This weeks incremental update on the Master Trump Russia Corruption Timeline Vol 4. centers around the new revelation that as a result of Chuck Grassley and Devin Nunez attempts to force a situation where Fusion GPS has revealed that the DNC and Clinton campaign paid them for opposition research while they were subcontracting Christopher Steele as he worked on his analysis of Russia and Trump connections which has made Donald Trump practically giddy, however they seem to magically forget that a Republican donor — whose ID remains undisclosed — had also been paying Fusion GPS prior to April 2016.
The interesting thing is that Steele had already been working on this subject prior to Fusion GPS changing clients and that neither Clinton nor the DNC was even aware of Steele’s investigation and didn’t receive a report on it. Hillary herself didn’t even know about it or read until it was posted on Buzzfeed because what everyone has been calling a “dossier” was really a series of short memos to the FBI that Steele was writing about what he was discovering because he was so seriously alarmed by it. The FBI had even offered to start paying Steele themselves in September, but when they didn’t seem to be taking him seriously enough particularly in the New York FBI Field Office which has ties to Trump surrogate Rudy Giulianni — who was the former Mayor and US Attorney for that district — then significantly undermined the Clinton campaign with the Abedine email investigation on October 26th, Steele shared his memos with David Corn at Mother Jones who wrote about it on October 31st, at which point the FBI backed out of their offer.
Eventually Britain's former Ambassador to Russia, Andrew Wood, who had worked closely with Steele when he was with MI-6 and the official handler for former Russian FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium-210 in 2006 after he defected to England, used a back channel to bypass the stonewalling from the New York FBI by sending a copy of Steele’s memos to John McCain who personally put them in the hands of James Comey in December.
Besides ignoring that Fusion GPS was originally working for a Republican , GOPers also ignore that quite of bit of the Steele’s memos have been proven correct, despite the denials by Carter Page and MIchael Cohen.
Before it was common knowledge that Natalia Veselnitskaya had met with Don Jr. Kushner and Manafort or that Trump had attempted 3 times to put together a Trump Tower Moscow deal — including one last attempt during the campaign where Trump ally Felix Sater stated “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected... “ — Steele wrote in his June 20 Memo that the Kremlin has been feeding opposition intel about Clinton to Trump and his people for years, and that they had been cultivating him as as asset for that entire time, which is something they had also attempted with Carter Page twice and succeeded at with Paul Manafort who spent several years on Putin’s payroll pushing his agenda internationally being paid or loaned nearly $100 Million via Putin’s close ally Oleg Derapaska over the coarse of several few years, and that Manafort personally offered to brief Derapaska on the status of the Trump campaign right about the time of the Convention, or that Manafort was mentioned as “asking for Help with defeating Hillary Clinton” by Russia agents under surveillance after the Veselnitskaya meeting, but before the major DNC email dumps via Wikileaks began.
In his July 19th memo he wrote that the Kremlin was behind the hack of the DNC emails, which hadn’t yet been disclosed publicly. That same memo notes that Trump had agreed to sidline intervention in the Russia/Ukraine issue, which was one day after the RNC plank supporting arming the Ukrainians against Russia was blocked by Trump surrogate J.D. Gordon who lied about it for weeks until finally admitting it was Trump’s idea. It was also before Michael Cohen and Felix Sater tried to present a “peace deal” to Michael Flynn that would have allowed for Russian sanctions over Crimea and the Ukraine to be lifted, as well as several times WH staff attempted almost immediately to have Russian sanctions lifted, only to be stymed by the State Dept and Congress. Also Trump has missed the deadline to begin implementing the new Russia sanctions that Congress recently just passed showing a continuing pattern of trying to financially benefit Russia even though they committed a major cybercrime against the U.S. election systems — something that could arguably be considered being an accomplice after the fact to their crime.
Steele’s October 18th memo mentions that Russian Oil magnate Igor Sechin had offered Carter Page part of the brokerage fees on the sale of 19% of his company Rosneft, which had a pending $500 Billion deal with Exxon that had been negotiated by Rex Tillerson and had been put on hold by Obama’s sanctions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Exactly 19% of Rosneft stock was sold on the day before the election.
On Anderson Cooper tonight they discussed both the Steele dossier issue as well as the apparent attempts by Alexander Nix, the head of Cambridge-Analytica to get copies of Hillary’s deleted emails from Jullian Assange at Wikileaks and also the fact that the work done targeting specific states and districts during the election seem to closely mirror the same type of targeting of states and districts that was implemented by the fake Russian ads, bots and trolls.
Trump’s staff “wanted to show off they had different sources with opposing” scenarios, Green said. “They had a team of Cambridge [Analytica] scientists embedded in the Trump headquarters in San Diego doing sophisticated modeling work to help to inform where the campaign was going to send Donald Trump.”
The main locations identified by the CA team were Grand Rapids and Warren, Michigan, as well as Green Bay, Wisconsin. Perhaps not uncoincidentally, The New Yorker featured a story on October 31, 2016 asking why Trump was spending all of his time in those two states specifically.
“According to the polls, Donald Trump [had] been trailing Hillary Clinton badly in Michigan and Wisconsin for months,” reporter John Cassidy wrote at the time, citing two polls that showed Clinton in the lead by seven percentage points. He cited a third poll where the margin was six points. “It’s a similar story in Wisconsin, where the past three polls have shown Clinton ahead by four points, six points, and seven points.”
Cassidy then asked why –“with just more than a week left before Election Day — is Trump campaigning in these two states?” He said that it seemed smarter to him that Trump should be in places like Florida, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio, where the polls were closer.
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According to Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the ads were generated by or linked to Moscow-linked bots — and tied to Michigan and Wisconsin. There were a few other ads in other states, but Burr specifically cited Michigan and Wisconsin.
Coincidence? I think not.
[There are also previous incremental updates to the timeline which highlight and focus specific events at about one week intervals for Oct 11th, Oct 4th, Sept 27, Sept 22, Sept. 17, Sept. 11th, Sept 4th, August 24th, August 17th, August 4th, July 28th, July 14th, July 10th, July 9th, July 4th, June 21st, June 18th, June 14th, June 12th, June 9th, June 6th, and June 2nd.]
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October 20th —
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October 21st —
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October 22nd —
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October 23rd —
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Myeshia Johnson appears on Good Morning America and tells George Stefanopolous that Trump “didn’t know my husband’s name” he had to read his name off of a report he had in front of him and stumbled over it, she also said that Rep. Wilson’s account of the conversation was 100% correct. She says she was the one who asked for the call to Master Sargent Neill to be placed on speaker.
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The deputy editor-in-chief of Russia’s only independent radio station is mysteriously stabbed in Moscow.
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Lawyers for Fusion GPS ask a judge to block Devin Nunez subpoena to their bank which would disclose the donors who paid for the Steele Dossier. They argue the subpeona is overly broad and could potentially destroy the company. [Which is probably exactly the point: retaliation.]
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Bill O’Reilly says he “Mad At God” for not protecting him from Sexual harrasment allegations. He’s also PO’d at the NYTimes for reporting about his $32 Million settlement.
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In defense of Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes Trumpeteer Stephen Moore suggests that “powerful men should meet alone with women” for which former Fox correspondent Kirsten Powers cuts him off at the balls on CNN.
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An Illinois man blames social media trolls for his facebook post threatening to lynch Rep. Frederica Wilson.
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The father of slain solider Dillon Baldrige finally receives the $25,000 check Trump promised to send him during a condolence call back in June, largely because the press asked about it. He’d previously received a condolence letter but the check was missing.
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Ted Cruz wants Trump to release the JFK Files — which were scheduled to be released anyway — to prove his father wasn’t part of the conspiracy, which was just another BS conspiracy that Trump made up in the first place.
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Buzzfeed reports that the Russian Troll farm also had an Instagram account which pretended to be a Native American Standing Rock protestor. “DEAR RACISTS IN AMERICA,” one of the posts read. “YOUR CAR IS JAPANESE, YOUR BEER IS GERMAN, YOUR ELECTRONICS ARE TAIWANESE, YOUR FASHION IS FRENCH, YOUR OIL IS SAUDI ARABIAN, YOUR VODKA IS RUSSIAN, AND NEVER FORGET THE LAND YOU LIVE ON IS MINE.”
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October 24th —
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Devin Nunez begins his own investigation into the Uranium One deal and Hillary Clinton, and like Grassley is focused on whether the FBI shared information about corruption by some members of the company before the deal was completed.
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Hillary Clinton responds to the renewed Uranium One investigations saying “I would say it’s the same baloney they’ve been peddling for years, and there’s been no credible evidence by anyone.”
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Bill O’Reilly’s talent agency UTA drops him.
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Putin’s favorite Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has had travel restriction placed on him by his House committee due to his willingness to spout Kremlin propaganda and attempts to have a one-on-one sit down with Julian Assange.
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Supreme Court drops plans to review the Hawaii Travel Ban case as the timeframe for the original 120 day ban expires today, and the policy has been replaced by another ban. This means the lower court ruling restricting the ban holds.
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Trump critic Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) declines to seek re-election stating “there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party.” This means Flake’s seat will be up for grabs in 2018.
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Trump visits Capital Hill to talk about Tax Reform, and both Sen Corker and both Flake publicly blast Trump as utterly untruthful, childish and poor model for American values that debases the country.
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Sen Orrin Hatch and Rep. Kevin Brady put forward a temporary Obamacare “fix" [more like Hostage negotiation] that would restore CSR payments but also kill the both the individual and employer mandates as well as include abortion restrictions.
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Kid Rock says “Fuck No” he’s not running for Senate. “I have a new album coming out, I have a tour” even though he also put up a KId Rock for Senatewebsite.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy begin a joint investigation into why the FBI and then Director Comey disclosed they were investigating Hillary Clinton’s email but didn’t disclose they were also investigating Donald Trump’s links to Russian hacking and election influence.
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Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan says that Bush was no better than Trump and offerred her “no comfort” after the death of her son Casey in Iraq. She never received a call, all she got was a letter signed by autopen.
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Huckabee-Sanders says comparing Niger to Benghazi is “just a cheap attempt to taint this presidency” — [Actually that was true of Benghazi, Trump has already tainted himself and made it worse by his treatment of Myeshia Johnson.] P.S. the Rohingya crisis is also his Ruwanda and may soon turn into his Bosnia.
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A Trump supporter/waiter encounters Bruce Maxwell, an African American Baseball player who is a catcher for the Oakland A’s who took a knee during the anthem in protest and refuses to serve him in an Alabama restaurant, having another waiter take his place.
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Fox News criticizes Hillary Clinton for “using a bad word” during her appearance on the Graham Norton show. [First of all have these dumb fracks even seen the Graham Norton show? Almost everyone curses because it’s British TV and they don’t have the nanny FCC breathing down their neck and secondly what she said was just quoting George W. Bush’s reaction to the Trump inauguration speech. “That was some weird shit!”]
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The Steinle Murder trial begins, since her shooting was an accident because the bullet ricocheted off the ground before it hit her, this should be something.
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Law Professor Seth Abramson lays out how Trump should be impeached for knowingly violating 18 U.S.C. § 2 “aiding, abetting and procuring for a crime” after the fact by his multiple attempts to payoff Russia for their acts of computer fraud — particularly after he was official informed of their involvement in this crime during his first classified security briefing on August 17, 2016 and his second briefing and report on their attack on our elections on January 6th — yet he continued trying to have the sanctions over Crimea lifted — via Jeff Sessions & Mike Flynn’s discussions with Kislyak, also Jack Kingston who told Russia businessmen “Trump can look at sanctions”, members of Flynn’s NSA staff requested the sanctions be liftedprompting the State Dept to notify Congress who began drafting a new sanctions bill which would make lifting them illegal without their approval, Michael Cohen and Felix Sater brokered a Ukranian “peace deal” which tried to remove sanctions, members of WH staff asked State to drop the “Oil portion” of the sanctions which they denied, and Trump has so far refused to implement the latest round of Russia sanctions even after signing the bill himself — all the while Russia still retains control of Crimea after their illegal annexation of the country. Quid Pro and Quo.
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Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on a letter asking Sessions General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism.
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Wapo reports that lawyer Marc E. Elias representing the DNC and Clinton campaign had hired Fusion GPS who subcontracted out to Christopher Steele to work on his dossier of Russian links to Trump between the RNC and the election, much of which has since been confirmed by the Intel agencies own report on Russian interference. This occurred apparently because Elias law firm Perkins Coie released Fusion GPS from their attorney client privilege because of the subpoenas submitted by Devin Nunez & Chuck Grassley. However, the report wasn’t given back to Fusion GPS or the Clinton campaign, instead Steele gave the information to the FBI — for which they offered to pay him after the election, but when they didn’t seem to react to his reports he gave it to David Corn at Mother Jones, and a former British ambassador to Russia Andrew Wood facilitated getting copies to John McCain who personally gave them to James Comey.
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Mere hours after Huckabee-Sanders scoffs at a reporter for citing the WaPo as a source for debunking the WH claim that Sen Corker “supported Obama’s Iran Deal” — which he didn’t and so what if he did anyway? — she turns and then retweets the WaPo story about the DNC funding the Steele Dossier which they did but only after funds from a GOP source stopped in April.
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The WSJ reports that the Manhattan U.S Attorney’s Office is investigating money laundering ties by Paul Manafort in conjunction with the Mueller investigation, while the Brooklyn US Attorney is apparently investigating Kushner’s business dealings.
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October 25th —
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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, directly reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to ask for his assistance in obtaining and publishing Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, Assange himself later confirms the Nix request but says they turned it down.
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Trump continues to claim he said Sgt. La David Johnson’s name “without hesitation” after reading it from a chart — which technically is exactly what Myeshia said, he didn’t already know the name, he had check a reference and read it. He won’t say that he’ll apologize to Myeshia and claims his memory is better than hers, even though there were at least two other people, La David’s aunt and Rep. Wilson, that totally confirm her version of the conversation.
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Tomi Lahren wants a Clinton apology for Trump dossier: ‘This makes me excited to see her 33,000 deleted emails’ [Yeah, that’ll be coming just seconds after Don Jr. apologizes for his Dad lying about his secret meeting with Veselnitskaya and Ahkmetshin. Any… minute...now.]
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Kaspersky Labs admits it obtained suspected NSA hacking code from US computer.
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Paul Ryan demands that the FBI provide documents linked to the funding of the Steele Dossier, although from all previous reports they offered to, but never actually paid anything for it themselves — all of which conveniently ignores the fact that Steele and Fusion GPS began work on the dossier while being paid by a Republican.
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Trump chooses not to deport wealthy Chinese fugitive once he finds out he’s a Mar-a-Lago member.
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A California judge blocks the attempt made by 18 states to restore CSR funding for Obamacare.
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Democrats and Republicans on Senate Judiciary split into two investigations, Chairman Chuck Grassley is continuing his witch hunt into the Steel Dossier and — again — Hillary Clinton’s emails, while Ranking Member Frienstein and Democrats will investigate Russia hacking and election influence.
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Whitefish Energy lashes out on twitter at San Juan Mayor Cruz and threatens to pull out fo the Island after she questions how they managed to qualify for the $300 Million contract to restore power to Puerto Rico.
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ICE agents agents stake out hospital room of 10-year-old undocumented girl with cerebral palsy, to hold her — or potentially any undocumented members of her family who come to visit — in detention for deportation.
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School officials, including both teachers and administrators, harassed a student at Klein, Texas’ Klein Oak High School for years over her choice to sit out the pledge of allegiance according to a federal lawsuit based on West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, a Supreme Court case from 1943 that the US government and public schools cannot legally compel students to stand for the pledge.
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Trump blames the generals for the Niger ambush, by pointing out the he didn’t specifically authorize the mission.
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Author Joshua Green tell Anderson Cooper on CNN that the voter micro-targeting operation run by Jared Kushner with Cambridge-Analytica targeted unlikely states like Michigan and Wisconsin where Trump was 6-7 points behind, and the Russian social media ads, bots and trolls also targeted those same exact states indicating potential coordination between them.
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Ongoing threats to Frederica Wilson’s life are preventing her from casting votes in Washington.
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A racist Trump supporter — yeah, I know, shocking — tweets repeated death threats to CNN’s Don Lemon.