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The following is a timeline of the events relating to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump's past connections to Russians, and potential collusion by members of the Donald Trump campaign with the Russian interference.^[1]

Relevant individuals

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks
John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (2013–2017)
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) (2010–2017)
Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, former Secretary of State (2009–2013)
James Comey, 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2013–2017)
Dianne Feinstein, California Senator (D), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee (former chairwoman, 2009–2015)
Michael T. Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014), former National Security Advisor (early 2017)
Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to the United States
Jared Kushner, real estate investor, son-in-law and Senior Advisor to President Trump
Paul Manafort, political consultant, former chairman of Trump's primary election campaign
Robert Mueller, 6th FBI Director (2001–2013), appointed Special Counsel for the Russian interference investigation
Devin Nunes, Congressman (R-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
Carter Page, oil industry consultant, former Trump campaign adviser on foreign policy
Vladimir Putin, 2nd and 4th President of Russia
Susan Rice, former National Security Advisor (2013–2017)
Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, acting Attorney General for Russia–Trump investigations
Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General, former Alabama Senator (R) (1997–2017)
Roger Stone, political consultant, former staffer to President Nixon (1972–1974), former business partner of Manafort (1980s)
Rex Tillerson, U.S. Secretary of State, former CEO of ExxonMobil (2006–2016)
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, former real estate developer (1971–2016)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (2011–2016), congresswoman (D-FL)

Historical background

1979–1999

1979: Roger Stone is introduced to Donald Trump.^[2]

1980: Stone founds a lobbying practice (Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly) with Paul Manafort^[3]; Trump becomes one of Stone’s first clients. In the 1980s, Trump hires Manafort as his lawyer on gambling and real estate issues.^[4] By 1988, Stone is one of Trump’s closest advisers.

July 1987: Donald Trump travels to Moscow and tours potential construction sites.^{[citation needed]}

December 1988: Trump says that the Moscow Hotel project fizzled because “in the Soviet Union, you don't own anything. It's hard to conjure up spending hundreds of millions of dollars on something and not own it.”

November 1996: At a news conference, Mr. Trump announces plans to invest $250 million in Russia and to put his name on two luxury residential buildings, a Trump International and a Trump Tower, in Moscow. Neither building was constructed.

February 1998: The Moscow Times quotes Norma Foerderer, Mr. Trump’s personal assistant, about his Moscow plans: “That’s way on the back, back, back burner. We haven’t thought about Moscow for some time.” The Russian news media reports that further negotiations never occurred with Mr. Trump about the Moscow hotel. A German company ends up winning the contract.
October 1998: Demolition of a vacant office building near the United Nations headquarters makes way for Trump World Tower.^[5] Donald Trump begins selling units in the skyscraper, which is scheduled to open in 2001 and becomes a prominent depository of Russian money. By 2004, one-third of the units sold on the 76th through 83rd floors of Trump World Tower involve people or limited liability companies connected to Russia or neighboring states.^[6] Assisting Trump’s sales effort is Ukrainian immigrant Semyon “Sam” Kislin, who issues mortgages to buyers of multimillion-dollar Trump World Tower apartments. In the late 1970s, Kislin had co-owned an appliance store with Georgian immigrant Tamir Sapir, and they had sold 200 television sets to Donald Trump on credit.^[7] By the early 1990s, Kislin had become a wealthy commodities trader and campaign fundraiser for Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who in 1996 appoints him^[8] to the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Meanwhile, Sapir makes a fortune as a New York City real estate developer.

2000–2006

2000: Stone chairs the Donald Trump presidential exploratory advisory committee.^[9]

2002: Russian-born Felix H. Sater and his company, Bayrock Group—a Trump Tower tenant—begin working with Trump on a series of real estate development deals, one of which becomes the Trump SoHo.^[10] Another development partner in Trump SoHo is the Sapir Organization^[11], founded by Tamir Sapir.
2002: Efforts to sell Russians apartments in Trump World Tower, Trump’s West Side condominiums, and Trump’s building on Columbus Circle expand with presentations in Moscow^[12] involving Sotheby’s International Realty and a Russian realty firm. In addition to buying units in Trump World Tower, Russians and Russian-Americans flood into another Trump-backed project in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.^[13] In South Florida alone, members of the Russian elite invest more than $98 million^[14] in seven Trump-branded luxury towers.

2005: Trump gives Bayrock Group an exclusive deal to develop a project in Russia, as testified by Sater in 2008.^[15] “I’d come back, pop my head into Mr. Trump’s office and tell him, you know, ‘Moving forward on the Moscow deal.’ And he would say ‘All right… I showed him photos, I showed him the site, showed him the view from the site. It’s pretty spectacular.” But that early effort to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow fails.
June 2005: Manafort proposes that he undertake a consulting assignment for one of President Vladimir Putin’s billionaire oligarchs^[16]. Manafort suggests a strategy for influencing politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit Putin’s government.

2006: Rex Tillerson is appointed CEO of ExxonMobil, in large part because of his close relationship with Russia.^[17]

2007–2012

2007: Donald Trump speaks highly of real estate prospects in Russia in a deposition, saying, "We will be in Moscow at some point." Mr. Trump acknowledges meeting with Russian investors at Trump Tower to explore a Moscow development deal, and says his son Donald Trump Jr. is working to get a separate deal there off the ground.
Sept. 19, 2007: As Trump speaks at the launch party^[18] for Trump SoHo, Sater and his Bayrock partner, Kazakhstan native Tevfik Arif^[19], stand next to him
Oct. 15, 2007: In an interview with Larry King, Trump says: “Look at Putin—what he’s doing with Russia—I mean, you know, what’s going on over there. I mean this guy has done—whether you like him or don’t like him—he’s doing a great job.”^[20]
November 2007: Manafort’s firm receives a $455,000 wire transfer from the Party of Regions of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Manafort had been hired to improve the image of Putin-backed Yanukovych, who was portraying himself falsely as an anti-corruption reformer seeking to move Ukraine closer to the West. “The West has not been willing to move beyond the Cold War mentality and to see this man and the outreach that he has extended,” Manafort says about Yanukovych at the time. Ukraine’s richest man—a billionaire industrialist—had introduced Manafort to Yanukovych.

July 2008: As the Florida real estate market began to crash, Trump sells a Florida residence to a Russian oligarch for $95 million, believed to be the biggest single-family home sale in US history. The Russian oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev, never lived in the house and, since then, it has been demolished. Three years earlier, Trump had bought the home at auction for $41 million.^[21]^[22]
September 2008: Donald Trump Jr. says: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets… we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”^[23]

Oct. 14, 2009: Manafort’s firm receives a $750,000 wire transfer from the Party of Regions^[24]. The Russian-leaning Yanukovych was running for president and, in February 2010, he won.^[25]

2010: Vnesheconombank (VEB) finances a $850 million deal with Alexander Shnaider, developer of the Trump Toronto hotel project. The deal allowed Shnaider to put additional funds into Trump Toronto, at a "key moment" when the project faced financial trouble. At the time, Putin was chairman of VEB's supervisory board and would have approved major transactions.^[26]

2011: Tillerson, as Exxon CEO, signs major deal with Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft. Putin attends the signing ceremony.^[17]

2012: Manafort and Rick Gates, later also a top strategist for Trump's campaign, reportedly route over $2 million from Ukraine's Party of Regions to two US lobbying firms. The money was routed secretly, allegedly to obscure Ukrainian efforts to influence US policy and evade Justice Department regulations on foreign agents.^[27]

2013

Putin awards Tillerson with the Russian Order of Friendship, one of Russia's highest honors for non-citizens.^[17]
April 8: Three Russians whom the FBI later accused of spying on the United States^[28] discuss efforts to recruit American businessman Carter Page. According to The Washington Post, “[T]he government’s application for the surveillance order targeting Page included a lengthy declaration that laid out investigators’ basis for believing that Page was an agent of the Russian government and knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow, officials said.”^[29]
June 18: Trump announces that the 2013 Miss Universe beauty pageant, which he owns, will take place in Moscow.^[30] The next day, he tweets: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow—if so, will he become my new best friend?”^[31] While preparing for the pageant, Trump says, “I have plans for the establishment of business in Russia. Now, I am in talks with several Russian companies to establish this skyscraper.”^[32]
July 8: After a BBC reporter questions Trump about Felix Sater’s alleged prior connections to organized crime, Trump ends the interview.^[33]
Oct. 17: On The Late Show, David Letterman asks Trump, “Have you had any dealings with the Russians?” Trump answers, “Well I’ve done a lot of business with the Russians…” Letterman continues, “Vladmir Putin, have you ever met the guy?” Trump says, “He’s a tough guy. I met him once.”^[34]
Nov. 5: In a deposition, an attorney asks Trump about Felix Sater.^[35] “If he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn’t know what he looked like,” Trump answers. When asked how many times he had ever spoken with Sater, Trump says, “Not many.” When asked about his July 2013 BBC interview during which he was questioned about Sater’s alleged connections to organized crime, Trump says he didn’t remember it.
Nov. 11: Trump tweets, “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”^[36]

2014

Golf writer and co-author of Arnold Palmer’s memoir James Dodson plays golf with Donald and Eric Trump at Trump National Charlotte in North Carolina. In an interview airing May 5, 2017 on Boston’s public radio station, Dodson describes the episode, beginning with a question he asks Donald Trump before the round: “‘What are you using to pay for these courses?’ And he just sort of tossed off that he had access to $100 million. So when I got in the cart with Eric, as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks — because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time. Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.’”^[37]
Feb. 22: Ousted Ukrainian President Yanukovych flees the country,^[38] leaving behind a handwritten “Black Ledger”^[39] which includes 22 entries between 2007 and 2012 purporting to show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments for Manafort or his firm by Yanukovych's Party of Regions.
March 6: At the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump says: “You know, I was in Moscow a couple of months ago. I own the Miss Universe Pageant and they treated me so great. Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present.”^[40]
August: President Obama fires Michael Flynn from his position as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for insubordination after he failed to follow guidance from his superiors, including James Clapper.^[41]

2016 election cycle

2015

June 15: Donald Trump, a real estate developer and television personality, announces he's running for president.^[42]
September: An FBI special agent contacts the Democratic National Committee to report that at least one DNC computer system had been hacked by an espionage team linked to the Russian government. The agent is transferred to a tech-support contractor at the help desk, who did a cursory check of DNC server logs and didn’t reply to follow-up calls from the FBI agent.^[43]
Sept. 21: On Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, Trump says, “The oligarchs are under [Putin’s] control, to a large extent. I mean, he can destroy them, and he has destroyed some of them… Two years ago, I was in Moscow . . . I was with the top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top-of-the-government people. I can’t go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people, and the relationship was extraordinary.”^[44]
December 10: Retired Lieutenant-General Michael T. Flynn gives a paid speech on world affairs in Moscow, at a gala dinner organized by RT News in the United Kingdom, an English-speaking Russian TV network on which he had appeared as an analyst after he retired from U.S. government service. The dinner is also attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.^[45] For his December speech, he nets $33,500 of the $45,000 paid to his speakers’ bureau.^[46] For all of 2015, Flynn receives more than $65,000 from companies linked to Russia.^[47]

January-June 2016

Feb. 29: Manafort submits a five-page, single-spaced, proposal to Trump. In it, he outlines his qualifications for helping Trump secure enough convention delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination. Manafort describes how he had assisted rich and powerful business and political leaders, including oligarchs and dictators in Russia and Ukraine: “I have managed presidential campaigns around the world.”^[48]
March 21: In a Washington Post interview^[49], Trump identifies Page as one of his foreign policy advisers. Page had helped open the Moscow office of investment banking firm Merrill Lynch and had advised Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom, in which Page is an investor. He blames 2014 US sanctions relating to Russia’s annexation of Crimea for driving down Gazprom’s stock price.^[50] Earlier in March 2016, Iowa tea party activist Sam Clovis had recommended Page to the Trump campaign.^[51]
March 29: On Stone’s recommendation^[52], Manafort joins the Trump campaign as convention manager, tasked with lining up delegates.
April: According to Reuters, first known contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.^[53]
April 20: Manafort becomes Trump’s campaign manager. Reports surface about his 2007 to 2012 ties to Yanukovych, whom Manafort had helped to elect.^[54]
Late April: The Democratic National Committee’s IT department notices suspicious computer activity, contacts the FBI, and hires a private security firm, CrowdStrike, to investigate.^[55]
May: CrowdStrike determines that highly sophisticated Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries—denominated Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear—had been responsible for the DNC hack. Fancy Bear, in particular, had indicators of affiliation with Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (also know as the GRU).^[56]
Early June: At a closed-door gathering of high-powered foreign policy experts visiting with the prime minister of India, Page hails Putin as stronger and more reliable than President Obama and touts the positive effect that a Trump presidency would have on US-Russia relations.^[57]

July–September 2016

July 7: In a lecture at the New Economic School in Moscow, Page criticizes American foreign policy.^[58] He says^[59] that many of the mistakes spoiling relations between the US and Russia “originated in my own country.” Page says he had sought and received permission from the Trump campaign to make the trip.^[60]
July 9: The Washington Post reports that Trump is considering Flynn for Vice President, with support from Jeff Sessions. Trump ultimately selects Mike Pence, governor of Indiana.^[61]
July 18–21: Republican Convention in Cleveland^[62]
- July 18: Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak attends the convention, meeting Page and J. D. Gordon;^[1] as Trump's foreign policy advisors, they stress that he would like to improve relations with Russia.^[63]
- July 18: Senator Jeff Sessions speaks with Kislyak at a Heritage Foundation event.^[1]^[64]
- July 18: Gordon and the Trump campaign push for a GOP platform that does not advocate arming Ukraine in its war with pro-Russian separatists.^[65]
- July 21: Trump formally accepts the Republican nomination.^[66]
July 23: WikiLeaks publishes 20,000 emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), revealing a systematic bias against Bernie Sanders from the Democratic Party leadership.^[67]
July 24: DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is forced to resign.^[68]
July 25–28: Democratic Convention in Philadelphia^[68]
- July 25: Based on assessments from cybersecurity firms, the DNC and the Clinton campaign claim that Russian intelligence has hacked their e-mails and forwarded them to WikiLeaks.^[69]
- July 28: Hillary Clinton formally accepts the Democratic nomination.^[70]

July 27: At a news conference, Trump says he hopes that Russian intelligence hacks into, and releases, Clinton's 'missing' emails. According to the New York Times, Trump was "essentially urging a foreign adversary to conduct cyberespionage".^[71]
End July: CIA Director John Brennan, alarmed over intelligence that Russia is trying to "hack" the election, forms a working group of officials from the CIA, FBI and NSA.^[72]
July: According to later testimony by James Comey, the FBI starts a counter-intelligence investigation about Russian interference, including possible coordination between Trump associates and Russia.^[73]

August 4: Brennan calls his Russian counterpart Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), to warn him against meddling in the presidential election.^[72]
August 6: NPR confirms the Trump campaign’s involvement in the Republican platform change on Ukraine.^[74]
August 16: Stone tells Alex Jones that he is in contact with WikiLeaks director Julian Assange, who he said had "political dynamite" on Clinton.^[75]
August 19: Manafort resigns as Trump's campaign manager.^[76]
August 26: Assange states that Clinton is causing "hysteria" about Russia, following her claims that Russian intelligence was behind the leaks.^[77] He also says "The Trump campaign has a lot of things wrong with it, but as far as we can see being Russian agents is not one of them."^[77]

September 8: Sessions meets with Kislyak a second time, in Sessions' office;^[1] he later says they discussed Ukraine and terrorism.^[78]

October–November 2016

October 7: WikiLeaks begins publishing thousands of emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, revealing excerpts from Clinton's paid speeches to Wall Street.^[79]
October 7: The DHS and the ODNI issue a joint statement accusing the Russian government of breaking into the computer systems of several political organizations and releasing the obtained material via DCLeaks, WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, with the intent "to interfere with the U.S. election process."^[80]^[81]^[82]^[83]
October 19: During the third presidential debate, Clinton blames Russia for the DNC email leaks and accuses Trump of being a "puppet" of Putin.^[84]
October 27: At the Valdai forum, Putin denounces American "hysteria" over accusations of Russian interference, saying “Does anyone seriously think that Russia can influence the choice of the American people? Is America some kind of banana republic? America is a great power. If I’m wrong, correct me.”^[85]
October 31: Through the "red phone", President Obama tells President Putin to stop interfering or face "serious consequences".^[86]

Trump transition

November–December 2016

November 8: Trump is elected President.^[87]
November 10: Kislyak states that Russia was not involved with U.S. election hacking.^[88]
November 10: President Obama warns President-elect Trump against hiring Flynn.^[89]
November 18: President-elect Trump announces he will nominate Sessions to be Attorney General^[90] and Flynn as National Security Adviser.^[91]
November 18: Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, writes a letter to Pence warning that Flynn's connections to Russia and Turkey might create conflicts of interest.^[92]
December: Jared Kushner meets with Sergei Gorkov (FSB-Academy Graduate and chairman of VEB and Sberbank - under U.S. Sanctions)^[93]
Early December: Sergei Mikhailov; FSB cyber chief has his head bagged and is arrested for treason. Ruslan Stoyanov, senior researcher with Kaspersky Lab and Dmitry Dokuchayev, a hacker known by the name “Forb” are arrested for treason.^[94]^[95]
December 1, 2: Kushner, Flynn and Kislyak meet in Trump Tower to discuss the potential of obtaining a Russian-encrypted communications channel directly with the Kremlin.^[96]

December 9: The CIA briefs U.S. legislators on Russian operations to prevent Clinton from winning the presidency.^{[citation needed]}
December 13: Trump picks Tillerson as Secretary of State; Russian officials praise the decision.^[17]
December 15: Clinton tells a group of donors in Manhattan that Russian hacking was ordered by Putin "because he has a personal beef against me" due to her accusation in 2011 that Russian parliamentary elections that year were rigged.^[97]^[98]
December 26: Oleg Erovinkin, a former KGB official, is found dead in the back seat of his car in Moscow. He was suspected of assisting former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele in compiling a dossier alleging Trump ties to Russia as part of opposition research.^[99]
December 29: Obama expels 35 Russian diplomats and expands sanctions against Russia.^[100]
December 29: Flynn has telephone conversations with Russian ambassador Kislyak to discuss sanctions.^[101]
December 30: Putin announces he will not retaliate against the U.S. expulsions, contrary to recommendations from Lavrov.^[102] Trump approves.^[103]

January 2017

January 5: Obama is briefed on the intelligence community’s findings.^{[citation needed]}
January 6: The ODNI releases an unclassified report stating that "Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election".^[104]
January 10: In a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Al Franken asks Sessions what he would do as Attorney General "if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign." Sessions replies, "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have—did not have communications with the Russians, and I'm unable to comment on it."^[105]
January 10: The unverified Trump-Russia dossier is made public by BuzzFeed.^[106]
January 11: Trump tweets "Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!".^[107] USA Today says this is "not exactly true".^[108]
January 11, Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security company and a Trump campaign donor, meets in the Seychelles with an unidentified Russian said to be close to Putin. The meeting was organized by the United Arab Emirates and reportedly includes talks of a "back-channel" with Moscow to try and influence Russian policy in the Middle East.^[109]
January 13: President-elect Trump nominates U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General.^[110]
January 17: In response to written questions presented by Senator Patrick Leahy, Sessions states that he has not been "in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election."^[111] He is later accused of failing to disclose two meetings with Russian ambassador Kislyak.^[112]
January 19: Following a disclosure by McClatchy on January 18,^[113] the New York Times reports that Trump associates Manafort, Page and Stone have been under investigation by the FBI, NSA, CIA, and FinCEN.^[114] Investigations are said to be based on intercepted Russian communications as well as financial transactions.^[115] Sources say "the investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing."^[114]
January 20: Obama leaves office.^[116]

Trump administration

January 2017

January 20: Trump and Pence take office.^[117]
January 21: Trump appoints Flynn as National Security Advisor.^[118]
January 24: Flynn is interviewed by the FBI about his conversations with Kislyak.^[119]
January 26: Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warns the Trump administration that Flynn has not been truthful about his contacts with Russia and that he may be vulnerable to blackmail by Russian intelligence.^[120]
January 27: White House Counsel Donald McGahn has further discussions with Yates on the Flynn matter.^[121]
January 27: Trump and Comey have dinner at the White House; the President reportedly asks the FBI Director for personal loyalty. Comey declines, offering "honesty".^[122]
January 31: Trump fires Yates, citing her refusal to enforce Executive Order 13769.^[123]

February 2017

Early February: Michael Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, delivers a pro-Russian Ukrainian peace plan to Flynn while visiting the White House. The plan was developed by Sater and Andrii Artemenko, a Ukrainian politician who said he was encouraged by "top aides" to Putin.^[124]
February 8: Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General by a vote of 52 to 47;^[125] he is sworn in the next day.^[126]
February 9: Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduces a resolution of inquiry in relation to possible crimes relating to the financial dealings or collusion with Russia by President Trump.^[127]
February 13: Flynn is dismissed after less than a month in office.^[128]
February 14: Trump reportedly asks Comey to drop any investigation of Flynn. The White House denies the charge.^[129]
February 20: Trump nominates H. R. McMaster to replace Flynn as National Security Advisor.^[130] He is confirmed on March 15.^[131]

March 2017

March 1: Sessions comes under scrutiny after reports that he had contact with Russian government officials during the election campaign, even though he denied it during his confirmation hearings. Democratic representatives ask Sessions to resign his post as United States Attorney General.^[132]^[133]
March 2: Sessions announces that he will recuse himself from any investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.^[134]
March 3: In testimony to Congress, Comey says: “It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election.” ^[135]
March 4: Trump tweets that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the election campaign,^[136] calling him a "bad (or sick) guy"^[137] and denouncing "McCarthyism".^[136] Obama denies the allegation.^[138]
March 5: In a Meet the Press interview, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denies that any wiretap was actively mounted against Trump's campaign or at Trump Tower.^[139] Clapper also states that, as long as he was still in office, the NSA, FBI and CIA had found no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.^[140]
March 5: Republican lawmakers include the allegations of Obama's wiretapping into the congressional probes of Russian campaign meddling.^[141]
March 10: The House Intelligence Committee formally requests that the Justice Department turn over any documentary evidence,^{[clarification needed]} including applications, orders or warrants.^{[citation needed]}
March 15: Both Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) announce there is no evidence to back up the president's wiretapping allegation.^{[citation needed]}
March 20: The House Intelligence Committee holds its first public hearing. Both Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers testify that there is no evidence for Obama administration "wiretapping" and Comey admits that there is indeed an FBI investigation of the "Russia thing" ongoing.^{[citation needed]}
March 22: Nunes announces that he discovered the intelligence community "incidentally collected" the communications of some members of Trump's transition team, potentially including the president himself,^{[citation needed]} and claims that the information was "widely disseminated". It is later confirmed that he learned this from an unnamed source during his White House visit on the previous day.^{[citation needed]}
March 23: Rick Gates, longtime deputy to Manafort and Trump campaign advisor, is forced to leave the pro-Trump nonprofit 'America First Policies' after reports that Manafort sought to further Russian interests.^[142]
March 27: Schiff and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi call for Nunes' recusal from the investigation after details of his White House visit become public.^[143]
March 30: Flynn tells the FBI and Congress that he would testify in exchange for immunity from prosecution.^[144]
Late March: Trump asks Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and NSA Director Mike Rogers to publicly deny any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Both refuse, saying the requests were inappropriate.^[145]

April 2017

April 3: Eli Lake reports in Bloomberg View that former National Security Advisor Susan Rice had requested to unmask the identities of members of the Trump campaign and presidential transition in surveillance records.^[146]
April 5: Nunes resigns from the investigation.^[147] The House Ethics Committee starts an investigation of Nunes' conduct in the month of March.^[148]
April 25: Rosenstein is confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 94-6.^[149]^[150]

May 2017

May 3: Senator Diane Feinstein of California, who is the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, states that there is "not yet" any evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.^[151]
May 4: Rice refuses to testify to Congress.^[152]
May 8: President Trump directs Sessions and Rosenstein to make a case against FBI Director Comey in writing. The next day, Rosenstein hands a memo to Sessions providing the basis to recommend that Comey be dismissed.^[153]
May 9: Comey is fired.^[135]
May 9: Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary, tells the press that "He [Trump] has no business in Russia. He has no connections to Russia."^[154]
May 10: Trump holds a meeting in the White House with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kislyak.
- Trump reportedly tells Lavrov and Kislyak he fired Comey to relieve pressure caused by the investigation.^[155]
- Trump shares highly classified intelligence from a US ally with the Russians, without that ally's permission.^[156]
May 12: Trump threatens Comey with alleged secret tapes.^[157]
May 17: Rosenstein appoints Former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian election interference and related scandals.^[158]
May 17: Rep. Al Green (D-TX) calls for the impeachment of President Trump from the House floor^[159]
May 18: The Russian State Duma approves the nomination of former Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov to replace Kislyak as U.S. ambassador.^[160]
May 19: CNN reports that White House lawyers are now researching impeachment.^[161]
May 19: Senator Feinstein repeats her statement of May 3 that no evidence of collusion was found, and adds that "there are rumors".^[162]
May 22: Flynn refuses to hand over subpoenaed documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee, citing a Fifth Amendment self-incrimination privilege, which is disputed in regards to document production by Senate Intelligence Committee.^[163]
May 23: U.S. Department of Justice ethics experts declare Mueller ethically able to function as special counsel.^[164]
May 23: The House Intelligence Committee hears testimony from former CIA Director John Brennan, who states that Russia "brazenly interfered in the 2016 election process" despite U.S. efforts to ward it off.^[165]
May 24: Media reports claim that Trump has hired Marc Kasowitz as his lawyer to represent him in any inquiry.^[166]
May 26: The Washington Post reports that Kislyak told Moscow that Kushner wanted a secret communications channel with the Kremlin under Russian supervision.^[167]
May 26: The Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas the Trump campaign for "all of its emails, documents and phone records".^[168]

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 === 1979–1999 ===
-* '''1979''': [[Roger Stone]]&nbsp;is introduced&nbsp;to Donald Trump.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html|title=What Donald Trump Learned From Joseph McCarthy’s Right-Hand Man|last=Mahler|first=Jonathan|date=2016-06-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Flegenheimer|first2=Matt|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+* '''1979''': [[Roger Stone]] is introduced to Donald Trump.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html|title=What Donald Trump Learned From Joseph McCarthy’s Right-Hand Man|last=Mahler|first=Jonathan|date=2016-06-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Flegenheimer|first2=Matt|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-* '''1980''': Stone founds a lobbying practice ([[Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly|Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly]]) with [[Paul Manafort]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html|title=A Political Power Broker|last=Times|first=Special To The New York|date=1989-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>; Trump becomes one of Stone’s first clients. In the 1980s,&nbsp;Trump hires Manafort&nbsp;as his lawyer on gambling and real estate issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486085582/meet-paul-manafort-the-washington-insider-running-trumps-campaign|title=Meet Paul Manafort, The Washington Insider Running Trump's Campaign|website=NPR.org|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> By 1988, Stone is one of Trump’s closest advisers.
+* '''1980''': Stone founds a lobbying practice ([[Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly|Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly]]) with [[Paul Manafort]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html|title=A Political Power Broker|last=Times|first=Special To The New York|date=1989-06-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>; Trump becomes one of Stone’s first clients. In the 1980s, Trump hires Manafort as his lawyer on gambling and real estate issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/486085582/meet-paul-manafort-the-washington-insider-running-trumps-campaign|title=Meet Paul Manafort, The Washington Insider Running Trump's Campaign|website=NPR.org|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> By 1988, Stone is one of Trump’s closest advisers.
 * '''July 1987''': Donald Trump travels to Moscow and tours potential construction sites.{{cn|date=May 2017}}
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 * '''February 1998''': [[The Moscow Times]] quotes Norma Foerderer, Mr. Trump’s personal assistant, about his Moscow plans: “That’s way on the back, back, back burner. We haven’t thought about Moscow for some time.” The Russian news media reports that further negotiations never occurred with Mr. Trump about the Moscow hotel. A German company ends up winning the contract.
-* '''October 1998''':&nbsp;Demolition of a vacant office building near the United Nations headquarters makes way for [[Trump World Tower]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/16/nyregion/trump-starts-a-new-tower-near-the-un.html|title=Trump Starts A New Tower Near the U.N.|last=Bagli|first=Charles V.|date=1998-10-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Donald Trump begins selling units in the skyscraper, which is scheduled to open in 2001 and becomes a prominent depository of Russian money. By 2004, one-third of the units sold on the 76th&nbsp;through 83rd&nbsp;floors of Trump World Tower involve people or limited liability companies&nbsp;connected to Russia or neighboring states.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs|title=Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs|date=2017-03-16|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> Assisting Trump’s sales effort is Ukrainian immigrant Semyon “Sam” Kislin, who&nbsp;issues mortgages to buyers&nbsp;of multimillion-dollar Trump World Tower apartments. In the late 1970s, Kislin had co-owned an appliance store with Georgian immigrant [[Tamir Sapir]], and they had&nbsp;sold 200 television sets&nbsp;to Donald Trump on credit.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs|title=Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs|date=2017-03-16|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> By the early 1990s, Kislin had become a wealthy commodities trader and&nbsp;campaign fundraiser&nbsp;for Mayor [[Rudy Giuliani]], who in 1996&nbsp;appoints him<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sam   Kislin|date=2015-06-04|title=NYCEDC’s Prospect Park Lakeside Center|url=https://www.slideshare.net/SamKislin/nycedcs-prospect-park-lakeside-center}}</ref>&nbsp;to the [[New York City Economic Development Corporation]]. Meanwhile, Sapir makes a fortune as a New York City real estate developer.
+* '''October 1998''': Demolition of a vacant office building near the United Nations headquarters makes way for [[Trump World Tower]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/16/nyregion/trump-starts-a-new-tower-near-the-un.html|title=Trump Starts A New Tower Near the U.N.|last=Bagli|first=Charles V.|date=1998-10-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Donald Trump begins selling units in the skyscraper, which is scheduled to open in 2001 and becomes a prominent depository of Russian money. By 2004, one-third of the units sold on the 76th through 83rd floors of Trump World Tower involve people or limited liability companies connected to Russia or neighboring states.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs|title=Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs|date=2017-03-16|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> Assisting Trump’s sales effort is Ukrainian immigrant Semyon “Sam” Kislin, who issues mortgages to buyers of multimillion-dollar Trump World Tower apartments. In the late 1970s, Kislin had co-owned an appliance store with Georgian immigrant [[Tamir Sapir]], and they had sold 200 television sets to Donald Trump on credit.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs|title=Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs|date=2017-03-16|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> By the early 1990s, Kislin had become a wealthy commodities trader and campaign fundraiser for Mayor [[Rudy Giuliani]], who in 1996 appoints him<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sam   Kislin|date=2015-06-04|title=NYCEDC’s Prospect Park Lakeside Center|url=https://www.slideshare.net/SamKislin/nycedcs-prospect-park-lakeside-center}}</ref> to the [[New York City Economic Development Corporation]]. Meanwhile, Sapir makes a fortune as a New York City real estate developer.
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 * '''2000''': Stone chairs the Donald Trump presidential exploratory advisory committee.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422353/donald-trump-roger-stone-interview|title=Donald Trump's Departed Top Adviser Speaks Out|work=National Review|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref>
-* '''2002''': Russian-born&nbsp;[[Felix Sater|Felix H. Sater]] and his company, [[Bayrock Group]]—a [[Trump Tower]] tenant—begin working with Trump on a series of real estate development deals, one of which becomes the [[Trump SoHo]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/#115300c81e02'|title=Donald Trump And The Felon: Inside His Business Dealings With A Mob-Connected Hustler|last=Behar|first=Richard|work=Forbes|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> Another development partner in Trump SoHo is&nbsp;the [[The Sapir Organization|Sapir Organization]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/donald-trump-soho-settlement.html|title=Donald Trump Settled a Real Estate Lawsuit, and a Criminal Case Was Closed|last=Mcintire|first=Mike|date=2016-04-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>, founded by&nbsp;Tamir Sapir.
+* '''2002''': Russian-born [[Felix Sater|Felix H. Sater]] and his company, [[Bayrock Group]]—a [[Trump Tower]] tenant—begin working with Trump on a series of real estate development deals, one of which becomes the [[Trump SoHo]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/#115300c81e02'|title=Donald Trump And The Felon: Inside His Business Dealings With A Mob-Connected Hustler|last=Behar|first=Richard|work=Forbes|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> Another development partner in Trump SoHo is the [[The Sapir Organization|Sapir Organization]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/donald-trump-soho-settlement.html|title=Donald Trump Settled a Real Estate Lawsuit, and a Criminal Case Was Closed|last=Mcintire|first=Mike|date=2016-04-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>, founded by Tamir Sapir.
-* '''2002''': Efforts to sell Russians apartments in [[Trump World Tower]], Trump’s West Side condominiums, and Trump’s building on Columbus Circle&nbsp;expand with presentations in Moscow<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs|title=Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs|date=2017-03-16|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>&nbsp;involving [[Sotheby's International Realty|Sotheby’s International Realty]] and a Russian realty firm. In addition to buying units in Trump World Tower, Russians and Russian-Americans flood into&nbsp;another Trump-backed project&nbsp;in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/07/15/focus2.html|title=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/07/15/focus2.html|website=www.bizjournals.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> In South Florida alone, members of the Russian elite&nbsp;invest more than $98 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-property-specialreport-idUSKBN16O2F6|title=Special Report: Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings, records show|date=2017-03-17|work=Reuters|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>&nbsp;in seven Trump-branded luxury towers.
+* '''2002''': Efforts to sell Russians apartments in [[Trump World Tower]], Trump’s West Side condominiums, and Trump’s building on Columbus Circle expand with presentations in Moscow<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-16/behind-trump-s-russia-romance-there-s-a-tower-full-of-oligarchs|title=Behind Trump’s Russia Romance, There’s a Tower Full of Oligarchs|date=2017-03-16|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> involving [[Sotheby's International Realty|Sotheby’s International Realty]] and a Russian realty firm. In addition to buying units in Trump World Tower, Russians and Russian-Americans flood into another Trump-backed project in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/07/15/focus2.html|title=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/07/15/focus2.html|website=www.bizjournals.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> In South Florida alone, members of the Russian elite invest more than $98 million<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-property-specialreport-idUSKBN16O2F6|title=Special Report: Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings, records show|date=2017-03-17|work=Reuters|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> in seven Trump-branded luxury towers.
-* '''2005''': Trump gives Bayrock Group an exclusive deal&nbsp;to develop a project in Russia, as testified by Sater in 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/#115300c81e02'|title=Donald Trump And The Felon: Inside His Business Dealings With A Mob-Connected Hustler|last=Behar|first=Richard|work=Forbes|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> “I’d come back, pop my head into Mr. Trump’s office and tell him, you know, ‘Moving forward on the Moscow deal.’ And he would say ‘All right… I showed him photos, I showed him the site, showed him the view from the site. It’s pretty spectacular.” But that early effort to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow fails.
+* '''2005''': Trump gives Bayrock Group an exclusive deal to develop a project in Russia, as testified by Sater in 2008.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/10/03/donald-trump-and-the-felon-inside-his-business-dealings-with-a-mob-connected-hustler/#115300c81e02'|title=Donald Trump And The Felon: Inside His Business Dealings With A Mob-Connected Hustler|last=Behar|first=Richard|work=Forbes|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> “I’d come back, pop my head into Mr. Trump’s office and tell him, you know, ‘Moving forward on the Moscow deal.’ And he would say ‘All right… I showed him photos, I showed him the site, showed him the view from the site. It’s pretty spectacular.” But that early effort to develop a Trump Tower in Moscow fails.
-* '''June 2005''': Manafort proposes that he undertake a consulting assignment for one of President Vladimir Putin’s billionaire oligarchs<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a/manaforts-plan-greatly-benefit-putin-government|title=AP Exclusive: Before Trump job, Manafort worked to aid Putin|work=AP News|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref>.&nbsp;Manafort suggests a strategy&nbsp;for influencing politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit Putin’s government.
+* '''June 2005''': Manafort proposes that he undertake a consulting assignment for one of President Vladimir Putin’s billionaire oligarchs<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a/manaforts-plan-greatly-benefit-putin-government|title=AP Exclusive: Before Trump job, Manafort worked to aid Putin|work=AP News|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref>. Manafort suggests a strategy for influencing politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and former Soviet republics to benefit Putin’s government.
 * '''2006''': [[Rex Tillerson]] is appointed CEO of ExxonMobil, in large part because of his close relationship with Russia.<ref name="egan11december">{{cite news|last1=Egan|first1=Matt|last2=Horowitz|first2=Julia|last3=Isidore|first3=Chris|title=Behind the deep ties between Exxon's Rex Tillerson and Russia|url=http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/11/investing/rex-tillerson-exxon-russia-putin/|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=CNN Money|date=11 December 2016}}</ref>
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 * '''2007''': Donald Trump speaks highly of real estate prospects in Russia in a deposition, saying, "We will be in Moscow at some point." Mr. Trump acknowledges meeting with Russian investors at Trump Tower to explore a Moscow development deal, and says his son [[Donald Trump Jr.]] is working to get a separate deal there off the ground.
-* '''Sept. 19, 2007''':&nbsp;As&nbsp;Trump speaks at the launch party<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html|title=For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia|last=Twohey|first=Megan|date=2017-01-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Eder|first2=Steve|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> for [[Trump SoHo]], [[Felix Sater|Sater]] and his [[Bayrock Group|Bayrock]] partner,&nbsp;[[Kazakhstan]] native [[Tevfik Arif]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923|title=Subscribe to read|website=www.ft.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>, stand next to him
+* '''Sept. 19, 2007''': As Trump speaks at the launch party<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html|title=For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia|last=Twohey|first=Megan|date=2017-01-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Eder|first2=Steve|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> for [[Trump SoHo]], [[Felix Sater|Sater]] and his [[Bayrock Group|Bayrock]] partner, [[Kazakhstan]] native [[Tevfik Arif]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923|title=Subscribe to read|website=www.ft.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>, stand next to him
-* '''Oct. 15, 2007''':&nbsp;In an&nbsp;interview with [[Larry King]], Trump says:&nbsp;“Look at Putin—what he’s doing with Russia—I mean, you know, what’s going on over there. I mean this guy has done—whether you like him or don’t like him—he’s doing a great job.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/15/lkl.01.html|title=CNN.com - Transcripts|website=edition.cnn.com|language=en|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''Oct. 15, 2007''': In an interview with [[Larry King]], Trump says: “Look at Putin—what he’s doing with Russia—I mean, you know, what’s going on over there. I mean this guy has done—whether you like him or don’t like him—he’s doing a great job.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/15/lkl.01.html|title=CNN.com - Transcripts|website=edition.cnn.com|language=en|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''November 2007''': Manafort’s firm receives a $455,000&nbsp;wire transfer from the [[Party of Regions]] of Ukrainian Prime Minister [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Manafort had been hired&nbsp;to improve the image of Putin-backed Yanukovych, who was portraying himself falsely as an anti-corruption reformer seeking to move Ukraine closer to the West. “The West has not been willing to move beyond the Cold War mentality and to see this man and the outreach that he has extended,”&nbsp;Manafort says&nbsp;about Yanukovych at the time. Ukraine’s richest man—a billionaire industrialist—had introduced Manafort&nbsp;to Yanukovych.
+* '''November 2007''': Manafort’s firm receives a $455,000 wire transfer from the [[Party of Regions]] of Ukrainian Prime Minister [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Manafort had been hired to improve the image of Putin-backed Yanukovych, who was portraying himself falsely as an anti-corruption reformer seeking to move Ukraine closer to the West. “The West has not been willing to move beyond the Cold War mentality and to see this man and the outreach that he has extended,” Manafort says about Yanukovych at the time. Ukraine’s richest man—a billionaire industrialist—had introduced Manafort to Yanukovych.
-* '''July 2008''':&nbsp;As the Florida real estate market began to crash, Trump sells a&nbsp;Florida residence to a Russian oligarch for $95 million, believed to be the biggest single-family home sale in US history. The Russian oligarch, [[Dmitry Rybolovlev]], never lived in the house and, since then, it has been demolished. Three years earlier, Trump had bought the home at auction for $41 million.<ref name="clough9march">{{cite news|last1=Clough|first1=Alexandra|last2=Pacenti|first2=John|title=Why did Russian oligarch pay so much for mansion owned by Trump?|url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/why-did-russian-oligarch-pay-so-much-for-mansion-owned-by-trump/2316032|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=Tampa Bay Times|date=March 9 2017|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/realestate/big-deal-dmitry-rybolovlevs-divorce-oligarch-style.html|title=Big Deal — Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Divorce, Oligarch-Style|last=Barrionuevo|first=Alexei|date=2012-04-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+* '''July 2008''': As the Florida real estate market began to crash, Trump sells a Florida residence to a Russian oligarch for $95 million, believed to be the biggest single-family home sale in US history. The Russian oligarch, [[Dmitry Rybolovlev]], never lived in the house and, since then, it has been demolished. Three years earlier, Trump had bought the home at auction for $41 million.<ref name="clough9march">{{cite news|last1=Clough|first1=Alexandra|last2=Pacenti|first2=John|title=Why did Russian oligarch pay so much for mansion owned by Trump?|url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/why-did-russian-oligarch-pay-so-much-for-mansion-owned-by-trump/2316032|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=Tampa Bay Times|date=March 9 2017|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/realestate/big-deal-dmitry-rybolovlevs-divorce-oligarch-style.html|title=Big Deal — Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Divorce, Oligarch-Style|last=Barrionuevo|first=Alexei|date=2012-04-05|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-* '''September 2008''':&nbsp;Donald Trump Jr.&nbsp;says:&nbsp;“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets… we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heres-what-we-know-about-donald-trump-and-his-ties-to-russia/2016/07/29/1268b5ec-54e7-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html|title=Here’s what we know about Donald Trump and his ties to Russia|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''September 2008''': Donald Trump Jr. says: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets… we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heres-what-we-know-about-donald-trump-and-his-ties-to-russia/2016/07/29/1268b5ec-54e7-11e6-88eb-7dda4e2f2aec_story.html|title=Here’s what we know about Donald Trump and his ties to Russia|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''Oct. 14, 2009''': Manafort’s firm&nbsp;receives a $750,000 wire transfer from the Party of Regions<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/records-match-ukraine-ledger-payments-trump-aide-46744708|title=ABC News|last=News|first=ABC|website=ABC News|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>. The Russian-leaning Yanukovych was running for president and,&nbsp;in February 2010, he won.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/08/viktor-yanukovych-ukraine-president-election|title=Yanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair|last=Harding|first=Luke|date=2010-02-08|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
+* '''Oct. 14, 2009''': Manafort’s firm receives a $750,000 wire transfer from the Party of Regions<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/records-match-ukraine-ledger-payments-trump-aide-46744708|title=ABC News|last=News|first=ABC|website=ABC News|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>. The Russian-leaning Yanukovych was running for president and, in February 2010, he won.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/08/viktor-yanukovych-ukraine-president-election|title=Yanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair|last=Harding|first=Luke|date=2010-02-08|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
 * '''2010''': Vnesheconombank (VEB) finances a $850 million deal with Alexander Shnaider, developer of the Trump Toronto hotel project. The deal allowed Shnaider to put additional funds into Trump Toronto, at a "key moment" when the project faced financial trouble. At the time, Putin was chairman of VEB's supervisory board and would have approved major transactions.<ref name="barry17may">{{cite news|last1=Barry|first1=Rob|last2=Stewart|first2=Christopher S.|last3=Forrest|first3=Brett|title=Russian State-Run Bank Financed Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-state-run-bank-financed-deal-involving-trump-hotel-partner-1495031708|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=Wall Street Journal|date=17 May 2017}}</ref>
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 * Putin awards Tillerson with the Russian Order of Friendship, one of Russia's highest honors for non-citizens.<ref name="egan11december" />
-* '''April 8''':&nbsp;Three Russians&nbsp;whom the FBI later accused of spying&nbsp;on the United States<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/04/world/europe/document-U-S-Accuses-Three-Russians-of-Spying.html|title=U.S. Accuses 3 Russians of Spying|date=2017-04-04|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> discuss efforts to recruit American businessman [[Carter Page]].&nbsp;According to&nbsp;''The Washington Post'', “[T]he government’s application for the surveillance order targeting Page included a lengthy declaration that laid out investigators’ basis for believing that Page was an agent of the Russian government and knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow, officials said.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html|title=FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''April 8''': Three Russians whom the FBI later accused of spying on the United States<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/04/world/europe/document-U-S-Accuses-Three-Russians-of-Spying.html|title=U.S. Accuses 3 Russians of Spying|date=2017-04-04|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> discuss efforts to recruit American businessman [[Carter Page]]. According to ''The Washington Post'', “[T]he government’s application for the surveillance order targeting Page included a lengthy declaration that laid out investigators’ basis for believing that Page was an agent of the Russian government and knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of Moscow, officials said.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-obtained-fisa-warrant-to-monitor-former-trump-adviser-carter-page/2017/04/11/620192ea-1e0e-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html|title=FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''June 18''':&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;announces that the [[Miss Universe 2013|2013 Miss Universe]] beauty pageant, which he owns, will take place in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173|title=When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow|work=POLITICO|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> The next day,&nbsp;he tweets: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow—if so, will he become my new best friend?”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/347191326112112640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw|title=Donald J. Trump on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref> While preparing for the pageant,&nbsp;Trump says, “I have plans for the establishment of business in Russia. Now, I am in talks with several Russian companies to establish this skyscraper.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html|title=For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia|last=Twohey|first=Megan|date=2017-01-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Eder|first2=Steve|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+* '''June 18''': Trump announces that the [[Miss Universe 2013|2013 Miss Universe]] beauty pageant, which he owns, will take place in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173|title=When Donald Trump brought Miss Universe to Moscow|work=POLITICO|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> The next day, he tweets: “Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow—if so, will he become my new best friend?”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/347191326112112640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw|title=Donald J. Trump on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref> While preparing for the pageant, Trump says, “I have plans for the establishment of business in Russia. Now, I am in talks with several Russian companies to establish this skyscraper.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-business.html|title=For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia|last=Twohey|first=Megan|date=2017-01-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Eder|first2=Steve|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-* '''July 8''':&nbsp;After a BBC reporter questions Trump about Felix Sater’s alleged prior connections to organized crime,&nbsp;Trump ends the interview.<ref>{{Citation|last=Ian Greenhalgh|title=BBC Panorama 2017   Trump, Felix Sater|date=2017-01-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N5Kun2sJPA|accessdate=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''July 8''': After a BBC reporter questions Trump about Felix Sater’s alleged prior connections to organized crime, Trump ends the interview.<ref>{{Citation|last=Ian Greenhalgh|title=BBC Panorama 2017   Trump, Felix Sater|date=2017-01-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N5Kun2sJPA|accessdate=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''Oct. 17''':&nbsp;On&nbsp;''The Late Show'', David Letterman asks Trump, “Have you had any dealings with the Russians?” Trump answers, “Well I’ve done a lot of business with the Russians…” Letterman continues, “Vladmir Putin, have you ever met the guy?” Trump says,&nbsp;“He’s a tough guy. I met him once.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/319026/trump-letterman-russia-putin-video-2013/|title=That time Trump admitted to business ties in Russia and praised Putin on 'Letterman'|date=2017-02-18|work=Death and Taxes|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''Oct. 17''': On ''The Late Show'', David Letterman asks Trump, “Have you had any dealings with the Russians?” Trump answers, “Well I’ve done a lot of business with the Russians…” Letterman continues, “Vladmir Putin, have you ever met the guy?” Trump says, “He’s a tough guy. I met him once.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/319026/trump-letterman-russia-putin-video-2013/|title=That time Trump admitted to business ties in Russia and praised Putin on 'Letterman'|date=2017-02-18|work=Death and Taxes|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''Nov. 5''':&nbsp;In a deposition, an attorney asks Trump about Felix Sater.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/video/2013-donald-trump-asked-past-mob-ties-associate-35688372|title=Video: 2013: Donald Trump Asked About Past Mob Ties of Associate Involved in Trump Projects|last=News|first=ABC|website=ABC News|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> “If he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn’t know what he looked like,”&nbsp;Trump answers. When asked how many times he had ever spoken with Sater, Trump says, “Not many.” When asked about his July 2013 BBC interview during which he was questioned about Sater’s alleged connections to organized crime, Trump says he didn’t remember it.
+* '''Nov. 5''': In a deposition, an attorney asks Trump about Felix Sater.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/video/2013-donald-trump-asked-past-mob-ties-associate-35688372|title=Video: 2013: Donald Trump Asked About Past Mob Ties of Associate Involved in Trump Projects|last=News|first=ABC|website=ABC News|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> “If he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn’t know what he looked like,” Trump answers. When asked how many times he had ever spoken with Sater, Trump says, “Not many.” When asked about his July 2013 BBC interview during which he was questioned about Sater’s alleged connections to organized crime, Trump says he didn’t remember it.
-* '''Nov. 11''':&nbsp;Trump tweets, “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/399939505924628480?lang=en|title=Donald J. Trump on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref>
+* '''Nov. 11''': Trump tweets, “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/399939505924628480?lang=en|title=Donald J. Trump on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref>
 === 2014 ===
-* Golf writer and co-author of Arnold Palmer’s memoir James Dodson&nbsp;plays golf with Donald and Eric Trump at Trump National Charlotte&nbsp;in North Carolina. In an interview airing May 5, 2017 on Boston’s public radio station, Dodson describes the episode, beginning with a question he asks Donald Trump before the round: “‘What are you using to pay for these courses?’ And he just sort of tossed off that he had access to $100 million. So when I got in the cart with Eric, as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks — because of the recession, the [[Great Recession]]—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time. Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.’”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/05/05/james-dodson-donald-trump-golf|title=A Day (And A Cheeseburger) With President Trump|website=www.wbur.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* Golf writer and co-author of Arnold Palmer’s memoir James Dodson plays golf with Donald and Eric Trump at Trump National Charlotte in North Carolina. In an interview airing May 5, 2017 on Boston’s public radio station, Dodson describes the episode, beginning with a question he asks Donald Trump before the round: “‘What are you using to pay for these courses?’ And he just sort of tossed off that he had access to $100 million. So when I got in the cart with Eric, as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks — because of the recession, the [[Great Recession]]—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time. Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.’”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/05/05/james-dodson-donald-trump-golf|title=A Day (And A Cheeseburger) With President Trump|website=www.wbur.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
 * '''Feb. 22''': [[Ouster of Viktor Yanukovych|Ousted]] Ukrainian President Yanukovych flees the country,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11692593/Vladimir-Putin-saved-my-life-says-ousted-Ukrainian-president-Viktor-Yanukovych.html|title=Vladimir Putin saved my life, says ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref> leaving behind a handwritten “Black Ledger”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html|title=Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief|last=Mcintire|first=Andrew E. Kramer, Mike|date=2016-08-14|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Meier|first2=Barry|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> which includes 22 entries between 2007 and 2012 purporting to show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments for Manafort or his firm by Yanukovych's Party of Regions.
-* '''March 6''':&nbsp;At the [[Conservative Political Action Conference|2014 Conservative Political Action Conference]],&nbsp;Trump says: “You know, I was in Moscow a couple of months ago. I own the Miss Universe Pageant and they treated me so great. Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2014/03/06/donald-trump-peppers-cpac-speeches-with-humblebrags|title=donald-trump-peppers-cpac-speeches-with-humblebrags|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
+* '''March 6''': At the [[Conservative Political Action Conference|2014 Conservative Political Action Conference]], Trump says: “You know, I was in Moscow a couple of months ago. I own the Miss Universe Pageant and they treated me so great. Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2014/03/06/donald-trump-peppers-cpac-speeches-with-humblebrags|title=donald-trump-peppers-cpac-speeches-with-humblebrags|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
 * '''August''': President Obama fires [[Michael Flynn]] from his position as Director of the [[Defense Intelligence Agency]] for insubordination after he failed to follow guidance from his superiors, including [[James Clapper]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/ce90066b4e20483da79adf21910da0c7/flynn-fired-once-president-now-resigns-another|title=Flynn, fired once by a president, now removed by another|work=AP News|access-date=2017-05-28|language=en-US}}</ref>
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 === 2015 ===
 * '''June 15''': [[Donald Trump]], a real estate developer and television personality, announces he's running for president.<ref>{{cite speech |url=http://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/ |title=Here's Donald Trump's Presidential Announcement Speech |via=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |first=Donald |last=Trump |author-link=Donald Trump |date=June 16, 2015 |location=[[Trump Tower]], [[New York City]]}}</ref>
-* '''September''':&nbsp;An FBI special agent contacts&nbsp;the Democratic National Committee to report that at least one DNC computer system had been hacked by an espionage team linked to the Russian government. The agent is transferred to a tech-support contractor at the help desk, who did a cursory check of DNC server logs and didn’t reply to follow-up calls from the FBI agent.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html|title=The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.|last=Sanger|first=Eric Lipton, David E.|date=2016-12-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Shane|first2=Scott|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+* '''September''': An FBI special agent contacts the Democratic National Committee to report that at least one DNC computer system had been hacked by an espionage team linked to the Russian government. The agent is transferred to a tech-support contractor at the help desk, who did a cursory check of DNC server logs and didn’t reply to follow-up calls from the FBI agent.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html|title=The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.|last=Sanger|first=Eric Lipton, David E.|date=2016-12-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Shane|first2=Scott|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-* '''Sept. 21''':&nbsp;On&nbsp;[[Hugh Hewitt|Hugh Hewitt’s]] radio program, Trump says, “The oligarchs are under [Putin’s] control, to a large extent. I mean, he can destroy them, and he has destroyed some of them… Two years ago, I was in Moscow&nbsp;. . .&nbsp;I was with the top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top-of-the-government people. I can’t go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people, and the relationship was extraordinary.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hughhewitt.com/donald-trump-returns/|title=Donald Trump Returns « The Hugh Hewitt Show|date=2015-09-21|work=The Hugh Hewitt Show|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
+* '''Sept. 21''': On [[Hugh Hewitt|Hugh Hewitt’s]] radio program, Trump says, “The oligarchs are under [Putin’s] control, to a large extent. I mean, he can destroy them, and he has destroyed some of them… Two years ago, I was in Moscow . . . I was with the top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top-of-the-government people. I can’t go further than that, but I will tell you that I met the top people, and the relationship was extraordinary.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hughhewitt.com/donald-trump-returns/|title=Donald Trump Returns « The Hugh Hewitt Show|date=2015-09-21|work=The Hugh Hewitt Show|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
-* '''December 10''': Retired Lieutenant-General [[Michael T. Flynn]] gives a paid speech on world affairs in Moscow, at a gala dinner organized by [[RT News]] in the United Kingdom, an English-speaking Russian TV network on which he had appeared as an analyst after he retired from U.S. government service. The dinner is also attended by Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="Crowley">Michael Crowley, [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-russia-today-rt-kremlin-media-vladimir-putin-213833 The Kremlin's Candidate: In the 2016 election, Putin's propaganda network is picking sides]</ref> For his December speech, he nets&nbsp;$33,500 of the $45,000 paid to his [[Speakers bureau|speakers’ bureau]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/16/us/politics/document-Michael-Flynn-Russia-Trip-Documents.html|title=Oversight Committee Releases Documents on Flynn's Trip to Russia|date=2017-03-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For all of 2015, Flynn receives more than&nbsp;$65,000 from companies&nbsp;linked to Russia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/politics/michael-flynn-russia-paid-trip.html|title=Michael Flynn Was Paid by Russian-Linked Firms, Letter Shows|last=Goldman|first=Adam|date=2017-03-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Schwirtz|first2=Michael|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+* '''December 10''': Retired Lieutenant-General [[Michael T. Flynn]] gives a paid speech on world affairs in Moscow, at a gala dinner organized by [[RT News]] in the United Kingdom, an English-speaking Russian TV network on which he had appeared as an analyst after he retired from U.S. government service. The dinner is also attended by Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="Crowley">Michael Crowley, [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-russia-today-rt-kremlin-media-vladimir-putin-213833 The Kremlin's Candidate: In the 2016 election, Putin's propaganda network is picking sides]</ref> For his December speech, he nets $33,500 of the $45,000 paid to his [[Speakers bureau|speakers’ bureau]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/16/us/politics/document-Michael-Flynn-Russia-Trip-Documents.html|title=Oversight Committee Releases Documents on Flynn's Trip to Russia|date=2017-03-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For all of 2015, Flynn receives more than $65,000 from companies linked to Russia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/politics/michael-flynn-russia-paid-trip.html|title=Michael Flynn Was Paid by Russian-Linked Firms, Letter Shows|last=Goldman|first=Adam|date=2017-03-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Schwirtz|first2=Michael|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
 === January-June 2016===
 * '''Feb. 29:''' Manafort submits a five-page, single-spaced, proposal to Trump. In it, he outlines his qualifications for helping Trump secure enough convention delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination. Manafort describes how he had assisted rich and powerful business and political leaders, including oligarchs and dictators in Russia and Ukraine: “I have managed presidential campaigns around the world.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html|title=To Charm Trump, Paul Manafort Sold Himself as an Affordable Outsider|last=Thrush|first=Glenn|date=2017-04-08|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-* '''March 21:'''&nbsp;In a ''Washington Post'' interview<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/?utm_term=.141e416fc4f0|title=A transcript of Donald Trump’s meeting with The Washington Post editorial board|last=Staff|first=Post Opinions|date=2016-03-21|work=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Staff|first2=Post Opinions|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>, Trump identifies Page as one of his foreign policy advisers. Page had helped open the Moscow office of investment banking firm Merrill Lynch and had&nbsp;advised Russian state-owned energy giant [[Gazprom]], in which Page is an investor. He blames 2014 US sanctions relating to Russia’s annexation of Crimea for driving down Gazprom’s stock price.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-30/trump-russia-adviser-carter-page-interview|title=Trump’s New Russia Adviser Has Deep Ties to Kremlin’s Gazprom|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> Earlier in March 2016, Iowa tea party activist&nbsp;Sam Clovis had recommended Page&nbsp;to the Trump campaign.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/carter-page-russia-trump.html|title=Trump Adviser’s Visit to Moscow Got the F.B.I.’s Attention|last=Mazzetti|first=Scott Shane, Mark|date=2017-04-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Goldman|first2=Adam|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+* '''March 21:''' In a ''Washington Post'' interview<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/?utm_term=.141e416fc4f0|title=A transcript of Donald Trump’s meeting with The Washington Post editorial board|last=Staff|first=Post Opinions|date=2016-03-21|work=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Staff|first2=Post Opinions|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>, Trump identifies Page as one of his foreign policy advisers. Page had helped open the Moscow office of investment banking firm Merrill Lynch and had advised Russian state-owned energy giant [[Gazprom]], in which Page is an investor. He blames 2014 US sanctions relating to Russia’s annexation of Crimea for driving down Gazprom’s stock price.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-30/trump-russia-adviser-carter-page-interview|title=Trump’s New Russia Adviser Has Deep Ties to Kremlin’s Gazprom|work=Bloomberg.com|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref> Earlier in March 2016, Iowa tea party activist Sam Clovis had recommended Page to the Trump campaign.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/carter-page-russia-trump.html|title=Trump Adviser’s Visit to Moscow Got the F.B.I.’s Attention|last=Mazzetti|first=Scott Shane, Mark|date=2017-04-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-05-29|last2=Goldman|first2=Adam|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-* '''March 29:'''&nbsp;On Stone’s recommendation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/07/from-ukraine-to-trump-tower-paul-manafort-unafraid-to-take-on-controversial-jobs/|title=From Ukraine to Trump Tower, Paul Manafort unafraid to take on controversial jobs|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>, Manafort&nbsp;joins the Trump campaign&nbsp;as convention manager, tasked with lining up delegates.
+* '''March 29:''' On Stone’s recommendation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/07/from-ukraine-to-trump-tower-paul-manafort-unafraid-to-take-on-controversial-jobs/|title=From Ukraine to Trump Tower, Paul Manafort unafraid to take on controversial jobs|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>, Manafort joins the Trump campaign as convention manager, tasked with lining up delegates.
 * '''April''': According to Reuters, first known contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.<ref name="parker18may">{{cite news|last1=Parker|first1=Ned|last2=Landay|first2=Jonathan|last3=Strobel|first3=Warren|title=Exclusive: Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians: sources|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-contacts-idUSKCN18E106|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=Reuters|date=18 May 2017}}</ref>
-* '''April 20:''' Manafort becomes Trump’s campaign manager. Reports surface about his 2007 to 2012 ties to&nbsp;Yanukovych, whom Manafort had helped to elect.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/30/donald-trump-only-hires-the-best-people-at-generating-unhelpful-headlines/|title=Donald Trump only hires the best people (at generating unhelpful headlines)|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''April 20:''' Manafort becomes Trump’s campaign manager. Reports surface about his 2007 to 2012 ties to Yanukovych, whom Manafort had helped to elect.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/30/donald-trump-only-hires-the-best-people-at-generating-unhelpful-headlines/|title=Donald Trump only hires the best people (at generating unhelpful headlines)|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''Late April:'''&nbsp;The&nbsp;Democratic National Committee’s IT department notices suspicious computer activity, contacts the FBI, and hires a private security firm, [[CrowdStrike]], to investigate.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/russian-government-hackers-broke-into-dnc-servers-stole-trump-oppo-224315|title=Russian government hackers broke into DNC servers, stole Trump oppo|work=POLITICO|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''Late April:''' The Democratic National Committee’s IT department notices suspicious computer activity, contacts the FBI, and hires a private security firm, [[CrowdStrike]], to investigate.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/russian-government-hackers-broke-into-dnc-servers-stole-trump-oppo-224315|title=Russian government hackers broke into DNC servers, stole Trump oppo|work=POLITICO|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-* '''May''':&nbsp;CrowdStrike determines&nbsp;that highly sophisticated Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries—denominated [[Cozy Bear]] and [[Fancy Bear]]—had been responsible for the DNC hack. Fancy Bear, in particular, had indicators of affiliation with Russia’s [[Main Intelligence Directorate]] (also known as the GRU).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/|title=Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee »|date=2016-06-15|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
+* '''May''': CrowdStrike determines that highly sophisticated Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries—denominated [[Cozy Bear]] and [[Fancy Bear]]—had been responsible for the DNC hack. Fancy Bear, in particular, had indicators of affiliation with Russia’s [[Main Intelligence Directorate]] (also know as the GRU).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/|title=Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee »|date=2016-06-15|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref>
-* '''Early June:'''&nbsp;At a closed-door gathering of high-powered foreign policy experts visiting with the prime minister of India, Page hails Putin as stronger and more reliable than President Obama and touts the positive effect that a Trump presidency would have on US-Russia relations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-advisers-public-comments-ties-to-moscow-stir-unease-in-both-parties/2016/08/05/2e8722fa-5815-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html|title=Trump adviser’s public comments, ties to Moscow stir unease in both parties|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''Early June:''' At a closed-door gathering of high-powered foreign policy experts visiting with the prime minister of India, Page hails Putin as stronger and more reliable than President Obama and touts the positive effect that a Trump presidency would have on US-Russia relations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-advisers-public-comments-ties-to-moscow-stir-unease-in-both-parties/2016/08/05/2e8722fa-5815-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html|title=Trump adviser’s public comments, ties to Moscow stir unease in both parties|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
 === July–September 2016 ===
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-* '''July 7:'''&nbsp;In a lecture at the [[New Economic School]] in Moscow, Page criticizes American foreign policy.<ref>{{Citation|last=Katehon Think Tank|title=THE LECTURE OF TRUMP’S ADVISOR CARTER PAGE IN MOSCOW|date=2016-07-07|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYF29saA9w|accessdate=2017-05-29}}</ref>&nbsp;He says<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/7503064184be4df7a5ba021ddc8ea35c/trump-foreign-policy-adviser-has-advice-russian-grads|title=Trump foreign policy adviser has advice for Russian grads|work=AP News|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref> that&nbsp;many of the mistakes spoiling relations between the US and Russia “originated in my own country.”&nbsp;Page says he had sought and received permission&nbsp;from the Trump campaign to make the trip.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/07/campaign-granted-page-permission-moscow-trip/98874648/|title=Trump campaign gave Page permission for Moscow trip|work=USA TODAY|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref>
+* '''July 7:''' In a lecture at the [[New Economic School]] in Moscow, Page criticizes American foreign policy.<ref>{{Citation|last=Katehon Think Tank|title=THE LECTURE OF TRUMP’S ADVISOR CARTER PAGE IN MOSCOW|date=2016-07-07|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CYF29saA9w|accessdate=2017-05-29}}</ref> He says<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/7503064184be4df7a5ba021ddc8ea35c/trump-foreign-policy-adviser-has-advice-russian-grads|title=Trump foreign policy adviser has advice for Russian grads|work=AP News|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en-US}}</ref> that many of the mistakes spoiling relations between the US and Russia “originated in my own country.” Page says he had sought and received permission from the Trump campaign to make the trip.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/07/campaign-granted-page-permission-moscow-trip/98874648/|title=Trump campaign gave Page permission for Moscow trip|work=USA TODAY|access-date=2017-05-29|language=en}}</ref>
 * '''July 9:''' The Washington Post reports that Trump is considering Flynn for Vice President, with support from Jeff Sessions. Trump ultimately selects Mike Pence, governor of Indiana.<ref name="costa9july">{{cite news|last1=Costa|first1=Robert|title=A curveball in Trump’s Veep search: He’s seriously considering a retired general|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/09/a-curveball-in-trumps-veep-search-hes-seriously-considering-a-retired-general/?utm_term=.aa9c705e9e74|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=Washington Post|date=9 July 2016}}</ref>
 * '''July 18–21''': [[2016 Republican National Convention|Republican Convention]] in [[Cleveland]]<ref>Isenstadt, Alex (January 14, 2014)  [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/gop-convention-july-18-2016-114276.html "GOP convention set for July 18–21 in 2016"], ''[[Politico]]''. Retrieved January 15, 2015.</ref>
-** '''July 18''': Russian Ambassador [[Sergey Kislyak]] attends the convention, meeting Page and [[J. D. Gordon]];<ref name="Ford" /> as Trump's foreign policy advisors, they stress that he&nbsp;would like to improve relations with Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/russia-donald-trump-meetings-ambassador/index.html|title=More Trump advisers disclose meetings with Russia's ambassador|last=CNN|first=Sara Murray, Jim Acosta and Theodore Schleifer|website=CNN|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+** '''July 18''': Russian Ambassador [[Sergey Kislyak]] attends the convention, meeting Page and [[J. D. Gordon]];<ref name="Ford" /> as Trump's foreign policy advisors, they stress that he would like to improve relations with Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/russia-donald-trump-meetings-ambassador/index.html|title=More Trump advisers disclose meetings with Russia's ambassador|last=CNN|first=Sara Murray, Jim Acosta and Theodore Schleifer|website=CNN|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
-** '''July 18:'''&nbsp;Senator [[Jeff Sessions]] speaks with Kislyak at a [[The Heritage Foundation|Heritage Foundation]] event.<ref name="Ford" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/02/what-jeff-sessions-said-about-russia-and-when/|title=Analysis {{!}} What Jeff Sessions said about Russia, and when|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+** '''July 18:''' Senator [[Jeff Sessions]] speaks with Kislyak at a [[The Heritage Foundation|Heritage Foundation]] event.<ref name="Ford" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/02/what-jeff-sessions-said-about-russia-and-when/|title=Analysis {{!}} What Jeff Sessions said about Russia, and when|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
 ** '''July 18:''' Gordon and the Trump campaign push for a GOP platform that does not advocate arming Ukraine in its war with pro-Russian separatists.<ref name="friedersdorf3march">{{cite news|last1=Friedersdorf|first1=Conor|title=Trump's Untruths About Russia Are Piling Up|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/the-untruths-of-president-trump-are-piling-up/518490/|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=The Atlantic|date=3 March 2017}}</ref>
 ** '''July 21''': Trump formally accepts the [[Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016|Republican nomination]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-rnc-speech.html|title=His Tone Dark, Donald Trump Takes G.O.P. Mantle|last=Healy|first=Patrick|date=2016-07-21|last2=Martin|first2=Jonathan|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-07-22}}</ref>
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 * '''August 4''': Brennan calls his Russian counterpart [[Alexander Bortnikov]], head of the [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB), to warn him against meddling in the presidential election.<ref name=bostonglobe-20170523 />
-* '''August 6''':&nbsp;[[NPR]] confirms&nbsp;the Trump campaign’s involvement in the Republican platform change on Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine|title=How The Trump Campaign Weakened The Republican Platform On Aid To Ukraine|website=NPR.org|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
+* '''August 6''': [[NPR]] confirms the Trump campaign’s involvement in the Republican platform change on Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine|title=How The Trump Campaign Weakened The Republican Platform On Aid To Ukraine|website=NPR.org|access-date=2017-05-29}}</ref>
 * '''August 16''': Stone tells [[Alex Jones (radio host)|Alex Jones]] that he is in contact with WikiLeaks director [[Julian Assange]], who he said had "political dynamite" on Clinton.<ref name="Kaczynski">{{cite news|last1=Kaczynski|first1=Andrew|last2=McDermott|first2=Nathan|last3=Massie|first3=Chris|title=Trump adviser Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to know of forthcoming WikiLeaks dumps|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/20/politics/kfile-roger-stone-wikileaks-claims/|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=CNN|date=20 March 2017}}</ref>
 * '''August 19''': Manafort resigns as Trump's campaign manager.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/us/politics/paul-manafort-resigns-donald-trump.html|title=Paul Manafort Quits Donald Trump’s Campaign After a Tumultuous Run|first1=Maggie|last1=Haberman|first2=Jonathan|last2=Martin|date=19 August 2016|publisher=|accessdate=27 May 2017|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
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 * '''January 10''': The unverified [[Trump-Russia dossier]] is made public by [[BuzzFeed]].<ref name="bensinger10january">{{cite news|last1=Bensinger|first1=Ken|title=These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia|accessdate=29 May 2017|work=BuzzFeed|date=10 January 2017|language=en}}</ref>
 * '''January 11''': Trump tweets "Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!".<ref>{{cite tweet |user=realDonaldTrump |author-link=Donald Trump |number=819159806489591809 |title= Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING! |date=January 11, 2017 |access-date=May 29, 2017}}</ref> ''[[USA Today]]'' says this is "not exactly true".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Durando |first1=Jessica |title=Trump says 'I have nothing to do with Russia.' That's not exactly true |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/11/donald-trump-russia-vladimir-putin/96444482/ |work=[[USA Today]] |date=11 January 2017 |access-date=29 May 2017}}</ref>
-* '''January 11''',&nbsp;[[Erik Prince]], founder of the&nbsp;[[Blackwater (company)|Blackwater]]&nbsp;security company and a Trump campaign donor, meets in the&nbsp;[[Seychelles]] with an unidentified Russian said to be close to Putin. The meeting was organized by the [[United Arab Emirates]] and reportedly includes talks of a "back-channel" with Moscow to try and influence Russian policy in the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html|title=Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-28}}</ref>
+* '''January 11''', [[Erik Prince]], founder of the [[Blackwater (company)|Blackwater]] security company and a Trump campaign donor, meets in the [[Seychelles]] with an unidentified Russian said to be close to Putin. The meeting was organized by the [[United Arab Emirates]] and reportedly includes talks of a "back-channel" with Moscow to try and influence Russian policy in the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel/2017/04/03/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html|title=Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-28}}</ref>
 * '''January 13''': President-elect Trump nominates U.S. Attorney [[Rod J. Rosenstein]] to serve as [[United States Deputy Attorney General|Deputy Attorney General]].<ref>{{cite news|title=U.S. attorney in Baltimore is Trump’s pick to be deputy attorney general|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-attorney-in-baltimore-is-trumps-pick-to-be-deputy-attorney-general/2017/01/13/e27c51a0-d9a1-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html|accessdate=January 31, 2017|publisher=Washington Post|date=January 14, 2017}}</ref>
 * '''January 17''': In response to written questions presented by Senator [[Patrick Leahy]], Sessions states that he has not been "in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election."<ref>[https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Sessions%20Responses%20to%20Leahy%20QFRs.pdf Nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States: Questions for the Record Submitted January 17, 2017: QUESTIONS FROM SENATOR LEAHY], [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] p. 26.</ref> He is later accused of failing to disclose two meetings with Russian ambassador Kislyak.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html |title=Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |last1=Entous |first1=Adam |last2=Nakashima |first2=Ellen |last3=Miller |first3=Greg |date=March 1, 2017 |access-date=May 27, 2017}}</ref>

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