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*May 22: Flynn pleads the 5th.
*May 22: Flynn pleads the 5th.
*May 23: U.S. Department of Justice ethics experts announced they had declared Mueller ethically able to function as special counsel.<ref>{{citation|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 23, 2017|title=Ethics experts clear special counsel in Russia investigation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/congress-testimony-john-brennan-russia-budget.html|first=Charlie|last=Savage}}</ref>
*May 23: U.S. Department of Justice ethics experts announced they had declared Mueller ethically able to function as special counsel.<ref>{{citation|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 23, 2017|title=Ethics experts clear special counsel in Russia investigation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/congress-testimony-john-brennan-russia-budget.html|first=Charlie|last=Savage}}</ref>
*May 23:In it's first public hearing in over a month, former Director of Central Intelligence [[John Brennan]] tells the House Intelligence Committee that Russia "brazenly interfered in the 2016 election process," despite U.S. efforts to warn it off.<ref>http://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/529598301/former-cia-director-tells-lawmakers-about-very-aggressive-russian-election-meddl</ref>
*May 23:In its first public hearing in over a month, the House Intelligence Committee hears testimony from former Director of Central Intelligence [[John Brennan]] that Russia "brazenly interfered in the 2016 election process," despite U.S. efforts to warn it off.<ref>http://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/529598301/former-cia-director-tells-lawmakers-about-very-aggressive-russian-election-meddl</ref>


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The following is a timeline of the scandals relating to Russia and the presidency of Donald Trump.

Relevant parties

The Obama administration

The scandals relating to the Administration of Donald Trump began several years prior to his taking office.

2015

  • June 15: Donald Trump, a businessman and reality TV star, announces he's running for president.
  • December 10: Flynn attended a gala dinner in Moscow in honor of RT (formerly "Russia Today"), a Russian government-owned English-language media outlet on which he made semi-regular appearances as an analyst after he retired from U.S. government service. Before the gala, which was also attended by President Putin, Flynn gave a paid talk on world affairs.[1]

2016

Main article: Hillary Clinton email controversy

July

Further information: 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak
  • End of 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. [6]

August

  • August 4: Brennan warns Russia's FSB against meddling in the presidential election during a call to the head of the Russian intelligence service.[7]
  • August 19: Manafort resigns as Trump's campaign manager.[8]

September

  • September 8: Sessions meets with Kisliak a second time.

October

  • October 28 — Comey announces that the FBI will be investigating newly discovered emails pertinent to its previous investigation of Hillary Clinton's private server. Clinton's lead in the polls drops heavily within days.[13]

November

  • November: Kislyak states that Russia was not involved with US election hacking.[4]
  • November 6 — Comey tells Congress there is no evidence in the recently discovered emails that Clinton should face charges over handling of classified information[14]
  • November 8 — Trump elected President
  • November 18 — President-elect Trump announces he will nominate Sessions to be Attorney General.[15]

December

  • December 9:the CIA told U.S. legislators that the U.S. Intelligence Community concluded Russia conducted operations during the 2016 U.S. election to prevent Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency
  • December 29: the United States announced new sanctions against Russia for interfering with the US election.
  • December 29: Flynn has conversations via telephone with Russian officials over sanctions.

2017

  • January 13: President-elect Trump nominates US Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General[16]
  • January 17:At the Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, 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 replied, "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."[17]
  • January 19: It was reported that Manafort is under active investigation by multiple federal agencies including the CIA, NSC, FBI, Director of National Intelligence and the financial crimes unit of the Treasury Department.[18] Investigations were said to be based on intercepted Russian communications as well as financial transactions.[19]
  • January 20: Obama leaves office.

The Trump Administration

2017

January

  • January 20: Trump and Pence takes office.
  • January 21: Flynn becomes National Security Advisor.
  • January 24: Flynn is interviewed by the FBI about his conversations with Kislyak.
  • January 26: Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned the Trump administration that Flynn had not been truthful about his contacts with Russia related to sanctions and that he was vulnerable to blackmail by Russian intelligence.
  • January 27: White House Counsel Donald McGahn has further discussions with Yates on the Flynn matter.
  • January 27: Trump and Comey have dinner at the White House, and the President asks the FBI Director for personal loyalty.
  • January 31: Trump fires Yates, citing other reasons about which she was also proved right.

February

  • February 8, Sessions confirmed as Attorney General by a vote of 52 to 47,[20][21], is sworn in later that day.
  • February 13 : Flynn is sacked after after less than a month in office
  • February 14: Trump asks Comey to drop any investigations of Flynn.

March

  • March 1: Sessions came under scrutiny after reports surfaced that he had contact with Russian government officials during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, even though during his confirmation hearings he denied he had any discussions with representatives of the Russian government. Democratic representatives have asked Sessions to resign his post as United States Attorney General.[22][23]
  • March 2:Sessions announced that he would recuse himself from any investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.[24]
  • March 3: In testimony to Congress, Comey states that “It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election.” [25]
  • March 4: Preident Trump tweets that the Obama administration had wiretapped him and his staff, calling it "sick" and McCarthyism".
  • March 4: Former President Obama vociferously denies the allegation.
  • March 5: Trump spokesman Sean Spicer releases request by the administration to investigate President Trump's allegation of the "wiretapping" of Trump Tower.[26]
  • March 5: Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appears on NBC’s Meet the Press to emphatically deny the President's allegations.
  • March 10: The House Intelligence Committee formally requests that the Justice Department turn over any documentary evidence, including applications, orders or warrants.
  • March 10: 46 United States Attorneys are fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions[27], including several involved in the Russia investigation.[citation needed]
  • March 14: Andrew Napolitano, a judicial analyst for Fox News, levels the false charge that Obama had used Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency, rather the American intelligence community in order to "keep his hands clean".
  • March 15: Both Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes Ranking Member Adam Schiff D-Calif announce there is no evidence to back up the president's allegation.
  • March 15: President Trump falsely claims he read the accusation in the New York Times.
  • March 16: Spicer repeats Napolitano's false claim in a White House Briefing.
  • March 17: Fox News brands the claim as false. "period, full stop."
  • March 17: GCHQ and British Prime Minister Theresa May both emphatically deny the charge.
  • March 20: The House Intelligence Committee holds it's 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.
  • March 21:In what would later be considered a bizarre and controversial move, Nunes goes to the White House to meet a source to review information on the "incidental" surveillance of members of the Trump transition team.
  • March 22: Nunes holds a press conference to announce that he discovered that the intelligence community "incidentally collected" the communications of some members of Trump's transition team, including, potentially the president himself[citation needed], claiming that it was "widely disseminated" throughout it. Later it was confirmed that he learned this from his meeting a day before at the White House with high administration officials.
  • March 22: Schiff calls Nunes' actions "inappropriate" at a press conference.
  • March 23: Nunes backtracks on several of his claims.
  • March 27: Schiff and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi call for Nunes' recusal after details of the chairman's White House adventure become public.
  • March 28: Nunes refuses Schiff and Pleosi's request, asking "what the purpose" of a recusal "would be." [28]

April

  • April 5: Nunes resigns from the investigation.[28]
  • April 5: House Ethics Committee starts investigation of Nunes' conduct in the month before.
  • April 25: Rosenstein is confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 94-6.[29][30]

May

  • May 8:, President Trump directed Sessions and Rosenstein to make a case against FBI Director Comey in writing. The next day, Rosenstein handed a memo to Sessions providing the basis for Sessions' recommendation to President Trump that Comey be dismissed.[31][32]
  • May 9: Comey is fired.[33]
  • May 10: Trump meets with Kislyak and the Russian foreign minister, allegedly tells them he fired Comey to relive pressure caused by the investigation[34][35]. He also gives them "code word" secrets provided by Mossad[36][failed verification][37][failed verification]
  • May 12: Trump theatens Comey with alleged secret tapes. [38][39]
  • May 17: Robert Mueller is appointed by Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and related scandals.
  • May 22: Flynn pleads the 5th.
  • May 23: U.S. Department of Justice ethics experts announced they had declared Mueller ethically able to function as special counsel.[40]
  • May 23:In its first public hearing in over a month, the House Intelligence Committee hears testimony from former Director of Central Intelligence John Brennan that Russia "brazenly interfered in the 2016 election process," despite U.S. efforts to warn it off.[41]

June

July

See also

Articles relating to the 2016 US presidential election
Articles relating to Donald Trump's post-election activities

References

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