Detailed Trumpistan Timeline
2001 — 22 May, 2017

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Following The Bouncing Timeline Of Corruption, Cyber-espionage And Treason
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  • 2001-2007 — At least 63 Russian Oligarch lease, rent or buy various Trump properties spending upwards of $98.5 Million on them, many of these deals are arranged through Bayrock Group LLC whose offices are located in 24th floor of Trump Tower and whose managing director is Felix Sater a Russian born violent convict with ties to the Russian Mob, who are frequently used by Russian intelligence to do their dirty work and fund blackbag operations.
  • 2008 — Trump sells a Palm Beach Mansion to a Russian Oligarch for $95 Million after purchasing it just 2 years previously for only $45 Million.   Donald Jr. states "We get a lot to money from Russia." Felix Sater leaves Bayrock after his criminal record is revealed and goes to work for Trump. Bayrock founder Tefvik Arif is busted and prosecuted for his connection to an underage prostitution ring in Turkey, he is eventually acquitted.
  • 2011 — Trump Soho a joint venture condo project by TrumpCO and Bayrock is sued for defrauding buyers with inflated claims.  The suit is settled and a potential criminal case is avoided. Bayrock folds.
  • 2013 — Russian mobsters renting property in Trump Tower just one floor below the penthouse suite are arrested for money laundering and running an illegal gambling ring.  Several months later Trump holds the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the apparent ring leader who remains at large is welcomed on the Red Carpet at the event. While in Moscow Trump reportedly meets with several high ranking oligarchs with ties to Putin.
  • 2014 -- Michael Flynn is fired by the Obama administration as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his "odd behavior." Eric Trump says in an interview when discussing the funding of Trump Golf courses "Well, we don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia."
  • 2015 — A new racketeering case is filed against Bayrock, Sater and Arif alleging they had been "substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated."   Michael Flynn goes to Russia, meets and sits with Putin for dinner and is paid $45,000 for a speech at RT's 10th Anniversary Gala. He doesn't get prior permission from the Pentagon for this trip or the payment.
  • June 17, 2015 -- Trump announces his run for President.
  • Summer 2015 — Cyber hacking contractors working with the FSB (Cozy Bear) begin infiltrating and extracting copies of documents including the oppo-research on Trump and emails from the DNC servers.  Their previous successful attacks include the White House and State Dept. email systems. 
  • September 2015 — FBI detects the hack and begins trying to inform the DNC, but they start by going to their Helpdesk not simply calling Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
  • Late 2015 — GCHC and other western intel agencies from Germany, Poland, Estonia and Australia begin noticing contacts between Russia Spies and members of the Trump campaign. They attempt to notify FBI and CIA who are apparently caught "flat footed."
  • April 2016 — GRU Russian military intelligence also attacks the DNC systems with Fancy Bear. The DNC discovers the intrusion and calls in cyber security firm Crowdstrike to address it, they discover both intrusions, briefly monitor them to confirm their ID, then shut them down.  Trump gives his first major foreign policy speech, Russian ambassador Kislyak is invited as a special guest, both Trump and Jeff Session meet with him at a backstage reception before the speech. About this time Paul Manafort — who has a close associate with links to the GRU, and who had previous been paid $Millions to secretly promote Putin's agenda — takes over the Trump campaign.
  • May 2016 — US surveillance operations detects Russian Spies vowing to "Get Hillary Clinton" in retaliation for her commentary during Putin's last telection.  They also detect them bragging that they have good ties to Michael Flynn and may be able to use him to "influence" Trump, Obama admin attempts to limit classified information to Flynn. Russian spies also attempt to cultivate Carter Page as an asset, meanwhile the FBI obtains a FISA warrant to monitor Page's communications.
  • June 2016 — Russian Think Tank controlled by Putin publishes a blue print to use cyber bots, trolls and social media to push anti-Clinton/pro-Trump propaganda to help swing the election. DCLeaks reveals the first set of hacked DNC emails, they have Cyrillic characters and Russian urls in their metadata. 
  • July 2016 — Business Insider publishes a report on the Kremlin's Troll army based in St. Petersburg. They pose online as Pro-Trump and Pro-Bernie Americans and incessantly attack Clinton.  Cyber attacks are also made on the DCCC in order to impact House races in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina.  Carter Page travels to Moscow, approved by Trump Natsec advisor JD Gordon, to give several paid speeches, former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele receives intel that Page also has secret meetings with Igor Sechin who allegedly offers him broker fees on the sale of 19% of Russian oil firm Rosneft supposedly as a payoff for access to Trump.  Page eventually denies all of this. Steele begins writing memos to the FBI.
  • July 5, 2016 — FBI Director James Comey announces that the investigation of Hillary Clinton's server is complete and no charges will be filed, he then goes on to blast her in an extended public statement.
  • July 7, 2016 — Comey testifies to Congress about Hillary's server and manages to debunk just about every Right-wing conspiracy about it. 
  • July 18-21, 2016 — The Republican National Convention takes place during which Trump National Security Advisor J.D. Gordon torpedoes a platform plank supporting the arming of Ukrainian rebels against pro-Russian forces, then lies about it.  Kislyak attends and briefly meets Sessions again, as well as Carter Page and J.D. Gordon.  Mike Pence chants "Lock Her Up" over Hillary's emails — even though she's been cleared already — and he himself has AOL for his email for official business as Governor and his account had been hacked.
  • July 22, 2016 — One day after end of RNC Wikileaks reveals their first set of DNC emails.  RT, Sputnik News, Breitbart and other right-wing outlets begin doing incessant stories about every little negative revelation in them, these are further pushed by bots and trolls on facebook and twitter until they trend.  The FBI begin to look into Russia hack based on information from Crowdstrike, they don't get direct access to DNC servers presumably as that would cause them to shutdown their entire email capability in middle of an election until a replacement set of servers could be installed.  FBI is also looking into links to Trump due to Steele memos.
  • July 25, 2015 — Democratic Convention starts, because of the brouhaha from the Wikileaks email dump, Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigns and Donna Brazille takes over, RT/Sputnik crafted rumors swirl about the DNC "rigging the Primary" for Clinton and against Sanders.
  • July 31 2016 — Manafort denies that the Trump campaign made any changes to the RNC platform.  Various Trump affiliates will repeat these denials 20 more times before finally admitting the truth.
  • August 16, 2016 — Manafort pushes a false RT/Sputnik News story about terrorist sabotage at a NATO base in Turkey. Trump also pushes the same false story.
  • August 21, 2016 -— Trump pal Roger Stone tweets "it will soon the Podesta's time in the barrel." He later claims he was talking about Podesta's "business dealings" not his email, although Stone had also been sending DM's to Guccifer 2.0 the public face of Russia's cyber hacking operation.
  • September 2016 — Reports are the Russian hackers have attempted to penetrate the voter registration systems in 20 States, 4 were successfully infiltrated.  Sessions meets with Kislyak again in his Senate Office.  Roger Stone says on Boston Herald Radio that he expects, "Julian Assange and the Wikileaks people to drop a payload of new documents on a weekly basis fairly soon. And that of course will answer the question of exactly what was erased on that email server."
  • October 2016 — The Russian Think Tank publishes another paper, this one saying the Clinton is likely to win the election, so the online influence campaign needs to focus on claims that the election was "rigged" or "stolen" due to voter fraud. Trump starts saying the only way he could lose Pennsylvania is because of "Voter Fraud."
  • October 6, 2016 — The Access Hollywood Video drops with "Grab ‘em by the Pussy".  One hour later Wikileaks releases the first set of emails taken from John Podesta's account. RT and Sputnik News continue to do daily reports as another set of emails is dumped for next 30 days. 
  • October 11, 2016 — Trump uses false talking points from RT to blame HIllary for Benghazi
  • October 23, 2016 — Christopher Steele, frustrated by the lack of response by the FBI contacts David Corn of Motherjones who writes that "Russian spies have been attempting to cultivate Trump as an asset for 5 years."  Eventually with the help of the British Ambassador to Russia, his dossier of memos are passed to John McCain who physically gives a copy to James Comey.
  • October 26, 2016 — James Comey writes a letter to congress about the Abedin emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop several weeks earlier — it gets leaked almost immediately.  All hell breaks lose, Clinton drops 3-5% in the polls.
  • October 27, 2016 — Rudy Giuliani admits on Fox that he knew about the Comey letter from "former FBI agents" before it was sent to Congres and leaked.
  • October 30, 2016 — FBI obtains a warrant to review the Abedin emails.
  • November 6, 2016 — FBI finds that virtually all of the Abedin emails are duplicates that they already had in their possession from the Clinton server.
  • November 7, 2016 — 19.5% of Rosneft is sold to unknown buyers.
  • November 8, 2016 — Election Day, Michael Flynn writes an Op-Ed in support of Turkey arguing that the U.S. should extradite a Turkish expat who President ErdoÄŸan blames for the recent attempted coup.  Seemingly Turkey has been paying Flynn and his consulting firm $530,000 — money which originated with a Russian oligarch. Flynn does not disclose this or register as a foreign agent.
  • November — House oversight ranking member Rep. Cummings sends a letter to VP Pence about Flynn's Op-Ed and his lobbying for Turkey.
  • December — Trump transition does a background check on Flynn but doesn't fully vet him, they are also specifically informed by Flynn's lawyers that he may have to register as a "Foreign Agent" because of his work for Turkey even though the Pentagon had previously warned him to get permission for such payments first.
  • December 29, 2017 — Obama hits Russia with Sanctions for their hacking and involvement in the Election. Flynn talks to Russian Ambassador Kislyak, mentions "We'll review everything" when Obama's new sanctions are brought up.  This conversation is recorded by the NSA/FBI.  He later meets with Kislyak at Trump Tower along with Jared Kushner. Flynn also fills out his SF-86 form to reactivate his security clearance related to his being selected by Trump as national security advisor.  Flynn fails to include that he had received $530,000 from Turkey or that he had taken another $45,000 from Russia in 2015.  The Obama Administration tries to save the intel data with a trail of bread crumbs for Congress to track.
  • January 6th — U.S. Intel agencies publish their report on the Russia Cyber efforts to influence the election.  Obama, Biden and Trump are briefed on the report, Trump claims it proves Russia didn't "change the vote" even though the report doesn't attempt to answer that question.
  • January 10th — Jeff Sessions testifies during confirmation hearings that he doesn't know "any Trump surrogates who were in contact with the Russians" ignoring the question he was asked which was "What would you do if you discover surrogates coordinating with Russians?"  Apparently, "Nothing."  Buzzfeed publishes the entire Steele Dossier online, CNN reports that Trump was specifically briefed on it during the Jan 6th briefing.  White House does full court press to deny this occurred, not only denying that anyone verbally described it to Trump but also there was a 3 page summary at the end of the full Russia report.
  • January 11th — Trump himself says he "didn't meet with any Russians" during the election even though he did.
  • January 12th — NBC news confirms that Comey personally briefed Trump about the Steele Dossier.
  • January 20th — Inauguration day.
  • January 21st — Sean Spicer does his first press briefing and spends most of it lying about the Inauguration crowd size, then takes no questions.
  • January 23rd — Spicer claims Flynn didn't talk to Kislyak about sanctions, even though he did.   Later Mike Pence goes on Meet the Press after talking personally to Flynn and claims "Flynn told me he didn't talk to Russia about  sanctions."
  • January 24th — Flynn interviewed by FBI, again says he didn't talk to Russians about sanctions but they know better.
  • January 26th — Sally Yates goes to the White House personally and warns Trump that Flynn may be vulnerable to "blackmail by the Russians" because he'd lied to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak.  Trump does nothing about Flynn.
  • January 27th — Trump invites Comey to dinner at the White House, allegedly asks if he's being investigated, asks for Comey to pledge him his "Loyalty", asks him "if he could let Michael Flynn go" and if he couldn't prosecute some reporters for "leaks" instead. Comey takes copious notes.
  • January 31st -- Roger Stone goes on Russia Today to push the conspiracy that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich is the "real hacker"
  • February 2nd — Yates gets fired by Trump allegedly for refusing to defend his Muslim ban executive order.   Flynn stays.
  • February 6th — Trump attorney Michael Cohen and Felix Sater negotiate a deal to end the sanction against Russia by stopping the violence in Crimea with a Ukranian named Andrii V. Artemenko.  They supposedly deliver a copy of this plan to Michael Flynn's desk, but there is no evidence he ever reviewed it or passed it on to anyone.  When this is revealed Artemenko is looked at for possible Treason charges by Ukraine.
  • February 8th — Washington posts asks Flynn if he discussed sanctions with Russia, he says "No" twice.
  • February 9th — Flynn's spokesman issues a correction to Wapo that he "doesn't remember" if he did or didn't discuss sanctions.
  • February 10th — Trump is asked about Flynn talking to Russians about sanctions and says "This is the first time I've heard that."  Note: He had already been personally told about this by Yates on Jan 26th.
  • February 12th — Reports emerge that the Intel agencies are considering holding back highly sensitive intel from Trump to prevent leaks to Russia.
  • February 13th — Flynn is fired immediate after Wapo report proving that he lied, allegedly because he lied to Vice President Pence and caused him to be embarrassed about what he said on Meet the Press.
  • February 15th — Intel Agencies with access to foreign intercepts say "Trump Will Die in Jail."
  • February 17th — The NYTimes reports that Trump aids had repeated contacts with Russian Intelligence.
  • February 25th — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe goes to the White House and buttonholes Reince Prebus to tell him the NYT article on contacts "Is Bullshit."
  • February 26th — Preibus calls McCabe back the next day and asks him to inform the Press about this, he refuses so Preibus call his pals Devin Nunez Chairman of the House intelligence committee and Richard Burr Chairman of the Senate Intel Committee who are each former Trump surrogates who heading up investigations of  "Russia" — they do it for him.
  • March 1 — it's discovered that Sessions met with Kislyak twice, in July at the RNC which he attended as a Trump surrogate along with Carter Page and JD. Horton and in September in his Senate Offices.  Nobody notices that he also met him in April.
  • March 2 — 100 Democrats demand that Jeff Sessions resign as Attorney General. He doesn't.
  • March 4 — Session recuses himself from the Russia investigation — Trump blows his top and that weekend screams at his staff, throws Priebus and Bannon off Air Force One for his weekly Mar-A-Lago trip and tweets about being "Wiretapped in Trump Tower by Obama" — Narrative shifts away from Sessions.
  • March 7th — House Intel committee invites Sally Yates and James Comey to testify about Michael Flynn and Russia.
  • March 10 — Sean Spicer confirms that they were informed about Flynn's ties to Turkey downplaying it as "not a question of it raising a red flag."  On the same day Pence — who was head of the Trump Transition Team who were informed about this by Rep. Cummings and Flynn's lawyers specifically — is also asked about Flynn receiving payments from Turkey and answers "This is the first I've heard of it..." (Uh, then how does Spicey know about it?)
  • March 17th — Spicer blames GCHQ for Obama wiretaps. GCHQ denies it and demands an apology. Doesn't get one, until later.`
  • March 20th — Comey and Rogers testify before House Intel that there is an active investigation into Russia influence in our election and potential ties to the Trump campaign.
  • March 21st — House intel Chair Devin Nunez takes sudden clandestine trip to WH to review data revealed by one of his own former staffers who had been hired on March 7th and a former Flynn staffer that supposedly supports Trump's "Obama wiretapped me" claims.  Does press conference the next day, then meets privately with Trump to tell him what Trump's own staffers had said. Diversion accomplished.
  • March 28th — Yates testimony is cancelled.
  • March 30th — Micheal Flynn asks for immunity in order to testify to congress.
  • March 31st — Trump walks out in the middle of a signing ceremony after being asked about Michael Flynn's request for immunity.  Signs the executive orders in another office away from the cameras that were brought to film him signing the orders.
  • April 5th — Trump blames Susan Rice for deliberate partisan wiretap unmasking. Rice denies it.
  • April 6th — Nunez recuses himself from House Russia investigation.
  • April 12th — House Intel committee members finally review docs "unmasked" by Rice, they say "Hell No." she didn't do anything wrong.
  • April 13th — GCHQ and others say they have incidental SIGINT of Trump team members "Coordinating" with Russian Intelligence agents.
  • April 25th — Rep. Chaffetz and Cummings holds a joint press conference where they accuse Flynn of breaking the law by accepting foreign payments without Pentagon permission.  Trump calls Flynn and tells him to "Stay Strong."
  • April 27th — Trump is again asked about Flynn during a signing ceremony, ducks the question. Spicer and Chaffetz Blame the Obama administration for Flynn being hired by Trump without being "fully vetted" — even though Obama had fired Flynn in 2014 and Pence & Trump had already been fully informed by Yates, Cummings and Flynn's attorneys about his foreign money and conversations with Kislyak — all of this simply because he was able to renew his security clearance, but only afterlying on the SF-86 renewal form which normally limits the scope of the FBI security investigation.  His taking foreign money as a former Military officer without Pentagon permission and also lying to the FBI are felonies.
  • April 28th — Chaffetz quits congress.  Then decides to stay while he still has Obamacare to get  surgery for his pre-existing foot condition.
  • May 8th — Sally Yates testifies that she was "Very Seriously Concerned" about Flynn when she went to White House to warn them about his communications with Kislyak.
  • May 9th — Comey is fired by Trump, the administration claims it's because of a recommendation by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein based on Comey's treatment of the Clinton email investigation. They don't give him a heads up on the phone, they send a courier to his offices with a letter while Comey was at the Los Angeles field offices greeting new recruits and finds out by reading the chyron on the TV screens behind him.  Spicer and Huckabee-Sanders push hard that this was all Rosenstein.  Eveyone ignores that Sessions also signed off on this and he was supposed to be "recused" from it.  Nobody believes Trump fired Comey because he was mean to Hillary. Nobody notices this is just one day after Yates testimony about Flynn.
  • May 10th — Trump meets in the Oval Office with Russian Foreign minister Lavrov and Kislyak — although Kislyak is mysteriously absent in all WH documentation and photos of the event.  No U.S. media is present only Russia TASS news services.  Trump reveals "code word" classified intel on potential ISIS laptop attacks which had been gather by Israeli intelligence to the them, then says Comey was a "Nut Job", who "politicized" things and that now his "Russia problems" will go away.
  • May 11th — Trump admits on CBS News to Lester Holt that he was going to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein's recommendation and he was thinking about "Russia" when he did it.   Senate Intel committee subpoenas Flynn financial documents.
  • May 12th — Rosenstein sees "no need" for a Special Prosecutor.
  • May 15th — Trump's leak of classified data to Russia is revealed — Flynn's replacement as National Security Advisor Gen. McMaster claims there's nothing wrong with the leak because no "sources or methods" are revealed.  Israel who happens to be one of the sources is pissed their asset may be now at risk.
  • May 16th — The Comey Memos are revealed documenting how Trump attempted to impact the Flynn investigation hinting at potential obstruction of justice.  Breitbart and RW Media respond to the "code word" classified leak by claiming it's merely a "smear campaign by the Deep State" against Trump, recycling the Seth Rich conspiracy and claiming "Obama and Biden blurted out classified into too" even though they didn't.
  • May 17th — Rosenstein appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Prosecutor for the Russia investigation.
  • May 18th — Trump talks about "rehiring Flynn" if he's cleared by the Special Prosecutor.  Yeah, as if.
  • May 19th — Jared Kushner named as "person of interest" in Trump investigation.
  • May 22nd — Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he notifies the Senate Intelligence committee that he will not comply with a subpoena seeking documents.

As is shown Trump's financial and business links to Russia and the Russian mob go back over a decade and potentially even further. Being so close to the mob they're living just one floor downstairs easily gets you in the sights of Russian Intelligence.  Manafort, Page, Flynn, Stone, Sater, Horton and even Kushner are all at great risk.  Pence seems to have been complicit and Trump himself has built up quite an obstruction case.

How far Mueller will go with this remains to be seen, but it seems doubtful that they all will escape unscathed.