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1986 — Trump attempts to gain a posting to Russia as part of the Reagan Administration and says he could sit down with Gorbachev to negotiate an end to the cold war “in an hour.”
1990 — Trump’s Taj Mahal casino, which is a favorite gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, is cited 106 times in 18 months for violating money laundering rules, particular failing to report when someone wins and withdraws more then $10,000.
1991 — Taj Mahal files for bankruptcy protection, Trump sells his 50% share. After this and his other Casino bankruptcies most major banks no longer authorize loans to the Trump organization.
2001-2007 — At least 63 Russian Oligarchs lease, rent or buy various Trump propertes in South Florida spending upwards of $98.5 Million on them, many of these deals with Russian nationals in Manhattan reportedly are arranged through Bayrock Group LLC whose offices are located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower and whose managing director is Felix Sater a Russian born violent convict with ties to the Russian Mob who are frequently used by Russian intelligence to do their dirty work and fund blackbag operations.
2008 — Trump sells a Palm Beach Mansion to a Russian Oligarch for $95 Million after purchasing it just 2 years previously for only $45 Million. Donald Jr. states “We get a lot to money from Russia.” Felix Sater leaves Bayrock after his criminal record is revealed and goes to work for Trump. Bayrock founder Tefvik Arif is busted and prosecuted for his connection to an underage prostitution ring in Turkey, he is eventually acquitted.
2011 — Trump Soho a joint venture condo project by Trump CO and Bayrock is sued for defrauding buyers with inflated claims. The suit is settled and a potential criminal case is avoided. Bayrock folds.
March 2011 — Trump begins his birther campaign against President Obama claiming there’s something wrong with his birth certificate. He also demands Obama's college transcripts alleging he didn't deserve access to Harvard, and claims that his best selling book “Dreams From My Father" was really ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.
May 2011 -- Obama authorizes the Bin Laden Raid, then attends the White House Correspondents dinner, Donald Trump is in the audience. Obama reveals his long-form birth certificate and takes a couple shots at Donald, but Seth Myer brutalizes him from behind the podium. Myer's theorizes Trump decided to run for President right then and there in retaliation.
2013 — Russian mobsters renting property in Trump Tower just three floors below the penthouse suite are arrested for money laundering and running an illegal gambling ring at the end of a 2 year investigation. Several months later Trump holds the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the apparent ring leader who remains at large is welcomed on the Red Carpet at the event. While in Moscow Trump reportedly meets with several high ranking oligarchs with ties to Putin.
2014 -- Michael Flynn is fired by the Obama administration as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his “odd behavior.” Eric Trump says in an interview when discussing the funding of Trump Golf courses “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Eric later denies making this statement.
2015 — A new racketeering case is filed against Bayrock, Sater and Arif alleging they had been “substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated.” Michael Flynn goes to Russia, meets and sits with Putin for dinner and is paid $45,000 for a speech at RT's 10th Anniversary Gala. He also receives 11,250 from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, and $11,250 from Volga-Dnepr Airlines. He doesn't get prior permission from the Pentagon for this trip or the payment. Taj Mahal is fined $10 Million for continued money laundering by Treasury’s FinCen unit.
June 17, 2015 -- Trump announces his run for President. He never releases his Taxes, his birth certificate or his school transcripts.
Summer 2015 — Cyber hacking contractors working with the FSB (Cozy Bear) begin infiltrating and extracting copies of documents including the oppo-research on Trump and emails from the DNC servers. Their previous successful attacks include the White House and State Dept. email systems. They also penetrate some RNC emails accounts and attack various Republicans who oppose Trump in the primaries.
September 2015 — FBI detects the hack and begins trying to inform the DNC, but they start by going to their Helpdesk not simply calling Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
Late 2015 — GCHC and other western intel agencies from Germany, Poland, Estonia and Australia begin noticing contacts between Russia Spies and members of the Trump campaign. They attempt to notify FBI and CIA who are apparently caught "flat footed.”
March 2016 -— US Attorney Preet Bhrara prosecutes Russian intelligence officer Evgeny Buryakov an employee sanctioned Russia bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) of conspiracy to commit espionage. FBI receives memo alleging collusion between Loretta Lynch and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to quash the Clinton email investigation — they believe this document is fake.
April 2016 — GRU Russian military intelligence also attacks the DNC systems with Fancy Bear. The DNC discovers the intrusion and calls in cyber security firm Crowdstrike to address it, they discover both intrusions, briefly monitor them to confirm their ID, then shut them down. Trump gives his first major foreign policy speech, Russian ambassador Kislyak is invited as a special guest, both Trump and Jeff Session meet with him at a backstage reception before the speech. About this time Paul Manafort — who has a close associate with links to the GRU, and who had previous been paid $Millions to secretly promote Putin’s agenda — becomes Trump campaign chairman.
May 2016 — US surveillance operations detects Russian Spies vowing to “Get Hillary Clinton” in retaliation for her criticism of Putin’s last election. They also detect them bragging that they have good ties to Michael Flynn and may be able to use him to “influence" Trump, Obama admin attempts to limit classified information to Flynn. Russian spies also attempt to cultivate Carter Page as an asset, meanwhile the FBI obtains a FISA warrant to monitor Page’s communications and possibly on a Trump server in Pennsylvania which keeps being oddly pinged by a server owned by Russia’s Alfa Bank.
June 2016 — Russian Think Tank controlled by Putin publishes a blue print to use cyber bots, trolls and social media to push anti-Clinton/pro-Trump propaganda to help swing the election. .
June 14, 2016 -— Wapo Reports that the DNC has been hacked by the Russian government, DNC goes public about the cyber intrusion.
June 16, 2016 -— Guccifer 2.0 uses DCLeaks to reveals the first set of hacked DNC emails, they have Cyrillic characters and Russian urls in their metadata
June 20, 2016 — Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is fired after a controversy where he physically grabbed and yanked a Breitbart reporter away from Trump as she asked a question. At first Corey and the Trump campaign denies it ever happened, but it’s on video — then he claims he would’ve “apologized if he knew she was from Breitbart” but he doesn’t. She files a criminal complaint, but it’s thrown out. He goes to work for CNN while still being paid by Trump.
June 27, 2016 — Bill Clinton meets privately with AG Loretta Lynch on her plane at Phoenix Airport while they are both there during a layover. Reportedly they discuss family, golf and travel, but calls of “obstruction” and “undue influence” — even though there is absolutely no evidence to that effect — eventually cause her to defer any decision on the Clinton email investigation to the FBI.
July 2016 — Business Insider publishes a report on the Kremlin’s Troll army based in St. Petersburg. They pose online as Pro-Trump and Pro-Bernie Americans and incessantly attack Clinton. Cyber attacks are also made on the DCCC in order to impact House races in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina. Carter Page travels to Moscow, approved by Trump Natsec advisor JD Gordon and Corey Lewandowski, to give several paid speeches, former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele while working on oppo-research for a GOP candidate receives intel that Page also has secret meetings with Igor Sechin who allegedly offers him broker fees on the sale of 19% of Russian oil firm Rosneft supposedly as a payoff for access to Trump. Page eventually denies all of this. Steele begins writing memos to the FBI.
July 5, 2016 — Influenced by false email intel generated by the Russians alleging that AG Lynch was “throwing the Clinton case” FBI Director James Comey after announcing that the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s server is complete and no charges will be filed goes on to blast her in an extended public statement.
July 7, 2016 — Comey testifies to Congress about Hillary’s server and manages to debunk just about every Right-wing conspiracy about it.
July 18-21, 2016 — The Republican National Convention takes place during which Trump National Security Advisor J.D. Gordon torpedoes a platform plank supporting the arming of Ukrainian rebels against pro-Russian forces, then lies about it. Kislyak attends and briefly meets Sessions again at a Heritage Foundation event, as well as Carter Page and J.D. Gordon. Mike Pence chants “Lock Her Up” over Hillary’s emails — even though she’s been cleared already — and he himself has AOL for his email for official business as Governor and his account had been hacked. Flynn fills out his SF-86 form to reactivate his security clearance related to his being selected by Trump as national security advisor. Flynn fails to include that he had received $530,000 from Turkey or that he had taken another $45,000 from Russia in 2015.
July 22, 2016 — One day after end of RNC Wikileaks reveals their first set of DNC emails. Russia Today, Sputnik News, Breitbart and other right-wing outlets begin doing incessant stories about every little negative revelation in them as well as numerous false and inflammatory rumors these are further pushed by bots and trolls on facebook and twitter until they trend. The FBI begin to look into the Russia hack based on information from Crowdstrike, they don’t get direct access to DNC servers presumably as that would cause them to shutdown their entire email capability in middle of an election until a replacement set of servers could be installed [I’ve sent a question to the DNC’s Deputy Communications Director on this point, he hasn’t responded yet]. FBI is also looking into links to Trump due to Steele memos.
July 25, 2016 — Democratic Convention starts, because of the brouhaha from the Wikileaks email dump, Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigns and Donna Brazile takes over, RT/Sputnik crafted rumors swirl about the DNC “rigging the Primary” for Clinton and against Sanders.
July 26, 2016 — Roger Ailes leaves Fox News amid harassment allegations. Trump defends him.
July 27, 2016 — Trump asks Russia to hack and/or release Hillary’s missing emails.
July 28, 2016 — Sputnik news claims Wikileaks proves the primary and DNC was rigged against Sanders.
July 31, 2016 — Manafort denies that the Trump campaign made any changes to the RNC platform. Various Trump affiliates will repeat these denials 20 more times before finally admitting the truth; Donald personally ordered the change in a meeting with Gordon during the RNC in which Sessions attended. [If this was done as a pay off to Russia to ensure their continued support in their hacking/propaganda efforts, it proves Donald’s direct involvement in a criminal conspiracy.]
August 16, 2016 — Manafort pushes a false RT/Sputnik News story about terrorist sabotage at a NATO base in Turkey. Trump also pushes the same false story.
August 17, 2016 — Trump receives his first classified briefing. Flynn is with him.
August 19, 2016 — Manafort leaves the Trump campaign amidst allegations that he accepted a $12 Million under-the-table cash payment from his former Putin friendly client, ex-Ukraine President Yanakovych. Pollster Kellyanne Conway takes over.
August 21, 2016 -— Trump pal Roger Stone tweets “it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel.” He later claims he was talking about Podesta’s “business dealings” not his email, although Stone had also been sending DM’s to Guccifer 2.0 the public face of Russia’s cyber hacking operation.
September 2016 — Reports are the Russian hackers have attempted to penetrate the voter registration systems in 20 States, 4 were successfully infiltrated. GOP consultant Aaron Nevins sends a note to Guccifer 2.0 asking if he has anything on Florida Dems, 10 days later he gets 2.5 Gigabits of stolen DCCC data, which confirms the connection between Kremlin intel & Guccifer. Sessions meets with Kislyak again in his Senate Office. Roger Stone says on Boston Herald Radio that he expects, "Julian Assange and the Wikileaks people to drop a payload of new documents on a weekly basis fairly soon. And that of course will answer the question of exactly what was erased on that email server." Obama meets Putin at a summit and personally tells him to “Cut it out” with the hacking, they then assemble Congress’s “Gang of 12” and informs them of the Russia hack confidentially and asks for a bipartisan public statement in opposition to the attack. Mitch McConnel refuses, no public statement is issued at this time. Trump transition chair Chris Christie begins to recommend that Flynn be fired after his erratic behavior during a national security briefing. FBI offers to pay Christopher Steele to continue his work investigating Trump/Russia links. Jess Sessions meets privately with Kislyak at his Senate Offices. Guccifer 2.0 sends Roger Stone a link to a blog post on manipulating voter turnout.
October 2016 — The Russian Think Tank publishes another paper, this one saying the Clinton is likely to win the election, so the online influence campaign needs to focus on claims that the election was “rigged” or “stolen” due to voter fraud. Trump starts saying the only way he could lose Pennsylvania is because of “Voter Fraud.” and mentions the information revealed by Wikileaks 164 times over the next month. The FEC unanimously agrees to prioritize investigations into foreign spending.
October 4, 2016 — Guccifer 2.0 Post documents stolen from the Clinton Foundation.
October 6, 2016 — The Access Hollywood Video drops with “Grab ‘em by the Pussy”. One hour later Wikileaks releases the first set of emails taken from John Podesta’s account. RT and Sputnik News continue to do daily reports as another set of emails is dumped for next 30 days.
October 7, 2016 — Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence release a Joint Statement on the Russia Hacking efforts saying it “was directed from the highest levels of the Kremlin.”
October 11, 2016 — Trump uses false talking points from RT to blame HIllary for Benghazi
October 21, 2016 — Hillary Clinton states during a debate that 17 Intelligence Agencies have confirmed Russia’s attempt to influence the election. Trump denies it, says “nobody knows” and it could be “China, North Korea or a 300lbs. Fat Guy.” which is also a Sputnik News Talking point.
October 23, 2016 — Christopher Steele, frustrated by the lack of response by the FBI particularly the New York Field Office which he says houses an Anti-Clinton Cabal (aka Trumpland), contacts David Corn of Motherjones who writes that “Russian spies have been attempting to cultivate Trump as an asset for 5 years.” FBI rescinds their job offer to Steele. Eventually with the help of the British Ambassador to Russia, his dossier of memos are passed to John McCain who physically gives a copy to James Comey.
October 26, 2016 — James Comey writes a letter to congress about the Abedin emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop several weeks earlier — it gets leaked almost immediately, presumably by Jason Chaffetz’s office. All hell breaks lose, Clinton drops 3-5% in the polls.
October 27, 2016 — Rudy Giuliani admits on Fox that he knew about the Comey letter from “former FBI agents” before it was sent to Congres and leaked.
October 30, 2016 — FBI obtains a warrant to review the Abedin emails.
November 6, 2016 — FBI finds that virtually all of the Abedin emails are duplicates that they already had in their possession from the Clinton server.
November 7, 2016 — 19.5% of Rosneft is sold to unknown buyers.
November 8, 2016 — Election Day, Michael Flynn writes an Op-Ed in support of Turkey arguing that the U.S. should extradite a Turkish expat who President Erdoğan blames for the recent attempted coup. Seemingly Turkey has been paying Flynn and his consulting firm $530,000 — money which originated with a Russian oligarch. Flynn does not disclose this or register as a foreign agent. Russia’s Parliament erupts into applause when Trump is announced the winner.
November 9, 2016 — Wikileaks proclaims that Trump won because Democrats rigged system to have Clinton beat Sanders.
November 10, 2016 — Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov admits they had continuing communications from Trump’s “immediate entourage.” Trump and Obama meet at the WH, Obama warns him not to hire Flynn.
November 11, 2016 — Chris Christie is dropped as transition chief, VP Pence takes his place. Flynn stays on.
November 12, 2016 — Lewandowski quits CNN to work for Trump again.
November — House oversight ranking member Rep. Cummings sends a letter to VP Pence about Flynn’s Op-Ed and his lobbying for Turkey. When Flynn states he plans to schedule a meeting with Kislyak former Bush Pentagon Official Michael Billingslea warns him that any such communications with Kislyak are likely to be picked up by U.S. surveillance.
December — Trump transition does a background check on Flynn but doesn't fully vet him, they are also specifically informed by Flynn’s lawyers that he may have to register as a “Foreign Agent” because of his work for Turkey even though the Pentagon had previously warned him to get permission for such payments first, and that he was under investigation by the FBI because of it. Watchdog groups file a complaint with the FEC over Russia and the Trump campaign coordinating.
December 13, 2016 — Trump says he doesn’t need a security briefing everyday. “I’ll get it when I need it” and then nominates then Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson — recipient of the Russia Order of Friendship personally from Putin who had been seeking a waiver on Russian/Crimea sanctions to proceed with their $500 Billion deal with Rosneft for drilling in the Black sea — as Secretary of State. Steve Bannon joins Flynn and Kushner for a separate meeting with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, who makes an undisclosed visit to New York.
December 20, 2016 -— Jared Kushner brags to Forbes magazine about the data-mining and voter micro-targeting operation he helped setup for the Trump campaign with Cambridge-Analytica which is owned by deep pocketed Trump pal Robert Mercer, who also bankrolls Breitbart News.
December 21, 2016 — Lewandowski doesn’t get rehired by Trump, starts a lobbying firm.
December 29, 2016 — Obama hits Russia with Sanctions for their hacking and involvement in the Election. Flynn talks to Russian Ambassador Kislyak, mentions “We’ll review everything” when Obama’s new sanctions are brought up, they also discuss establishing a “back channel” between Trump and Putin “that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy.” This conversation is recorded by the NSA/FBI. He meets with Kislyak at Trump Tower along with Jared Kushner. Kushner, at Kislyak’s suggestion, later meets with banker and FSB Academy graduate Sergei Gorkov who is head of Moscow based government owned bank Vnesheconombank (VEB), which funds special projects like the Sochi Olympics or` Trump Tower in Toronto and included Russian intelligence officer Evgeny Buryakov on it’s payroll, who was convicted in March 2016 by Preet Bharara of conspiracy in the case involving the attempted cultivation of Carter Page as an Russian asset. Gorkov is also former deputy board chairman of Russia largest state-owned bank, Sberank, whom had hired Trump’s attorney’s Marc Kasowitz to defend it. Kushner doesn’t include these meetings on his security clearances forms. The Obama Administration tries to save the intel data with a trail of bread crumbs for Congress to track.
December 30, 2016 — Putin states he will not retaliate to Obama’s newly imposed sanctions and the expulsion of 30 suspected Russian spies. Trump praises his lack of response.
January 6th — U.S. Intel agencies publish their report on the Russia Cyber efforts to influence the election. Obama, Biden and Trump are briefed on the report, Trump claims it proves Russia didn’t “change the vote” even though the report doesn’t attempt to answer that question.
January 10th — Jeff Sessions testifies during confirmation hearings that he doesn’t know “any Trump surrogates who were in contact with the Russians” ignoring the question he was asked which was “What would you do if you discover surrogates coordinating with Russians?” Apparently the correct answer is “Nothing.” Buzzfeed publishes the entire Steele Dossier online, CNN reports that Trump was specifically briefed on it during the Jan 6th briefing, Paul Manafort calls Reince Priebus to deny allegations in the dossier about him. Trump transition team does full court press to deny this occurred, not only denying that anyone verbally described it to Trump but also there was a 3 page summary at the end of the full Russia report.
January 11th — Trump himself says he “didn’t meet with any Russians” during the election even though he did. That same day Erik Prince, former CEO of Blackwater, giant Christian Supremacist, Mike Pence supporter and brother of Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos has a secret meeting with the UAE on the Seychelles islands to establish a back channel to Putin which is noticed by FBI. That meeting is chaired by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi who had previously met with Bannon, Flynn & Kushner secretly in New York, and seems to be a follow-on to Kushner’s meeting with Kislyak at Trump Tower.
January 12th — NBC news confirms that Comey personally briefed Trump about the Steele Dossier revealing yet another transition team lie.
January 14th — Reports surface that U.S. Intel agents have warned our allies like Israel not to share sensitive intel with Trump transition team due to the Steele dossier and the risk he might share it with Russia and hence their ally Iran.
January 15th — Trump says “We should trust Putin” while lambasting NATO and Angela Merkel.
January 20th — Inauguration day.
January 21st — Sean Spicer does his first press briefing and spends most of it lying about the Inauguration crowd size, then takes no questions. Women’s march crowd dwarfs Trump’s crowd by 3 to 1.
January 22nd — Comey attends a event honoring Law Enforcement at the WH, tries to avoid being noticed by Trump but fails.
January 23rd — Spicer claims Flynn didn’t talk to Kislyak about sanctions, even though he did. Later Mike Pence goes on Meet the Press after talking personally to Flynn and claims “Flynn told me he didn’t talk to Russia about sanctions.”
January 24th — Flynn interviewed by FBI, again he apparently says he didn’t talk to Russians about sanctions but they know better. He also claims that he didn’t get any foreign money and the $45k and $530k came from “U.S. companies” having omitted the true information on his SF-86 Security form.
January 26th — Sally Yates goes to the White House personally and warns WH Counsel McGahn that Flynn may be vulnerable to “blackmail by the Russians” because he’d lied to the FBI & Pence about his contacts with Kislyak. Trump is immediately briefed by McGahn but does nothing about Flynn.
January 27th — Trump invites Comey to dinner at the White House, allegedly asks if he’s being investigated, asks for Comey to pledge him his “Loyalty”, asks him “if he could let Michael Flynn go” and if he couldn’t prosecute some reporters for “leaks” instead. Comey takes copious notes. Kremlin arrests FSB officials Sergei Mikhailov his deputy, Dmitry Dokuchaev, and Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Labs (who had paid Flynn $11,500 in 2015) for treason and illegal hacking apparently for sharing intel information with the CIA.
January 31st -- Roger Stone goes on Russia Today to push the conspiracy that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich is the "real hacker.” This is his fifth appearance on the channel. Deustche Bank is fined $630 Million for $10 Billion in money laundering transactions involving Russia.
February 2nd — Yates gets fired by Trump allegedly for refusing to defend his Muslim ban executive order. Flynn stays.
February 6th — Trump attorney Michael Cohen and Felix Sater negotiate a deal to end sanctions against Russia by stopping the violence in Crimea with a Ukranian named Andrii V. Artemenko. They supposedly deliver a copy of this plan to Michael Flynn’s desk, but there is no evidence he ever reviewed it or passed it on to anyone. When this is revealed Artemenko is looked at for possible Treason charges by Ukraine. [Exactly who came up with this idea and tasked them with this? Does anyone believe they went rogue?]
February 8th — Washington posts asks Flynn if he discussed sanctions with Russia, he says “No” twice.
February 9th — Flynn’s spokesman issues a correction to Wapo that he “doesn’t remember” if he did or didn’t discuss sanctions. Trump talks to Putin by phone and criticizes Obama’s Start II Nuclear deal with Russia. Flynn is there for the call.
February 10th — Trump is asked about Flynn talking to Russians about sanctions and says “This is the first time I’ve heard that.” Note: He had already been personally told about this by White House Counsel McGahn immediately after he was told by Yates on Jan 26th.
February 12th — Reports emerge that the Intel agencies are considering holding back highly sensitive intel from Trump to prevent leaks to Russia.
February 13th — Flynn is fired immediate after Wapo report proving that he lied, allegedly he’s let go because he lied to Vice President Pence and caused him to be embarrassed about what he said on Meet the Press.
February 15th — Intel Agencies with access to foreign intercepts say “Trump Will Die in Jail.”
February 16th — CBS reports that Trump screamed at CIA Director Pompeo over reports that Intel is being withheld from him because of fears he might leak it to Russia. Pompeo denies any intel is being withheld from Trump. Trump rage tweets that “Russia” is a made up story by Democrats as an excuse for losing the election.
February 17th — The NY Times reports that Trump aids (including Flynn, Manafort and Page) had repeated contacts with Russian Intelligence according to the NSA and that the FBI had requested they “collect as much information as possible about the Russian operatives on the phone calls” and go through their archives for more information. Trump calls the Press the “Enemies of the American People.”
February 25th — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — who began his carrier with the New York Field Office while Trump surrogate Giuliani was Mayor — goes to the White House and in direct violation of DOJ protocols and buttonholes Reince Priebus to tell him the NYT article on contacts “Is Bullshit.”
February 26th — Priebus calls McCabe back the next day and asks him to inform the Press about this, he refuses so Priebus call his pals Devin Nunez Chairman of the House intelligence committee and Richard Burr Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee who are each former Trump surrogates who are heading up investigations of “Russia” — they do it for him.
February 28th — Trump who had essentially called Hillary a “murderer” over Benghazi blames the Generals and Obama for death of Navy Seal in Yemen during raid he himself authorized.
March 1 — it’s discovered that Sessions met with Kislyak twice, in July at the RNC which he attended as a Trump surrogate along with Carter Page and JD. Gordon and in September in his Senate Offices. Nobody notices that he also met him in April. Sen. Franken asks for Sessions to come back to the Senate to explain, he declines and sends a letter which claims he didn’t understand the question he was asked and didn’t think he was “acting as a surrogate” when he met Kislyak.
March 2 — 100 Democrats demand that Jeff Sessions resign as Attorney General. He doesn’t.
March 4 — Session recuses himself from the Russia investigation. Trump blows his top that weekend screaming at his staff, throwing Priebus and Bannon off Air Force One for his weekly Mar-A-Lago trip and then tweets about being “Wiretapped in Trump Tower by Obama” the next morning based on a report from Breitbart — Narrative shifts away from Sessions.
March 5th — James Clapper denies that “Obama Wiretapped Trump.”
March 7th — House Intel committee invites Sally Yates and James Comey to testify about Michael Flynn and Russia. Michael Hayden denies Trump’s Wiretapped by Obama claims. Sen. Franken says Session committed perjury.
March 8th — British media reports more of the specific contacts by person and date alleged by Steele dossier have been confirmed by independent surveillance, but they do not yet confirm the substance of the conversations. Flynn finally registers as a foreign agent.
March 10 — Sean Spicer confirms that they were informed about Flynn’s ties to Turkey downplaying it as “not a question of it raising a red flag.” On the same day Pence — who was head of the Trump Transition Team who were informed about this by Rep. Cummings and Flynn’s lawyers specifically — is also asked about Flynn receiving payments from Turkey and answers “This is the first I’ve heard of it...” (Uh, then how does Spicey know about it?)
March 11th — Trump fires U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara after promising to keep him. Bharara had refused to take return a call from Trump which he felt was inappropriate and had previously prosecuted the Russian mobsters operating out of Trump Tower and had a new money laundering case potentially involving the Kremlin funneling money to Trump using pension funds, another allegation found in the Steele dossier.
March 17th — Spicer blames GCHQ for Obama wiretaps. GCHQ denies it and demands an apology. Doesn’t get one, until later.
March 20th — Comey and Rogers testify before House Intel that there is an active investigation into Russia influence in our election and potential ties to the Trump campaign, Comey also says he has “no information” to back Trump’s wiretap claims and repeated refuses to say Trump himself is not being investigated. He says the idea that he changed the course of the election makes him “slightly nauseous.” At some point during the month after this testimony Trump along with other WH officials go to DNI Dan Coates and NSA Director Rogers and asked them to counter Comey’s statements by publicly stating their is no evidence of collusion with Russia. They refuse claiming the request is inappropriate.
March 21st — House intel Chair Devin Nunez takes sudden clandestine trip to WH to review data revealed by one of his own former staffers who had been hired on March 7th and a former Flynn staffer that supposedly supports Trump’s “Obama wiretapped me” claims. Does press conference the next day, then meets privately with Trump to tell him what Trump’s own staffers had said. Diversion accomplished. SecState Rex Tillerson refuses to join a NATO summit and instead plans to travel to Russia.
March 28th — Yates testimony is cancelled.
March 30th — Micheal Flynn asks for immunity in order to testify to congress. Congress declines.
March 31st — Trump walks out in the middle of a signing ceremony after being asked about Michael Flynn’s request for immunity. Signs the executive orders in another office away from the cameras that were brought to film him signing the orders. Salon reports that fake news sites targeted Trump and Sanders supporters during the election with bogus conspiracy theories.
April 5th — Trump blames Susan Rice for deliberate partisan wiretap unmasking. Rice denies it.
April 6th — Nunez recuses himself from House Russia investigation.
April 12th — House Intel committee members finally review docs hyped by Nunez and supposedly “unmasked” by Rice, they say “Hell No.” she didn’t do anything wrong. Tillerson meets Lavrov and Putin, they agree on little, especially not Syria.
April 13th — GCHQ and others say they have incidental SIGINT of Trump team members “Coordinating” with Russian Intelligence agents.
April 19th — Fox News drops Bill O’Reilly amid harassment allegations. Trump defends him.
April 25th — Rep. Chaffetz and Cummings holds a joint press conference where they accuse Flynn of breaking the law by accepting foreign payments without Pentagon permission. Trump calls Flynn and tells him to “Stay Strong.”
April 27th — Trump is again asked about Flynn during a signing ceremony, ducks the question. Spicer and Chaffetz Blame the Obama administration for Flynn being hired by Trump without being “fully vetted” — even though Obama had fired Flynn in 2014 and Pence & Trump had already been fully informed by Yates, Cummings and Flynn’s attorneys about his foreign money and conversations with Kislyak — all of this simply because he was able to renew his security clearance, but only after lying on the SF-86 renewal form which normally limits the scope of the FBI security investigation. His taking foreign money as a former Military officer without Pentagon permission, violating the Logan Act by undermining U.S. foreign policy, lying on his security forms and also lying to the FBI are felonies.
April 28th — Chaffetz quits congress. Then decides to stay while he still has Obamacare to get surgery for his pre-existing foot condition. The Guardian reports that Montana GOP candidate Gianforte has financial ties to sanctioned Russian companies including Rosneft.
May 2nd — Trump initiates a bombing of Syria in retaliation for a chemical attack while having Cake with the Chinese President at Mar-a-Lago without Congressional approval or fully investigating the source of the chemical weapons themselves. Reporting argues this “shows he’s not in Russia’s pocket.”
May 8th —
Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Intel committee that she was “Very Seriously Concerned" about Flynn when she went to White House to warn them about his communications with Kislyak.
James Clapper also testifies and clarifies his prior statement that he was never informed by the FBI about their investigation into Trump/Russia connections.
May 9th —
Comey is fired by Trump, the administration claims it’s because of a recommendation by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein based on Comey’s treatment of the Clinton email investigation which is still being analyzed by the DOJ inspector General. They don’t give him a heads up on the phone, they send a courier to his offices with a letter while Comey was at the Los Angeles field offices greeting new recruits and finds out by reading the chyron on the TV screens behind him.
Spicer hides in the Bushes to avoid WH Press corp asking about Comey firing while Huckabee-Sanders pushes hard that this was all Rosenstein because of Comey’s “atrocities” against Clinton.
VP Pence echoes the “Rosenstein did it” line.
Everyone ignores that Sessions also signed off on this and he was supposed to be “recused" from it. Nobody believes Trump fired Comey because he was mean to Hillary. Nobody notices this is just one day after Yates testimony about Flynn.
Reports come out that a Grand Jury has subpeoned financial information connected to Michael Flynn.
May 10th —
Trump meets in the Oval Office with Russian Foreign minister Lavrov and Kislyak — although Kislyak is mysteriously absent in all WH documentation and photos of the event. No U.S. media is present only Russia TASS news services.
Trump reveals “code word” classified intel to the Russian on potential ISIS laptop attacks which had been gathered by a source for Israeli intelligence, then says Comey was a “Nut Job”, who “politicized” things and that his “Russia pressure” will now go away.
Jason Chaffetz writes the DOJ Inspector General and asks him to investigate the firing of Comey.
May 11th —
White House spokesperson Huckabee-Sanders openly admits that Comey was fired to “bring the Russia matter to a conclusion”, later that day Trump admits on CBS News to Lester Holt that he was going to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein’s recommendation and he was thinking about the “made up Russia story” when he did it. He also admits that he let Kislyak & Lavrov into the oval office because “Putin asked him to.”
Senate Intel committee subpoenas Flynn financial documents.
Acting FBI Director McCabe testifies that morale inside the agency was high under Director Comey, but he can not confirm details of any private conversations between Trump and Comey, or that Comey requested “more resources” for the Russia investigation.
May 12th — Rosenstein sees “no need” for a Special Prosecutor.
May 13th — Trump frustrated with Spicer & Huckabee-Sanders hints he might cut them both out of the loop between him and press.
May 15th —
Trump’s leak of classified data to Russia is revealed. Flynn’s replacement as National Security Advisor Gen. McMaster claims there’s nothing wrong with the leak because no “sources or methods” were revealed. Israel who happens to be one of the sources is pissed their asset may be now at risk.
The money laundering case which had previous been handled by Preet Bharara is abruptly settled fueling rumors that it’s former targets may have now become FBI informants.
Lewandowski resigns from his lobbying firm because he sucks at it, he never officially registers as a lobbyist.
Senate contacts FinCEN for docs on Trump and his associate’s financial transactions.
May 16th —
The Comey Memos are revealed documenting how Trump attempted to impact the Flynn investigation hinting at potential obstruction of justice.
Chaffetz’s tweets “I have my subpoena pen ready” to get the memos. McCarthy and Ryan both say they’re fine with a subpoena.
Breitbart and RW Media respond to the “code word” classified leak by claiming it’s merely a "smear campaign by the Deep State” against Trump, recycling the Seth Rich conspiracy and claiming “Obama and Biden blurted out classified info too” even though they didn't.
Trump tweets “Comey better hope there are no ‘Tapes’” of their conversations.
May 17th —
Rosenstein reverses his stance from 5 days earlier and appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Prosecutor for the Russia investigation.
Fox tries to find a Republican to appear and defend Trump on air, they come up empty.
Mike Pence files paperwork with FEC for his own PAC (Rats. Ship. Sinking. Exits. On. Fire!]
May 18th —
Trump talks about “rehiring Flynn” if he’s cleared by the FBI, calls the Russia investigation the “Greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. Political History” [Congressman from Salem vehemently disagrees] then he also whines before the graduating Coast Guard class that he’s been treated worse and more unfairly than “Any Politician in History.” Representatives for Pres. Lincoln, Kennedy, McKinley, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton refrain from responding, but I suspect they might start off with “Bitch, please...”
Reuters reveals that Trump associates met or communicated with Russian officials at least 18 times over the last 7 months of the campaign.
Time Magazine releases a report on Russia’s Social media War on America, using bots and trolls across Facebook and Twitter.
Rosenstein briefs the Senate, says “he’s unaware of a request for more resources” by Comey.
Roger Ailes Dies.
May 19th — Jared Kushner named as “person of interest" in Trump investigation.
May 22nd —
Michael Flynn ignores Senate subpoena and prepares to plead the 5th.
Manafort and Stone provide docs to Senate Intel.
While in Israel Trump claims he never mentioned “the name Israel” to the Russians in the oval office, which was never the issue the fact it was “code word” classified was.
Comey’s testimony is postponed as he says he wants to talk to Mueller the Special Prosecutor first.
Mueller visits FBI headquarters meets with agents on the case and is briefed on the Comey memos.
Trump reportedly eyes bringing back Lewandowski for “crisis management”, except that after leaving CNN he’d become a lobbyist and can no longer work in the White House due to Trump’s own rules, not that he really followed them anyway.
Fox News officially retracts the Seth Rich hacked the DNC story, Hannity keeps plugging it.
May 23rd —
Former CIA Director Brennen testifies before the House Intel Committee. He states that the Active Measures of Russia are a continuing threat and that CIA had seen intel that the Trump campaign may have been ‘actively conspiring, colluding with Russia’ which had been referred to the FBI, and that he didn’t request any unmasking of U.S. Citizens, such requests were made downstream from his position. He also states that CIA didn’t use any of the Steele dossier in their assessment of the Russia threat. WH says the “real problems” are leaks.
Pigued by the Time report from May 18th, the FEC considers an investigation into whether Russia illegally paid for Facebook ads and whether this was coordinated with Kushner’s voter micro-targeting with Cambridge Analytica in support of Trump.
Kushner reportedly calls Christie for advice, he tells him Trump “‘better lawyer up and keep his mouth shut.” Christie associates deny this happened, yet Trump does apparently start looking for a Lawyer.
Senate issues two more subpoenas for Flynn docs. Hannity agrees to shut up about Seth Rich
May 24th —
House Democrats send letter for financial information on Trump businesses to Deutsche Bank which holds $300 Million of his debt and who were fined $630 Million for their connection to a $10 Billion Russia Money-Laundering Scheme in 2015.
Trump lawyers up, hiring his longtime attorney Marc Kasowitz who had defended him over Trump University, his bankruptcies, divorce and Trump Nation suits as outside counsel on the Russia probe, Kasowitz had also been counsel for Russia’s Sberbank which had employed a Russian spy who was prosecuted in 2016 by Preet Bharara for trying to co-opt Carter Page.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) publicly states that he has begun drawing up articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.
Carter Page agrees to testify before House Intel. Rep.
Cummings says docs show Flynn falsified his security forms by saying the $45k he received from RT was paid by “U.S. Companies.” Also Jeff Sessions didn’t list his meetings with Russians on his security forms either.
Hannity goes on twitter rant about George Soros and Seth Rich again.
Britain complains loudly about U.S. Intel leaks which may damage their investigation of the Manchester Bombing, this lessons likelihood that FBI & Mueller may gain access to GCHQ intercepts of Russians.
Spicer gets shutout on meeting the Pope even though he’s a devout Catholic, indicating his rapidly shrinking shelf-life. GOP candidate.
Gianforte bodyslams a Guardian reporter as he asks about the new CBO score for DoucheCare or maybe it was because they’d previously reported about his investments in sanctioned Russian companies like Rosneft.
May 25th —
Trump gives disastrous NATO shake-down speech that would make Putin proud.
Hannity goes on abrupt unplanned “vacation” as advertisers flee his show.
DOJ refuses to give copies of Comey docs to Congress to prevent interfering with Mueller investigation.
Assault charges are filed against Greg Gianforte, Rep Trent Frank’s says the attack was “precipitated by the Left.”
NBC reports Kushner is under FBI investigation potentially for his contacts with Kislyak and Gorkov, failing to include meeting them on his Security applications, and to see if his micro-targeting operations with Cambridge Analytics was co-opted by Russia’s targeted bot/troll disinformation campaign.
Gianforte wins his election even with assault charges pending, apologies and admits his initial story was a lie.
Rep Jeff Duncan attacks CNN’s story about Session’s failure to disclose his meetings with Russians — CNN doesn’t retract.
May 26th —
Reports surface that NSA Director Mike Rogers made an agency wide announcement that “There is no question that we [meaning NSA] have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians.”
WH advisor Gary Cohn says that while at NATO summit in Brussels Trump is “looking at” lifting sanctions on Russia over Crimea.
Former Kushner employee at the New York Observer and NSA reporter John Schindler claims Euro IC services are ready to dump “Dirt” on Trump after his public punking of NATO leaders in Brussels “Now we know he’s Putin’s boy”.
Reports are the FBI is investigating an overseas launched cyber-attack on the Trump organization.
An ex-Kushner employee says “He’s a Shithead, unqualified to hold any job.”
Mike Flynn’s Turkey lobbying client Kamil Ekim Alptekin who paid him $530k denies any wrong doing or ill intent.
CNN Reports that Jim Comey knew the Lynch/Wasserman-Schultz memos were fake, but feared they might become public and undermine the DOJ.
Preibus, Bannon and Kushner setup a “War Room” to push back on Russia allegations but staffers complain “‘ill-advised tweets’ keep blowing up efforts to combat Russia scandal.”
Hillary Clinton gives fiery speech at her alma mater calling out Trump for, well, everything.
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska who has ties to Manafort and allegedly organized crime seeks full immunity to testify to congress.
Senate Intel committee seeks all Trump campaign documents, emails and phone records.
Wapo confirms that intercepted communications reveal Kushner was the point man for Trump’s attempted secure back channel to Putin using Russian diplomatic communications gear.
May 27, 2017 —
Owners of Russia’s Alfa Bank sue Buzzfeed for publishing the Steele Dossier.
McMaster says he’s “Not Concerned” by Kushner’s back-channel. [The person to ask tho, is Mueller!]
May 27th — Former NSA Officer Malcolm Nance calls for Jared Kushner security clearance to be pulled.
As is shown Trump’s financial and business links to Russia and the Russian mob go back over a decade and potentially even further. Being so close to the mob they’re living just three floors downstairs easily gets you in the sights of Russian Intelligence. Manafort, Page, Flynn, Stone, Sater, Gordon and even Kushner are all at great risk. Pence seems to have been complicit and Trump himself has built up quite an obstruction case.
What is quite noticeable is the direct pattern of Trump reacting almost immediately to anything that annoys him, almost reflexively. After Yates comes to the WH about Flynn he immediately calls Comey to dinner and tries to get him to comply and drop the Flynn investigation. After Comey’s testimony he tries to get the DNI & NSA Director to contradict him, then after Yates testifies about Flynn, he immediately fires Comey.
How far Mueller will go with this remains to be seen, but I seriously doubt that they all will escape unscathed. In any case, it shows the buffoons and morons at full tilt gallop, from Il Douchovitch on down.
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