Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2019)

This is a timeline of major events in 2019 related to the investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials that are suspected of being inappropriate. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and the timelines of investigations in 2017 and 2018.

Relevant individuals and organizations

This is a list of individuals and organizations that have been involved in the events related to either the election interference that Russia conducted against the 2016 U.S. elections and/or the resulting investigations into suspected inappropriate links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials. Seth Abramson estimated more than 400 people could be listed here.

A–E

• Aras Agalarov, Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire oligarch and President of the Crocus Group, close to both Trump and Vladimir Putin
• Emin Agalarov, Russian pop singer, and son of Aras
• Zainab Ahmad, associate of Robert Mueller
• Rinat Akhmetshin, Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer who emigrated to the U.S. in 1994
• Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates
• Justin Amash, U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district, first Republican to call for Donald Trump's impeachment, became an Independent July 4, 2019
• Greg Andres, associate of Robert Mueller
• Tevfik Arif, Soviet-born Turkish real estate developer and investor, founder of the Bayrock Group
• Andrii Artemenko, Ukrainian member of parliament
• Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks
• Arron Banks, primary funder and co-founder of Leave.EU campaign
• Stephen K. Bannon, Breitbart News chairman (2012–2016), Trump campaign CEO (August–November 2016), and White House Chief Strategist (January–August 2017)
• William Barr, United States Attorney General (1991–1993, February 2019 – December 2020), head of the United States Department of Justice (DoJ)
• Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021–present); Vice President of the United States (2009–2017)
• James E. Boasberg, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
• John R. Bolton, National Security Advisor (April 2018 – September 2019)
• John O. Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (2013–2017)
• Richard Burr, North Carolina Senator (R), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
• Maria Butina, founder of "Right to Bear Arms" and associate of Alexander Torshin
• Steve Calk, banker who helped Paul Manafort and Rick Gates steal and launder money
• Cambridge Analytica, a now defunct political consulting, data mining, and analysis firm that worked for Trump's campaign; its parent company was SCL Group
• Christian Cantor, Israeli diplomat in London
• Michael Caputo, former chief of communications in New York for the Trump Campaign, contracted to perform public relations work for Putin in 2000
• James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) (2010–2017)
• Kevin Clinesmith, FBI lawyer
• Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Secretary of State (2009–2013), First Lady of the United States (1993–2001)
• Sam Clovis, former co-chairman and policy adviser for the Trump campaign
• Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence (since March 2017)
• Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney (2006–2018)
• Columbus Nova, the American investment arm of Viktor Vekselberg's business empire
• James B. Comey, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2013–2017)
• Concord Management and Consulting, accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election
• Rafael Correa, former Ecuadorian president
• Jerome Corsi, American political commentator and associate of Roger Stone
• Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel
• Randy Credico, American perennial political candidate
• Rick Dearborn, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (January 20, 2017 – March 16, 2018) and executive director of Trump's presidential transition team
• Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch, aluminum magnate with close ties to Putin
• Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund
• Annie Donaldson, former Deputy White House Counsel
• Alexander Downer, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Michael Dreeben, associate of Robert Mueller
• Eric A. Dubelier, former Federal prosecutor and attorney for Concord Management and Consulting
• Yuri Dubinin, Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States (1986–1990)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center, DC-based non-profit that filed FOIA lawsuit for release of complete Mueller Report
• T. S. Ellis III, a United States district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia presiding over Paul Manafort's trial in Virginia. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and took senior status in 2007.
• Paul Erickson, Republican activist involved in several Republican presidential campaigns and romantic partner of Maria Butina

F–M

• Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP (2006–2009, 2010–2016), leader of The Brexit Party (since its founding in 2018) and a Member of the European Parliament (since 1999)
• Dianne Feinstein, California Senator (D), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee (chairwoman, 2009–2015) and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Michael T. Flynn, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014), National Security Advisor (January–February 2017)
• Dabney L. Friedrich, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
• Rick Gates, deputy to Manafort during the Trump campaign
• Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City (1994–2001), and personal attorney for President Trump (since April 2018)
• John Gleeson, District Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1994 – March 2016), advisor to Emmet G. Sullivan
• Andrew D. Goldstein, associate of Robert Mueller
• Rob Goldstone, British publicist of Russian singer Emin Agalarov
• J. D. Gordon, Trump transition team member, and Director of National Security for the Trump campaign (since March 2016)
• Chuck Grassley, Iowa Senator (R), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2015–2019), and President pro tempore of the United States Senate (since 2019)
• Guccifer 2.0, a hacker alias used by the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
• Stefan Halper, FBI informant
• Alvin K. Hellerstein, District Judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Hope Hicks, press secretary for the Trump campaign and White House Communications Director (August 2017 – February 2018)
• Beryl A. Howell, Chief United States district judge for the District Court for the District of Columbia
• Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian entity charged with coordinating online propaganda efforts, finances managed by Khusyaynova, funded by Prigozhin
• Andrew Intrater, Columbus Nova CEO, cousin of Viktor Vekselberg
• Frederick Intrater, brother of Columbus Nova CEO Andrew Intrater, cousin of Viktor Vekselberg
• Anton Inyutsyn, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy
• Amy Berman Jackson, U.S. District Court Judge in the District of Columbia overseeing one of Mueller's cases against Paul Manafort
• Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (since July 2019)
• Jones Day, law firm that worked for the Trump campaign
• Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, Georgian-American senior vice president at the Crocus Group
• Bijan Kian, also known as Bijan Rafiekian, business partner of Michael Flynn and part of the Trump transition
• Konstantin V. Kilimnik, Paul Manafort's right-hand man in Kyiv, Ukraine, alleged Russian intelligence operative
• Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to the United States (2008–2017)
• Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, Russian accountant who managed social media troll operation finances (including the IRA) which interfere in 2016 elections and 2018 midterm elections, called "Project Lakhta"
• Simon Kukes, Russian-American businessman and associate of Vekselberg, German Khan, Len Blavatnik, Mikhail Fridman, and Vyacheslav Pavlovsky with ties to Russian businesses and the Russian government
• Jared Kushner, real estate investor, son-in-law and Senior Advisor to President Trump
• Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia
• Richard J. Leon, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
• Corey Lewandowski, former manager of Trump's primary election campaign (until June 2016)
• Jessie K. Liu, attorney involved in the Roger Stone case
• Paul Manafort, political consultant and former lobbyist for Viktor Yanukovych, campaign manager and chairman of the Trump campaign (June–August 2016), and Trump convention manager (March 2016)
• Simona Mangiante, Italian lawyer and wife of George Papadopoulos (since March 2018)
• Andrew McCabe, Deputy (February 2016 – January 2018) and Acting Director of the FBI (May–August 2017)
• Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Senator (R) and Senate Majority Leader
• Kayleigh McEnany, White House Press Secretary (since April 2020)
• K. T. McFarland, political commentator and served as Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn for the first four months of the Trump administration
• Donald McGahn, White House Counsel to President Trump (January 2017 – October 2018)
• Amit Mehta, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
• Joseph Mifsud, Maltese academic and former diplomat for the Maltese government connected with Russian politicians and George Papadopoulos
• Andrew Miller, Roger Stone's associate
• Andrey Molchanov, member of the Federation Council of Russia (since 2008)
• Robert S. Mueller III, 6th FBI Director (2001–2013), appointed special counsel for the Russian interference investigation

N–R

• George Nader, businessman and lobbyist who acted as the Trump campaign's liaison to the United Arab Emirates
• Jerrold Nadler, Congressman (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (since January 2019)
• Paul M. Nakasone, Commander of United States Cyber Command (since May 2018)
• National Rifle Association of America, commonly known as the NRA
• Richard Neal, Congressman (D-MA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (since January 2019)
• Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security (December 2017 – April 2019)
• Alexander Nix, former CEO of Cambridge Analytica
• Sam Nunberg, former political advisor to Trump campaign
• Devin Nunes, Congressman (R-CA), ranking member (since 2019) and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (2015–18)
• Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
• Bruce Ohr, director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (2014–2017) and associate deputy attorney general (2017)
• Carter Page, oil industry consultant, former Trump campaign advisor on foreign policy
• Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006–2009)
• George Papadopoulos, former advisor to the Trump campaign on foreign policy
• Sean Parnell, Governor of Alaska (2009–2014); Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (2006–2009)
• W. Samuel Patten, lobbyist and associate of Paul Manafort, senior consultant for SCL Group
• Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (since January 2017)
• Dmitry Peskov, Putin's Press Secretary, and diplomat
• Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State (since April 2018); CIA director (January 2017 – March 2018)
• Reince Priebus, Trump's first White House Chief of Staff, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch who funded the IRA and owns "Concord Management and Consulting" and "Concord Catering", called "Putin's chef"
• Erik Prince, chairman of Frontier Services Group, brother of Trump Administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and founder of private military company Academi (formerly known as "Blackwater")
• Vladimir Putin, 2nd and 4th President of Russia
• James L. Quarles, associate of Robert Mueller
• Edgardo Ramos, District Judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
• John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence (May 2020–present), Congressman (R-TX) (2015 – May 2020)
• Michele Reagan, Arizona Secretary of State (January 2015 – January 2019)
• Jeannie Rhee, associate of Robert Mueller
• Susan Rice, National Security Advisor (2013–2017)
• Michael S. Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) (2014–2018)
• Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (2011–2018)
• Dana Rohrabacher, Congressman (R-CA) (1989–2019)
• Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, acting Attorney General for Russia–Trump investigations
• Wilbur Ross, 39th United States Secretary of Commerce (since February 2017)
• Marco Rubio, member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican candidate for president in 2016
• Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2015–2018)

S–Z

• Bernie Sanders, 2016 Democratic primary presidential candidate, Vermont Senator (I) (since 2007)
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary (July 2017 – June 2019)
• Felix Sater, Russian-American former mobster, real estate developer, and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC
• Adam B. Schiff, Congressman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (since 2019), and ranking member (2015–2018)
• Keith Schiller, former Deputy Assistant and concurrent Director of Oval Office Operations, and longtime personal body guard to Trump
• Karen Schreier, District Judge of the District Court for the District of South Dakota
• SCL Group, parent company of Cambridge Analytica
• Jay Sekulow, chief counsel at the American Center for Law & Justice, former personal attorney of Donald Trump
• Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General (February 2017 – November 2018), Alabama Senator (R) (1997–2017), member of the Center for the National Interest's advisory council (2016)
• Cody Shearer, political activist and former journalist, author of the "Shearer memo/dossier" that Steele passed on to the FBI
• Brad Sherman, Congressman (D-CA) (since 1997)
• Dimitri Simes, publisher of The National Interest and CEO of think tank Center for the National Interest (CNI)
• Glenn R. Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, who hired Steele to compile damaging information on Trump and Russia
• Skadden, New York City-based international law firm
• Peter W. Smith, Republican operative and Illinois financier who had ties to Michael Flynn as early as 2015
• Gordon Sondland, United States Ambassador to the European Union (since June 2018)
• Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary (January–July 2017) and White House Director of Communications (June–July 2017)
• Christopher Steele, former British MI6 intelligence officer, author of dossier on Trump and Russia
• Jill Stein, Green Party nominee in the 2016 United States presidential election
• Roger Stone, political consultant, staffer to President Richard Nixon (1972–1974), business partner of Manafort (1980s)
• Peter Strzok, FBI agent removed from the investigation in August 2017
• Emmet G. Sullivan, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
• Rex Tillerson, 69th United States Secretary of State (February 2017 – March 2018), and CEO of ExxonMobil (2006–2017)
• Ivan Timofeev, program director of the Kremlin-sponsored Valdai Discussion Club
• Erika Thompson, Australian diplomat in London
• Alexander Torshin, Russian Senator from Mari El Republic (2001–2015) and Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (2015–2018)
• Anthony Trenga, District Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States (2017–2021), real estate developer (1971–2016)
• Donald Trump Jr., executive director of The Trump Organization, son of Donald Trump
• Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, son of Donald Trump
• Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump
• Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President (since March 2017), daughter of Donald Trump
• Cyrus Vance Jr., New York County District Attorney (2010–present)
• Alex van der Zwaan, Dutch attorney guilty of making false statements to the FBI
• Viktor Vekselberg, Russian oligarch
• Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian attorney, best known for lobbying against the Magnitsky Act
• Kurt Volker, US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (July 2017 – September 2019)
• Reggie Walton, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
• Jennifer Williams, advisor to Mike Pence on European and Russian affairs
• Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of The Trump Organization
• Andrew Weissmann, associate of Robert Mueller
• Matthew Whitaker, acting US Attorney General (November 2018 – February 2019)
• Andy Wigmore, director of communications for Leave.EU and close associate of Arron Banks
• Michael Wolff, journalist and author of Fire and Fury about the Trump White House
• Christopher A. Wray, Director of the FBI (since August 2017)
• Alexander Yakovenko, Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom (since 2011)
• Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine (2010–2014)
• Aaron Zebley, associate of Robert Mueller
• Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine (since May 2019)

2019 timeline

January

• January 3: The 116th United States Congress convenes with the House under Democratic control.
• January 25: Manafort plea hearings to resume.

February

• February 8: Paul Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced on the remaining counts against him in Virginia.

March

• March 5: Paul Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced on the remaining counts against him in The District of Columbia.
• March 18: Michael Flynn is scheduled to be sentenced.

Further reading

• Abramson, Seth (September 3, 2019). "Notes" (PDF). Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250256713.
• Benkler, Yochai; Faris, Robert; Roberts, Hal (October 15, 2018). Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190923631.
• Bittman, Ladislav (1983). The KGB and Soviet Disinformation. Foreword by Roy Godson.
• Chait, Jonathan (July 9, 2018). "Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion". The Daily Intelligencer. New York magazine. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
• Costa, Robert; Leonnig, Carol D.; Dawsey, Josh (December 2, 2017). "Inside the secretive nerve center of the Mueller investigation". The Washington Post.
• Demirjian, Karoun (December 8, 2016). "Republicans ready to launch wide-ranging probe of Russia, despite Trump's stance". Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post.
• DiResta, Renee; Shaffer, Kris; Ruppel, Becky; Sullivan, David; Matney, Robert; Fox, Ryan; Albright, Jonathan; Johnson, Ben (December 17, 2018). "The Tactics & Tropes of the Internet Research Agency" (PDF). New Knowledge – via Wikimedia Commons.
• Entous, Adam; Nakashima, Ellen; Jaffe, Greg (December 26, 2017). "Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options". The Washington Post.
• Foer, Franklin (March 2018). "The Plot Against America". The Atlantic.
• Frank, Thomas (January 12, 2018). "Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019.
• Hamburger, Tom; Helderman, Rosalind S. (February 6, 2018). "Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation". The Washington Post.
• Harding, Luke (November 16, 2017). Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0525520931.
  • Harding, Luke (November 19, 2017). "The Hidden History of Trump's First Trip to Moscow". Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
• Hettena, Seth (May 2018). Trump / Russia: A Definitive History. Melville House. ISBN 978-1612197395.
• Howard, Philip N.; Ganesh, Bharath; Liotsiou, Dimitra; Kelly, John; François, Camille (December 17, 2018). "The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018" (PDF). Computational Propaganda Research Project – via Wikimedia Commons.
• Jamieson, Kathleen Hall (October 3, 2018). Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President; What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190915810.
• Lichtman, Allan J. (2017), The Case for Impeachment, Dey Street Books, ISBN 978-0062696823
• Luce, Edward (November 3, 2017) The Big Read: Trump under siege from Mueller as he travels to Asia. Financial Times.
• McCain, John; Graham, Lindsey; Schumer, Chuck; Reed, Jack (December 11, 2016). "McCain, Graham, Schumer, Reed Joint Statement on Reports That Russia Interfered with the 2016 Election". United States Senate Committee on Armed Services.
• Nance, Malcolm (October 10, 2016). The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election. Skyhorse Publishing.
• Osnos, Evan; Remnick, David; Yaffa, Joshua. "Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War," (March 6, 2017), The New Yorker.
• Pacepa, Ion Mihai; Rychlak, Ronald J. (2013). Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism
• Pilipenko, Diana; Dessel, Talia (December 17, 2018). "Following the Money: Trump and Russia-Linked Transactions From the Campaign to the Presidential Inauguration". Center for American Progress.
• Porter, Tom (December 1, 2016). "US House of representatives backs proposal to counter global Russian subversion". International Business Times UK edition.
• Shane, Scott; Mazzetti, Mark (September 20, 2018). "The Plot to Subvert an Election", The New York Times
• Shultz, Richard H.; Godson, Roy (1984). Dezinformatsia: Active Measures in Soviet Strategy
• Strohm, Chris (December 1, 2016). "Russia Weaponized Social Media in U.S. Election, FireEye Says". Bloomberg News.
• Thompson, Nicholas; Vogelstein, Fred (February 12, 2018). "Inside the two years that shook Facebook–and the World." Wired.
• Toobin, Jeffrey (December 11, 2017). "Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea Sends Donald Trump's Lawyers Scrambling" The New Yorker.
• Unger, Craig (July 13, 2017). "Trump's Russian Laundromat" The New Republic.
• Unger, Craig (2018). House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. Dutton. ISBN 978-1524743505.
• Watts, Clint (2018). Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News. Harper. ISBN 978-0062795984.
• Weisburd, Andrew; Watts, Clint; Berger, J. M. (November 6, 2016). "Trolling for Trump: How Russia is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy". WarOnTheRocks.com.

External links

• Desjardins, Lisa (February 21, 2019) [June 7, 2018]. "The giant timeline of everything Russia, Trump and the investigations". PBS NewsHour.
• "Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security", October 7, 2016
• Trump Investigations by the Associated Press
• Bill Moyers: Interactive Timeline: Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump
• Committee to Investigate Russia has five timelines.
• Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks, March 19, 2018 Channel 4
• Trump and Russia: A timeline of the investigation, USA Today
• Tracking the Russia investigations, CNN
• The Trump Russia Investigation, WhatTheFuckJustHappenedToday.com
• "The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources", PolitiFact
• Public Documents Clearinghouse: Congressional Russia Investigations, Just Security