"A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election"

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Here it is, full color, easy to read, so easy even a Trumpanzee will understand, timeline of the Russian election interference.

This is one reason Mueller's report isn't out yet. As you can see from the timeline, lotta' shit by the Trump campaign to review and verify.

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JUNE 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2016
Soon After Trump Announces Campaign,
His Russian Business Ties Resurface

About a month after Donald J. Trump formally announced his presidential campaign, he received an invitation to go to Moscow for the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant with him in 2013. Later that fall, the Trump Organization began to actively pursue a real estate project in Moscow.


START OF

CAMPAIGN

Contacts

with Russians

SEPTEMBER

The federal investigation

and denials of wrongdoing

start later.

NOVEMBER

JANUARY 2016

Social

media fraud

Russian

hacking

END OF

FEBRUARY 2016

KEY: CHART AND TIMELINE
Lines correspond to text below: direct contacts with Russians by Trump officials, such as the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, social media fraud,Russian hacking, denials of wrongdoing by Trump and his associates and
the federal investigation of Russian meddling.
JUNE 2015
JUNE16 Trump formally announces his presidential campaign. »
JULY 2015
JULY22 About a month later, he is invited to Moscow to celebrate the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with Trump in Russia.
JULY24 Trump's personal assistant says it is unlikely Trump will be able to make it to the party because of the campaign. Rob Goldstone, the publicist who forwards the invitation, says Agalarov’s son Emin might be able to set up a meeting with Putin if Trump decides to come.
OCTOBER 2015
OCT.12 Michael D. Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, has a series of email exchanges with Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and Trump associate, about developing a Trump property in Moscow.
OCT.28 Trump signs a “letter of intent” for a Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. »
For more than 30 years, Mr. Trump has sought to launch a real estate project in Russia. Perhaps the closest he came was during the early stages of his presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2015
NOV.3 In one of his emails to Cohen, Sater predicts that building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump’s presidential campaign. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
DECEMBER 2015
DEC.19 In another, Sater talks about securing financing from a Russian bank under American sanctions.
JANUARY 2016
JAN.14 By January, the Moscow project seems to have stalled. Cohen emails an aide to Putin seeking help to jump-start it.
JAN.19 Donald Trump Jr., Trump's eldest son, receives an email from Goldstone trumpeting his connection to a Russian social media platform and suggesting the campaign use it to appeal to Russian-American voters. The email is also sent to Trump's personal assistant, who connects Goldstone with Dan Scavino, who is in charge of social media for the campaign.
Goldstone thanks Trump's personal assistant and adds: “Emin will be in NYC end of January and I am sure would love to stop by.”
JAN.20 An executive from the Russian social media company emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal assistant about setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
FEBRUARY 2016
FEB.1 Republican primaries begin.
FEB.10 The Internet Research Agency instructs works to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).”
FEB.29 Trump receives a letter from Aras Agalarov expressing “great interest” in his “bright electoral campaign.”
MARCH 2016 TO NOVEMBER 2016
Russian Contacts, Hacking and
Fraud Intensify Through the Election

Russians reached out to campaign officials with offers of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and invitations to back-channel meetings. The top military intelligence service in Russia hacked the Democrats while a network of Russian computer specialists uses stolen identities, false personas and fake social media accounts and ads to sow discord and undermine the election.


Contacts with

Russians

Social

media fraud

Russian

hacking

MARCH 2016

MAY

Denials of

wrongdoing

JULY

The federal

investigation

starts later.

SEPTEMBER

ELECTION DAY 2016

KEY
Russian contacts
Social media fraud
Russian hacking
Denials of wrongdoing
Federal investigation
MARCH 2016
MARCH6 George Papadopoulos joins the campaign. He says he was told that a priority of the campaign was a better relationship with Russia.
MARCH14 He meets with a London-based professor who claims to have ties to the Russian government.
MARCH15 Russian hackers begin targeting computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Clinton campaign.
MARCH19 They send a phishing email to John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and proceed to steal the entire contents of his account — about 50,000 emails.
MARCH21 Trump names members of his foreign policy team, including Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
MARCH24 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to a Russian woman described as Putin’s niece (she was not) and they all discuss setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Papadopoulosemails campaign officials about his new Russian contacts.
MARCH28 Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist, is brought on to the campaign to lead the delegate-wrangling effort.
MARCH31 He tells Trump, Sessions and others at a campaign meeting that he can arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. »
APRIL 2016
APRIL1 Shortly after he joins the campaign, Page is invited to deliver a commencement address at a prestigious economic school in Moscow.
APRIL6 ADemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee employee opens a link to a fraudulent login page and enters password.
Fake ad: “You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident.”
Russianhackers send spearphishing emails to the accounts of others on the Clinton campaign.
APRIL7 Fake ad: “I say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation.”
APRIL10 Papadopoulos reaches out to the Russian woman.
APRIL11 Manafort emails Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a longtime Russian associate, to make sure Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, knows that he is on the Trump campaign.
Kilimnik confirms Deripaska is aware.
Papadopoulos emails the Russian woman about setting up a trip to Russia. She responds that she is “excited about the possibility of a good relationship” with Trump.
APRIL12 Russian hackers use stolen credentials to infiltrate the D.C.C.C.’s computer network and install malware.
APRIL15 They search the network for “hillary," “cruz," and “trump” and copy a folder called “Benghazi Investigations.”
APRIL18 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, a Russian claiming to connections to the Russian foreign ministry.
Russian hackers break into the D.N.C.’s computers.
Papadopoulos has multiple conversations with Timofeev about setting up a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
APRIL19 Fake ad: “JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016.”
Russian hackers create a fictitious online persona, DCLeaks, to release stolen documents.
APRIL22 Timofeev thanks Papadopoulos “for an extensive talk” and proposes meeting in London or Moscow.
APRIL25 Papadopoulos tells Stephen Miller, a top campaign adviser, that Putin wants to meet Trump.
APRIL26 The professor tells Papadopoulos that the Russians have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. »
This is the first of two instances when Russians mention “dirt” about Hillary Clinton to a Trump campaign official.

APRIL27 Trump briefly meets Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at a reception before his first major foreign policy speech.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, also meets Kislyak before the speech.
Papadopoulos emails Miller again.
He also emails Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.”
MAY 2016
MAY1 Papadopoulos tells the Australian ambassador to Britain that Russia has dirt on Clinton. »
This revelation provoked the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.

MAY4 Timofeev says his colleagues from the ministry “are open for cooperation.”
Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Lewandowski.
Manafort meets with Kilimnik.
MAY5 Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Sam Clovis, another campaign aide.
MAY8 Timofeev proposes putting Papadopoulos in touch with another Russian official.
MAY10 Fake ad: “Donald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor it.”
Rick Dearborn, a campaign aide, receives an email about arranging a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin. The subject line of the email is “Kremlin Connection.” It is sent from a conservative operative who said Russia wanted to use the N.R.A.'s convention to make “first contact.”
MAY14 Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski that the Russians are interested in hosting Trump.
MAY16 Page floats the idea with the campaign of Trump going to Russia in his place “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
MAY16 Dearborn receives a second, similar, proposal, which he forwards to Kushner, Manafort and Gates, a business associate of Manafort's. Kushner rebuffs the proposal. »
Both efforts appear to involve Alexander Torshin, a key figure in Mr. Putin’s United Russia party who was instructed to make contact with the Trump campaign. Mr. Torshin met Donald Trump Jr. at a dinner during the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few days later.

MAY19 Fake ad: “Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!"
MAY20 Trump Jr. meets briefly with Torshin and Maria Butina, a Russian later accused of being a covert agent, at an N.R.A.-sponsored dinner.
MAY21 Papadopoulos forwards email from Timofeev to Manafort, who forwards it to Gates with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
MAY24 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
MAY25 Thousands of D.N.C. emails are stolen.
MAY26 Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
MAY27 At a rally the next day, he calls Putin “a strong leader.”
JUNE 2016
JUNE1 Papadopoulostells Clovis that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked if Trump is interested in visiting Russia.
JUNE3 Aras Agalarov is told that the Russian government wants to give the Trump campaign damaging information about Clinton.
His son, Emin, enlists Goldstone to reach out to Trump Jr. and arrange a meeting.
Trump Jr. replies within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” »
This is the second time a campaign official was told of “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton.

JUNE4 Russian trolls use a fake email account to publicize a June “March for Trump” rally in New York.
JUNE5 They also reach out to the Trump campaign for rally signs.
JUNE6 Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee.
JUNE6 Goldstone follows up with Trump Jr. about when he can “talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info.”
Trump Jr. calls Emin.
JUNE7 Trump Jr. calls Emin again. »
Phone records show Trump Jr. called a blocked number before and after calls to Emin.

JUNE7 Goldstone tells Trump Jr. that Emin asked him to schedule a meeting “with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.”
JUNE7 Trump Jr. confirms the meeting and says Manafort and Kushner are likely to join him.
Trump promises to deliver a major address detailing Clinton’s “corrupt dealings.” »
This statement comes three hours after Trump Jr. confirms the Trump Tower meeting. The speech never happens.

JUNE7 Fake ad: “Trump is our only hope for a better future!”
JUNE8 DCLeaks.comgoes live and posts thousands of stolen emails.
Trump Jr. forwards the entire email chain with Goldstone to Kushner and Manafort. The subject line is “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
JUNE9 Trump Tower Russia meeting. »
The Russians nabbed a meeting at Trump Tower with top campaign officials, including the president’s eldest son, after promising damaging information about Clinton.

JUNE10 Trump receives a birthday gift from the Agalarovs.
JUNE14 The D.N.C. breach becomes public. »
JUNE14 Russian hackers create the Guccifer 2.0 persona to help throw suspicion off Russia.
Goldstone forwards a story about the D.N.C. hacking to Emin and a Russian who attended the meeting, describing the news as “eerily weird” given what they had discussed at Trump Tower.
JUNE15 Guccifer 2.0 announces it is releasing “just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC's network.”
JUNE16 Trolls use stolen Social Security numbers to open bank and PayPal accounts.
JUNE17 Trump sends a thank you note to Agalarov for the birthday present.
JUNE19 Page emails Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, about his upcoming Moscow trip. He also mentions it to Sessions during a dinner in Washington. »
JUNE19 Papadopoulos Skypes and emails Timofeev about a campaign official coming to Russia.
Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski he can travel to Russia if Trump cannot.
JUNE20 Guccifer 2.0: “Hi! I’m on Twitter now! this is my official account!”
JUNE22 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 for the stolen D.N.C. emails.
JUNE23 FakeFacebook account is used to hire someone to help with a rally.
JUNE24 Manafortsays it is “absurd” to think there are any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
JUNE24 Trump Jr. says it is “disgusting” and “phony” to suggest that Russia is helping Trump. »
His meeting with Russians two weeks earlier would be reported by The Times in July 2017.

JUNE25 “March for Trump” rally in New York organized by Russians.
JUNE29 Goldstone emails Scavino about the Russian social media platform, saying he mentioned the idea “to Don and Paul Manafort during a meeting recently.”
JUNE30 Fake ad: "#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President”
JULY 2016
JULY5 Posterswith a sham quote attributed to Clinton ordered for “Save American Muslims” rally.
JULY6 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 to send anything “Hillary related” prior to the Democratic National Convention.
JULY7 Manafort emails Kilimnik and offers to give private briefings to Deripaska.
Page delivers the commencement speech in Moscow. While there, he speaks with a Russian deputy prime minister, who expresses strong support for Trump. He also speaks with the head of investor relations for a Russian energy firm.
JULY9 Washington, D.C., rally organized by Russians: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims.”
JULY12 Facebook ads bought for “Down With Hillary” rally.
JULY14 Guccifer 2.0 sends WikiLeaks instructions for accessing the stolen D.N.C. documents.
Papadopoulos tells Timofeev that “our side” has approved a meeting with Russians.
JULY18 Kislyak is among a small group of diplomats who chat with Sessions after an event at the Republican National Convention (July 18-21).
Several other campaign officials, including Page, also chat with the Russian ambassador during the convention.
JULY20 Fake ad: “Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison.”
JULY21 Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president.
JULY21 Papadopoulos tells Timofeev to “keep an eye” on Trump’s acceptance speech. “Should be good.”
JULY22 Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 stolen emails.
JULY23 New York rally organized by Russians: “Down with Hillary.”
JULY26 Fake Facebook group “United Muslims of America” posts that Muslim voters are “between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
JULY27 Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” »
For the first time, Russian hackers attack accounts at a domain used by Clinton’s personal office.
These events happened on the same day, but it is not known whether the Russians' actions were actually in response to Mr. Trump's statement.

JULY29 Kilimnik emails Manafort to set up another meeting.
AUGUST 2016
AUG.2 Trolls send message to a real Trump Facebook account about “organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town.”
Trolls use stolen identity to send emails to Florida grassroots groups to organize the Florida rallies.
Manafort has dinner with Kilimnik in New York.
AUG.4 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
AUG.8 Over the next couple of months, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, repeatedly claims he is in contact Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and seems to foreshadow the release of Podesta's emails. »
Stone later denies any direct contact with Assange or having advance knowledge of the document dumps.

AUG.10 Fake ad: “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!"
AUG.11 FakeTwitter account posts accusations of voter fraud in North Carolina.
AUG.14 Stonebegins a series of relatively benign private messages on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, whom he says is not a Russian front.
AUG.15 Clovis encourages Papadopoulos to make the trip to Russia.
AUG.16 Trolls use a fake Instagram account to promote the pro-Trump Florida rallies.
AUG.18 Money is wired to a person who is building a cage large enough to hold a Clinton impersonator at a rally.
Russians pose as Americans and coordinate with Trump campaign staff members to organize Florida rallies.
AUG.19 Manafort is ousted from the campaign days after reports disclosed financial dealings with the pro-Russia party of a former Ukrainian president. »
AUG.19 Fake persona is used to ask a real Tea Party activist to promote the Florida rallies.
AUG.20 Multiple Florida rallies organized by Russians.
AUG.21 Stone tweets: “Trust me, it will soon [be] the Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary.”
AUG.31 Facebook ads are bought for the New York rally.
SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPT.8 Sessions meets with Kislyak in his Senate office.
SEPT.9 A Clinton impersonator is asked to travel to New York for another rally.
SEPT.20 WikiLeaks sends a direct Twitter message to Trump Jr. He thanks WikiLeaks for the message and emails several top campaign officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Kushner to let them know.
SEPT.21 Trump Jr. thanks WikiLeaks for the message.
OCTOBER 2016
OCT.2 Pennsylvania rallies organized by Russians: “Miners for Trump”
OCT.3 WikiLeaks sends another private message to Trump Jr., asking him to push a story about Clinton.
Trump Jr. says he’s already pushed the story.
OCT.7 The Obama administration accuses the Russian government of hacking. »
An “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump making lewd remarks about women surfaces. »
WikiLeaks posts the first of thousands of Podesta's emails. »
These three significant events happened within hours of one another on the afternoon of Oct. 7. WikiLeaks then released a new batch of Podesta's emails every day until the election.

OCT.10 Trump: “I love WikiLeaks!”
OCT.12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Mr. Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.

OCT.14 Fake ad: “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.”
OCT.16 Instagram account “Woke Blacks” used to encourage people of color not to vote.
OCT.19 Fake ad: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”
OCT.27 Cohen creates a shell company to pay off Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels who said she had sexual relations with Trump. »
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.2 Fake Twitter post: “#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
NOV.3 An ad by Russian operatives encouraging people to vote for Jill Stein is added on Instagram.
NOV.5 The Russian social media executive emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s assistant again to follow up on setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
NOV.6 WikiLeaks releases a new trove of emails stolen from the D.N.C. »
On July 13, 2018, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2016 TO OCTOBER 2017
A Head-Spinning Start to
the Trump Administration

Russia largely dominated the national political conversation after Mr. Trump was elected. American intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered the campaign to interfere in the election. Questionable transition contacts and accusations of attempts by Mr. Trump to kill the investigation come to light. Mr. Trump started posting hundreds of tweets that denied wrongdoing and attacked the investigation.


Contacts with

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Federal

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Russian troll activityon Twitter continued after the election.

INAUGURATION

DAY 2017

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END OF

SEPTEMBER 2017

KEY
Russian contacts
Social media fraud
Russian hacking
Denials of wrongdoing
Federal investigation
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.8 Trump is elected president.
NOV.11 Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman: “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
NOV.16 Kislyak requests a meeting with Kushner.
DECEMBER 2016
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.

DEC.13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC.28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC.28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC.29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.

DEC.29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC.30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC.30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC.31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
JANUARY 2017
JAN.5 U.S. intelligence agencies release a report concluding that Putin ordered the cybercampaign to influence the election. »
JAN.9 Cohen meets with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower. They discuss their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations under the Trump administration.
JAN.10 Sessions says he is “not aware” of anyone affilitated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government.
JAN.10 Trump tweets: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
The first of at least 200 tweets by Mr. Trump in which he calls the investigation a “hoax,” or a “witch hunt,” or disputes any notion of “collusion.” Subsequent tweets like these are labeled “Denial tweet.” on this page.

JAN.20 Cohen meets again with Russian oligarch during the inauguration. A few days later, a company connected to the oligarch awards Cohen a $1 million consulting contract. The payment is made to the same shell company Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels.
JAN.24 F.B.I. agents interview Flynn.
JAN.26 Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, tells Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel, that Flynn might be compromised because he misled the vice president about his conversations with Kislyak.
JAN.27 F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos.
JAN.27 Trump demands loyalty from James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, during a private dinner at the White House. »
JAN.27 Cohen discusses a plan to lift sanctions against Russia with Sater and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
FEBRUARY 2017
FEB.4 Cohen delivers the plan to Flynn.
FEB.13 Flynn is fired.
FEB.14 Trump asks Comey if he “can see” his way to “letting Flynn go.” »
FEB.15 Stone: “I have had no contacts from Russians or intermediaries for Russians.”
FEB.16 The F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos again.
Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
FEB.17 Papadopoulos shuts down his Facebook account in an attempt to erase messages with foreign contacts.
MARCH 2017
MARCH1 The Washington Post reports that Sessions failed to report at least two contacts with Kislyak during the campaign.
Sessions later in the day: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
MARCH2 Next day: Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.
Denial tweet.
MARCH27 Denial tweet.
MARCH30 Trumpasks Comey if he can “lift the cloud” of the investigation.
MARCH31 Denial tweet.
APRIL 2017
APRIL22 Trump asks Comey what he’s done to “get out” that he is not personally under investigation.
MAY 2017
MAY8 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY9 Trump fires Comey. »
MAY12 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY17 Robert S. Mueller III is appointed special counsel.
MAY18 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY31 Denial tweet.
JUNE 2017
JUNE15 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JUNE16 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denialtweet.
JUNE18 Denial tweet.
JUNE21 Denial tweet.
JUNE22 Denial tweet.
JUNE26 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JULY 2017
JULY8 The Times reveals that the Trump Tower Russia meeting happened.
Trump Jr. issues a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
JULY12 Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, says Trump had nothing to do with the false statement. »
More than six months later, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he “dictated” the misleading statement.

JULY12 Denial tweet.
JULY15 Denial tweet.
JULY16 Denial tweet.
JULY23 Denialtweet.
JULY25 Denial tweet.
Trump: “There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
JULY26 F.B.I. raids Manafort’s Virginia home.
JULY27 Denialtweet.
Papadopoulos is arrested.
JULY29 Denial tweet.
AUGUST 2017
AUG.7 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
SEPTEMBER 2017
SEPT.22 Denial tweet.
OCTOBER 2017
OCT.5 Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
OCT.27 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
OCT.29 Denialtweet.
OCT.30 Denial tweet.
Manafort is indicted on charges related to a scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
Gates is also charged.
OCT.31 Denial tweet.


A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
 
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Here it is, full color, easy to read, so easy even a Trumpanzee will understand, timeline of the Russian election interference.

This is one reason Mueller's report isn't out yet. As you can see from the timeline, lotta' shit by the Trump campaign to review and verify.

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JUNE 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2016
Soon After Trump Announces Campaign,
His Russian Business Ties Resurface

About a month after Donald J. Trump formally announced his presidential campaign, he received an invitation to go to Moscow for the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant with him in 2013. Later that fall, the Trump Organization began to actively pursue a real estate project in Moscow.


START OF

CAMPAIGN

Contacts

with Russians

SEPTEMBER

The federal investigation

and denials of wrongdoing

start later.

NOVEMBER

JANUARY 2016

Social

media fraud

Russian

hacking

END OF

FEBRUARY 2016

KEY: CHART AND TIMELINE
Lines correspond to text below: direct contacts with Russians by Trump officials, such as the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, social media fraud,Russian hacking, denials of wrongdoing by Trump and his associates and
the federal investigation of Russian meddling.
JUNE 2015
JUNE16 Trump formally announces his presidential campaign. »
JULY 2015
JULY22 About a month later, he is invited to Moscow to celebrate the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with Trump in Russia.
JULY24 Trump's personal assistant says it is unlikely Trump will be able to make it to the party because of the campaign. Rob Goldstone, the publicist who forwards the invitation, says Agalarov’s son Emin might be able to set up a meeting with Putin if Trump decides to come.
OCTOBER 2015
OCT.12 Michael D. Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, has a series of email exchanges with Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and Trump associate, about developing a Trump property in Moscow.
OCT.28 Trump signs a “letter of intent” for a Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. »
For more than 30 years, Mr. Trump has sought to launch a real estate project in Russia. Perhaps the closest he came was during the early stages of his presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2015
NOV.3 In one of his emails to Cohen, Sater predicts that building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump’s presidential campaign. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
DECEMBER 2015
DEC.19 In another, Sater talks about securing financing from a Russian bank under American sanctions.
JANUARY 2016
JAN.14 By January, the Moscow project seems to have stalled. Cohen emails an aide to Putin seeking help to jump-start it.
JAN.19 Donald Trump Jr., Trump's eldest son, receives an email from Goldstone trumpeting his connection to a Russian social media platform and suggesting the campaign use it to appeal to Russian-American voters. The email is also sent to Trump's personal assistant, who connects Goldstone with Dan Scavino, who is in charge of social media for the campaign.
Goldstone thanks Trump's personal assistant and adds: “Emin will be in NYC end of January and I am sure would love to stop by.”
JAN.20 An executive from the Russian social media company emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal assistant about setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
FEBRUARY 2016
FEB.1 Republican primaries begin.
FEB.10 The Internet Research Agency instructs works to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).”
FEB.29 Trump receives a letter from Aras Agalarov expressing “great interest” in his “bright electoral campaign.”
MARCH 2016 TO NOVEMBER 2016
Russian Contacts, Hacking and
Fraud Intensify Through the Election

Russians reached out to campaign officials with offers of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and invitations to back-channel meetings. The top military intelligence service in Russia hacked the Democrats while a network of Russian computer specialists uses stolen identities, false personas and fake social media accounts and ads to sow discord and undermine the election.


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SEPTEMBER

ELECTION DAY 2016

KEY
Russian contacts
Social media fraud
Russian hacking
Denials of wrongdoing
Federal investigation
MARCH 2016
MARCH6 George Papadopoulos joins the campaign. He says he was told that a priority of the campaign was a better relationship with Russia.
MARCH14 He meets with a London-based professor who claims to have ties to the Russian government.
MARCH15 Russian hackers begin targeting computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Clinton campaign.
MARCH19 They send a phishing email to John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and proceed to steal the entire contents of his account — about 50,000 emails.
MARCH21 Trump names members of his foreign policy team, including Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
MARCH24 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to a Russian woman described as Putin’s niece (she was not) and they all discuss setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Papadopoulosemails campaign officials about his new Russian contacts.
MARCH28 Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist, is brought on to the campaign to lead the delegate-wrangling effort.
MARCH31 He tells Trump, Sessions and others at a campaign meeting that he can arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. »
APRIL 2016
APRIL1 Shortly after he joins the campaign, Page is invited to deliver a commencement address at a prestigious economic school in Moscow.
APRIL6 ADemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee employee opens a link to a fraudulent login page and enters password.
Fake ad: “You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident.”
Russianhackers send spearphishing emails to the accounts of others on the Clinton campaign.
APRIL7 Fake ad: “I say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation.”
APRIL10 Papadopoulos reaches out to the Russian woman.
APRIL11 Manafort emails Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a longtime Russian associate, to make sure Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, knows that he is on the Trump campaign.
Kilimnik confirms Deripaska is aware.
Papadopoulos emails the Russian woman about setting up a trip to Russia. She responds that she is “excited about the possibility of a good relationship” with Trump.
APRIL12 Russian hackers use stolen credentials to infiltrate the D.C.C.C.’s computer network and install malware.
APRIL15 They search the network for “hillary," “cruz," and “trump” and copy a folder called “Benghazi Investigations.”
APRIL18 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, a Russian claiming to connections to the Russian foreign ministry.
Russian hackers break into the D.N.C.’s computers.
Papadopoulos has multiple conversations with Timofeev about setting up a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
APRIL19 Fake ad: “JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016.”
Russian hackers create a fictitious online persona, DCLeaks, to release stolen documents.
APRIL22 Timofeev thanks Papadopoulos “for an extensive talk” and proposes meeting in London or Moscow.
APRIL25 Papadopoulos tells Stephen Miller, a top campaign adviser, that Putin wants to meet Trump.
APRIL26 The professor tells Papadopoulos that the Russians have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. »
This is the first of two instances when Russians mention “dirt” about Hillary Clinton to a Trump campaign official.

APRIL27 Trump briefly meets Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at a reception before his first major foreign policy speech.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, also meets Kislyak before the speech.
Papadopoulos emails Miller again.
He also emails Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.”
MAY 2016
MAY1 Papadopoulos tells the Australian ambassador to Britain that Russia has dirt on Clinton. »
This revelation provoked the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.

MAY4 Timofeev says his colleagues from the ministry “are open for cooperation.”
Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Lewandowski.
Manafort meets with Kilimnik.
MAY5 Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Sam Clovis, another campaign aide.
MAY8 Timofeev proposes putting Papadopoulos in touch with another Russian official.
MAY10 Fake ad: “Donald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor it.”
Rick Dearborn, a campaign aide, receives an email about arranging a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin. The subject line of the email is “Kremlin Connection.” It is sent from a conservative operative who said Russia wanted to use the N.R.A.'s convention to make “first contact.”
MAY14 Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski that the Russians are interested in hosting Trump.
MAY16 Page floats the idea with the campaign of Trump going to Russia in his place “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
MAY16 Dearborn receives a second, similar, proposal, which he forwards to Kushner, Manafort and Gates, a business associate of Manafort's. Kushner rebuffs the proposal. »
Both efforts appear to involve Alexander Torshin, a key figure in Mr. Putin’s United Russia party who was instructed to make contact with the Trump campaign. Mr. Torshin met Donald Trump Jr. at a dinner during the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few days later.

MAY19 Fake ad: “Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!"
MAY20 Trump Jr. meets briefly with Torshin and Maria Butina, a Russian later accused of being a covert agent, at an N.R.A.-sponsored dinner.
MAY21 Papadopoulos forwards email from Timofeev to Manafort, who forwards it to Gates with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
MAY24 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
MAY25 Thousands of D.N.C. emails are stolen.
MAY26 Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
MAY27 At a rally the next day, he calls Putin “a strong leader.”
JUNE 2016
JUNE1 Papadopoulostells Clovis that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked if Trump is interested in visiting Russia.
JUNE3 Aras Agalarov is told that the Russian government wants to give the Trump campaign damaging information about Clinton.
His son, Emin, enlists Goldstone to reach out to Trump Jr. and arrange a meeting.
Trump Jr. replies within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” »
This is the second time a campaign official was told of “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton.

JUNE4 Russian trolls use a fake email account to publicize a June “March for Trump” rally in New York.
JUNE5 They also reach out to the Trump campaign for rally signs.
JUNE6 Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee.
JUNE6 Goldstone follows up with Trump Jr. about when he can “talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info.”
Trump Jr. calls Emin.
JUNE7 Trump Jr. calls Emin again. »
Phone records show Trump Jr. called a blocked number before and after calls to Emin.

JUNE7 Goldstone tells Trump Jr. that Emin asked him to schedule a meeting “with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.”
JUNE7 Trump Jr. confirms the meeting and says Manafort and Kushner are likely to join him.
Trump promises to deliver a major address detailing Clinton’s “corrupt dealings.” »
This statement comes three hours after Trump Jr. confirms the Trump Tower meeting. The speech never happens.

JUNE7 Fake ad: “Trump is our only hope for a better future!”
JUNE8 DCLeaks.comgoes live and posts thousands of stolen emails.
Trump Jr. forwards the entire email chain with Goldstone to Kushner and Manafort. The subject line is “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
JUNE9 Trump Tower Russia meeting. »
The Russians nabbed a meeting at Trump Tower with top campaign officials, including the president’s eldest son, after promising damaging information about Clinton.

JUNE10 Trump receives a birthday gift from the Agalarovs.
JUNE14 The D.N.C. breach becomes public. »
JUNE14 Russian hackers create the Guccifer 2.0 persona to help throw suspicion off Russia.
Goldstone forwards a story about the D.N.C. hacking to Emin and a Russian who attended the meeting, describing the news as “eerily weird” given what they had discussed at Trump Tower.
JUNE15 Guccifer 2.0 announces it is releasing “just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC's network.”
JUNE16 Trolls use stolen Social Security numbers to open bank and PayPal accounts.
JUNE17 Trump sends a thank you note to Agalarov for the birthday present.
JUNE19 Page emails Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, about his upcoming Moscow trip. He also mentions it to Sessions during a dinner in Washington. »
JUNE19 Papadopoulos Skypes and emails Timofeev about a campaign official coming to Russia.
Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski he can travel to Russia if Trump cannot.
JUNE20 Guccifer 2.0: “Hi! I’m on Twitter now! this is my official account!”
JUNE22 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 for the stolen D.N.C. emails.
JUNE23 FakeFacebook account is used to hire someone to help with a rally.
JUNE24 Manafortsays it is “absurd” to think there are any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
JUNE24 Trump Jr. says it is “disgusting” and “phony” to suggest that Russia is helping Trump. »
His meeting with Russians two weeks earlier would be reported by The Times in July 2017.

JUNE25 “March for Trump” rally in New York organized by Russians.
JUNE29 Goldstone emails Scavino about the Russian social media platform, saying he mentioned the idea “to Don and Paul Manafort during a meeting recently.”
JUNE30 Fake ad: "#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President”
JULY 2016
JULY5 Posterswith a sham quote attributed to Clinton ordered for “Save American Muslims” rally.
JULY6 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 to send anything “Hillary related” prior to the Democratic National Convention.
JULY7 Manafort emails Kilimnik and offers to give private briefings to Deripaska.
Page delivers the commencement speech in Moscow. While there, he speaks with a Russian deputy prime minister, who expresses strong support for Trump. He also speaks with the head of investor relations for a Russian energy firm.
JULY9 Washington, D.C., rally organized by Russians: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims.”
JULY12 Facebook ads bought for “Down With Hillary” rally.
JULY14 Guccifer 2.0 sends WikiLeaks instructions for accessing the stolen D.N.C. documents.
Papadopoulos tells Timofeev that “our side” has approved a meeting with Russians.
JULY18 Kislyak is among a small group of diplomats who chat with Sessions after an event at the Republican National Convention (July 18-21).
Several other campaign officials, including Page, also chat with the Russian ambassador during the convention.
JULY20 Fake ad: “Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison.”
JULY21 Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president.
JULY21 Papadopoulos tells Timofeev to “keep an eye” on Trump’s acceptance speech. “Should be good.”
JULY22 Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 stolen emails.
JULY23 New York rally organized by Russians: “Down with Hillary.”
JULY26 Fake Facebook group “United Muslims of America” posts that Muslim voters are “between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
JULY27 Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” »
For the first time, Russian hackers attack accounts at a domain used by Clinton’s personal office.
These events happened on the same day, but it is not known whether the Russians' actions were actually in response to Mr. Trump's statement.

JULY29 Kilimnik emails Manafort to set up another meeting.
AUGUST 2016
AUG.2 Trolls send message to a real Trump Facebook account about “organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town.”
Trolls use stolen identity to send emails to Florida grassroots groups to organize the Florida rallies.
Manafort has dinner with Kilimnik in New York.
AUG.4 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
AUG.8 Over the next couple of months, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, repeatedly claims he is in contact Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and seems to foreshadow the release of Podesta's emails. »
Stone later denies any direct contact with Assange or having advance knowledge of the document dumps.

AUG.10 Fake ad: “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!"
AUG.11 FakeTwitter account posts accusations of voter fraud in North Carolina.
AUG.14 Stonebegins a series of relatively benign private messages on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, whom he says is not a Russian front.
AUG.15 Clovis encourages Papadopoulos to make the trip to Russia.
AUG.16 Trolls use a fake Instagram account to promote the pro-Trump Florida rallies.
AUG.18 Money is wired to a person who is building a cage large enough to hold a Clinton impersonator at a rally.
Russians pose as Americans and coordinate with Trump campaign staff members to organize Florida rallies.
AUG.19 Manafort is ousted from the campaign days after reports disclosed financial dealings with the pro-Russia party of a former Ukrainian president. »
AUG.19 Fake persona is used to ask a real Tea Party activist to promote the Florida rallies.
AUG.20 Multiple Florida rallies organized by Russians.
AUG.21 Stone tweets: “Trust me, it will soon [be] the Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary.”
AUG.31 Facebook ads are bought for the New York rally.
SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPT.8 Sessions meets with Kislyak in his Senate office.
SEPT.9 A Clinton impersonator is asked to travel to New York for another rally.
SEPT.20 WikiLeaks sends a direct Twitter message to Trump Jr. He thanks WikiLeaks for the message and emails several top campaign officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Kushner to let them know.
SEPT.21 Trump Jr. thanks WikiLeaks for the message.
OCTOBER 2016
OCT.2 Pennsylvania rallies organized by Russians: “Miners for Trump”
OCT.3 WikiLeaks sends another private message to Trump Jr., asking him to push a story about Clinton.
Trump Jr. says he’s already pushed the story.
OCT.7 The Obama administration accuses the Russian government of hacking. »
An “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump making lewd remarks about women surfaces. »
WikiLeaks posts the first of thousands of Podesta's emails. »
These three significant events happened within hours of one another on the afternoon of Oct. 7. WikiLeaks then released a new batch of Podesta's emails every day until the election.

OCT.10 Trump: “I love WikiLeaks!”
OCT.12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Mr. Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.

OCT.14 Fake ad: “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.”
OCT.16 Instagram account “Woke Blacks” used to encourage people of color not to vote.
OCT.19 Fake ad: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”
OCT.27 Cohen creates a shell company to pay off Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels who said she had sexual relations with Trump. »
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.2 Fake Twitter post: “#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
NOV.3 An ad by Russian operatives encouraging people to vote for Jill Stein is added on Instagram.
NOV.5 The Russian social media executive emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s assistant again to follow up on setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
NOV.6 WikiLeaks releases a new trove of emails stolen from the D.N.C. »
On July 13, 2018, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2016 TO OCTOBER 2017
A Head-Spinning Start to
the Trump Administration

Russia largely dominated the national political conversation after Mr. Trump was elected. American intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered the campaign to interfere in the election. Questionable transition contacts and accusations of attempts by Mr. Trump to kill the investigation come to light. Mr. Trump started posting hundreds of tweets that denied wrongdoing and attacked the investigation.


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NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.8 Trump is elected president.
NOV.11 Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman: “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
NOV.16 Kislyak requests a meeting with Kushner.
DECEMBER 2016
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.

DEC.13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC.28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC.28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC.29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.

DEC.29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC.30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC.30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC.31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
JANUARY 2017
JAN.5 U.S. intelligence agencies release a report concluding that Putin ordered the cybercampaign to influence the election. »
JAN.9 Cohen meets with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower. They discuss their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations under the Trump administration.
JAN.10 Sessions says he is “not aware” of anyone affilitated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government.
JAN.10 Trump tweets: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
The first of at least 200 tweets by Mr. Trump in which he calls the investigation a “hoax,” or a “witch hunt,” or disputes any notion of “collusion.” Subsequent tweets like these are labeled “Denial tweet.” on this page.

JAN.20 Cohen meets again with Russian oligarch during the inauguration. A few days later, a company connected to the oligarch awards Cohen a $1 million consulting contract. The payment is made to the same shell company Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels.
JAN.24 F.B.I. agents interview Flynn.
JAN.26 Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, tells Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel, that Flynn might be compromised because he misled the vice president about his conversations with Kislyak.
JAN.27 F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos.
JAN.27 Trump demands loyalty from James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, during a private dinner at the White House. »
JAN.27 Cohen discusses a plan to lift sanctions against Russia with Sater and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
FEBRUARY 2017
FEB.4 Cohen delivers the plan to Flynn.
FEB.13 Flynn is fired.
FEB.14 Trump asks Comey if he “can see” his way to “letting Flynn go.” »
FEB.15 Stone: “I have had no contacts from Russians or intermediaries for Russians.”
FEB.16 The F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos again.
Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
FEB.17 Papadopoulos shuts down his Facebook account in an attempt to erase messages with foreign contacts.
MARCH 2017
MARCH1 The Washington Post reports that Sessions failed to report at least two contacts with Kislyak during the campaign.
Sessions later in the day: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
MARCH2 Next day: Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.
Denial tweet.
MARCH27 Denial tweet.
MARCH30 Trumpasks Comey if he can “lift the cloud” of the investigation.
MARCH31 Denial tweet.
APRIL 2017
APRIL22 Trump asks Comey what he’s done to “get out” that he is not personally under investigation.
MAY 2017
MAY8 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY9 Trump fires Comey. »
MAY12 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY17 Robert S. Mueller III is appointed special counsel.
MAY18 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY31 Denial tweet.
JUNE 2017
JUNE15 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JUNE16 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denialtweet.
JUNE18 Denial tweet.
JUNE21 Denial tweet.
JUNE22 Denial tweet.
JUNE26 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JULY 2017
JULY8 The Times reveals that the Trump Tower Russia meeting happened.
Trump Jr. issues a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
JULY12 Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, says Trump had nothing to do with the false statement. »
More than six months later, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he “dictated” the misleading statement.

JULY12 Denial tweet.
JULY15 Denial tweet.
JULY16 Denial tweet.
JULY23 Denialtweet.
JULY25 Denial tweet.
Trump: “There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
JULY26 F.B.I. raids Manafort’s Virginia home.
JULY27 Denialtweet.
Papadopoulos is arrested.
JULY29 Denial tweet.
AUGUST 2017
AUG.7 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
SEPTEMBER 2017
SEPT.22 Denial tweet.
OCTOBER 2017
OCT.5 Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
OCT.27 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
OCT.29 Denialtweet.
OCT.30 Denial tweet.
Manafort is indicted on charges related to a scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
Gates is also charged.
OCT.31 Denial tweet.


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Why don't you post a timeline of Hillary Clinton's contacts with (and payments to) Russian officials? Oh, that's right, you're not interested in the truth, just something to pin on Trump.
 
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Here it is, full color, easy to read, so easy even a Trumpanzee will understand, timeline of the Russian election interference.

This is one reason Mueller's report isn't out yet. As you can see from the timeline, lotta' shit by the Trump campaign to review and verify.

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JUNE 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2016
Soon After Trump Announces Campaign,
His Russian Business Ties Resurface

About a month after Donald J. Trump formally announced his presidential campaign, he received an invitation to go to Moscow for the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant with him in 2013. Later that fall, the Trump Organization began to actively pursue a real estate project in Moscow.


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Lines correspond to text below: direct contacts with Russians by Trump officials, such as the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, social media fraud,Russian hacking, denials of wrongdoing by Trump and his associates and
the federal investigation of Russian meddling.
JUNE 2015
JUNE16 Trump formally announces his presidential campaign. »
JULY 2015
JULY22 About a month later, he is invited to Moscow to celebrate the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with Trump in Russia.
JULY24 Trump's personal assistant says it is unlikely Trump will be able to make it to the party because of the campaign. Rob Goldstone, the publicist who forwards the invitation, says Agalarov’s son Emin might be able to set up a meeting with Putin if Trump decides to come.
OCTOBER 2015
OCT.12 Michael D. Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, has a series of email exchanges with Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and Trump associate, about developing a Trump property in Moscow.
OCT.28 Trump signs a “letter of intent” for a Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. »
For more than 30 years, Mr. Trump has sought to launch a real estate project in Russia. Perhaps the closest he came was during the early stages of his presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2015
NOV.3 In one of his emails to Cohen, Sater predicts that building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump’s presidential campaign. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
DECEMBER 2015
DEC.19 In another, Sater talks about securing financing from a Russian bank under American sanctions.
JANUARY 2016
JAN.14 By January, the Moscow project seems to have stalled. Cohen emails an aide to Putin seeking help to jump-start it.
JAN.19 Donald Trump Jr., Trump's eldest son, receives an email from Goldstone trumpeting his connection to a Russian social media platform and suggesting the campaign use it to appeal to Russian-American voters. The email is also sent to Trump's personal assistant, who connects Goldstone with Dan Scavino, who is in charge of social media for the campaign.
Goldstone thanks Trump's personal assistant and adds: “Emin will be in NYC end of January and I am sure would love to stop by.”
JAN.20 An executive from the Russian social media company emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal assistant about setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
FEBRUARY 2016
FEB.1 Republican primaries begin.
FEB.10 The Internet Research Agency instructs works to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).”
FEB.29 Trump receives a letter from Aras Agalarov expressing “great interest” in his “bright electoral campaign.”
MARCH 2016 TO NOVEMBER 2016
Russian Contacts, Hacking and
Fraud Intensify Through the Election

Russians reached out to campaign officials with offers of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and invitations to back-channel meetings. The top military intelligence service in Russia hacked the Democrats while a network of Russian computer specialists uses stolen identities, false personas and fake social media accounts and ads to sow discord and undermine the election.


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ELECTION DAY 2016

KEY
Russian contacts
Social media fraud
Russian hacking
Denials of wrongdoing
Federal investigation
MARCH 2016
MARCH6 George Papadopoulos joins the campaign. He says he was told that a priority of the campaign was a better relationship with Russia.
MARCH14 He meets with a London-based professor who claims to have ties to the Russian government.
MARCH15 Russian hackers begin targeting computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Clinton campaign.
MARCH19 They send a phishing email to John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and proceed to steal the entire contents of his account — about 50,000 emails.
MARCH21 Trump names members of his foreign policy team, including Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
MARCH24 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to a Russian woman described as Putin’s niece (she was not) and they all discuss setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Papadopoulosemails campaign officials about his new Russian contacts.
MARCH28 Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist, is brought on to the campaign to lead the delegate-wrangling effort.
MARCH31 He tells Trump, Sessions and others at a campaign meeting that he can arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. »
APRIL 2016
APRIL1 Shortly after he joins the campaign, Page is invited to deliver a commencement address at a prestigious economic school in Moscow.
APRIL6 ADemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee employee opens a link to a fraudulent login page and enters password.
Fake ad: “You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident.”
Russianhackers send spearphishing emails to the accounts of others on the Clinton campaign.
APRIL7 Fake ad: “I say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation.”
APRIL10 Papadopoulos reaches out to the Russian woman.
APRIL11 Manafort emails Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a longtime Russian associate, to make sure Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, knows that he is on the Trump campaign.
Kilimnik confirms Deripaska is aware.
Papadopoulos emails the Russian woman about setting up a trip to Russia. She responds that she is “excited about the possibility of a good relationship” with Trump.
APRIL12 Russian hackers use stolen credentials to infiltrate the D.C.C.C.’s computer network and install malware.
APRIL15 They search the network for “hillary," “cruz," and “trump” and copy a folder called “Benghazi Investigations.”
APRIL18 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, a Russian claiming to connections to the Russian foreign ministry.
Russian hackers break into the D.N.C.’s computers.
Papadopoulos has multiple conversations with Timofeev about setting up a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
APRIL19 Fake ad: “JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016.”
Russian hackers create a fictitious online persona, DCLeaks, to release stolen documents.
APRIL22 Timofeev thanks Papadopoulos “for an extensive talk” and proposes meeting in London or Moscow.
APRIL25 Papadopoulos tells Stephen Miller, a top campaign adviser, that Putin wants to meet Trump.
APRIL26 The professor tells Papadopoulos that the Russians have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. »
This is the first of two instances when Russians mention “dirt” about Hillary Clinton to a Trump campaign official.

APRIL27 Trump briefly meets Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at a reception before his first major foreign policy speech.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, also meets Kislyak before the speech.
Papadopoulos emails Miller again.
He also emails Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.”
MAY 2016
MAY1 Papadopoulos tells the Australian ambassador to Britain that Russia has dirt on Clinton. »
This revelation provoked the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.

MAY4 Timofeev says his colleagues from the ministry “are open for cooperation.”
Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Lewandowski.
Manafort meets with Kilimnik.
MAY5 Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Sam Clovis, another campaign aide.
MAY8 Timofeev proposes putting Papadopoulos in touch with another Russian official.
MAY10 Fake ad: “Donald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor it.”
Rick Dearborn, a campaign aide, receives an email about arranging a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin. The subject line of the email is “Kremlin Connection.” It is sent from a conservative operative who said Russia wanted to use the N.R.A.'s convention to make “first contact.”
MAY14 Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski that the Russians are interested in hosting Trump.
MAY16 Page floats the idea with the campaign of Trump going to Russia in his place “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
MAY16 Dearborn receives a second, similar, proposal, which he forwards to Kushner, Manafort and Gates, a business associate of Manafort's. Kushner rebuffs the proposal. »
Both efforts appear to involve Alexander Torshin, a key figure in Mr. Putin’s United Russia party who was instructed to make contact with the Trump campaign. Mr. Torshin met Donald Trump Jr. at a dinner during the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few days later.

MAY19 Fake ad: “Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!"
MAY20 Trump Jr. meets briefly with Torshin and Maria Butina, a Russian later accused of being a covert agent, at an N.R.A.-sponsored dinner.
MAY21 Papadopoulos forwards email from Timofeev to Manafort, who forwards it to Gates with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
MAY24 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
MAY25 Thousands of D.N.C. emails are stolen.
MAY26 Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
MAY27 At a rally the next day, he calls Putin “a strong leader.”
JUNE 2016
JUNE1 Papadopoulostells Clovis that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked if Trump is interested in visiting Russia.
JUNE3 Aras Agalarov is told that the Russian government wants to give the Trump campaign damaging information about Clinton.
His son, Emin, enlists Goldstone to reach out to Trump Jr. and arrange a meeting.
Trump Jr. replies within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” »
This is the second time a campaign official was told of “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton.

JUNE4 Russian trolls use a fake email account to publicize a June “March for Trump” rally in New York.
JUNE5 They also reach out to the Trump campaign for rally signs.
JUNE6 Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee.
JUNE6 Goldstone follows up with Trump Jr. about when he can “talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info.”
Trump Jr. calls Emin.
JUNE7 Trump Jr. calls Emin again. »
Phone records show Trump Jr. called a blocked number before and after calls to Emin.

JUNE7 Goldstone tells Trump Jr. that Emin asked him to schedule a meeting “with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.”
JUNE7 Trump Jr. confirms the meeting and says Manafort and Kushner are likely to join him.
Trump promises to deliver a major address detailing Clinton’s “corrupt dealings.” »
This statement comes three hours after Trump Jr. confirms the Trump Tower meeting. The speech never happens.

JUNE7 Fake ad: “Trump is our only hope for a better future!”
JUNE8 DCLeaks.comgoes live and posts thousands of stolen emails.
Trump Jr. forwards the entire email chain with Goldstone to Kushner and Manafort. The subject line is “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
JUNE9 Trump Tower Russia meeting. »
The Russians nabbed a meeting at Trump Tower with top campaign officials, including the president’s eldest son, after promising damaging information about Clinton.

JUNE10 Trump receives a birthday gift from the Agalarovs.
JUNE14 The D.N.C. breach becomes public. »
JUNE14 Russian hackers create the Guccifer 2.0 persona to help throw suspicion off Russia.
Goldstone forwards a story about the D.N.C. hacking to Emin and a Russian who attended the meeting, describing the news as “eerily weird” given what they had discussed at Trump Tower.
JUNE15 Guccifer 2.0 announces it is releasing “just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC's network.”
JUNE16 Trolls use stolen Social Security numbers to open bank and PayPal accounts.
JUNE17 Trump sends a thank you note to Agalarov for the birthday present.
JUNE19 Page emails Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, about his upcoming Moscow trip. He also mentions it to Sessions during a dinner in Washington. »
JUNE19 Papadopoulos Skypes and emails Timofeev about a campaign official coming to Russia.
Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski he can travel to Russia if Trump cannot.
JUNE20 Guccifer 2.0: “Hi! I’m on Twitter now! this is my official account!”
JUNE22 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 for the stolen D.N.C. emails.
JUNE23 FakeFacebook account is used to hire someone to help with a rally.
JUNE24 Manafortsays it is “absurd” to think there are any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
JUNE24 Trump Jr. says it is “disgusting” and “phony” to suggest that Russia is helping Trump. »
His meeting with Russians two weeks earlier would be reported by The Times in July 2017.

JUNE25 “March for Trump” rally in New York organized by Russians.
JUNE29 Goldstone emails Scavino about the Russian social media platform, saying he mentioned the idea “to Don and Paul Manafort during a meeting recently.”
JUNE30 Fake ad: "#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President”
JULY 2016
JULY5 Posterswith a sham quote attributed to Clinton ordered for “Save American Muslims” rally.
JULY6 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 to send anything “Hillary related” prior to the Democratic National Convention.
JULY7 Manafort emails Kilimnik and offers to give private briefings to Deripaska.
Page delivers the commencement speech in Moscow. While there, he speaks with a Russian deputy prime minister, who expresses strong support for Trump. He also speaks with the head of investor relations for a Russian energy firm.
JULY9 Washington, D.C., rally organized by Russians: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims.”
JULY12 Facebook ads bought for “Down With Hillary” rally.
JULY14 Guccifer 2.0 sends WikiLeaks instructions for accessing the stolen D.N.C. documents.
Papadopoulos tells Timofeev that “our side” has approved a meeting with Russians.
JULY18 Kislyak is among a small group of diplomats who chat with Sessions after an event at the Republican National Convention (July 18-21).
Several other campaign officials, including Page, also chat with the Russian ambassador during the convention.
JULY20 Fake ad: “Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison.”
JULY21 Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president.
JULY21 Papadopoulos tells Timofeev to “keep an eye” on Trump’s acceptance speech. “Should be good.”
JULY22 Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 stolen emails.
JULY23 New York rally organized by Russians: “Down with Hillary.”
JULY26 Fake Facebook group “United Muslims of America” posts that Muslim voters are “between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
JULY27 Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” »
For the first time, Russian hackers attack accounts at a domain used by Clinton’s personal office.
These events happened on the same day, but it is not known whether the Russians' actions were actually in response to Mr. Trump's statement.

JULY29 Kilimnik emails Manafort to set up another meeting.
AUGUST 2016
AUG.2 Trolls send message to a real Trump Facebook account about “organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town.”
Trolls use stolen identity to send emails to Florida grassroots groups to organize the Florida rallies.
Manafort has dinner with Kilimnik in New York.
AUG.4 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
AUG.8 Over the next couple of months, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, repeatedly claims he is in contact Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and seems to foreshadow the release of Podesta's emails. »
Stone later denies any direct contact with Assange or having advance knowledge of the document dumps.

AUG.10 Fake ad: “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!"
AUG.11 FakeTwitter account posts accusations of voter fraud in North Carolina.
AUG.14 Stonebegins a series of relatively benign private messages on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, whom he says is not a Russian front.
AUG.15 Clovis encourages Papadopoulos to make the trip to Russia.
AUG.16 Trolls use a fake Instagram account to promote the pro-Trump Florida rallies.
AUG.18 Money is wired to a person who is building a cage large enough to hold a Clinton impersonator at a rally.
Russians pose as Americans and coordinate with Trump campaign staff members to organize Florida rallies.
AUG.19 Manafort is ousted from the campaign days after reports disclosed financial dealings with the pro-Russia party of a former Ukrainian president. »
AUG.19 Fake persona is used to ask a real Tea Party activist to promote the Florida rallies.
AUG.20 Multiple Florida rallies organized by Russians.
AUG.21 Stone tweets: “Trust me, it will soon [be] the Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary.”
AUG.31 Facebook ads are bought for the New York rally.
SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPT.8 Sessions meets with Kislyak in his Senate office.
SEPT.9 A Clinton impersonator is asked to travel to New York for another rally.
SEPT.20 WikiLeaks sends a direct Twitter message to Trump Jr. He thanks WikiLeaks for the message and emails several top campaign officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Kushner to let them know.
SEPT.21 Trump Jr. thanks WikiLeaks for the message.
OCTOBER 2016
OCT.2 Pennsylvania rallies organized by Russians: “Miners for Trump”
OCT.3 WikiLeaks sends another private message to Trump Jr., asking him to push a story about Clinton.
Trump Jr. says he’s already pushed the story.
OCT.7 The Obama administration accuses the Russian government of hacking. »
An “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump making lewd remarks about women surfaces. »
WikiLeaks posts the first of thousands of Podesta's emails. »
These three significant events happened within hours of one another on the afternoon of Oct. 7. WikiLeaks then released a new batch of Podesta's emails every day until the election.

OCT.10 Trump: “I love WikiLeaks!”
OCT.12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Mr. Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.

OCT.14 Fake ad: “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.”
OCT.16 Instagram account “Woke Blacks” used to encourage people of color not to vote.
OCT.19 Fake ad: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”
OCT.27 Cohen creates a shell company to pay off Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels who said she had sexual relations with Trump. »
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.2 Fake Twitter post: “#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
NOV.3 An ad by Russian operatives encouraging people to vote for Jill Stein is added on Instagram.
NOV.5 The Russian social media executive emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s assistant again to follow up on setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
NOV.6 WikiLeaks releases a new trove of emails stolen from the D.N.C. »
On July 13, 2018, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2016 TO OCTOBER 2017
A Head-Spinning Start to
the Trump Administration

Russia largely dominated the national political conversation after Mr. Trump was elected. American intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered the campaign to interfere in the election. Questionable transition contacts and accusations of attempts by Mr. Trump to kill the investigation come to light. Mr. Trump started posting hundreds of tweets that denied wrongdoing and attacked the investigation.


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NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.8 Trump is elected president.
NOV.11 Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman: “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
NOV.16 Kislyak requests a meeting with Kushner.
DECEMBER 2016
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.

DEC.13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC.28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC.28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC.29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.

DEC.29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC.30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC.30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC.31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
JANUARY 2017
JAN.5 U.S. intelligence agencies release a report concluding that Putin ordered the cybercampaign to influence the election. »
JAN.9 Cohen meets with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower. They discuss their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations under the Trump administration.
JAN.10 Sessions says he is “not aware” of anyone affilitated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government.
JAN.10 Trump tweets: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
The first of at least 200 tweets by Mr. Trump in which he calls the investigation a “hoax,” or a “witch hunt,” or disputes any notion of “collusion.” Subsequent tweets like these are labeled “Denial tweet.” on this page.

JAN.20 Cohen meets again with Russian oligarch during the inauguration. A few days later, a company connected to the oligarch awards Cohen a $1 million consulting contract. The payment is made to the same shell company Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels.
JAN.24 F.B.I. agents interview Flynn.
JAN.26 Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, tells Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel, that Flynn might be compromised because he misled the vice president about his conversations with Kislyak.
JAN.27 F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos.
JAN.27 Trump demands loyalty from James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, during a private dinner at the White House. »
JAN.27 Cohen discusses a plan to lift sanctions against Russia with Sater and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
FEBRUARY 2017
FEB.4 Cohen delivers the plan to Flynn.
FEB.13 Flynn is fired.
FEB.14 Trump asks Comey if he “can see” his way to “letting Flynn go.” »
FEB.15 Stone: “I have had no contacts from Russians or intermediaries for Russians.”
FEB.16 The F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos again.
Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
FEB.17 Papadopoulos shuts down his Facebook account in an attempt to erase messages with foreign contacts.
MARCH 2017
MARCH1 The Washington Post reports that Sessions failed to report at least two contacts with Kislyak during the campaign.
Sessions later in the day: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
MARCH2 Next day: Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.
Denial tweet.
MARCH27 Denial tweet.
MARCH30 Trumpasks Comey if he can “lift the cloud” of the investigation.
MARCH31 Denial tweet.
APRIL 2017
APRIL22 Trump asks Comey what he’s done to “get out” that he is not personally under investigation.
MAY 2017
MAY8 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY9 Trump fires Comey. »
MAY12 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY17 Robert S. Mueller III is appointed special counsel.
MAY18 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY31 Denial tweet.
JUNE 2017
JUNE15 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JUNE16 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denialtweet.
JUNE18 Denial tweet.
JUNE21 Denial tweet.
JUNE22 Denial tweet.
JUNE26 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JULY 2017
JULY8 The Times reveals that the Trump Tower Russia meeting happened.
Trump Jr. issues a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
JULY12 Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, says Trump had nothing to do with the false statement. »
More than six months later, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he “dictated” the misleading statement.

JULY12 Denial tweet.
JULY15 Denial tweet.
JULY16 Denial tweet.
JULY23 Denialtweet.
JULY25 Denial tweet.
Trump: “There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
JULY26 F.B.I. raids Manafort’s Virginia home.
JULY27 Denialtweet.
Papadopoulos is arrested.
JULY29 Denial tweet.
AUGUST 2017
AUG.7 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
SEPTEMBER 2017
SEPT.22 Denial tweet.
OCTOBER 2017
OCT.5 Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
OCT.27 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
OCT.29 Denialtweet.
OCT.30 Denial tweet.
Manafort is indicted on charges related to a scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
Gates is also charged.
OCT.31 Denial tweet.


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A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
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Why don't you post a timeline of Hillary Clinton's contacts with (and payments to) Russian officials? Oh, that's right, you're not interested in the truth, just something to pin on Trump.


Why don't you, if it exists?
You're the one not interested in the truth.
Your head has been down that hole in the ground so long, you're gonna' need sunglasses when you finally pull it out.
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Vlad Putin hated Hillary Clinton, that's why he got involved with the 2016 election.

Why does Vladimir Putin hate Hillary Clinton? - ABC News (Australian ...
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-22/vladimir-putin-and-hillary-clinton.../9783076
May 21, 2018 - Hillary Clinton has never been afraid to call out Vladimir Putin, but she never expected Russia's vengeance to be so damaging.
Why Putin hates Hillary - POLITICO
Why Putin hates Hillary
Jul 25, 2016 - Behind the allegations of a Russian hack of the DNC is the Kremlin leader's fury at Clinton for challenging the fairness of Russian elections.
Hillary Was Putin's Worst Nightmare. That's Why His Minions Hacked ...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-was-putins-worst-nightmare-thats-why-his-mini...
Feb 21, 2018 - All this Russia stuff happened in the first place not becauseVladimir Putin loved Donald Trump, but because he hated Hillary Clinton.
DNC Email Hack: Why Vladimir Putin Hates Hillary Clinton - NBC News
Why Vladimir Putin Hates Hillary Clinton
Jul 26, 2016 - If Russia is indeed behind the damaging leak of Democratic Party emails on the eve of its national convention, it's not just becausePresident ...
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Here it is, full color, easy to read, so easy even a Trumpanzee will understand, timeline of the Russian election interference.

This is one reason Mueller's report isn't out yet. As you can see from the timeline, lotta' shit by the Trump campaign to review and verify.

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JUNE 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2016
Soon After Trump Announces Campaign,
His Russian Business Ties Resurface

About a month after Donald J. Trump formally announced his presidential campaign, he received an invitation to go to Moscow for the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant with him in 2013. Later that fall, the Trump Organization began to actively pursue a real estate project in Moscow.


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JUNE 2015
JUNE16 Trump formally announces his presidential campaign. »
JULY 2015
JULY22 About a month later, he is invited to Moscow to celebrate the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with Trump in Russia.
JULY24 Trump's personal assistant says it is unlikely Trump will be able to make it to the party because of the campaign. Rob Goldstone, the publicist who forwards the invitation, says Agalarov’s son Emin might be able to set up a meeting with Putin if Trump decides to come.
OCTOBER 2015
OCT.12 Michael D. Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, has a series of email exchanges with Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and Trump associate, about developing a Trump property in Moscow.
OCT.28 Trump signs a “letter of intent” for a Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. »
For more than 30 years, Mr. Trump has sought to launch a real estate project in Russia. Perhaps the closest he came was during the early stages of his presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2015
NOV.3 In one of his emails to Cohen, Sater predicts that building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump’s presidential campaign. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
DECEMBER 2015
DEC.19 In another, Sater talks about securing financing from a Russian bank under American sanctions.
JANUARY 2016
JAN.14 By January, the Moscow project seems to have stalled. Cohen emails an aide to Putin seeking help to jump-start it.
JAN.19 Donald Trump Jr., Trump's eldest son, receives an email from Goldstone trumpeting his connection to a Russian social media platform and suggesting the campaign use it to appeal to Russian-American voters. The email is also sent to Trump's personal assistant, who connects Goldstone with Dan Scavino, who is in charge of social media for the campaign.
Goldstone thanks Trump's personal assistant and adds: “Emin will be in NYC end of January and I am sure would love to stop by.”
JAN.20 An executive from the Russian social media company emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal assistant about setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
FEBRUARY 2016
FEB.1 Republican primaries begin.
FEB.10 The Internet Research Agency instructs works to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).”
FEB.29 Trump receives a letter from Aras Agalarov expressing “great interest” in his “bright electoral campaign.”
MARCH 2016 TO NOVEMBER 2016
Russian Contacts, Hacking and
Fraud Intensify Through the Election

Russians reached out to campaign officials with offers of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and invitations to back-channel meetings. The top military intelligence service in Russia hacked the Democrats while a network of Russian computer specialists uses stolen identities, false personas and fake social media accounts and ads to sow discord and undermine the election.


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MARCH 2016
MARCH6 George Papadopoulos joins the campaign. He says he was told that a priority of the campaign was a better relationship with Russia.
MARCH14 He meets with a London-based professor who claims to have ties to the Russian government.
MARCH15 Russian hackers begin targeting computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Clinton campaign.
MARCH19 They send a phishing email to John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and proceed to steal the entire contents of his account — about 50,000 emails.
MARCH21 Trump names members of his foreign policy team, including Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
MARCH24 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to a Russian woman described as Putin’s niece (she was not) and they all discuss setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Papadopoulosemails campaign officials about his new Russian contacts.
MARCH28 Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist, is brought on to the campaign to lead the delegate-wrangling effort.
MARCH31 He tells Trump, Sessions and others at a campaign meeting that he can arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. »
APRIL 2016
APRIL1 Shortly after he joins the campaign, Page is invited to deliver a commencement address at a prestigious economic school in Moscow.
APRIL6 ADemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee employee opens a link to a fraudulent login page and enters password.
Fake ad: “You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident.”
Russianhackers send spearphishing emails to the accounts of others on the Clinton campaign.
APRIL7 Fake ad: “I say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation.”
APRIL10 Papadopoulos reaches out to the Russian woman.
APRIL11 Manafort emails Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a longtime Russian associate, to make sure Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, knows that he is on the Trump campaign.
Kilimnik confirms Deripaska is aware.
Papadopoulos emails the Russian woman about setting up a trip to Russia. She responds that she is “excited about the possibility of a good relationship” with Trump.
APRIL12 Russian hackers use stolen credentials to infiltrate the D.C.C.C.’s computer network and install malware.
APRIL15 They search the network for “hillary," “cruz," and “trump” and copy a folder called “Benghazi Investigations.”
APRIL18 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, a Russian claiming to connections to the Russian foreign ministry.
Russian hackers break into the D.N.C.’s computers.
Papadopoulos has multiple conversations with Timofeev about setting up a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
APRIL19 Fake ad: “JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016.”
Russian hackers create a fictitious online persona, DCLeaks, to release stolen documents.
APRIL22 Timofeev thanks Papadopoulos “for an extensive talk” and proposes meeting in London or Moscow.
APRIL25 Papadopoulos tells Stephen Miller, a top campaign adviser, that Putin wants to meet Trump.
APRIL26 The professor tells Papadopoulos that the Russians have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. »
This is the first of two instances when Russians mention “dirt” about Hillary Clinton to a Trump campaign official.

APRIL27 Trump briefly meets Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at a reception before his first major foreign policy speech.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, also meets Kislyak before the speech.
Papadopoulos emails Miller again.
He also emails Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.”
MAY 2016
MAY1 Papadopoulos tells the Australian ambassador to Britain that Russia has dirt on Clinton. »
This revelation provoked the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.

MAY4 Timofeev says his colleagues from the ministry “are open for cooperation.”
Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Lewandowski.
Manafort meets with Kilimnik.
MAY5 Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Sam Clovis, another campaign aide.
MAY8 Timofeev proposes putting Papadopoulos in touch with another Russian official.
MAY10 Fake ad: “Donald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor it.”
Rick Dearborn, a campaign aide, receives an email about arranging a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin. The subject line of the email is “Kremlin Connection.” It is sent from a conservative operative who said Russia wanted to use the N.R.A.'s convention to make “first contact.”
MAY14 Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski that the Russians are interested in hosting Trump.
MAY16 Page floats the idea with the campaign of Trump going to Russia in his place “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
MAY16 Dearborn receives a second, similar, proposal, which he forwards to Kushner, Manafort and Gates, a business associate of Manafort's. Kushner rebuffs the proposal. »
Both efforts appear to involve Alexander Torshin, a key figure in Mr. Putin’s United Russia party who was instructed to make contact with the Trump campaign. Mr. Torshin met Donald Trump Jr. at a dinner during the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few days later.

MAY19 Fake ad: “Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!"
MAY20 Trump Jr. meets briefly with Torshin and Maria Butina, a Russian later accused of being a covert agent, at an N.R.A.-sponsored dinner.
MAY21 Papadopoulos forwards email from Timofeev to Manafort, who forwards it to Gates with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
MAY24 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
MAY25 Thousands of D.N.C. emails are stolen.
MAY26 Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
MAY27 At a rally the next day, he calls Putin “a strong leader.”
JUNE 2016
JUNE1 Papadopoulostells Clovis that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked if Trump is interested in visiting Russia.
JUNE3 Aras Agalarov is told that the Russian government wants to give the Trump campaign damaging information about Clinton.
His son, Emin, enlists Goldstone to reach out to Trump Jr. and arrange a meeting.
Trump Jr. replies within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” »
This is the second time a campaign official was told of “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton.

JUNE4 Russian trolls use a fake email account to publicize a June “March for Trump” rally in New York.
JUNE5 They also reach out to the Trump campaign for rally signs.
JUNE6 Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee.
JUNE6 Goldstone follows up with Trump Jr. about when he can “talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info.”
Trump Jr. calls Emin.
JUNE7 Trump Jr. calls Emin again. »
Phone records show Trump Jr. called a blocked number before and after calls to Emin.

JUNE7 Goldstone tells Trump Jr. that Emin asked him to schedule a meeting “with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.”
JUNE7 Trump Jr. confirms the meeting and says Manafort and Kushner are likely to join him.
Trump promises to deliver a major address detailing Clinton’s “corrupt dealings.” »
This statement comes three hours after Trump Jr. confirms the Trump Tower meeting. The speech never happens.

JUNE7 Fake ad: “Trump is our only hope for a better future!”
JUNE8 DCLeaks.comgoes live and posts thousands of stolen emails.
Trump Jr. forwards the entire email chain with Goldstone to Kushner and Manafort. The subject line is “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
JUNE9 Trump Tower Russia meeting. »
The Russians nabbed a meeting at Trump Tower with top campaign officials, including the president’s eldest son, after promising damaging information about Clinton.

JUNE10 Trump receives a birthday gift from the Agalarovs.
JUNE14 The D.N.C. breach becomes public. »
JUNE14 Russian hackers create the Guccifer 2.0 persona to help throw suspicion off Russia.
Goldstone forwards a story about the D.N.C. hacking to Emin and a Russian who attended the meeting, describing the news as “eerily weird” given what they had discussed at Trump Tower.
JUNE15 Guccifer 2.0 announces it is releasing “just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC's network.”
JUNE16 Trolls use stolen Social Security numbers to open bank and PayPal accounts.
JUNE17 Trump sends a thank you note to Agalarov for the birthday present.
JUNE19 Page emails Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, about his upcoming Moscow trip. He also mentions it to Sessions during a dinner in Washington. »
JUNE19 Papadopoulos Skypes and emails Timofeev about a campaign official coming to Russia.
Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski he can travel to Russia if Trump cannot.
JUNE20 Guccifer 2.0: “Hi! I’m on Twitter now! this is my official account!”
JUNE22 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 for the stolen D.N.C. emails.
JUNE23 FakeFacebook account is used to hire someone to help with a rally.
JUNE24 Manafortsays it is “absurd” to think there are any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
JUNE24 Trump Jr. says it is “disgusting” and “phony” to suggest that Russia is helping Trump. »
His meeting with Russians two weeks earlier would be reported by The Times in July 2017.

JUNE25 “March for Trump” rally in New York organized by Russians.
JUNE29 Goldstone emails Scavino about the Russian social media platform, saying he mentioned the idea “to Don and Paul Manafort during a meeting recently.”
JUNE30 Fake ad: "#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President”
JULY 2016
JULY5 Posterswith a sham quote attributed to Clinton ordered for “Save American Muslims” rally.
JULY6 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 to send anything “Hillary related” prior to the Democratic National Convention.
JULY7 Manafort emails Kilimnik and offers to give private briefings to Deripaska.
Page delivers the commencement speech in Moscow. While there, he speaks with a Russian deputy prime minister, who expresses strong support for Trump. He also speaks with the head of investor relations for a Russian energy firm.
JULY9 Washington, D.C., rally organized by Russians: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims.”
JULY12 Facebook ads bought for “Down With Hillary” rally.
JULY14 Guccifer 2.0 sends WikiLeaks instructions for accessing the stolen D.N.C. documents.
Papadopoulos tells Timofeev that “our side” has approved a meeting with Russians.
JULY18 Kislyak is among a small group of diplomats who chat with Sessions after an event at the Republican National Convention (July 18-21).
Several other campaign officials, including Page, also chat with the Russian ambassador during the convention.
JULY20 Fake ad: “Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison.”
JULY21 Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president.
JULY21 Papadopoulos tells Timofeev to “keep an eye” on Trump’s acceptance speech. “Should be good.”
JULY22 Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 stolen emails.
JULY23 New York rally organized by Russians: “Down with Hillary.”
JULY26 Fake Facebook group “United Muslims of America” posts that Muslim voters are “between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
JULY27 Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” »
For the first time, Russian hackers attack accounts at a domain used by Clinton’s personal office.
These events happened on the same day, but it is not known whether the Russians' actions were actually in response to Mr. Trump's statement.

JULY29 Kilimnik emails Manafort to set up another meeting.
AUGUST 2016
AUG.2 Trolls send message to a real Trump Facebook account about “organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town.”
Trolls use stolen identity to send emails to Florida grassroots groups to organize the Florida rallies.
Manafort has dinner with Kilimnik in New York.
AUG.4 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
AUG.8 Over the next couple of months, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, repeatedly claims he is in contact Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and seems to foreshadow the release of Podesta's emails. »
Stone later denies any direct contact with Assange or having advance knowledge of the document dumps.

AUG.10 Fake ad: “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!"
AUG.11 FakeTwitter account posts accusations of voter fraud in North Carolina.
AUG.14 Stonebegins a series of relatively benign private messages on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, whom he says is not a Russian front.
AUG.15 Clovis encourages Papadopoulos to make the trip to Russia.
AUG.16 Trolls use a fake Instagram account to promote the pro-Trump Florida rallies.
AUG.18 Money is wired to a person who is building a cage large enough to hold a Clinton impersonator at a rally.
Russians pose as Americans and coordinate with Trump campaign staff members to organize Florida rallies.
AUG.19 Manafort is ousted from the campaign days after reports disclosed financial dealings with the pro-Russia party of a former Ukrainian president. »
AUG.19 Fake persona is used to ask a real Tea Party activist to promote the Florida rallies.
AUG.20 Multiple Florida rallies organized by Russians.
AUG.21 Stone tweets: “Trust me, it will soon [be] the Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary.”
AUG.31 Facebook ads are bought for the New York rally.
SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPT.8 Sessions meets with Kislyak in his Senate office.
SEPT.9 A Clinton impersonator is asked to travel to New York for another rally.
SEPT.20 WikiLeaks sends a direct Twitter message to Trump Jr. He thanks WikiLeaks for the message and emails several top campaign officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Kushner to let them know.
SEPT.21 Trump Jr. thanks WikiLeaks for the message.
OCTOBER 2016
OCT.2 Pennsylvania rallies organized by Russians: “Miners for Trump”
OCT.3 WikiLeaks sends another private message to Trump Jr., asking him to push a story about Clinton.
Trump Jr. says he’s already pushed the story.
OCT.7 The Obama administration accuses the Russian government of hacking. »
An “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump making lewd remarks about women surfaces. »
WikiLeaks posts the first of thousands of Podesta's emails. »
These three significant events happened within hours of one another on the afternoon of Oct. 7. WikiLeaks then released a new batch of Podesta's emails every day until the election.

OCT.10 Trump: “I love WikiLeaks!”
OCT.12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Mr. Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.

OCT.14 Fake ad: “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.”
OCT.16 Instagram account “Woke Blacks” used to encourage people of color not to vote.
OCT.19 Fake ad: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”
OCT.27 Cohen creates a shell company to pay off Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels who said she had sexual relations with Trump. »
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.2 Fake Twitter post: “#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
NOV.3 An ad by Russian operatives encouraging people to vote for Jill Stein is added on Instagram.
NOV.5 The Russian social media executive emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s assistant again to follow up on setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
NOV.6 WikiLeaks releases a new trove of emails stolen from the D.N.C. »
On July 13, 2018, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2016 TO OCTOBER 2017
A Head-Spinning Start to
the Trump Administration

Russia largely dominated the national political conversation after Mr. Trump was elected. American intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered the campaign to interfere in the election. Questionable transition contacts and accusations of attempts by Mr. Trump to kill the investigation come to light. Mr. Trump started posting hundreds of tweets that denied wrongdoing and attacked the investigation.


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NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.8 Trump is elected president.
NOV.11 Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman: “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
NOV.16 Kislyak requests a meeting with Kushner.
DECEMBER 2016
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.

DEC.13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC.28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC.28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC.29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.

DEC.29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC.30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC.30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC.31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
JANUARY 2017
JAN.5 U.S. intelligence agencies release a report concluding that Putin ordered the cybercampaign to influence the election. »
JAN.9 Cohen meets with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower. They discuss their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations under the Trump administration.
JAN.10 Sessions says he is “not aware” of anyone affilitated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government.
JAN.10 Trump tweets: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
The first of at least 200 tweets by Mr. Trump in which he calls the investigation a “hoax,” or a “witch hunt,” or disputes any notion of “collusion.” Subsequent tweets like these are labeled “Denial tweet.” on this page.

JAN.20 Cohen meets again with Russian oligarch during the inauguration. A few days later, a company connected to the oligarch awards Cohen a $1 million consulting contract. The payment is made to the same shell company Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels.
JAN.24 F.B.I. agents interview Flynn.
JAN.26 Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, tells Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel, that Flynn might be compromised because he misled the vice president about his conversations with Kislyak.
JAN.27 F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos.
JAN.27 Trump demands loyalty from James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, during a private dinner at the White House. »
JAN.27 Cohen discusses a plan to lift sanctions against Russia with Sater and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
FEBRUARY 2017
FEB.4 Cohen delivers the plan to Flynn.
FEB.13 Flynn is fired.
FEB.14 Trump asks Comey if he “can see” his way to “letting Flynn go.” »
FEB.15 Stone: “I have had no contacts from Russians or intermediaries for Russians.”
FEB.16 The F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos again.
Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
FEB.17 Papadopoulos shuts down his Facebook account in an attempt to erase messages with foreign contacts.
MARCH 2017
MARCH1 The Washington Post reports that Sessions failed to report at least two contacts with Kislyak during the campaign.
Sessions later in the day: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
MARCH2 Next day: Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.
Denial tweet.
MARCH27 Denial tweet.
MARCH30 Trumpasks Comey if he can “lift the cloud” of the investigation.
MARCH31 Denial tweet.
APRIL 2017
APRIL22 Trump asks Comey what he’s done to “get out” that he is not personally under investigation.
MAY 2017
MAY8 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY9 Trump fires Comey. »
MAY12 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY17 Robert S. Mueller III is appointed special counsel.
MAY18 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY31 Denial tweet.
JUNE 2017
JUNE15 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JUNE16 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
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JUNE18 Denial tweet.
JUNE21 Denial tweet.
JUNE22 Denial tweet.
JUNE26 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JULY 2017
JULY8 The Times reveals that the Trump Tower Russia meeting happened.
Trump Jr. issues a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
JULY12 Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, says Trump had nothing to do with the false statement. »
More than six months later, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he “dictated” the misleading statement.

JULY12 Denial tweet.
JULY15 Denial tweet.
JULY16 Denial tweet.
JULY23 Denialtweet.
JULY25 Denial tweet.
Trump: “There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
JULY26 F.B.I. raids Manafort’s Virginia home.
JULY27 Denialtweet.
Papadopoulos is arrested.
JULY29 Denial tweet.
AUGUST 2017
AUG.7 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
SEPTEMBER 2017
SEPT.22 Denial tweet.
OCTOBER 2017
OCT.5 Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
OCT.27 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
OCT.29 Denialtweet.
OCT.30 Denial tweet.
Manafort is indicted on charges related to a scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
Gates is also charged.
OCT.31 Denial tweet.


A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath


What happened to Hillary meddling in Russia's election???.



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I'm curious, Waiting...do you think Russian "interference" in our elections started for this past election...or has it been something that's been going on for quite some time now? Would you like me to bring up Barack Obama's take on Russian interference BEFORE Hillary lost the election? I'll give you a hint...he pooh poohed it! Funny how that changed as soon as the election didn't go the way that Democrats thought it would!
 
I'm curious, Waiting...do you think Russian "interference" in our elections started for this past election...or has it been something that's been going on for quite some time now? Would you like me to bring up Barack Obama's take on Russian interference BEFORE Hillary lost the election? I'll give you a hint...he pooh poohed it! Funny how that changed as soon as the election didn't go the way that Democrats thought it would!

If Obama "pooh poohed it" as you claim, then why did he kick all those Russian diplomats out, as well as confiscated their compound? That was a response to Russia interfering in our elections.
 
Why don't you post a timeline of Hillary Clinton's contacts with (and payments to) Russian officials? Oh, that's right, you're not interested in the truth, just something to pin on Trump.

Hillary’s dealings with Russians were out in the open, and everyone in the world knew about them. She didn’t sneak around meeting with Russians and lying about it.

Her contacts were disclosed, as were payments to her Foundation. All monies were properly reported and audited.

None of the above can be said about members of the Trump Administration.
 
Hillary’s dealings with Russians were out in the open, and everyone in the world knew about them.
Really? Everyone in the world knew that Hillary was paying the Russians to concoct a fake story about Donald Trump to use against him politically? Yeah, we know NOW, but did we know THEN? NO, WE DID NOT. And we never would have if Hillary had won the election.
She didn’t sneak around meeting with Russians and lying about it.
Um, that's EXACTLY what she did.
Her contacts were disclosed, as were payments to her Foundation. All monies were properly reported and audited.
None of that is true. You're either a liar or...well, you're a liar, it's the only explanation.
 
this whole Mueller investigation is nothing more than a royal fuckjob by a bunch of Democrat losers
 
Here it is, full color, easy to read, so easy even a Trumpanzee will understand, timeline of the Russian election interference.

This is one reason Mueller's report isn't out yet. As you can see from the timeline, lotta' shit by the Trump campaign to review and verify.

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JUNE 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2016
Soon After Trump Announces Campaign,
His Russian Business Ties Resurface

About a month after Donald J. Trump formally announced his presidential campaign, he received an invitation to go to Moscow for the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant with him in 2013. Later that fall, the Trump Organization began to actively pursue a real estate project in Moscow.


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JUNE 2015
JUNE16 Trump formally announces his presidential campaign. »
JULY 2015
JULY22 About a month later, he is invited to Moscow to celebrate the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with Trump in Russia.
JULY24 Trump's personal assistant says it is unlikely Trump will be able to make it to the party because of the campaign. Rob Goldstone, the publicist who forwards the invitation, says Agalarov’s son Emin might be able to set up a meeting with Putin if Trump decides to come.
OCTOBER 2015
OCT.12 Michael D. Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, has a series of email exchanges with Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and Trump associate, about developing a Trump property in Moscow.
OCT.28 Trump signs a “letter of intent” for a Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. »
For more than 30 years, Mr. Trump has sought to launch a real estate project in Russia. Perhaps the closest he came was during the early stages of his presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2015
NOV.3 In one of his emails to Cohen, Sater predicts that building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump’s presidential campaign. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
DECEMBER 2015
DEC.19 In another, Sater talks about securing financing from a Russian bank under American sanctions.
JANUARY 2016
JAN.14 By January, the Moscow project seems to have stalled. Cohen emails an aide to Putin seeking help to jump-start it.
JAN.19 Donald Trump Jr., Trump's eldest son, receives an email from Goldstone trumpeting his connection to a Russian social media platform and suggesting the campaign use it to appeal to Russian-American voters. The email is also sent to Trump's personal assistant, who connects Goldstone with Dan Scavino, who is in charge of social media for the campaign.
Goldstone thanks Trump's personal assistant and adds: “Emin will be in NYC end of January and I am sure would love to stop by.”
JAN.20 An executive from the Russian social media company emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal assistant about setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
FEBRUARY 2016
FEB.1 Republican primaries begin.
FEB.10 The Internet Research Agency instructs works to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).”
FEB.29 Trump receives a letter from Aras Agalarov expressing “great interest” in his “bright electoral campaign.”
MARCH 2016 TO NOVEMBER 2016
Russian Contacts, Hacking and
Fraud Intensify Through the Election

Russians reached out to campaign officials with offers of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and invitations to back-channel meetings. The top military intelligence service in Russia hacked the Democrats while a network of Russian computer specialists uses stolen identities, false personas and fake social media accounts and ads to sow discord and undermine the election.


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MARCH 2016
MARCH6 George Papadopoulos joins the campaign. He says he was told that a priority of the campaign was a better relationship with Russia.
MARCH14 He meets with a London-based professor who claims to have ties to the Russian government.
MARCH15 Russian hackers begin targeting computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Clinton campaign.
MARCH19 They send a phishing email to John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and proceed to steal the entire contents of his account — about 50,000 emails.
MARCH21 Trump names members of his foreign policy team, including Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
MARCH24 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to a Russian woman described as Putin’s niece (she was not) and they all discuss setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Papadopoulosemails campaign officials about his new Russian contacts.
MARCH28 Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist, is brought on to the campaign to lead the delegate-wrangling effort.
MARCH31 He tells Trump, Sessions and others at a campaign meeting that he can arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. »
APRIL 2016
APRIL1 Shortly after he joins the campaign, Page is invited to deliver a commencement address at a prestigious economic school in Moscow.
APRIL6 ADemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee employee opens a link to a fraudulent login page and enters password.
Fake ad: “You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident.”
Russianhackers send spearphishing emails to the accounts of others on the Clinton campaign.
APRIL7 Fake ad: “I say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation.”
APRIL10 Papadopoulos reaches out to the Russian woman.
APRIL11 Manafort emails Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a longtime Russian associate, to make sure Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, knows that he is on the Trump campaign.
Kilimnik confirms Deripaska is aware.
Papadopoulos emails the Russian woman about setting up a trip to Russia. She responds that she is “excited about the possibility of a good relationship” with Trump.
APRIL12 Russian hackers use stolen credentials to infiltrate the D.C.C.C.’s computer network and install malware.
APRIL15 They search the network for “hillary," “cruz," and “trump” and copy a folder called “Benghazi Investigations.”
APRIL18 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, a Russian claiming to connections to the Russian foreign ministry.
Russian hackers break into the D.N.C.’s computers.
Papadopoulos has multiple conversations with Timofeev about setting up a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
APRIL19 Fake ad: “JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016.”
Russian hackers create a fictitious online persona, DCLeaks, to release stolen documents.
APRIL22 Timofeev thanks Papadopoulos “for an extensive talk” and proposes meeting in London or Moscow.
APRIL25 Papadopoulos tells Stephen Miller, a top campaign adviser, that Putin wants to meet Trump.
APRIL26 The professor tells Papadopoulos that the Russians have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. »
This is the first of two instances when Russians mention “dirt” about Hillary Clinton to a Trump campaign official.

APRIL27 Trump briefly meets Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at a reception before his first major foreign policy speech.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, also meets Kislyak before the speech.
Papadopoulos emails Miller again.
He also emails Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.”
MAY 2016
MAY1 Papadopoulos tells the Australian ambassador to Britain that Russia has dirt on Clinton. »
This revelation provoked the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.

MAY4 Timofeev says his colleagues from the ministry “are open for cooperation.”
Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Lewandowski.
Manafort meets with Kilimnik.
MAY5 Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Sam Clovis, another campaign aide.
MAY8 Timofeev proposes putting Papadopoulos in touch with another Russian official.
MAY10 Fake ad: “Donald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor it.”
Rick Dearborn, a campaign aide, receives an email about arranging a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin. The subject line of the email is “Kremlin Connection.” It is sent from a conservative operative who said Russia wanted to use the N.R.A.'s convention to make “first contact.”
MAY14 Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski that the Russians are interested in hosting Trump.
MAY16 Page floats the idea with the campaign of Trump going to Russia in his place “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
MAY16 Dearborn receives a second, similar, proposal, which he forwards to Kushner, Manafort and Gates, a business associate of Manafort's. Kushner rebuffs the proposal. »
Both efforts appear to involve Alexander Torshin, a key figure in Mr. Putin’s United Russia party who was instructed to make contact with the Trump campaign. Mr. Torshin met Donald Trump Jr. at a dinner during the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few days later.

MAY19 Fake ad: “Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!"
MAY20 Trump Jr. meets briefly with Torshin and Maria Butina, a Russian later accused of being a covert agent, at an N.R.A.-sponsored dinner.
MAY21 Papadopoulos forwards email from Timofeev to Manafort, who forwards it to Gates with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
MAY24 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
MAY25 Thousands of D.N.C. emails are stolen.
MAY26 Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
MAY27 At a rally the next day, he calls Putin “a strong leader.”
JUNE 2016
JUNE1 Papadopoulostells Clovis that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked if Trump is interested in visiting Russia.
JUNE3 Aras Agalarov is told that the Russian government wants to give the Trump campaign damaging information about Clinton.
His son, Emin, enlists Goldstone to reach out to Trump Jr. and arrange a meeting.
Trump Jr. replies within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” »
This is the second time a campaign official was told of “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton.

JUNE4 Russian trolls use a fake email account to publicize a June “March for Trump” rally in New York.
JUNE5 They also reach out to the Trump campaign for rally signs.
JUNE6 Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee.
JUNE6 Goldstone follows up with Trump Jr. about when he can “talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info.”
Trump Jr. calls Emin.
JUNE7 Trump Jr. calls Emin again. »
Phone records show Trump Jr. called a blocked number before and after calls to Emin.

JUNE7 Goldstone tells Trump Jr. that Emin asked him to schedule a meeting “with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.”
JUNE7 Trump Jr. confirms the meeting and says Manafort and Kushner are likely to join him.
Trump promises to deliver a major address detailing Clinton’s “corrupt dealings.” »
This statement comes three hours after Trump Jr. confirms the Trump Tower meeting. The speech never happens.

JUNE7 Fake ad: “Trump is our only hope for a better future!”
JUNE8 DCLeaks.comgoes live and posts thousands of stolen emails.
Trump Jr. forwards the entire email chain with Goldstone to Kushner and Manafort. The subject line is “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
JUNE9 Trump Tower Russia meeting. »
The Russians nabbed a meeting at Trump Tower with top campaign officials, including the president’s eldest son, after promising damaging information about Clinton.

JUNE10 Trump receives a birthday gift from the Agalarovs.
JUNE14 The D.N.C. breach becomes public. »
JUNE14 Russian hackers create the Guccifer 2.0 persona to help throw suspicion off Russia.
Goldstone forwards a story about the D.N.C. hacking to Emin and a Russian who attended the meeting, describing the news as “eerily weird” given what they had discussed at Trump Tower.
JUNE15 Guccifer 2.0 announces it is releasing “just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC's network.”
JUNE16 Trolls use stolen Social Security numbers to open bank and PayPal accounts.
JUNE17 Trump sends a thank you note to Agalarov for the birthday present.
JUNE19 Page emails Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, about his upcoming Moscow trip. He also mentions it to Sessions during a dinner in Washington. »
JUNE19 Papadopoulos Skypes and emails Timofeev about a campaign official coming to Russia.
Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski he can travel to Russia if Trump cannot.
JUNE20 Guccifer 2.0: “Hi! I’m on Twitter now! this is my official account!”
JUNE22 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 for the stolen D.N.C. emails.
JUNE23 FakeFacebook account is used to hire someone to help with a rally.
JUNE24 Manafortsays it is “absurd” to think there are any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
JUNE24 Trump Jr. says it is “disgusting” and “phony” to suggest that Russia is helping Trump. »
His meeting with Russians two weeks earlier would be reported by The Times in July 2017.

JUNE25 “March for Trump” rally in New York organized by Russians.
JUNE29 Goldstone emails Scavino about the Russian social media platform, saying he mentioned the idea “to Don and Paul Manafort during a meeting recently.”
JUNE30 Fake ad: "#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President”
JULY 2016
JULY5 Posterswith a sham quote attributed to Clinton ordered for “Save American Muslims” rally.
JULY6 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 to send anything “Hillary related” prior to the Democratic National Convention.
JULY7 Manafort emails Kilimnik and offers to give private briefings to Deripaska.
Page delivers the commencement speech in Moscow. While there, he speaks with a Russian deputy prime minister, who expresses strong support for Trump. He also speaks with the head of investor relations for a Russian energy firm.
JULY9 Washington, D.C., rally organized by Russians: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims.”
JULY12 Facebook ads bought for “Down With Hillary” rally.
JULY14 Guccifer 2.0 sends WikiLeaks instructions for accessing the stolen D.N.C. documents.
Papadopoulos tells Timofeev that “our side” has approved a meeting with Russians.
JULY18 Kislyak is among a small group of diplomats who chat with Sessions after an event at the Republican National Convention (July 18-21).
Several other campaign officials, including Page, also chat with the Russian ambassador during the convention.
JULY20 Fake ad: “Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison.”
JULY21 Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president.
JULY21 Papadopoulos tells Timofeev to “keep an eye” on Trump’s acceptance speech. “Should be good.”
JULY22 Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 stolen emails.
JULY23 New York rally organized by Russians: “Down with Hillary.”
JULY26 Fake Facebook group “United Muslims of America” posts that Muslim voters are “between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
JULY27 Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” »
For the first time, Russian hackers attack accounts at a domain used by Clinton’s personal office.
These events happened on the same day, but it is not known whether the Russians' actions were actually in response to Mr. Trump's statement.

JULY29 Kilimnik emails Manafort to set up another meeting.
AUGUST 2016
AUG.2 Trolls send message to a real Trump Facebook account about “organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town.”
Trolls use stolen identity to send emails to Florida grassroots groups to organize the Florida rallies.
Manafort has dinner with Kilimnik in New York.
AUG.4 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
AUG.8 Over the next couple of months, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, repeatedly claims he is in contact Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and seems to foreshadow the release of Podesta's emails. »
Stone later denies any direct contact with Assange or having advance knowledge of the document dumps.

AUG.10 Fake ad: “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!"
AUG.11 FakeTwitter account posts accusations of voter fraud in North Carolina.
AUG.14 Stonebegins a series of relatively benign private messages on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, whom he says is not a Russian front.
AUG.15 Clovis encourages Papadopoulos to make the trip to Russia.
AUG.16 Trolls use a fake Instagram account to promote the pro-Trump Florida rallies.
AUG.18 Money is wired to a person who is building a cage large enough to hold a Clinton impersonator at a rally.
Russians pose as Americans and coordinate with Trump campaign staff members to organize Florida rallies.
AUG.19 Manafort is ousted from the campaign days after reports disclosed financial dealings with the pro-Russia party of a former Ukrainian president. »
AUG.19 Fake persona is used to ask a real Tea Party activist to promote the Florida rallies.
AUG.20 Multiple Florida rallies organized by Russians.
AUG.21 Stone tweets: “Trust me, it will soon [be] the Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary.”
AUG.31 Facebook ads are bought for the New York rally.
SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPT.8 Sessions meets with Kislyak in his Senate office.
SEPT.9 A Clinton impersonator is asked to travel to New York for another rally.
SEPT.20 WikiLeaks sends a direct Twitter message to Trump Jr. He thanks WikiLeaks for the message and emails several top campaign officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Kushner to let them know.
SEPT.21 Trump Jr. thanks WikiLeaks for the message.
OCTOBER 2016
OCT.2 Pennsylvania rallies organized by Russians: “Miners for Trump”
OCT.3 WikiLeaks sends another private message to Trump Jr., asking him to push a story about Clinton.
Trump Jr. says he’s already pushed the story.
OCT.7 The Obama administration accuses the Russian government of hacking. »
An “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump making lewd remarks about women surfaces. »
WikiLeaks posts the first of thousands of Podesta's emails. »
These three significant events happened within hours of one another on the afternoon of Oct. 7. WikiLeaks then released a new batch of Podesta's emails every day until the election.

OCT.10 Trump: “I love WikiLeaks!”
OCT.12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Mr. Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.

OCT.14 Fake ad: “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.”
OCT.16 Instagram account “Woke Blacks” used to encourage people of color not to vote.
OCT.19 Fake ad: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”
OCT.27 Cohen creates a shell company to pay off Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels who said she had sexual relations with Trump. »
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.2 Fake Twitter post: “#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
NOV.3 An ad by Russian operatives encouraging people to vote for Jill Stein is added on Instagram.
NOV.5 The Russian social media executive emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s assistant again to follow up on setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
NOV.6 WikiLeaks releases a new trove of emails stolen from the D.N.C. »
On July 13, 2018, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2016 TO OCTOBER 2017
A Head-Spinning Start to
the Trump Administration

Russia largely dominated the national political conversation after Mr. Trump was elected. American intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered the campaign to interfere in the election. Questionable transition contacts and accusations of attempts by Mr. Trump to kill the investigation come to light. Mr. Trump started posting hundreds of tweets that denied wrongdoing and attacked the investigation.


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NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.8 Trump is elected president.
NOV.11 Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman: “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
NOV.16 Kislyak requests a meeting with Kushner.
DECEMBER 2016
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.

DEC.13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC.28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC.28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC.29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.

DEC.29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC.30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC.30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC.31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
JANUARY 2017
JAN.5 U.S. intelligence agencies release a report concluding that Putin ordered the cybercampaign to influence the election. »
JAN.9 Cohen meets with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower. They discuss their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations under the Trump administration.
JAN.10 Sessions says he is “not aware” of anyone affilitated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government.
JAN.10 Trump tweets: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
The first of at least 200 tweets by Mr. Trump in which he calls the investigation a “hoax,” or a “witch hunt,” or disputes any notion of “collusion.” Subsequent tweets like these are labeled “Denial tweet.” on this page.

JAN.20 Cohen meets again with Russian oligarch during the inauguration. A few days later, a company connected to the oligarch awards Cohen a $1 million consulting contract. The payment is made to the same shell company Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels.
JAN.24 F.B.I. agents interview Flynn.
JAN.26 Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, tells Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel, that Flynn might be compromised because he misled the vice president about his conversations with Kislyak.
JAN.27 F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos.
JAN.27 Trump demands loyalty from James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, during a private dinner at the White House. »
JAN.27 Cohen discusses a plan to lift sanctions against Russia with Sater and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
FEBRUARY 2017
FEB.4 Cohen delivers the plan to Flynn.
FEB.13 Flynn is fired.
FEB.14 Trump asks Comey if he “can see” his way to “letting Flynn go.” »
FEB.15 Stone: “I have had no contacts from Russians or intermediaries for Russians.”
FEB.16 The F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos again.
Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
FEB.17 Papadopoulos shuts down his Facebook account in an attempt to erase messages with foreign contacts.
MARCH 2017
MARCH1 The Washington Post reports that Sessions failed to report at least two contacts with Kislyak during the campaign.
Sessions later in the day: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
MARCH2 Next day: Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.
Denial tweet.
MARCH27 Denial tweet.
MARCH30 Trumpasks Comey if he can “lift the cloud” of the investigation.
MARCH31 Denial tweet.
APRIL 2017
APRIL22 Trump asks Comey what he’s done to “get out” that he is not personally under investigation.
MAY 2017
MAY8 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY9 Trump fires Comey. »
MAY12 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY17 Robert S. Mueller III is appointed special counsel.
MAY18 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY31 Denial tweet.
JUNE 2017
JUNE15 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JUNE16 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denialtweet.
JUNE18 Denial tweet.
JUNE21 Denial tweet.
JUNE22 Denial tweet.
JUNE26 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JULY 2017
JULY8 The Times reveals that the Trump Tower Russia meeting happened.
Trump Jr. issues a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
JULY12 Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, says Trump had nothing to do with the false statement. »
More than six months later, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he “dictated” the misleading statement.

JULY12 Denial tweet.
JULY15 Denial tweet.
JULY16 Denial tweet.
JULY23 Denialtweet.
JULY25 Denial tweet.
Trump: “There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
JULY26 F.B.I. raids Manafort’s Virginia home.
JULY27 Denialtweet.
Papadopoulos is arrested.
JULY29 Denial tweet.
AUGUST 2017
AUG.7 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
SEPTEMBER 2017
SEPT.22 Denial tweet.
OCTOBER 2017
OCT.5 Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
OCT.27 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
OCT.29 Denialtweet.
OCT.30 Denial tweet.
Manafort is indicted on charges related to a scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
Gates is also charged.
OCT.31 Denial tweet.


A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
Total meaningless bullshit. Only a profound moron believes a Trump tweet is evidence of wrong doing.
 
Here it is, full color, easy to read, so easy even a Trumpanzee will understand, timeline of the Russian election interference.

This is one reason Mueller's report isn't out yet. As you can see from the timeline, lotta' shit by the Trump campaign to review and verify.

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JUNE 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2016
Soon After Trump Announces Campaign,
His Russian Business Ties Resurface

About a month after Donald J. Trump formally announced his presidential campaign, he received an invitation to go to Moscow for the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the Miss Universe pageant with him in 2013. Later that fall, the Trump Organization began to actively pursue a real estate project in Moscow.


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JUNE 2015
JUNE16 Trump formally announces his presidential campaign. »
JULY 2015
JULY22 About a month later, he is invited to Moscow to celebrate the 60th birthday of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire who co-hosted the 2013 Miss Universe pageant with Trump in Russia.
JULY24 Trump's personal assistant says it is unlikely Trump will be able to make it to the party because of the campaign. Rob Goldstone, the publicist who forwards the invitation, says Agalarov’s son Emin might be able to set up a meeting with Putin if Trump decides to come.
OCTOBER 2015
OCT.12 Michael D. Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer, has a series of email exchanges with Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and Trump associate, about developing a Trump property in Moscow.
OCT.28 Trump signs a “letter of intent” for a Trump hotel to be built in Moscow. »
For more than 30 years, Mr. Trump has sought to launch a real estate project in Russia. Perhaps the closest he came was during the early stages of his presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2015
NOV.3 In one of his emails to Cohen, Sater predicts that building a Trump Tower in Moscow will help Trump’s presidential campaign. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.”
DECEMBER 2015
DEC.19 In another, Sater talks about securing financing from a Russian bank under American sanctions.
JANUARY 2016
JAN.14 By January, the Moscow project seems to have stalled. Cohen emails an aide to Putin seeking help to jump-start it.
JAN.19 Donald Trump Jr., Trump's eldest son, receives an email from Goldstone trumpeting his connection to a Russian social media platform and suggesting the campaign use it to appeal to Russian-American voters. The email is also sent to Trump's personal assistant, who connects Goldstone with Dan Scavino, who is in charge of social media for the campaign.
Goldstone thanks Trump's personal assistant and adds: “Emin will be in NYC end of January and I am sure would love to stop by.”
JAN.20 An executive from the Russian social media company emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal assistant about setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
FEBRUARY 2016
FEB.1 Republican primaries begin.
FEB.10 The Internet Research Agency instructs works to “use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except Sanders and Trump—we support them).”
FEB.29 Trump receives a letter from Aras Agalarov expressing “great interest” in his “bright electoral campaign.”
MARCH 2016 TO NOVEMBER 2016
Russian Contacts, Hacking and
Fraud Intensify Through the Election

Russians reached out to campaign officials with offers of “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and invitations to back-channel meetings. The top military intelligence service in Russia hacked the Democrats while a network of Russian computer specialists uses stolen identities, false personas and fake social media accounts and ads to sow discord and undermine the election.


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MARCH 2016
MARCH6 George Papadopoulos joins the campaign. He says he was told that a priority of the campaign was a better relationship with Russia.
MARCH14 He meets with a London-based professor who claims to have ties to the Russian government.
MARCH15 Russian hackers begin targeting computer networks of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Clinton campaign.
MARCH19 They send a phishing email to John D. Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and proceed to steal the entire contents of his account — about 50,000 emails.
MARCH21 Trump names members of his foreign policy team, including Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
MARCH24 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to a Russian woman described as Putin’s niece (she was not) and they all discuss setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Papadopoulosemails campaign officials about his new Russian contacts.
MARCH28 Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist, is brought on to the campaign to lead the delegate-wrangling effort.
MARCH31 He tells Trump, Sessions and others at a campaign meeting that he can arrange a meeting between Trump and Putin. »
APRIL 2016
APRIL1 Shortly after he joins the campaign, Page is invited to deliver a commencement address at a prestigious economic school in Moscow.
APRIL6 ADemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee employee opens a link to a fraudulent login page and enters password.
Fake ad: “You know, a great number of black people support us saying that #HillaryClintonIsNotMyPresident.”
Russianhackers send spearphishing emails to the accounts of others on the Clinton campaign.
APRIL7 Fake ad: “I say no to Hillary Clinton / I say no to manipulation.”
APRIL10 Papadopoulos reaches out to the Russian woman.
APRIL11 Manafort emails Konstantin V. Kilimnik, a longtime Russian associate, to make sure Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, knows that he is on the Trump campaign.
Kilimnik confirms Deripaska is aware.
Papadopoulos emails the Russian woman about setting up a trip to Russia. She responds that she is “excited about the possibility of a good relationship” with Trump.
APRIL12 Russian hackers use stolen credentials to infiltrate the D.C.C.C.’s computer network and install malware.
APRIL15 They search the network for “hillary," “cruz," and “trump” and copy a folder called “Benghazi Investigations.”
APRIL18 The professor introduces Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, a Russian claiming to connections to the Russian foreign ministry.
Russian hackers break into the D.N.C.’s computers.
Papadopoulos has multiple conversations with Timofeev about setting up a meeting between the campaign and the Russian government.
APRIL19 Fake ad: “JOIN our #HillaryClintonForPrison2016.”
Russian hackers create a fictitious online persona, DCLeaks, to release stolen documents.
APRIL22 Timofeev thanks Papadopoulos “for an extensive talk” and proposes meeting in London or Moscow.
APRIL25 Papadopoulos tells Stephen Miller, a top campaign adviser, that Putin wants to meet Trump.
APRIL26 The professor tells Papadopoulos that the Russians have “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. »
This is the first of two instances when Russians mention “dirt” about Hillary Clinton to a Trump campaign official.

APRIL27 Trump briefly meets Sergey I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, at a reception before his first major foreign policy speech.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, also meets Kislyak before the speech.
Papadopoulos emails Miller again.
He also emails Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager, “to discuss Russia’s interest in hosting Mr. Trump.”
MAY 2016
MAY1 Papadopoulos tells the Australian ambassador to Britain that Russia has dirt on Clinton. »
This revelation provoked the F.B.I. to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election.

MAY4 Timofeev says his colleagues from the ministry “are open for cooperation.”
Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Lewandowski.
Manafort meets with Kilimnik.
MAY5 Papadopoulos forwards Timofeev’s email to Sam Clovis, another campaign aide.
MAY8 Timofeev proposes putting Papadopoulos in touch with another Russian official.
MAY10 Fake ad: “Donald wants to defeat terrorism ... Hillary wants to sponsor it.”
Rick Dearborn, a campaign aide, receives an email about arranging a back-channel meeting between Trump and Putin. The subject line of the email is “Kremlin Connection.” It is sent from a conservative operative who said Russia wanted to use the N.R.A.'s convention to make “first contact.”
MAY14 Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski that the Russians are interested in hosting Trump.
MAY16 Page floats the idea with the campaign of Trump going to Russia in his place “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
MAY16 Dearborn receives a second, similar, proposal, which he forwards to Kushner, Manafort and Gates, a business associate of Manafort's. Kushner rebuffs the proposal. »
Both efforts appear to involve Alexander Torshin, a key figure in Mr. Putin’s United Russia party who was instructed to make contact with the Trump campaign. Mr. Torshin met Donald Trump Jr. at a dinner during the National Rifle Association's annual convention a few days later.

MAY19 Fake ad: “Vote Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!"
MAY20 Trump Jr. meets briefly with Torshin and Maria Butina, a Russian later accused of being a covert agent, at an N.R.A.-sponsored dinner.
MAY21 Papadopoulos forwards email from Timofeev to Manafort, who forwards it to Gates with a note: “We need someone to communicate that DT is not doing these trips.”
MAY24 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.”
MAY25 Thousands of D.N.C. emails are stolen.
MAY26 Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
MAY27 At a rally the next day, he calls Putin “a strong leader.”
JUNE 2016
JUNE1 Papadopoulostells Clovis that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked if Trump is interested in visiting Russia.
JUNE3 Aras Agalarov is told that the Russian government wants to give the Trump campaign damaging information about Clinton.
His son, Emin, enlists Goldstone to reach out to Trump Jr. and arrange a meeting.
Trump Jr. replies within minutes: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.” »
This is the second time a campaign official was told of “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton.

JUNE4 Russian trolls use a fake email account to publicize a June “March for Trump” rally in New York.
JUNE5 They also reach out to the Trump campaign for rally signs.
JUNE6 Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee.
JUNE6 Goldstone follows up with Trump Jr. about when he can “talk with Emin by phone about this Hillary info.”
Trump Jr. calls Emin.
JUNE7 Trump Jr. calls Emin again. »
Phone records show Trump Jr. called a blocked number before and after calls to Emin.

JUNE7 Goldstone tells Trump Jr. that Emin asked him to schedule a meeting “with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday.”
JUNE7 Trump Jr. confirms the meeting and says Manafort and Kushner are likely to join him.
Trump promises to deliver a major address detailing Clinton’s “corrupt dealings.” »
This statement comes three hours after Trump Jr. confirms the Trump Tower meeting. The speech never happens.

JUNE7 Fake ad: “Trump is our only hope for a better future!”
JUNE8 DCLeaks.comgoes live and posts thousands of stolen emails.
Trump Jr. forwards the entire email chain with Goldstone to Kushner and Manafort. The subject line is “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential.”
JUNE9 Trump Tower Russia meeting. »
The Russians nabbed a meeting at Trump Tower with top campaign officials, including the president’s eldest son, after promising damaging information about Clinton.

JUNE10 Trump receives a birthday gift from the Agalarovs.
JUNE14 The D.N.C. breach becomes public. »
JUNE14 Russian hackers create the Guccifer 2.0 persona to help throw suspicion off Russia.
Goldstone forwards a story about the D.N.C. hacking to Emin and a Russian who attended the meeting, describing the news as “eerily weird” given what they had discussed at Trump Tower.
JUNE15 Guccifer 2.0 announces it is releasing “just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC's network.”
JUNE16 Trolls use stolen Social Security numbers to open bank and PayPal accounts.
JUNE17 Trump sends a thank you note to Agalarov for the birthday present.
JUNE19 Page emails Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman, about his upcoming Moscow trip. He also mentions it to Sessions during a dinner in Washington. »
JUNE19 Papadopoulos Skypes and emails Timofeev about a campaign official coming to Russia.
Papadopoulos tells Lewandowski he can travel to Russia if Trump cannot.
JUNE20 Guccifer 2.0: “Hi! I’m on Twitter now! this is my official account!”
JUNE22 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 for the stolen D.N.C. emails.
JUNE23 FakeFacebook account is used to hire someone to help with a rally.
JUNE24 Manafortsays it is “absurd” to think there are any ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
JUNE24 Trump Jr. says it is “disgusting” and “phony” to suggest that Russia is helping Trump. »
His meeting with Russians two weeks earlier would be reported by The Times in July 2017.

JUNE25 “March for Trump” rally in New York organized by Russians.
JUNE29 Goldstone emails Scavino about the Russian social media platform, saying he mentioned the idea “to Don and Paul Manafort during a meeting recently.”
JUNE30 Fake ad: "#NeverHillary #HillaryForPrison #Hillary4Prison #HillaryForPrison2016 #Trump2016 #Trump #Trump4President”
JULY 2016
JULY5 Posterswith a sham quote attributed to Clinton ordered for “Save American Muslims” rally.
JULY6 WikiLeaks asks Guccifer 2.0 to send anything “Hillary related” prior to the Democratic National Convention.
JULY7 Manafort emails Kilimnik and offers to give private briefings to Deripaska.
Page delivers the commencement speech in Moscow. While there, he speaks with a Russian deputy prime minister, who expresses strong support for Trump. He also speaks with the head of investor relations for a Russian energy firm.
JULY9 Washington, D.C., rally organized by Russians: “Support Hillary. Save American Muslims.”
JULY12 Facebook ads bought for “Down With Hillary” rally.
JULY14 Guccifer 2.0 sends WikiLeaks instructions for accessing the stolen D.N.C. documents.
Papadopoulos tells Timofeev that “our side” has approved a meeting with Russians.
JULY18 Kislyak is among a small group of diplomats who chat with Sessions after an event at the Republican National Convention (July 18-21).
Several other campaign officials, including Page, also chat with the Russian ambassador during the convention.
JULY20 Fake ad: “Ohio Wants Hillary 4 Prison.”
JULY21 Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president.
JULY21 Papadopoulos tells Timofeev to “keep an eye” on Trump’s acceptance speech. “Should be good.”
JULY22 Days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks releases nearly 20,000 stolen emails.
JULY23 New York rally organized by Russians: “Down with Hillary.”
JULY26 Fake Facebook group “United Muslims of America” posts that Muslim voters are “between Hillary Clinton and a hard place.”
JULY27 Trump: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” »
For the first time, Russian hackers attack accounts at a domain used by Clinton’s personal office.
These events happened on the same day, but it is not known whether the Russians' actions were actually in response to Mr. Trump's statement.

JULY29 Kilimnik emails Manafort to set up another meeting.
AUGUST 2016
AUG.2 Trolls send message to a real Trump Facebook account about “organizing a YUGE pro-Trump flash mob in every Florida town.”
Trolls use stolen identity to send emails to Florida grassroots groups to organize the Florida rallies.
Manafort has dinner with Kilimnik in New York.
AUG.4 Fake ad: “Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus.”
AUG.8 Over the next couple of months, Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, repeatedly claims he is in contact Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and seems to foreshadow the release of Podesta's emails. »
Stone later denies any direct contact with Assange or having advance knowledge of the document dumps.

AUG.10 Fake ad: “We cannot trust Hillary to take care of our veterans!"
AUG.11 FakeTwitter account posts accusations of voter fraud in North Carolina.
AUG.14 Stonebegins a series of relatively benign private messages on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, whom he says is not a Russian front.
AUG.15 Clovis encourages Papadopoulos to make the trip to Russia.
AUG.16 Trolls use a fake Instagram account to promote the pro-Trump Florida rallies.
AUG.18 Money is wired to a person who is building a cage large enough to hold a Clinton impersonator at a rally.
Russians pose as Americans and coordinate with Trump campaign staff members to organize Florida rallies.
AUG.19 Manafort is ousted from the campaign days after reports disclosed financial dealings with the pro-Russia party of a former Ukrainian president. »
AUG.19 Fake persona is used to ask a real Tea Party activist to promote the Florida rallies.
AUG.20 Multiple Florida rallies organized by Russians.
AUG.21 Stone tweets: “Trust me, it will soon [be] the Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary.”
AUG.31 Facebook ads are bought for the New York rally.
SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPT.8 Sessions meets with Kislyak in his Senate office.
SEPT.9 A Clinton impersonator is asked to travel to New York for another rally.
SEPT.20 WikiLeaks sends a direct Twitter message to Trump Jr. He thanks WikiLeaks for the message and emails several top campaign officials, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Kushner to let them know.
SEPT.21 Trump Jr. thanks WikiLeaks for the message.
OCTOBER 2016
OCT.2 Pennsylvania rallies organized by Russians: “Miners for Trump”
OCT.3 WikiLeaks sends another private message to Trump Jr., asking him to push a story about Clinton.
Trump Jr. says he’s already pushed the story.
OCT.7 The Obama administration accuses the Russian government of hacking. »
An “Access Hollywood” tape of Trump making lewd remarks about women surfaces. »
WikiLeaks posts the first of thousands of Podesta's emails. »
These three significant events happened within hours of one another on the afternoon of Oct. 7. WikiLeaks then released a new batch of Podesta's emails every day until the election.

OCT.10 Trump: “I love WikiLeaks!”
OCT.12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Mr. Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.

OCT.14 Fake ad: “Among all the candidates Donald Trump is the one and only who can defend the police from terrorists.”
OCT.16 Instagram account “Woke Blacks” used to encourage people of color not to vote.
OCT.19 Fake ad: “Hillary is a Satan, and her crimes and lies had proved just how evil she is.”
OCT.27 Cohen creates a shell company to pay off Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels who said she had sexual relations with Trump. »
NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.2 Fake Twitter post: “#VoterFraud by counting tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary votes being reported in Broward County, Florida.”
NOV.3 An ad by Russian operatives encouraging people to vote for Jill Stein is added on Instagram.
NOV.5 The Russian social media executive emails Scavino, Trump Jr. and Trump’s assistant again to follow up on setting up a page for the Trump campaign.
NOV.6 WikiLeaks releases a new trove of emails stolen from the D.N.C. »
On July 13, 2018, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election issued an indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.

NOVEMBER 2016 TO OCTOBER 2017
A Head-Spinning Start to
the Trump Administration

Russia largely dominated the national political conversation after Mr. Trump was elected. American intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered the campaign to interfere in the election. Questionable transition contacts and accusations of attempts by Mr. Trump to kill the investigation come to light. Mr. Trump started posting hundreds of tweets that denied wrongdoing and attacked the investigation.


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NOVEMBER 2016
NOV.8 Trump is elected president.
NOV.11 Hope Hicks, Trump's spokeswoman: “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
NOV.16 Kislyak requests a meeting with Kushner.
DECEMBER 2016
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.

DEC.13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC.28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC.28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC.29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.

DEC.29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC.30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC.30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC.31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
JANUARY 2017
JAN.5 U.S. intelligence agencies release a report concluding that Putin ordered the cybercampaign to influence the election. »
JAN.9 Cohen meets with a Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, at Trump Tower. They discuss their mutual desire to strengthen U.S.-Russian relations under the Trump administration.
JAN.10 Sessions says he is “not aware” of anyone affilitated with the Trump campaign communicating with the Russian government.
JAN.10 Trump tweets: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
The first of at least 200 tweets by Mr. Trump in which he calls the investigation a “hoax,” or a “witch hunt,” or disputes any notion of “collusion.” Subsequent tweets like these are labeled “Denial tweet.” on this page.

JAN.20 Cohen meets again with Russian oligarch during the inauguration. A few days later, a company connected to the oligarch awards Cohen a $1 million consulting contract. The payment is made to the same shell company Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels.
JAN.24 F.B.I. agents interview Flynn.
JAN.26 Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, tells Donald F. McGahn II, White House counsel, that Flynn might be compromised because he misled the vice president about his conversations with Kislyak.
JAN.27 F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos.
JAN.27 Trump demands loyalty from James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, during a private dinner at the White House. »
JAN.27 Cohen discusses a plan to lift sanctions against Russia with Sater and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
FEBRUARY 2017
FEB.4 Cohen delivers the plan to Flynn.
FEB.13 Flynn is fired.
FEB.14 Trump asks Comey if he “can see” his way to “letting Flynn go.” »
FEB.15 Stone: “I have had no contacts from Russians or intermediaries for Russians.”
FEB.16 The F.B.I. questions Papadopoulos again.
Trump: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does.”
FEB.17 Papadopoulos shuts down his Facebook account in an attempt to erase messages with foreign contacts.
MARCH 2017
MARCH1 The Washington Post reports that Sessions failed to report at least two contacts with Kislyak during the campaign.
Sessions later in the day: “I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
MARCH2 Next day: Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign.
Denial tweet.
MARCH27 Denial tweet.
MARCH30 Trumpasks Comey if he can “lift the cloud” of the investigation.
MARCH31 Denial tweet.
APRIL 2017
APRIL22 Trump asks Comey what he’s done to “get out” that he is not personally under investigation.
MAY 2017
MAY8 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY9 Trump fires Comey. »
MAY12 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY17 Robert S. Mueller III is appointed special counsel.
MAY18 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
MAY31 Denial tweet.
JUNE 2017
JUNE15 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JUNE16 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denialtweet.
JUNE18 Denial tweet.
JUNE21 Denial tweet.
JUNE22 Denial tweet.
JUNE26 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
JULY 2017
JULY8 The Times reveals that the Trump Tower Russia meeting happened.
Trump Jr. issues a false statement about the Trump Tower meeting.
JULY12 Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for the president, says Trump had nothing to do with the false statement. »
More than six months later, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledge that he “dictated” the misleading statement.

JULY12 Denial tweet.
JULY15 Denial tweet.
JULY16 Denial tweet.
JULY23 Denialtweet.
JULY25 Denial tweet.
Trump: “There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
JULY26 F.B.I. raids Manafort’s Virginia home.
JULY27 Denialtweet.
Papadopoulos is arrested.
JULY29 Denial tweet.
AUGUST 2017
AUG.7 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
SEPTEMBER 2017
SEPT.22 Denial tweet.
OCTOBER 2017
OCT.5 Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
OCT.27 Denial tweet.
Denial tweet.
OCT.29 Denialtweet.
OCT.30 Denial tweet.
Manafort is indicted on charges related to a scheme in which he lobbied for a pro-Russia party in Ukraine and hid proceeds in foreign bank accounts.
Gates is also charged.
OCT.31 Denial tweet.


A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
This is great. A connection between data and a timeline is the most compelling evidence there is. The problem is that republicans are too stupid and emotional to care about all of this. They aren’t going to bother trying to find any flaw in your data. They just look at it once without reading it and assume it’s all bullshit. Why? Because Trump would say so. That’s the level of stupidity we are talking about these days.
 

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