giuliani admits on Fox that he knew about the Comey letter from “former FBI agents” [pals of Kallstrom?] before it was sent to Congress and leaked.
- October 28, 2016 — James Comey sends the Strzok letter to congress about the Abedin emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop several weeks earlier — it gets leaked almost immediately, presumably by Jason Chaffetz’s office. All hell breaks lose, Clinton drops 3-5% in the polls.
- October 30, 2016 —
- November 6, 2016 — FBI finds that virtually all of the Abedin emails are duplicates that they already had in their possession from the Clinton server. [Abedin and Chelsea both had their own accounts on that server.]
- November 7, 2016 — 19.5% of Rosneft is sold to
unknown buyers the Qatar Sovereign Investment Fund (QIA) operated by Ahmed al-Rumahai [This seem to be consistent with the Steele Memo which predicted this sale as an payoff to Trump for lifting sanctions on Russia]
- November 8, 2016 —
- November 9, 2016 — Wikileaks proclaims that Trump won because Democrats rigged the system to have Clinton beat Sanders.
- November 10, 2016 —
- November 11, 2016 —
- November 12, 2016 — Lewandowski quits CNN to work for Trump again.
- November 28, 2016 — In an interview with Time magazine, Trump denies interference from Russia. “I don’t believe they interfered,” he said. “That became a laughing point, not a talking point, a laughing point. Any time I do something, they say ‘oh, Russia interfered.'” He also addressed the hacking: “It could be Russia. And it could be China. And it could be some guy in his home in New Jersey”
- November 30, 2016 — The Justice Department informs Flynn that he is under investigation for his unreported lobbying on behalf of Turkey.
- November —
- December —
- December 1, 2016 —
- Flynn meets with Kislyak at Trump Tower along with Jared Kushner. Kushner suggests setting up a secure back-channel back to the Kremlin using Russian facilities that could “bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy.”. Kislyak is reportedly “taken aback”. They also suggest having an overseas meeting but Flynn is considered too high profile to attend.
- Both Flynn and Kushner don’t include these meetings on their security clearances forms and are at risk of Logan Act violations if these meetings are intended to undermine current U.S Foreign policy as both are private citizens at this point. Kushner later includes the meetings on future updates.
- NSA discovers the details of this meeting while surveiling Kislyak as he communicates with Moscow.
- At Kislyak’s suggestion, Kushner later meets with banker and FSB Academy graduate Sergei Gorkov who is head of Moscow based government owned bank Vnesheconombank (VEB), which funds special projects like the Sochi Olympics and Trump Tower in Toronto and included Russian SVR intelligence officer Evgeny Buryakov on it’s payroll, who was convicted in March 2016 by Preet Bharara of conspiracy in the case involving the attempted cultivation of Carter Page as an Russian asset. Gorkov is also former deputy board chairman of Russia largest state-owned bank, Sberank, whom had hired Trump’s attorney’s Marc Kasowitz to defend it.
- December 8, 2016 — Page is back in Moscow to meet with “business leaders and thought leaders”
- December 9, 2016 —
- December 12, 2016 -—
- December 13, 2016 —
- December 16, 2016 — Wikileaks DMs Junior and suggests that the incoming Trump Admin make Julian Assange — who has been trapped in an embassy in Britain for 5 years due to his outstanding rape case in Sweden — Australian ambassador to the U.S.
- December 20, 2016 -— Jared Kushner brags to Forbes magazine about the data-mining and voter micro-targeting operation he helped setup for the Trump campaign with Cambridge-Analytica which is owned by deep pocketed Trump pal Robert Mercer, who also bankrolls Breitbart News.
- December 21, 2016 —
- Lewandowski doesn’t get rehired by Trump, starts a lobbying firm.
- Egypt submits a UN resolution on the Israeli settlements. “A very senior member” of Trump’s transition team [Kushner] “instructs” Flynn to “contact officials from foreign government, including Russia, to learn where each government stood on the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution.” — [Yet, another Logan Act violation]
- December 22, 2016 —
- December 23, 2016 —
- December 29, 2016 —
- December 30, 2016 —
- December 31, 2016 —
- Kislyak calls Flynn and tells him Russia “would not escalate their response” to the newly imposed Sanctions. Flynn reports this back to Mar-A-Lago.
- January 5th —
- January 6th —
- U.S. Intel agencies publish their report on the Russia Cyber efforts to influence the election. Obama, Biden and Trump are briefed on the report, Trump claims it proves Russia didn’t “change the vote” even though the report doesn’t attempt to answer that question.
- January 9th— Michael Cohen meets personally in Trump Tower with Russian Oligarch Victor Vekselberg chairman of investment firm Renova Group. They will again meet during the Inauguration.
- January 10th —
- January 11th —
- January 12th —
- January 13th —
- Comey briefs congress behind closed doors in a classified setting but refuses to confirm that there is an investigation of Russia and links to the Trump campaign.
- Jerome Corsi begins to delete his emails prior to October 11th, including those with Roger Stone, and what he had forward from Stone to his contact in London.
- January 14th — Reports surface that U.S. Intel agents have warned our allies like Israel not to share sensitive intel with Trump transition team due to the Steele dossier and the risk he might share it with Russia and hence their ally Iran.
- January 15th —
- January 16 — Anthony Scaramucci also meets with Kirill Dimitriev — who he’s known for years in his capacity as a private investor — on setting up joint business projects between the US and Russia and is interviewed by Bloomberg about it the next day.
- January 18th — Micheal Flynn and House Intel Chair Devin Nunes meet secretly with the Turkish Foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
- January 20th — Inauguration day.
- Flynn texts his business partners on the Saudi Nuclear Power Plant deal with Rosatom that “we’re good to go” several minutes into the ceremony and that it’s priority of the Trump administration to dump sanctions on Russia. Michael Cohen meets Vekselberg again.
- January 21st —
- January 22nd — Comey attends an event honoring Law Enforcement at the WH, tries to avoid being noticed by Trump, but fails.
- January 23rd —
- Spicer claims Flynn didn’t talk to Kislyak about sanctions, even though he did. He says their discussion was a “Holiday Call.”
- Later Mike Pence goes on Meet the Press after talking personally to Flynn and claims “Flynn told me he didn’t talk to Russia about sanctions.”
- January 24th — Flynn interviewed by FBI, again he apparently says he didn’t talk to Russians about sanctions but they know better. He also claims that he didn’t get any foreign money and the $45k and $530k came from “U.S. companies” having omitted the true information on his SF-86 Security form.
- January 26th —
- January 27th —
- Trump signs a travel ban against 7 majority Muslim nations.
- FBI interviews Papadopoulos about his contacts with Russians he falsely states the professor is “unimportant” when in fact he has close ties to the Kremlin, and falsely claims that their conversations took place before he was part of the campaign. He also lies about the MFA connection and Putin’s “Niece”. Reportedly he does this because “Trump denied all contacts with Russians” and George didn't want him to look bad.
- McGahn calls Yates, she returns to the WH where he asks “why does it matter to the DOJ if Flynn lied to Pence?”
- Trump invites Comey to dinner at the White House, allegedly asks Comey if he wants to “keep his job” and to pledge him his “Loyalty”, Comey offers his “Honesty” and takes copious notes.
- Kremlin arrests FSB officials Sergei Mikhailov, his deputy Dmitry Dokuchaev, and Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Labs (who had paid Flynn $11,500 in 2015) for treason and illegal hacking apparently for sharing intel information with the CIA.
- January 29th —
- January 30th — Sally Yates orders the DOJ not to defend Trump's Muslim ban executive order in court as she doubts it is legal or constitutional.
- January 31st --
- February 2nd —
- February 3rd —
- February 6th —
- Februray 7th -— Sens. Cardin and Graham — alerted by Fried and Malinowski at State of Trump efforts to scrap sanctions -— author bipartisan legislation to require the approval of Congress for all changes to sanctions.
- February 8th — Washington posts asks Flynn if he discussed sanctions with Russia, he says “No” twice.
- February 9th —
- Flynn’s spokesman issues a correction to Wapo that he “doesn’t remember” if he did or didn’t discuss sanctions.
- Trump talks to Putin by phone and criticizes Obama’s Start II Nuclear deal with Russia. Flynn is there for the call.
- Judge Robart’s national block of the Muslim Ban is upheld by the 9th Circuit
- February 10th — Trump is asked about Flynn talking to Russians about sanctions and says “This is the first time I’ve heard that.” Note: He had already been personally told about this by White House Counsel McGahn immediately after he was told by Yates on Jan 26th.
- February 12th — Reports emerge that the Intel agencies are considering holding back highly sensitive intel from Trump to prevent leaks to Russia.
- February 13th — Flynn is fired immediate after Wapo report proving that he lied, allegedly he’s let go because he lied to Vice President Pence and caused him to be embarrassed about what he said on Meet the Press. WH secret push to cut sanctions goes continues without him.
- February 14th —
- Comey & Sessions meet Trump in the Oval for a counter-terrorism briefing. Trump clears the room and gets Comey alone to complain about leaks asking him to prosecute some reporters over it and ask if he can just “Let Flynn go” Comey interprets the request to only be about Flynn not the Russia investigation, Comey notes this and discusses it with FBI leadership.
- The NYTimes reports that Trump aids (including Flynn, Manafort and Page) had repeated contacts with Russian Intelligence according to the NSA and that the FBI had requested they “collect as much information as possible about the Russian operatives on the phone calls” and go through their archives for more information.
- February 15th —
- Intel Agencies with access to foreign intercepts say “Trump Will Die in Jail.”
- Comey later asks Sessions not to leave him alone with Trump again as it’s inappropriate. Comey’s memory of the event is hazy, but he states later Sessions doesn’t really respond. [During later testimony Session claims he repeated back basic DOJ protocols to Comey, which doesn’t answer his concern over why Sessions failed to follow protocol in the first place the previous day.]
- February 16th —
- CBS reports that Trump screamed at CIA Director Pompeo over reports that Intel is being withheld from him because of fears he might leak it to Russia.
- Pompeo denies any intel is being withheld from Trump, which doesn’t mean some intel isn’t being withheld from Pompeo.
- Trump rage tweets that “Russia” is a made up story by Democrats as an excuse for losing the election.
- House Democrats submit bill to prevent removal of Russia sanctions without Congress approval.
- Papadopoulos is interviewed for the second time by the FBI with a lawyer present and repeats all of his previous misstatements from his previous interview.
- February 17th —
- Trump calls the Press the “Enemies of the American People.”
- Papadopoulos deletes his Facebook account which mentions all his contacts with Russians and creates a brand new account.
- Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser visits Jullian Assange to discuss the election results.
- February 21st — Artemenko talks to a Ukrainian News outlet and reveals that he’s known Michael Cohen for some time since Cohen has an ethanol business in the country. According to Artemenko, he discussed the “peace-plan” with Cohen and Sater “at the time of the primaries, when no one believed that Trump would even be nominated.”
- February 25th — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — who began his carrier with the New York Field Office while Trump surrogate Giuliani was Mayor — goes to the White House and in direct violation of DOJ protocols buttonholes Reince Prebus to tell him the NYT article on contacts “Is Bullshit.” [Later reporting seems to hint that the FBI’s objection to the report is the claim that certain contacts were confirmed as part of “Russian Intelligence”, not that the contacts didn’t happen because those were confirmed by James Clapper.]
- February 26th —
- Preibus calls McCabe back and asks him to inform the Press about this as an “anonymous source”, he refuses.
- Preibus call his pals Devin Nunes Chairman of the House intelligence committee and Richard Burr Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee who are each former Trump surrogates who are heading up investigations of “Russia” — they do it for him.
- Former Bush Ethics Atty Richard Painter files a complaint with Government Ethics Office that James Comey violated the Hatch Act by publicly disclosing unsubstantiated information about Abedine’s emails prior to the election.
- February 28th — Trump who had essentially called Hillary a “murderer” over Benghazi blames the Generals and Obama for death of a Navy Seal in Yemen during a raid he himself authorized.
- March 1 —
- it’s discovered that Sessions met with Kislyak twice, in July at the RNC which he attended as a Trump surrogate along with Carter Page and JD. Gordon and in September in his Senate Offices. Nobody notices that he also met him in April at the Mayflower Hotel.
- Sen. Franken asks for Sessions to come back to the Senate to explain, he declines and sends a letter which claims he didn’t understand the question he was asked and didn’t think he was “acting as a surrogate” when he met Kislyak.
- March 2 — 100 Democrats demand that Jeff Sessions resign as Attorney General. He doesn’t.
- March 4 —
- March 5th —
- March 6th -- Trump issues a revised Muslim travel ban, which no longer blocks immigrants and refugees from Iraq.
- March 7th —
- House Intel committee invites Sally Yates and James Comey to testify about Michael Flynn and Russia.
- Michael Hayden denies Trump’s Wiretapped by Obama claims.
- Sen. Franken says Session committed perjury.
- The Guardian reports that SLC Group and Cambridge Analytica’s methods of generating micro-targeted alt-news webiverse using data provided by AggregateIQ were used to meddle in the Brexit Vote to encourage “voter disengagement” and “to persuade Democrat voters to stay at home”:
- March 8th —
- March 10 —
- Sean Spicer confirms that they were informed about Flynn’s ties to Turkey downplaying it as “not a question of it raising a red flag.”
- Pence — who was head of the Trump Transition Team who were informed about this by Rep. Cummings and Flynn’s lawyers specifically — is also asked about Flynn receiving payments from Turkey and answers “This is the first I’ve heard of it...” (Uh, then how does Spicey know about it?)
- March 11th —
- March 15th --
- March 17th —
- Spicer blames GCHQ for Obama wiretaps of Trump tower.
- GCHQ denies it and demands an apology. Doesn’t get one, until later.
- Even with Flynn fired for lying about discussing sanctions sometime during the later part of the month members of the NSC email the State dept asking if sanctions on Russian Oil could be lifted which would have allowed the Exxon/Rosneft deal to go forward, State informs them this would be bad of U.S. oil companies and also bad to drop the sanctions without getting anything in return.
- March 20th —
- March 21st —
- March 22nd —
- March 24th — Forbes reports that Eric Trump admits to continuing to share quarterly financial reports on his father’s business with Trump in the White House in a direct violation of ethics rules and potentially the emoluments clause.
- March 28th — Yates testimony is cancelled.
- March 30th —
- Micheal Flynn asks for immunity in order to testify to congress. Congress declines.
- Former FBI agent Clint Watts testifies to Senate Intel that we need to “Follow the Money” and that there are “A lot of dead Russians” in this scandal.
- Trump calls Comey to ask why he’d testified to congress about Russia, to complain about the “Cloud over his head” in relation to the Russia investigation and how Comey can “lift that cloud” by getting out the word that he isn’t personally under investigation. Comey calls Acting Deputy AG Dana Boente — who is running the investigation — to follow up on that.
- Trump also questions the loyalty of Deputy FBI Director McCabe since his wife had run for office and received money from a Terry McAuillif fundraiser where Hillary Clinton had appeared.
- March 31st —
- April 4h —
- April 6th — Nunes recuses himself from House Russia investigation. House Ethic Committee begins an investigation into Nunes’ handling of classified documents.
- April 7th — Nunes is recorded at a fundraiser claiming that Democrats don’t really want a Russia investigation. “Why do they want an independent commission? Because they want to continue the narrative that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are best friends, and that’s the reason that he won, because Hillary Clinton could have never lost on her own; it had to be someone else’s fault.”
- April 11th —
- Trump calls Comey for an update on efforts to “get the word out” on his not being under investigation personally. He says he contacted Boente but hadn’t heard anything back yet, and that WH Counsel should make the request which would be procedure. Trump says he’s been “loyal” and mentions we had “that thing” which baffles Comey. This is his last conversation with Trump.
- April 12th —
- April 13th — GCHQ and others say they have incidental SIGINT of Trump team members “Coordinating” with Russian Intelligence agents.
- April 19th —
- April 21st — Exxon/Mobil’s sanctions waiver is denied.
- April 24th — Charles Kushner meets at the St. Regis Hotel in New York with Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi in an effort to have them invest in their property at 666 5th Avenue, but they refuse.
- April 25th —
- Rep. Chaffetz and Cummings holds a joint press conference where they accuse Flynn of breaking the law by accepting foreign payments without Pentagon permission.
- Trump calls Flynn and tells him to “Stay Strong.”
- April 27th —
- April 28th — Chaffetz quits congress. Then decides to stay while he still has Obamacare to get surgery for his pre-existing foot condition. The Guardian reports that Montana GOP candidate Gianforte has financial ties to sanctioned Russian companies including Rosneft.
- May 1st —
- May 2nd —
- May 3rd —
- Sean Spicers states Trump “has full confidence” in FBI Director James Comey.
- May 4th —
- May 5th —
- May 7th —
- May 8th —
- Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Intel committee that she was “Very Seriously Concerned" about Flynn when she went to White House to warn them about his communications with Kislyak.
- James Clapper also testifies and clarifies his prior statement that he was never informed by the FBI about their investigation into Trump/Russia connections.
- Stephen Miller drafts a multi-page letter detailing a long list of complaints about Comey including the Russia problem and his failure to say Trump isn’t under investigation to justify his being fired, WH Counsel McGahn says the letter is “problematic” and it get spiked. Pence, Kushner, Priebus and Hope Hicks are present for this meeting.
- Trump meets with Rosenstein and asks his recommendation on Comey, Rosenstein drafts his own document criticizing Comey for his handling of the Clinton investigation, Sessions signs off on it.
- May 9th —
- Comey is fired by Trump, the administration claims it’s because of a recommendation by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein based on Comey’s treatment of the Clinton email investigation which is still being analyzed by the DOJ inspector General. They don’t give Comey a heads up on the phone, they send a Trump’s personal bodyguard to his offices with a letter while Comey was at the Los Angeles field offices greeting new recruits and finds out by reading the chyron on the TV screens behind him.
- Trump calls now Acting FBI Director McCabe to his office and asks who he voted for in the election, he says he didn’t vote [but he’s a Registered Republican & did vote in the primary]. Then he complain about his wife’s politics because she had for state office as a Democrat in 2015.
- Kushner reportedly supports the firing saying it would be a “political win”. Peibus and Bannon are against it saying it will cause a “political firestorm.” [Guess who’s right about that?]
- Spicer hides in the Bushes to avoid WH Press corp asking about Comey firing while Huckabee-Sanders pushes hard that this was all Rosenstein because of Comey’s “atrocities” against Clinton.
- VP Pence echoes the “Rosenstein did it” line even though he was at the Miller letter meeting and knows better.
- Everyone ignores that Sessions also signed off on this and he was supposed to be “recused" from it. Nobody believes Trump fired Comey because he was mean to Hillary. Nobody notices this is just one day after Yates testimony about Flynn.
- Reports come out that a Grand Jury has subpeoned financial information connected to Michael Flynn.
- May 10th —
- May 11th —
- Trump calls Roger Stone to tell him “Good Job.”
- White House spokesperson Huckabee-Sanders openly admits that Comey was fired to “bring the Russia matter to a conclusion”, later that day Trump admits on CBS News to Lester Holt that he was going to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein’s recommendation and he was thinking about the “made up Russia story” when he did it, although he also says he knew that “it would lengthen the investigation.” This indicates IMO that he did it mostly because Comey wouldn’t publicly clear him of being linked to the Russia investigation. He also admits that he let Kislyak & Lavrov into the oval office because “Putin asked him to.”
- Senate Intel committee subpoenas Flynn financial documents.
- Acting FBI Director McCabe testifies that morale inside the agency was high under Director Comey, but he can not confirm details of any private conversations between Trump and Comey, or that Comey requested “more resources” for the Russia investigation.
- NYTimes reports, based on comments shared with his friends, about Comey being asked to a private dinner with Trump and asked to “pledge his loyalty.”
- May 12th —
- May 13th — Trump frustrated with Spicer & Huckabee-Sanders hints he might cut them both out of the loop between him and press.
- May 15th —
- Comey wakes up early that morning and realizes he may have some corroboration for his conversations with Trump, he contacts a friend at Columbia Law School and has him share some of his memos with the press.
- Trump’s leak of classified data to Russia is revealed.
- Flynn’s replacement as National Security Advisor Gen. McMaster claims there’s nothing wrong with the leak because no “sources or methods” were revealed.
- Israel who happens to be one of the sources is pissed their asset may be now at risk.
- The money laundering case which had previous been handled by Preet Bharara is abruptly settled fueling rumors that it’s former targets may have now become FBI informants.
- Lewandowski resigns from his lobbying firm because he sucks at it, he never officially registers as a lobbyist.
- Senate contacts FinCEN for docs on Trump and his associate’s financial transactions.
- May 16th —
- The Comey Memos are revealed in the NYTimes documenting how Trump attempted to impact the Flynn investigation hinting at potential obstruction of justice.
- Chaffetz’s tweets “I have my subpeona pen ready” to get the memos. McCarthy and Ryan both say they’re fine with a subpoena.
- Breitbart and RW Media respond to the “code word” classified leak by claiming it’s merely a "smear campaign by the Deep State” against Trump, recycling the Seth Rich conspiracy and claiming “Obama and Biden blurted out classified info too” even though they didn't.
- WH interviews former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a candidate to once again take back his old job.
- Oleg Deripaski sues the AP for their reporting on his links to Paul Manafort denying he paid him to work to “advance Putin’s interests” in 2005.
- May 17th —
- May 18th —
- May 19th — Jared Kushner named as “person of interest" in Trump investigation.
- May 20th — Trump makes his first trip overseas and his first stop is Saudi Arabia, where he works to secure a $110 Billion arms deal, dances with swords and an orb.
- May 22nd —
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- May 27, 2017 —
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- May 30th —
- Sen. Al Franken “We should look at revoking Kushner’s security clearance”
- Katrina Pierson [on Fox] calls for WH shake up to punish leakers.
- Kellyanne Conway [on Fox]: “Kushner was right to setup back channel with Russia.” She refuses to comment about his meeting Gorkov, and blows off the departure of WH Communications Director Mike Dubke that morning.
- Cohen becomes target of Congressional probe, and turns down their request for documents and testimony for being “poorly worded.”
- House Intel sends request for documents to former Trump campaign and WH communications office member Brian Ephsteyn.
- Senate committee votes unanimously to grant Chairman Burr subpoena powers.
- CNN reports US Intel had recorded Russian government officials discussing having “derogatory financial information” on Trump and his associates during the campaign, and that they could use it to “influence” him.
- Trump hints to confidants he intends to leave the Paris Climate Accords.
- Hannity while still “on vacation” from FOX starts again with the Seth Rich bullpuckey and then begins targeting Rachel Maddow advertisers with a group called “Stop the Scalpings” and “Operation Fight With Fire!” Cuz, of course he does.
- Cummings sends letter to Rogers and Coats for “all documents, communications, memoranda, notes, and recordings” they may have from their conversations with Trump regarding the Russia investigation.
- House Intel issues subpoena to Michael Cohen.
- Putin echoes Trump and Nunes saying the Russia investigation is “Fiction” driven by a “desire of those who lost the U.S. elections to improve their standing by accusing Russia of interfering.” Yeah, well, it’s certainly kicking butt on RottenTomatoes.com.
- Flynn agrees to provide some documents to the Senate Intel panel after having previously refused a subpoena and requesting immunity before testifying.
- Spicer argues the Trump WH is frustrated by “Fake News” like his not wearing his translation earpiece, even tho that reporter corrected his mistake.
- AP reports that while in Europe Trump handed out the personal unsecured cell phone number to world leaders for them to call him.
- Ex-GOP Senator Tom Cotton says 75% of Scientists this “Climate Change is a Hoax”.
- May 31st —
- Breitbart & Washington Examiner posts a Carter Page letter which suggests he is a “whistleblower” in a supposed Obama/Hillary plot to falsely link Trump to Russia eager to inform congress of his “discoveries” and claims he’s is being “rejected/ignored”, while in reality plans for his testimony are ongoing.
- Trump Tweets in support of bogus Page-blower nonsense.
- House Intel panel subpoenas Michael Flynn.
- House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes, despite his “recusal”, issues his own independent subpoenas on “unmasking” without consulting with Democrats on the committee.
- Kushner’s uncle is second member of his klan found hawking the association with Jared and Trump to Chinese investors.
- CNN drops Kathy Griffin over her tasteless severed Trump head prank. Griffin apologizes 8 hours later, those expecting an apology for Trump’s birtherism, verbal assault on the Khan family, questioning John McCain’s service, accusing Ted Cruz’s father of being the accomplice of an assassin and “Grab ‘em by the Pussy”… are still waiting.
- Don Trump Jr. falsely criticizes Griffin and “the left” by saying Conservatives “Weren’t rude to Obama.” [Yeah, like they never burned and hung him in effigy, dressed him as a fictional mass murdering clown, as a marxist witch doctor or said he didn’t earn his slot into Harvard, was a secret illegal immigrant born in another country who falsified his birth certificate and wasn’t smart enough to actually write his own books. Unlike Donald Sr. or Jared Kushner, of course.]
- Reports surface confirming that Trump will drop out of Paris accords.
- Elon Musk threatens to ditch Trump’s business panel if he drops out of the accords.
- CNN reports that Comey intends to confirm the “loyalty oath”, that he was pressured to drop the Flynn investigation and other allegations against Trump in open testimony before congress.
- Olbermann: “There is no excuse for not arresting Kushner”
- Head of DOJ Fraud Unit joins Mueller Investigation.
- Press asks Spicer why Trump wasn’t offended when Ted Nugent threatened President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s life, and then later invited him to dinner at the White House. Spicey doesn’t bite.
- Spicey punts all questions on Russia and Flynn to “outside counsel” and says there are a couple people who do understand what “Covfefe” means.
- Google translate proves “Covfefe” doesn’t mean “I Will Stand Up" in arabic.
- Hillary Clinton tweets “People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe.”
- CNN finally notices that Kislyak had a 3rd meeting with Session at Trump’s national security speech, they also notice that from the stage, with Kislyak in the audience he promised Russia a “great Deal.”
- Trump signals that he’s going to give Russia back the 2 spy compounds that Obama took from them in retaliation for election meddling, in exchange for access to some land in St. Petersburg for a new consulate.
- Olbermann, based on analysis by national security analyst Juliette Kayyem begins to talk about the possibility that Flynn has flipped and is cooperating with Mueller, largely because so little is coming about about Flynn and so much about Kushner.
- ABC news reports that Carter Page may have flipped and began cooperating with House intel inquiry.
- Hillary Clinton while at an event in CA explains that the link of collusion between Trump and Russia may run through the voter micro-targeting project set up by Kushner using resources provided by Robert Mercer’s Cambridge Analytics.
- Melania question Kathy Griffin’s mental health over bloody mask prank, nobody does the same for her staying in a marriage with a repeatedly admitted sexual predator.
- Several law professors point out the Trump/Russia collusion would be illegal as violations Campaign Finance Laws, Fraud, Public Corruption and coercion of federal elections.
- CNN reporters attempt to confront Gorkov, he backs off with no comment.
- Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker reports about Trump’s “Good Job” call to Roger Stone.
- Saudi lobbying firm MSLGroup files paperwork showing they have spent $270,000 for “Lodging ($190k), Catering ($78k) and Parking ($1.9k)” at Trump’s DC Hotel in the last 6 months.
- June 1st —
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- EPA head Pruitt — following the lead of Spicer — refuses to answer question of whether Trump still thinks global warming is a “hoax”.
- Duetsche Bank refuses to respond to inquiry from Democrats on House Finance Committee.
- Trump criticizes London Mayor Sadiq Khan for saying there’s “No reason for concern” in the wake of truck attack, when he was really talking about not being concerned about increased police presence.
- June 5th —
There’s another Timeline at BillMoyers.com and one by the Washington Post.
