AUGUST 8, 2015
Roger Stone left Trump campaign but continued to serve as a surrogate.
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October 2015
Trump Organization discussed a real estate project in Moscow proposed by Russian billionaire Sergei Gordeev. Michael Cohen and international financier Giorgi Rtskhiladze emailed about the project but it did not move forward.
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OCTOBER 28, 2015
Trump signed a letter of intent with Moscow-based developer I.C. Expert Investment Co. for a Trump Tower Moscow project. Michael Cohen said he discussed the deal with Trump three times but the project was later abandoned for “business reasons.”
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NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Felix Sater emailed Michael Cohen saying he would get Putin on board with Trump Tower Moscow and it would help get Trump elected. He wrote “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” He also said he arranged for Ivanka Trump to sit in Putin’s chair on a tour of the Kremlin.
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DECEMBER 10, 2015
Michael Flynn attended RT gala in Moscow, is paid $33,750 for the appearance, and is seated with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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DECEMBER, 2015
Paul Manafort’s certified financial records showed up to $17 million in debt to pro-Russia interests. The documents filed with Cyprus government authorities in 2016 detail transactions from 2012 and 2013 through Manafort’s shell companies LOAV Advisers and Jesand LLC.
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MID-JANUARY 2016
Michael Cohen emailed Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov through a general press account asking for help on the stalled Trump Tower Moscow project.
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JANUARY 19, 2016
Rob Goldstone emailed Donald Trump Jr. about setting up a page for Trump on VK, Russia’s equivalent to Facebook. Trump Jr. forwarded to Dan Scavino who responded to Goldstone, “Thank you so much for looking out for Mr. Trump and his presidential campaign.”
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LATE JANUARY 2016
Konstantin Sidorkov, an executive at Russia’s equivalent to Facebook called VK, emailed Dan Scavino, Donald Trump Jr., and Rhona Graff with information about VK.
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FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Jeff Sessions became first sitting U.S. Senator to endorse Donald Trump for President.
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MARCH 3, 2016
Jeff Sessions announced as chair of the Trump campaign’s national security advisory team.
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MARCH 6, 2016
George Papadopoulos had a conversation with Sam Clovis, identified in court documents as Campaign Supervisor, in which it was made clear improved relations with Russia was a campaign policy focus.
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MARCH 14, 2016
George Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud, identified in court documents as the professor, who had substantial ties to the Russian government and took interest in Papadopoulos because of his role on the Trump campaign.
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MARCH 19, 2016
John Podesta falls for a phishing email that allows Russian hackers to access his account.
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MARCH 21, 2016
Trump named foreign policy team led by Jeff Sessions and including Carter Page, Walid Phares, George Papadopoulos, Joe Schmitz, and Keith Kellogg.
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MARCH 24, 2016
George Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud again and was introduced to a Female Russian National who he identified as Vladimir Putin’s niece. After the meeting he emailed Sam Clovis and other campaign officials telling him he discussed arranging a meeting with Russian leadership.
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MARCH 31, 2016
Trump met with his foreign policy team including George Papadopoulos.
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APRIL, 2016
Jared Kushner had two undisclosed phone conversations with Ambassador Kislyak between April and November.
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APRIL, 2016
George Papadopoulos kept campaign officials updated on his “outreach to Russia” and contacts with “the Russians.”
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APRIL 10-11, 2016
George Papadopoulos exchanges emails with the Female Russian National and Joseph Mifsud about a foreign policy trip to Russia.
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APRIL 11, 2016
Paul Manafort emailed his former colleague Konstantin Kilimnik in Kiev and asked if “our friends” had seen his media coverage including Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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APRIL 18, 2016
Joseph Mifsud introduced George Papadopoulos over email to Ivan Timofeev, identified in court documents as the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Connection, and the two have “multiple conversations” about arranging a meeting between officials from the Trump campaign and Russian government.
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APRIL 22, 2016
Ivan Timofeev emailed George Papadopoulos proposing to meet in London or Moscow and Papadopoulos responded suggesting a meeting in London with the Ambassador.
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APRIL 25, 2016
George Papadopoulos emails a Campaign Senior Policy Adviser saying that there is an “open invitation” for Trump to meet Putin.
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APRIL 26, 2016
George Papadopoulos met with Joseph Mifsud in London who told Papadopoulos he met with a Russian government official who informed him the Russians had “dirt” and “thousands of emails” on Clinton.
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APRIL 27, 2016
Ambassador Kislyak attended Trump’s foreign policy speech at the Mayflower hotel and attended VIP reception with Trump beforehand.
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APRIL 27, 2016
George Papadopoulos emailed campaign manager Corey Lewandowski stating that “Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right” and a Senior Policy Adviser saying he has “some interesting messages from Moscow about a trip when the time is right.”
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APRIL 30, 2016
George Papadopoulos emailed Joseph Mifsud thanking him for his help in setting up a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
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MAY 2016
Putin ally Alexander Torshin tried to arrange a meeting between Putin and Trump. His request was sent by Rick Clay, an advocate for conservative Christian causes, to deputy Trump campaign manager Rick Dearborn. Dearborn forwarded the request to Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Rick Gates. The subject of the email was “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite.” Kushner responded telling Dearborn to “pass on this.”
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MAY 2016
Donald Trump Jr. met with Alexander Torshin during the NRA conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
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EARLY MAY 2016
Paul Manafort had a previously undisclosed dinner with his Ukrainian business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-army trained linguist.
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MAY 4, 2016
George Papadopoulos received an email from Ivan Timofeev with Joseph Mifsud cc’d about arranging a meeting in Moscow. Papadopoulos forwarded the email to Corey Lewandowski and Sam Clovis.
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MAY 13, 2016
Joseph Mifsud emailed George Papadopoulos reiterating interest in “a high level meeting of Mr. Trump with the Russian Federation.”
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MAY 14, 2016
George Papadopoulos emailed Corey Lewandowski stating the “Russian government has also relayed to me they are interested in hosting Mr. Trump.”
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MAY 18, 2016
The Department of Homeland Security sent experts to help candidates take measures to protect their campaigns from digital spying.
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MAY 21, 2016
George Papadopoulos emailed Paul Manafort, identified in court papers as another high-ranking campaign official, with subject line “Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump” stating “Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite sometime and have been reaching out to me to discuss.”
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June, 2016
Felix Sater emailed Michael Cohen inviting him to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and offering to introduce him to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and other top Russian officials. Cohen declined.
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JUNE 1, 2016
George Papadopoulos emailed Corey Lewandowski about Russia who referred him to Sam Clovis who he said was “running point.” Papadopoulos emailed Clovis with subject line “Messages from Russia” stating “I have the Russian MFA asking me if Mr. Trump is interested in visiting Russia at some point.”
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JUNE 3, 2016
Donald Trump Jr. got initial email from Rob Goldstone about meeting with a Russian operative.
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JUNE 7, 2016
Hours after Donald Trump Jr. confirmed the meeting, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination and promised a “major speech” with dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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JUNE 9, 2016
Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with Emin and Aras Agalarov intermediary Rob Goldstone, Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, former Soviet counter-intelligence officer Rinat Akhmetsin, Russian translator Anatoli Samochornov, an executive at Agalarov’s developmetn company Ike Kaveladze, and one unnamed individuals at Trump Tower. Trump Jr. arranged the meeting after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” Kushner failed to disclose this meeting on his form to obtain a security clearance.
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JUNE 14, 2016
DNC announced its entire computer network, including conversations and opposition research files, was penetrated by Russian government hackers dubbed Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear. Cozy Bear gained access in summer 2015 and Fancy Bear gained access in April 2016.
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JUNE 15, 2016
Hacker Guccifer 2.0 claimed credit for the DNC attack and posted stolen documents. The Trump campaign put out a statement accusing the DNC of being behind its own hack “as a way to distract.”
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JUNE 15, 2016
Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Kevin McCarthy admitted that Russia was behind the DNC hack in closed caucus meeting and McCarthy said “There’s two people I think Putin pays: [Rep. Dana] Rohrabacher and Trump.”
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JUNE 19, 2016
George Papadopoulos emailed Corey Lewandowski relaying a message from the Russian MFA asking for a campaign representative to travel to Russia if Trump could not and offering to make the trip “off the record if it’s in the interest of Mr. Trump and the campaign to meet specific people.”
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JULY, 2016
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor communications from Carter Page.
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JULY 7, 2016
Paul Manafort wrote an email offering to give his former client and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska private briefings.
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JULY 8, 2016
Carter Page gave lecture in Moscow. The trip was approved by former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. According to the Christopher Steele dossier Page also met with Igor Sechin and Igor Diveykin.
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JULY 18-21, 2016
During the GOP convention Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak met with Jeff Sessions, Carter Page, JD Gordon, and Walid Phares. Trump aides including Gordon removed a pro-Ukraine amendment from GOP platform.
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JULY 27, 2016
Trump called on Russia to release Hillary Clinton’s emails in a speech.
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JULY 29, 2016
Konstantin Kilimnik emailed Paul Manafort saying he had important messages from “the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar several years ago” and asked to come to the United States to brief Manafort. Manafort replied “Tuesday is best.”
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JULY 31, 2016
Konstantin Kilimnik and Paul Manafort confirmed their plans to meet for two hours.
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EARLY AUGUST 2016
Paul Manafort had a previously undisclosed dinner with his Ukrainian business associate Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian Army-trained linguist.
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AUGUST 2, 2016
Paul Manafort met with Konstantin Kilimnik in New York at the Grand Havana Club.
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AUGUST 5, 2016
Roger Stone wrote a column for Breitbart entitled “Dear Hillary, DNC hack solved, so now stop blaming Russia.”
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AUGUST 8, 2016
Roger Stone said he communicated with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and predicted an “October Surprise.”
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AUGUST 14-16, 2016
Roger Stone and Guccifer 2.0 exchanged private messages on Twitter.
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AUGUST 15, 2016
Sam Clovis told George Papadopoulos “I would encourage you” to “make the trip: to Russia “if it is feasible.”
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AUGUST 17, 2016
Trump received his first classified intelligence briefing and reportedly received information about “direct links” between the Russian government and the email hacks.
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AUGUST 19, 2016
Paul Manafort resigned from Trump campaign amidst fallout from a report that he received $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments for his work for a pro-Putin political party in Ukraine.
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AUGUST 21, 2016
Roger Stone tweeted “Trust me, it will soon [be] Podesta’s time in the barrel.”
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LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2016
Peter Smith reportedly assembled a group of technology experts, lawyers, and a Russian-speaking investigator to acquire the 33,000 deleted personal emails from Hillary Clinton’s server which he believed were hacked. Smith reached out to five hacker groups including two in Russia and implied his project had the blessing of Michael Flynn.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
Guccifer 2.0 and Roger Stone exchanged private messages on Twitter.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
An individual named “Mike Erickson” emailed Donald Trump, Trump Jr., and Trump Jr.’s personal assistant offering access hacked Wikileaks documents.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Wikileaks contacted Donald Trump Jr. in a private Twitter message alerting him to a new Anti-Trump website.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Trump Jr. responded to Wikileaks via private Twitter message saying he’d “ask around” about the anti-Trump website and emailed Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Brad Parscale, and Kellyanne Conway about it. Kushner forwarded the email to Hope Hicks.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
Trump Organization created a new host name for its server and the first lookup came from the Russian Alfa Bank. Four days earlier, a New York Times reporter contacted Alfa Bank about the odd pattern of lookups between two of its servers and a server registered to the Trump Organization. According to domain name systems (DNS) experts, two Alfa Bank servers accounted for 87% of the lookups to the Trump Organization server from June to September 2016.
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OCTOBER 3, 2016
Roger Stone tweeted “I have total confidence that WikiLeaks and my hero Julian Assange will educate the American people soon.”
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OCTOBER 3, 2016
Wikileaks wrote to Donald Trump Jr. asking him to have the campaign push a story about Hillary Clinton wanting to “just drone” Julian Assange. He responded an hour and a half later saying they did already. Minutes later he asked Wikileaks about what leak he kept reading about, likely referring to Roger Stone’s tweet about a coming Wikileaks dump. Wikileaks did not respond.
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OCTOBER 4, 2016
Roger Stone tweeted “Libs thinking Assange will stand down are wishful thinking. Payload coming.”
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OCTOBER 7, 2016
John Podesta’s hacked emails posted on Wikileaks less than an hour after Access Hollywood tape story breaks.
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OCTOBER 7, 2016
The United States government formally accused Russia of attempting to interfere with the election.
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OCTOBER 12, 2016
Roger Stone said he had a backchannel to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
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OCTOBER 12, 2016
Wikileaks messaged Donald Trump Jr. saying “great to see you and your dad talking about our publications” and asked him to use the link wlsear.tk to help sort through Podesta’s emails because “there’s many great stories the press are missing and we’re sure some of your follows [sic] will find it.” Fifteen minutes later Donald Trump tweeted there was not enough press coverage of Wikileaks’ Podesta emails.
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OCTOBER 14, 2016
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the wlsear.tk link Wikileaks had requested he use.
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OCTOBER 21, 2016
Jared Kushner’s company finalized a $285 million loan from Deutsche Bank as part of a refinancing deal on a Manhattan property. Kushner personally guaranteed the loan and failed to include it on his disclosure with the Office of Government Ethics. Donald Trump owes $130 million to Deutsche Bank’s US arm.
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OCTOBER 21, 2016
Wikileaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to give them his father’s tax returns to leak arguing it would be beneficial to him. He did not respond.
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OCTOBER 30, 2016
Jared Kushner received an email from “Guccifer400” demanding payment to prevent release of Trump’s tax returns. He believed it the email was a hoax and did not respond.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2016
Wikileaks messaged Donald Trump Jr. suggesting his father not concede if he loses the election and then saying “wow” when he did. Trump Jr. did not respond.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Jared Kushner’s assistant received a request to meet with Ambassador Kislyak. The meeting was set for December 1.
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NOVEMBER 18, 2016
Rep. Elijah Cummings wrote to Mike Pence warning him Flynn had been paid as a lobbyist for Turkish interests.
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DECEMBER 1, 2016
Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn met with Ambassador Kislyak and Kushner proposed creating a secret back-channel for communications between the transition team and the Kremlin. In his prepared testimony, Kushner stated that the proposed backchannel was for discussion about Syria but did not happen.
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DECEMBER 6, 2016
Jared Kushner said he turned down two meeting requests from Ambassador Kislyak and arranged instead for his assistant to meet with him on December 12.
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DECEMBER 10, 2016
Trump named Rex Tillerson, previously awarded Russia’s Order of Friendship by Vladimir Putin, for Secretary of State.
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DECEMBER 12, 2016
Jared Kushner’s assistant met with Ambassador Kislyak who requested that Kushner meet with Sergey Gorkov who was “someone with a direct line to the Russian President.”
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DECEMBER 13, 2016
Jared Kushner met with the head of the Russian state-owned Vnesheconombank Sergey Gorkov. Kushner failed to disclose the meeting and the bank was under US sanctions at the time. Gorkov gave Kushner two gifts and Kushner stated in his prepared testimony that he did not attend the meeting in his capacity as a businessman.
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DECEMBER 15, 2016
Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the UAE met in New York with Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon ahead of a meeting in the Seychelles coordinated by the UAE to set up a backchannel between Russia and the Trump White House. The Crown Prince did not alert the Obama administration that he was coming to the United States.
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DECEMBER 26, 2016
Oleg Erovinkin, a former KGB official who was believed to have helped write the Steele dossier, was found dead in his car in Moscow.
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DECEMBER 29, 2016
Obama put sanctions on Russia for interference in the election. Flynn had five phone calls with Ambassador Kislyak and discussed sanctions.
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DECEMBER 30, 2016
Trump tweeted praise of Putin’s decision to not retaliate against US sanctions.
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JANUARY 4, 2017
Michael Flynn told transition team he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign.
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JANUARY 6, 2017
DNI released report stating Putin and the Russian government “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances” through the hacks and the Russian military released emails through the persona Guccifer 2.0 and also relayed the hacked emails to Wikileaks. The FBI, CIA, and NSA supported this conclusion.
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JANUARY 6, 2017
FBI Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump about intelligence community findings related to Russian interference in the election and “salacious” but unverified information about him.
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JANUARY 10, 2017
Jeff Sessions testified in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and lied that did not have communications with the Russians during the campaign.
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JANUARY 11, 2017
Erik Prince, an informal adviser to the Trump transition team, met with a Russian official in Seychelles in a secret meeting arranged by the UAE in order to help establish a back-channel for communication between the Trump team and Moscow.
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JANUARY 15, 2017
Mike Pence falsely claimed Flynn and Kislyak did not discuss sanctions.
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JANUARY 20, 2017
According to a whistleblower, Michael Flynn texted a former colleague during President Trump’s inaugural address saying the project was “good to go.” Flynn also told the colleague sanctions on Russia would be “ripped up.”.
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JANUARY 26, 2017
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn “essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians.”
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JANUARY 27, 2017
Sally Yates met with Don McGahn again. FBI Director Comey and Trump had a private dinner in which Comey claims Trump asked for his loyalty. According to Comey’s prepared SSCI remarks Trump called and asked him for dinner that day.
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JANUARY 27, 2017
Former Trump executive Felix Sater, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and Ukrainian politician Andrii Artemenko met in New York to discuss a peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Cohen reportedly delivered the plan to Michael Flynn.
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JANUARY 27, 2017
George Papadopoulos agreed to be interviewed by the FBI and lied that he was made Russian contacts and was told the Russians have thousands of Clinton emails prior to joining the Trump campaign when in fact he was already an adviser.
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JANUARY 28, 2017
President Trump called Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office. Mike Pence, Michael Flynn, Sean Spicer, and Reince Preibus attended. Preibus called FBI Director Comey and asked for help pushing back on Russia stories.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Michael Flynn denied discussing sanctions with Ambassador Kislyak in interview.
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FEBRUARY 10, 2017
Michael Flynn reportedly called Mike Pence and apologized for misleading him about his discussion of sanctions.
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FEBRUARY 13, 2017
Michael Flynn resigned as National Security Adviser eighteen days after the White House was warned he was compromised.
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FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Trump Trumpasked FBI Director James Comey to let the Flynn investigation go at a meeting in the Oval Office, according to a memo written by Comey to document the event.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2017
FBI Director James Comey reportedly asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to never leave him alone with President Trump again.
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MARCH 2, 2017
Jeff Sessions announced he would recuse himself from Department of Justice Russian investigation.
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MARCH 9, 2017
Mike Pence claimed he did not know about Flynn’s foreign lobbying despite Rep. Cummings’ November letter.
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MARCH 20, 2017
FBI Director Comey stated publicly for the first time in testimony that the FBI was investigating Russian interference in the election and links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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MARCH 21, 2017
Rep. Devin Nunes, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, secretly went to the White House and viewed intelligence reports from aides Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis.
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MARCH 22, 2017
Rep. Devin Nunes briefed Paul Ryan, held a solo press conference, then went back to the White House to brief President Trump without briefing the members of his committee.
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MARCH 22, 2017
President Trump reportedly asked DNI Daniel Coats to intervene with then-FBI Director James Comey to get him to back off the Flynn investigation in a private meeting with Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
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MARCH 30, 2017
Michael Flynn offered testimony in exchange for immunity to FBI, House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
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MARCH 30, 2017
Trump called FBI Director Comey and described the Russia investigation as a “cloud” and asked what could be done to “lift the cloud.”
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APRIL 6, 2017
Rep. Devin Nunes recused himself from his committee’s Russia investigation.
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APRIL 11, 2017
Trump called FBI Director Comey and asked what Comey had done to “get out” the fact that he was not personally under investigation and added “because I have been very loyal to you very loyal; we had that thing you know.”
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APRIL 25, 2017
Michael Flynn said he had recently gotten a message from Trump to stay strong.
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MAY 4-6, 2017
Trump spent the weekend in Bedminster, NJ and asked Stephen Miller to draft a letter firing FBI Director James Comey. The letter was not used.
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MAY 8, 2017
Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump met with the FBI about a possible overseas cyberattack on the Trump Organization.
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MAY 8, 2017
Trump discussed his plan to fire FBI Director James Comey and the termination letter drafted by Stephen Miller with Vice President Pence, Reince Priebus, Donald McGahn, Hope Hicks, Stephen Miller, and Jared Kushner in a meeting in the Oval Office. McGahn urged Trump to wait until he talked to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which Trump did later that day.
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MAY 9, 2017
Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, claimed in termination letter that Comey gave him assurances on three occasions that he wasn’t under investigation. The White House cited a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to Attorney General Jeff Sessions as the basis for firing Comey.
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MAY 10, 2017
Trump met with Russian Ambassador Kislyak and Foreign Minister Lavrov in the Oval Office. He gave them highly classified information from an Israeli source and bragged about firing Comey and called him a “nut job.”
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MAY 11, 2017
Trump called Roger Stone to tell him he was doing a “good job” defending him on television.
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MAY 11, 2017
Trump stated in an interview that he would have fired FBI Director Comey “regardless” of DOJ recommendation.
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MAY 17, 2017
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller named special counsel in Russia investigation by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. White House counsel was alerted after the fact.
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MAY 18, 2017
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein confirmed in closed Senate briefing he knew Trump wanted to fire FBI Director Comey before he wrote memo cited by Pence, White House officials as rationale for firing Comey. Pence put out statement denying that he knew about Michael Flynn’s lobbying for Turkey until March.
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MAY 18, 2017
Reports out that the FBI investigation includes a person of interest currently employed by the White House and is authorized to include whether White House officials engaged in a cover up.
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MAY 22, 2017
Michael Flynn’s attorneys told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he will invoke the fifth amendment and not turn over subpoenaed documentation. Additionally, an internal Pentagon report stated that Flynn lied about his payments from Russia to investigators in early 2016 as he tried to renew his security clearance.
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MAY 24, 2017
President Trump hired private attorney Marc Kasowitz to help him through the Russia probes.
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MAY 30, 2017
Trump attorney Michael Cohen subpoenaed by House Intelligence Committee.
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MAY 30, 2017
Michael Flynn stated through an attorney he would turn over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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MAY 31, 2017
House Intelligence Committee approved subpoenas to businesses owned by Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn.
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JUNE 5, 2017
Leaked NSA intelligence report stated Russian military intelligence hacked at least US voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials across the country days before the 2016 election.
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JUNE 7, 2017
President Trump named Christopher Wray as his nominee for FBI Director.
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JUNE 14, 2017
Reported that the special counsel investigation includes examination of whether President Trump obstructed justice.
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JUNE 15, 2017
Vice President Mike Pence hired Richard Cullen as outside counsel represent him in the special counsel and congressional committees’ investigations.
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JUNE 20, 2017
Jeff Sessions hired Charles Cooper as outside counsel to represent him in the Russia investigations.
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JUNE 20, 2017
Paul Manafort registered under FARA and disclosed that his firm DMP International LLC received $17.1 million for his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine between 2012 and 2013.
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JUNE 26, 2017
Jared Kushner hired criminal defense attorney Abbe Lowell as outside counsel joining previous outside attorney Jamie Gorelick.
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JULY 8, 2017
Donald Trump dictated the misleading response to the New York Times about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian operatives in June 2016.
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JULY 10, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. hired Alan Futerfas to represent him in the Russia investigation.
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JULY 11, 2017
Wikileaks messaged Donald Trump Jr. to say “sorry” about his problems regarding the Trump Tower meeting story and to suggest he give them the emails with Rob Goldstone to leak.
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JULY 13, 2017
Donald Trump contradicts his son and said “maybe” the June 2016 meeting was “mentioned at some point” to him.
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JULY 14, 2017
Donald Trump hired veteran lawyer Ty Cobb to oversee the White House’s legal and media response to the Russia investigation and Jared Kushner’s lawyer Jamie Gorelick dropped out of the case.
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JULY 21, 2017
Donald Trump’s personal attorney Marc Kasowitz and his spokesman Mark Corallo left the Trump legal team.
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JULY 26, 2017
FBI agents raided Paul Manafort’s Alexandria home before dawn and without warning using a search warrant to seize documents. The search warrant indicates investigators argued to a federal judge that Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records voluntarily.
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JULY 31, 2017
First reported that Donald Trump dictated his son’s initial misleading statement about the June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower contradicting previous statements by his lawyers.
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AUGUST 3, 2017
First reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller impaneled a grand jury in Washington DC. Experts said such a move indicates Mueller expects to subpoena records and take testimony from witnesses.
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AUGUST 11, 2017
Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian lobbyist who met with Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner in June 2016, testified before Robert Mueller’s grand jury.
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AUGUST 16, 2017
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and said he planned to “divulge more of what he found directly to President Trump.”
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AUGUST 30, 2017
Reported that Robert Mueller is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on the state’s investigation into Paul Manafort for financial crimes.
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Facebook announced that a Russian “troll farm” had purchased $100,000 in ad spending from June 2015 to May 2017 accounting for over 3,000 ads. Additionally, Facebook announced it identified about 470 fake pages and accounts likely operated out of Russia.
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. testified in closed Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
White House Communications Director Hope Hicks hired attorney Robert Trout to represent her in the ongoing Russia investigation.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and White House Counsel Don McGahn hired attorney William Burck to represent them in the Russia investigation.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer hired attorney Chris Mead to represent him in the Russia investigation.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Twitter told congressional investigators it identified 200 accounts tied to Russia that sought to interfere in the 2016 election and that three accounts associated with Russian propaganda outlet RT spent $274,100 to promote ads.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
Senators Burr and Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee wrote to Jared Kushner expressing concern he did not disclose his personal email account.
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OCTOBER 13, 2017
Special Counsel Mueller’s team interviewed former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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OCTOBER 16, 2017
Special Counsel Mueller’s team interviewed former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
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OCTOBER 30, 2017
Paul Manafort and Rick Gates surrender to the FBI after being indicted on twelve counts including money laundering. They plead not guilty.
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OCTOBER 30, 2017
News broke that George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to the FBI for lying about his contacts with Russia during the campaign. The court document was dated October 5.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2017
Reported that Special Counsel Mueller’s team interviewed White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2017
President Trump and Vladimir Putin saw each other at the APEC summit dinner and Trump said Putin again denied interference in the 2016 election.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Former Russian Ambassador Kislyak said in an interview that twenty minutes wasn’t long enough to list all of the contacts he had with Trump officials.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Senate Judiciary Committee members wrote to Jared Kushner’s lawyer stating that Kushner failed to turn over emails regarding the “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” from Alexander Torshin and correspondence with Wikileaks.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2017
Reported that George Papadopoulos told a Greek newspaper last year Trump had called him during the campaign, they had at least one meeting the White House had not acknowledged, and he had been given a “blank check” to choose a job in the administration.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2017
Reported that Trump will start paying his own legal fees rather than charging them to the RNC and is finalizing a plan to use his own funds to help pay legal costs for his staff.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2017
Reported that Trump will start paying his own legal fees rather than charging them to the RNC and is finalizing a plan to use his own funds to help pay legal costs for his staff.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2017
Michael Flynn’s legal team stopped cooperating with Trump’s legal team indicating he could be in discussions with Special Counsel Mueller.
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NOVEMBER 28, 2017
New York radio host Randy Credico tweeted a photo of his congressional subpoena and was identified by sources as the intermediary between Roger Stone and Julian Assange.
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NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Reported that Special Counsel Mueller’s team interviewed Jared Kushner earlier this month.
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DECEMBER 1, 2017
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to a charge of making false statements to the FBI about his communications with Russia during the Trump transition as part of Special Counsel Mueller’s probe. According to court documents, Flynn was directed to contact Russians by two senior transition officials, reportedly Jared Kushner and K.T. McFarland.
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DECEMBER 2, 2017
Trump tweeted he fired Michael Flynn because he lied to Vice President Pence and to the FBI, contradicting his previous statements.
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DECEMBER 3, 2017
Trump’s attorney John Dowd claimed he drafted Trump’s tweet about firing Flynn in part for lying to the FBI.
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DECEMBER 3, 2017
Trump tweeted he never asked FBI Director Comey to stop investigating Michael Flynn, contradicting Comey’s congressional testimony.
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DECEMBER 6, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. was interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee. He told investigators that he communicated with Hope Hicks about his response to news reports about his June 2016 Trump Tower meeting while she was on Air Force One with his father.
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