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Same day Mike Flynn signs contract to lobby for Turkey. August 12 , Guccifer 2. Only after a news outlet revealed the existence of these communications in March , Stone publishes the exchange. Stone says this is the entirety of his communication with Guccifer, but the exchange ends abruptly, and there is no way of telling if the two did not continue through other Twitter accounts or other platforms.

Trump hires Breitbart founder Steve Bannon to run his campaign. Paul Manafort is not fired but takes a backseat. Bannon would later help Trump accelerate his nationalist agenda and launch his Muslim ban. Steve Bannon becomes the new Trump Campaign Manager.

Wait of it in August 30, , Jerome Corsi said Roger Stone called him nine days after the "Podesta's time in the barrel" tweet, and asked Mr. State-owned Russian media made increasingly favorable comments about President-elect Trump as the US general and primary election campaigns progressed while consistently offering negative coverage of Secretary Clinton.

Mercer was also a principal patron of Breitbart News and Steve Bannon, who was a vice president of Cambridge Analytica until he joined the Trump campaign. September 5, , Carter Page travels to Budapest to meet with the Hungarian ambassador and various government officials to discuss a geothermal project. Page had met the Hungarian ambassador at the RNC.

Smith , a Republican activist with ties to the Trump Campaign, during the U. For this project, Smith in September sought the technical assistance of a leading cybersecurity expert, Matthew Tait. Smith made clear to Tait that he was well acquainted with Flynn and his son. Additionally, Smith sent Tait a document describing his overall political efforts, as well as the role Smith proposed for Tait.

Flynn and Lisa Nelson. And Smith died in May , after speaking about his experiences. The meeting was undisclosed until March 2 Most of the emails, and documents, have already been available. Assange several weeks earlier. Stone, a longtime confidant of Donald Trump, had no formal role in his campaign at the time.

They later transmitted 50, emails stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta 's inbox. September 20, , Wikileaks begins sending Donald Trump Jr a series of private messages through Twitter. Trump Jr replies the following day. September 21, , Donald Trump Jr.

See below. I tried the password and it works and the about section they reference contains the next pic in terms of who is behind it. Do you know the people mentioned and what the conspiracy they are looking for could be? She's saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was. It could also be China, it could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs pounds. Such a willingness by a U. The next day Kukes attended a private Jewish fundraising event for Trump held at a Manhattan hotel.

Kukes went to the event with his future wife, Svetlana Stanovkina, a Russian national. Stanovkina posed for a photo with Donald Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence. The candidates gave the thumbs-up, standing between stars and stripes flags. We had a very warm conversation.

The person in the picture is Svetlana. We are together. How are things with you? What are your plans? Erickson explained to Gordon that Butina was living in Washington while attending American University. Captioned in part with the following comment, "I have a feeling in the next couple of days, some very damaging material will be come out from the gentleman inside that embassy". I am assured that the mother lode is coming Wednesday. Further proof of this assertion is contained in a subsequent email where Roger Stone informs Steve Bannon, "Fear.

Serious security concern. He thinks they are going to kill him and the London police are standing done. However —a load every week going forward. Use "7zip" to unpack. By the time they finished, more than 18, had been sent through cyberspace toward unwitting American voters. Donald Trump joined. Hicks and Cohen spoke after. Then, Cohen called David Pecker.

Cohen got a call from Dylan Howard. Cohen called Hicks after, then spoke to Pecker. At p, Cohen called Trump, spoke for 8 minutes. I love Wikileaks! October 11, , Donald Trump again promotes Wikileaks. She is unfit to run. However, the false claims of association are being used by the democrats to undermine the impact of our publications. All of us have had concerns about WikiLeaks over the years, and it's just a reality of American life today and of life in the wider world. Your operation leaks like a sieve.

You need to figure out who your friends are. The FBI continues to investigate. Agencies investigated whether the Kremlin paid Russian-American pensioners to pay email hackers in the U. Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win, the two sources said. One of the allegations involves whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States or to supply money to intermediaries who would then pay the hackers, the two sources said.

Some investigators suspect the Russians targeted voters in swing states, even in key precincts. Butina messaged, "I am going to sleep. It's 3 am here. I am ready for further orders". We are now more free to communicate. It was from Vyacheslav Pavlovsky. Upon his return to London, Mr. Banks had another lunch with the Russian ambassador where they discussed the Trump visit.

So shocking. The Trump transition team declined to comment about these news stories. November 18, , Rep. Rob is his rep in the US and sent this on. Not sure how to proceed, if at all. The surprise deal gives the buyers a Page says he met with some of the top managers of Rosneft Shlomo Weber, Arkady Dvorkovich, Andrey Baranov, a former colleague from Gazprom who was director of investor relations at Rosneft.

He also suggested that the deal, which involved an investment by a Qatar fund, was a good example of how US companies were being kept from pursuing opportunities because of US sanctions against Russia. None of the principals from Trump, Qatar, or Russia orbits seem to be aware of the dossier yet. Jared Kushner moved to set up that call and that backchannel, at the same time Mike Flynn was hired by Kushner for the Trump Administration.

Using Flynn to create a backchannel to Russia was the most significant objective of hiring Flynn. As a follow-up to that meeting, a Kushner associate again met with Sergey Kislyak. This is a pretty remarkable coincidence. And I discussed that with the president-elect just last night. Those conversations never happened. But then the Steele Dossier is published, and Qatar may have been concerned about being exposed, and it may have delayed or backed off of completing the deal.

Kushner had already sought money directly from Qatar. Flynn is still appointed national security adviser and receives provisional security clearance. The subject matter of sanctions or the actions taken by the Obama [administration] did not come up in the conversation. Jim Comey reportedly dissents for fear of complicating an ongoing investigation.

January 20 , Donald Trump inaugurated as 45th US president. On Inauguration Day. Flynn reportedly denied having discussed sanctions with Kislyak in a conversation with Sean Spicer.

The Wall Street Journal reported on the same day that Flynn was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation related to his contacts with Kislyak. Flynn never told anyone about this meeting with the FBI in which he lied to investigators. It was the next day that Trump invited then-FBI Director Comey to the White House for dinner and asked for a loyalty pledge, and even more inexplicable was that Flynn was allowed to remain in his post for 18 more days.

Sater introduced Artemenko to Michael Cohen , who left the plan in the office of then-national security adviser Michael Flynn. Artemenko then met with Sater and Cohen at the Loews Regency in Manhattan to discuss the plan to lease to Russia the Crimean Peninsula, for 50 years and lift sanctions against Russia.

February 14 , Donald Trump commits Obstruction of Justice by asking James Comey to drop the investigation into Mike Flynn , according to sworn testimony Comey would later deliver to Congress.

Comey says Trump told him: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. He was crazy, a real nut job… I faced great pressure because of Russia. The discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men, and they raise questions about whether the lawyer, John Dowd , who has since resigned, was offering pardons to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigation.

This is clearly a conspiracy to commit witness tampering and obstruction of justice. This is clearly obstruction of justice and places the President directly in the middle of a Trump-Russia cover-up. But I just wanted to drop you a line to say if you ever need to pick my brains then my door is always open," [Obstruction of criminal investigations 18 U. August 7 , Donald Trump called Sen. Thom Tillis to let him know he was unhappy with legislation that would potentially prevent him from firing special counsel Mueller in order to end the Trump-Russia investigation.

Yet another piece of evidence in this long and public effort to obstruct justice in a federal investigation. That investment never materialized.

Sessions testified that "I believe I made clear to him that he should not represent the campaign to Russians or anyone else", "I pushed back against his suggestion that I thought may have been improper". After the purchase came under criticism, the Da Vinci painting was swapped with the UAE Ministry of Culture in exchange for an equally valued yacht. Senators of Donald Trump calling them and asking them to finish or end their Trump-Russia investigations.

This is again part of a pattern of obstruction of justice. He also volunteered that his team were ready to go further than an investigation.

Another option, Nix suggested, would be to create a sex scandal. Cambridge Analytica sometimes contracts under a different name, so that there are no records of its involvement, Turnbull said. That does not only protect the company, but also makes its work more efficient, he is recorded saying. He has pled guilty to those lies.

It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide! This tells you everything about Jared.

This is again witness tampering and an attempt to obstruct justice. The false statement stated that Martin filed arbitration against Stormy Daniels "in her individual capacity" with no involvement from the Trump Organization.

I have made clear that they worked in Europe". Trump then confirmed he reimbursed Cohen in a May 3rd tweet and then this information was confirmed again in the May 16th financial disclosure forms that were released. In this deplorable episode, Trump has lied to the press, to the American people, and by not initially reporting the hush money payment, he has broken campaign finance law.

During this White House meeting, in a sharp reversal, Trump praised the emir for cracking down on terror funding. Trump immediately suggested Marie Yovanovitch should be fired.

I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Do it. Articles of impeachment were drawn up against President Nixon for using the IRS to punish his enemies and this is no different. Today, the building only generates about half its annual mortgage payment, and 30 percent of the story tower is vacant.

November - December , Marie Yovanovitch became aware Rudy Giuliani was trying to make contact, and communicate, with people in Ukraine. November , John Bolton revealed Donald Trump had called him at his home to complain about a CNN story that made it appear the Navy was pushing back against Russian aggression in the Black Sea and made them cancel the maneuver. He was afraid it would be "dangerous. S domestic politics and losing bi-partisan support in the US.

That all fell apart in April with the election of Zelensky, forcing Trump and Giuliani to launch a new bribery scheme. Late-February , Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko , an oligarch with a reputation for corruption, was facing an election in March, and then a runoff in April.

His chief prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko , also famous for his corruption, made a deal through Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman that Poroshenko would be invited to the White House, which would boost his standing at home. In exchange, Lutsenko would announce investigations into the election and the Bidens, thereby helping Trump in the elections. March 3, , Igor Fruman participated in a special meeting of the US President with potential donors of the election campaign, at Mar-a-Lago event, per his photos.

March 4, , The House Judiciary Committee issued multiple discovery requests to individuals with potential information relevant to its investigation into the alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump, his associates, and members of his Administration.

April 11, , Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno revoked Julian Assange 's asylum and said Assange had "violated the norm of not intervening in internal affairs of other states. April 18, , The Special Counsel's Report found the Russian government interfered in the election in "sweeping and systematic fashion," that there were at least ten separate episodes of President Trump using his official powers to thwart or attempt to thwart the Special Counsel's investigation, and recognized that "a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would May 8, , The House Judiciary Committee recommended the House of Representatives hold AG William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a duly authorized subpoena issued in connection with the Committee's investigation to determine whether any of the conduct described in the Special Counsel's Report warrants the Committee taking any further steps under Congress, Article I powers.

Paul Erickson, the longtime Republican operative who had a multiyear romantic relationship with accused Russian agent Maria Butina , was indicted on 11 counts wire fraud and money laundering charges by a federal grand jury in South Dakota, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The indictment alleges, according to the Justice Department press release, that between and Erickson "knowingly and unlawfully devised a scheme and artifice to defraud and to obtain money from many victims by means of false and fraudulent pretense, representations, and promises.

He was arrested and released on bond. If convicted, Erickson faces up to 20 years in federal prison for each count. A lawyer for Erickson told ABC News the charges are "wholly unfounded" and "will be met by a vigorous defense. Butina recently agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with federal, state and local authorities in any ongoing investigations.

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The charges pertain to defrauding investors and are unrelated to the conspiracy that Butina pleaded guilty to in December. Butina pleaded guilty in federal court to attempting to infiltrate Republican political circles and influence US relations with Russia before and after the presidential election.