Why Trump in in a Lot of Trouble

This week I’m doing something a little different from my usual podcasts. I’ve gone through the entire history of Trump’s election and presidency and the various actors/players in his administration and I break down in detail, event by event, what has been going on with who and when that has led to Trump’s current very serious legal woes.

Timeline

1987

Trump went to Moscow to find a site for luxury hotel; no deal emerged.

1996

Trump sought to build a condominium complex in Russia; that also did not succeed.

2000

Allen Weisselberg named a vice president at Mr. Trump’s Atlantic City, N.J. casino company following an accounting scandal that resulted in it eventually agreeing to a Securities and Exchange Commission cease-and-desist order.

2004

Paul Manafort first began to establish connections in Ukraine – ground zero in the geopolitical struggle between Putin’s Russia and the West – in late 2004. His reputation as a masterful political strategist and fixer was earned over decades hopping planes to the Congo, Philippines and elsewhere to advise authoritarian rulers friendly with the United States.

By the end of that year, the former Soviet republic of Ukraine was paralyzed by widespread protests amid allegations that Yanukovych, the prime minister in a government rife with corruption, had won the presidency in a rigged election. What became the Orange Revolution persisted until another, internationally monitored vote was held and rival Victor Yushchenko was declared the winner.

2005

Donald Trump signed a one-year deal with a New York development company to explore a Trump Tower in Moscow, but the effort fizzled.

Paul Manafort and a partner formed Davis Manafort Partners Inc. in early 2005 and opened offices in Kiev.

Manafort’s first client in Ukraine was Rinat Akhmetov, the country’s richest man and a key funder of Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. Deripaska introduced Manafort to Akhmetov, who hailed from Russia-leaning Eastern Ukraine. In the summer of 2005, Akhmetov tapped Manafort to help Yanukovych and his party in the 2006 elections, according to an American consultant based in Kiev, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid damaging relationships. The multimillion-dollar political consulting deal was sealed at a meeting in an elite Moscow hotel attended by Manafort, Akhmetov and a half dozen other wealthy Ukrainians.

Manafort spent the next several years advising Deripaska, Akhmetov and other Ukrainian oligarchs and giving the gruff-talking Yanukovych a makeover down to his hair style and attire.

2007

“Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment,” Trump said in a 2007 deposition. “We will be in Moscow at some point,” he said.

2008

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Trump Jr. noted that he traveled to Russia six times in 18 months, and “several buyers have been attracted to our projects there and everything associated therewith.” But he added: “As much as we want to take our business over there, Russia is just a different world…. It is a question of who knows who, whose brother is paying off who… It really is a scary place.”

2010

Victor Yanukovych wins the presidency of Ukraine.

Even after the February 2014 fall of Ukraine’s pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych, who won office with the help of a Manafort-engineered image makeover, the American consultant flew to Kiev another 19 times over the next 20 months while working for the smaller, pro-Russian Opposition Bloc party. Manafort went so far as to suggest the party take an anti-NATO stance, an Oppo Bloc architect has said. A key ally of that party leader, oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, was identified by an earlier Ukrainian president as a former Russian intelligence agent, “100 percent.”

The trail of Manafort’s decade of dealings 5,000 miles from America’s capital is murky. But the previously unreported flight records, spanning from late 2004 through 2015, reflect a man seemingly always on the move. Over those years, Manafort visited Ukraine at least 138 times. His trips between Ukraine and Moscow all occurred between 2005 and 2011 and were mostly in 2005 and 2006.

Prosecutors have charged that Manafort and associate Rick Gates funneled through a maze of foreign accounts at least $75 million in consulting fees from an array of Kremlin-leaning clients: Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who secretly paid them $10 million annually for several years; a second Ukrainian oligarch; and the ruling Party of Regions, which supported Yanukovych until corruption allegations and bloody protests led to his overthrow in February 2014.

2012

Alex van der Zwaan, who speaks Russian, was one of the eight attorneys who worked on Skadden Arps’s 2012 report, commissioned by the government of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych via Paul Manafort, that defended the prosecution, conviction and imprisonment of Yanukovych’s rival, the country’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Van der Zwaan traveled to Ukraine to work on the report, and served as rule-of-law consultant to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Former United States ambassador to Ukraine John E. Herbst said in a 2017 interview that Skadden Arps “should have been ashamed” of the report, calling it “a nasty piece of work”. Special Counsel investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann stated in February 2018 that, as part of Manafort’s and Rick Gates’s lobbying effort to improve Yanukovych’s reputation in the United States, Van der Zwaan took an advance copy of the report in late July or early August 2012, without authorization, and provided it to a public-relations firm working for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice — with one aim being to get the report published in The New York Times — and in September 2012 provided Gates with talking points about the report.

2013

The Post reported that the Trump Organization had partnered with Aras Agalarov, the so-called “Trump of Russia,” on a project in Moscow in 2013 that didn’t come to fruition. “The Trump Tower deal never moved past preliminary discussions,” The Post said. “But Agalarov said the family is interested in a possible future venture.” In 2013, he signed a preliminary agreement to build a tower in partnership with Aras Agalarov, a billionaire who had financed the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant when it was held in Moscow in 2013. Agalarov told The Post last year that his company’s deal with Trump was on hold because of the presidential campaign.

In 2013, Carter Page met with Viktor Podobnyy, then a junior attaché at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, at an energy conference, and provided him with documents on the U.S. energy industry. Page later said he provided only “basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents” to Podobnyy. Podobnyy was later one of a group of three Russian men charged by U.S. authorities for participation in a Russian spy ring; Podobnyy and one of the other men was protected by diplomatic immunity from prosecution; a third man, who was spying for the Russia under non-diplomatic cover, pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent and was sentenced to prison. The men had attempted to recruit Page to work for the Russian SVR. The FBI interviewed Page in 2013 “as part of an investigation into the spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy”, and never accused Page of wrongdoing. As part of the court filing it was written that Podobnyy said “Page wrote that he is sorry, he went to Moscow and forgot to check his inbox, but he wants to meet when he gets back. I think he is an idiot and forgot who I am. … He got hooked on Gazprom thinking that if they have a project, he could rise up,” Podobnyy said. “I also promised him a lot … This is intelligence method to cheat, how else to work with foreigners? You promise a favor for a favor. You get the documents from him and tell him to go fuck himself.”

July 2013 – Manafort and Kilimnik flew from eastern Ukraine to Frankfurt on a private plane owned by Belbek Avia, according to the flight records. The aircraft company’s founders included the father of Andrey Artemenko, a Ukrainian legislator. Through an attorney, Andrey Artemenko denied that Belbek Avia ever owned an aircraft.

American experts on Russia said privately they suspect the trip was a prelude to a broader Russian influence effort to dissuade Yanukovych’s government from signing an agreement to associate with the European Union. That decision, experts say, opened the door to Russia’s 2014 invasion of eastern Ukraine.

2014

February 2014 – Ukranian revolution, a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters in the capital, Kiev, culminated in the ousting of the elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and the overthrow of the Ukrainian Government. The events were followed by a series of changes in Ukraine’s sociopolitical system, including the formation of a new interim government, the restoration of the previous constitution, and a call to hold impromptu presidential elections within months. Opposition to the revolution in some eastern and southern regions escalated into the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, its later military intervention and the subsequent War in Donbass. Fifty seven percent of people in the government-controlled east regard the change in power as an “illegal armed coup”.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine endured years of corruption, mismanagement, lack of economic growth, currency devaluation, and problems in securing funding from public markets. Successive Ukrainian governments in the 2000s sought a closer relationship with the European Union (EU). One of the measures meant to achieve this was an association agreement with the European Union, which would have provided Ukraine with funds in return for liberalising reforms. President Yanukovych announced his intention to sign the agreement, but ultimately refused to do so at the last minute. This sparked a wave of protests called the “Euromaidan” movement. During these protests Yanukovych signed a treaty and multibillion-dollar loan with Russia. The Ukrainian security forces cracked down on the protesters, further inflaming the situation and resulting in a series of violent clashes in the streets of Kiev. As tensions rose, Yanukovych fled to Russia and did not return.

Russia refused to recognize the new interim government, calling the overthrow of Yanukovych a coup d’état, and began a military intervention in Ukraine. The newly appointed interim government of Ukraine signed the EU association agreement and agreed to reform the country’s judiciary and political systems, as well as its financial and economic policies. The International Monetary Fund pledged more than $18 billion in loans contingent on Ukraine’s adopting those reforms. The revolution was followed by pro-Russian unrest in some south-eastern regions, a standoff with Russia regarding the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol, and a war between the Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatists in the Donbass.

Manafort’s business took a hit when Yanukovych fled to Russia, days before Kremlin-backed forces invaded Eastern Ukraine. He was quickly hired by the Opposition Bloc, which leaned even more toward Moscow.

His work drew rave reviews from one Oppo Bloc leader, Nestor Shufrych, whom multiple people in positions to know described as a close ally of Medvedchuk. Shufrych told a Ukrainian publication that Manafort urged the new party to take an anti-NATO stance and be the “voice of Russians in (Ukraine’s) East.”

Calling Manafort “a genius,” Shufrych said the party had paid him about $1 million, and the investment “paid off.”

Philip Griffin, a former associate of Manafort’s who consults in Kiev, said he could not imagine Manafort opposing NATO. “Paul Manafort is a Reagan Republican,” Griffin said. “He would never betray that legacy by doing Russia’s bidding.”

Maloni said Manafort argued strongly that “Ukraine was better served by having closer relations with the West and NATO.”

He also said Manafort succeeded in pushing “a number of major initiatives that were strongly supported by the U.S. government and opposed by Russia,” including the denuclearization of Ukraine and the expansion of NATO exercises in the region.

Despite Ukraine’s popular uprising against Yanukovych that led to at least 75 deaths, “Paul Manafort maintained ties to the Opposition Bloc party and Viktor Yanukovych’s former cronies, thus choosing to associate himself with crooks and kleptocrats rather than Ukraine’s pro-Western reformers,” said Mike Carpenter, who focused on Russia matters as a top Pentagon and National Security Council official during the Obama administration. “This speaks volumes about his character and lack of respect for democratic values.”

One of Shufrych’s and Oppo Bloc’s behind-the-scenes allies was Medvedchuk, who is so close to Putin that the Russian president is the godfather of his daughter. Details of Manafort’s contacts with Medvedchuk could not be learned. But Medvedchuk, who is under U.S. sanctions, has acknowledged meeting Manafort once in 2014.

March 19, 2014 – Russia’s economy was dealt a stinging blow in 2014 when President Barack Obama imposed sweeping sanctions to punish Russia for its aggression toward Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea.

April 2014 – Manafort traveled to Vienna. Ukrainian oligarch Firtash had been arrested there the prior month on U.S. charges that he helped orchestrate an $18.5 million bribery scheme involving the government of India, a U.S. firm and a Firtash company in the Virgin Islands. A former U.S. government official, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Manafort met with Firtash in Vienna, where he is awaiting extradition to the United States.

2015

January 2015 – Podobnyy along with Euguene Buryakov and Igor Sporyshev, were charged by a sealed complaint in the US District court for the Southern District of New York for violations of 18 USC 31 and 951 (conspiring to act, and acting as, an unregistered agent of a foreign government). According to the complaint, Buryakov worked in the United States as an agent of the SVR. Specifically, Buryakov operated under non-official cover, posing as an employee in the Manhattan office of a Russian bank. Buryakov worked with two other SVR agents, Podobnyy and Sporyshev, to gather intelligence on behalf of Russia. The complaint states that the intelligence gathering efforts of Podobnyy and Sporyshev included, among other things, attempting to recruit New York City residents as intelligence sources for Russia. Buryakov was arrested in or about January 2015. At the time of Buryakov’s arrest, Podobnyy and Sporyshev no longer lived in the United States and were not arrested.

June 2015 – Michael Flynn made a trip to Egypt and Israel to promote a Saudi Arabia nuclear reactor project. The proposed reactor project would be funded by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states and built and run by a consortium of U.S., Russian, French, Dutch, Arab, British, Ukrainian and Israeli firms. The project proposes to build 40 nuclear reactors across the Middle East that would feed a regional electric grid. The reactors would be “proliferation proof,” meaning they could not be used to produce fuel for nuclear weapons. Flynn would later fail to disclose this trip when making his application for Top Secret clearance, potentially a criminal violation with up to five years in prison.

June 16, 2015 – Trump formally announced his candidacy with a campaign rally and speech at Trump Tower in New York City. In his speech, Trump drew attention to domestic issues such as illegal immigration, offshoring of American jobs, the U.S. national debt, and Islamic terrorism. The campaign slogan was announced as “Make America Great Again”. Trump declared that he would self-fund his presidential campaign, and would refuse any money from donors and lobbyists (he ended up fundraising hundreds of millions of dollars, including through super PAC moneies he said he didn’t need and wouldn’t use).

June 16, 2015 – National Tea Party movement co-founder and leader Michael Johns endorsed Trump immediately following Trump’s June 2015 announcement of his candidacy and defended Trump throughout the contentious Republican primary.

July 15, 2016, Flynn spoke at a meeting of ACT! for America at a point when the 2016 Turkish coup d’état attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was still underway. He spoke favorably of the coup participants, saying that Erdogan had been moving Turkey away from secularism and towards Islamism and that participants in the coup wanted Turkey to be and to be seen as a secular nation — a goal “worth clapping for.”

August 3, 2015 – Sam Nunberg quits the Trump campaign.

August 8, 2015 – Following the Megyn Kelly incident, Roger Stone, Trump’s veteran political adviser, left the campaign, citing “controversies involving personalities and provocative media fights”.

October 13, 2015 – Michael Cohen was in touch with a Russia-born businessman who grew up in Brighton Beach and Coney Island neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Felix Sater, about the Trump Tower deal when Trump was a Republican presidential candidate. Sater first sent a letter of intent to Cohen outlining the terms of the “Trump World Tower Moscow” deal on October 13, 2015, The Times reported. Andrey Rozov, a Russian investor, had already signed it by the time Sater forwarded it to Cohen for Trump’s signature. The letter read: “Lets make this happen and build a Trump Moscow,” Sater wrote. “And possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce & business are much better and more practical than politics. That should be Putins message as well, and we will help him agree on that message. Help world peace and make a lot of money, I would say thats a great lifetime goal for us to go after.”

November 2015 – On several occasions in late 2015 and early 2016, Trump was accused of encouraging violence and escalating tension at campaign events. Prior to November he used to tell his rallies “Get ’em (protesters) out, but don’t hurt ’em.” But in November 2015, Trump said of a protester in Birmingham, Alabama, “Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”

November 3, 2015 – Email from Felix Sater to Michael Cohen in part reads: “Michael we can own this story. Donald doesn’t stare down, he negotiates and understands the economic issues and Putin only wants to deal with a pragmatic leader, and a successful business man is a good candidate for someone who knows how to negotiate. ‘Business, politics, whatever it all is the same for someone who knows how to deal.'”

December 8, 2015 – when Trump called for a ban on foreign Muslims entering the country, Ryan said “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly, it’s not what this country stands for.”

December 10, 2015 – Michael 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. Flynn was paid over $65,000 by companies connected to Russia in 2015, including $11,250 from both Volga-Dnepr Airlines and the U.S. subsidiary of Kaspersky Lab. As part of the festivities, Flynn gave a talk on world affairs for which he was paid at least $45,000, where he also sat at President Vladimir Putin’s table.

2016

January 2016 – Michael Cohen wrote to Mr. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, asking for help restarting the Trump Tower project, which had stalled. “Over the past few months I have been working with a company based in Russia regarding the development of a Trump Tower-Moscow project in Moscow City. Without getting into lengthy specifics, the communication between our two sides has stalled. As this project is too important, I am hereby requesting your assistance. I respectfully request someone, preferably you, contact me so that I might discuss the specifics as well as arranging meetings with the appropriate individuals. I thank you in advance for your assistance and look forward to hearing from you soon.” But Mr. Cohen did not appear to have Mr. Peskov’s direct email, and instead wrote to a general inbox for press inquiries. The Kremlin has confirmed they received the email, but indicated that they did not reply. The deal, which reportedly “would have given his company a $4 million upfront fee, no upfront costs, a percentage of the sales, and control over marketing and design,” fell through in early 2016.

February 1, 2016 – in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Trump told the crowd there might be tomato-throwing protesters, and urged his audience to “knock the crap out of ’em” if anyone should try. “I promise you, I will pay the legal fees”, he added.

February 2016 – Michael Flynn is asked to serve as an adviser to the Trump campaign and is being considered as a potential Vice President on the ticket.

February 23, 2016 – at a rally in Las Vegas, Trump reacted to a protester by saying “I love the old days—you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks”, adding “I’d like to punch him in the face.”

February 28, 2016 – In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Trump declined to disavow support from David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, claiming he didn’t know anything about the group. He later complained he didn’t hear the questions in the interview because of a “bad earpiece.”

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He later complained he didn’t hear the questions in the interview because of a “bad earpiece.”

Feb 29, 2016 – Senator Jeff Sessions was the first sitting U.S. senator to endorse Trump.

March 2016 – According to Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officials in July 2018, this is the time period when the Russian GRU units 26165 and 74455 engaged in cyber operations that involved the staged releases of documents stolen through computer intrustions. They hacked the email accounts of volunteers and employees of the Clinton campaign.

March 1, 2016 – Paul Ryan condemned Trump’s failure to repudiate the support of white supremacists. “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people’s prejudices,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said plainly, “Senate Republicans condemn David Duke, the KKK, and his racism. There has been a lot of talk in the last 24 hours about one of our presidential candidates and his seeming ambivalence about David Duke and the KKK, so let me make it perfectly clear,” he said. “That is not the view of Republicans who have been elected to the United States Senate, and I condemn his views in the most forceful way.”

March 9, 2016 – a Trump supporter was charged with assault after he sucker-punched a protester who was being led out of the event. When Trump was asked if he would pay the man’s legal fees, Trump said he was “looking into it”, although he “doesn’t condone violence in any shape”. The local sheriff’s office considered filing charges against Trump for “inciting a riot” at that event, but concluded there was not sufficient evidence to charge him.

March 11, 2016 – a week after Carson ended his presidential campaign, he endorsed Trump, calling him part of “the voice of the people to be heard.” Carson’s subsequent comments that Americans would only have to sustain Trump for four years if he was not a good president drew criticism and he admitted that he would have preferred another candidate though thought Trump had the best chance of winning the general election

March 6, 2016 – George Papadopoulos was recruited to join Trump’s foreign policy advisor team by Sam Clovis, who at the time was national co-chairman of Donald Trump’s campaign team. Clovis allegedly told Papadopoulos that one of the campaign’s foreign policy priorities was to improve U.S.-Russia relations, though Clovis later denied saying that.

March 14, 2016 – while traveling in Italy, George Papadopoulos met Joseph Mifsud, a London-based professor with connections to high-ranking Russian officials. Mifsud attended meetings of the Valdai Discussion Club regularly, an annual conference held in Sochi, Russia, attended by Vladimir Putin.

March 15, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, Yermakov ran a technical query for the DNC’s internet protocaol configurations to identify connected devices. He also searched for open-source information about the DNC network, the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton.

March 18, 2016 –  Paul Ryan strongly objected to Trump’s suggestion that there could be “riots” at the Republican convention if he is not the nominee

March 19, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU sent spearphishing emails to the person accounts of individuals associated with the Clinton campaign including the campaign manager and a senior foreign policy advisor.

March 21, 2016 – Donald Trump gives an interview with the editorial board of The Washington Post. In that interview, he identified George Papadopoulos as one of his campaign’s foreign policy advisors, saying “He’s an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy”. He also announced Carter Page as a foreign policy adviser. He said “Walid Phares, who you probably know, PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives caucus, and counter-terrorism expert; Carter Page, PhD; George Papadopoulos, he’s an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy; the Honorable Joe Schmitz, [former] inspector general at the Department of Defense; [retired] Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; and I have quite a few more. But that’s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do, but that’s a representative group.”

March 21, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU stole the contents of the Clinton campaign chairman’s email account which consisted of over 50,000 emails.

March 22, 2016 – Hillary Clinton presidential campaign staffer William Rinehart is phished by an IP address from the Ukraine and they succeed in getting his gmail account and password.

March 24, 2016. George Papadopoulos met with Mifsud in London, who brought along with him a Russian woman, Olga Polonskaya, whom he falsely identified as Putin’s niece.

March 25, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date Lukashev used the john356gh account to mask additional links included in spearphishing emails sent to numerous individuals affiliated with the Clinton campaign using the account hi.mymail@yandex.com that he spoofed to make it look like it came from Google.

March 28, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date Yermakov researched the names of Victims 1 and Victims 2 and their association with Clinton on various social media sites. Through their spearphishing operations, they successfully stole email credentials and thousands of emails from numerous individuals affiliated with the Clinton campaign. Many of these were later released on DCLeaks.

April 2016 – According to Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officials in July 2018, this is the time period when the Russians hacked the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). They covertly monitored the computers of dozens of DCCC and DNC employees, implanted hundreds of files containing malicious computer code (malware) and stole emails and other docs. They began to plan the release of the stolen materials.

During this time, According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, between now and June, the GRU installed multiple versions of their X-Agent malware on at least ten DCCC computers which allowed them to monitor individual employees’ computer activity, steal passwords and maintain access to the DCCC network. The malware transmitted information from the victims’ computers to a GRU-leased server in Arizona, what they referred to as their “AMS” panel which they logged into to get screenshots and keylogs provided by X-Agent.

April 6, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, the GRU created an email account in the name (with one letter off of the actual spelling) of a known member of the Clinton campaign. They then used that account to send spearphishing emails to the work accounts of more than thirty different Clinton campaign employees. They embedded a link directing to a document titled “hillary-clinton-favorable-rating.xlsx” which was in fact a link to a GRU-created website. Also on this date, one of the DCCC employees recieved a spearphishing email and entered her password into the link.

April 7, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, Yermakov ran a technical query for the DCCC’s internet protocol configurations to identify connected devices.

April 12, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, the GRU used the stolen credentials of a DCCC employee to access the DCCC network.

April 13, 2016 – Megyn Kelly met with Trump at Trump Tower at her request to “clear the air”. Following the meeting, Trump stated that Kelly was “very, very nice” and regarding the meeting: “Maybe it was time… By the way, in all fairness, I give her a lot of credit” for requesting it.

April 14, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU rpeeatedly activated X-Agent’s keylog and screenshot funtion to surveil a DCCC employee’s computer activity over an 8-hour period. During that time, they captured her communications with co-workers and passwords for fundraising and voter outreach projects.

April 15, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU searched one hacked DCCC computer for terms that included “hillary” “cruz” and “trump.” They also copied select DCCC folders including “Benghazi Investigations.” They targeted computers which had opposition research and field operations plans for the 2016 elections.

April 18, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU hacked into the DNC’s computers using stolen credentials of someone from the DCCC who had access to the DNC computers. They then installed and directed malware to explore the network and steal documents. They were able to then access thousands of keylog and screenshot results form the DCCC and DNC computers, including such things as a DCCC employee viewing the DCCC’s online banking information.

April 19, 2016 – The domain name DCleaks.com was registered on the THCservers.com founded by Catalin Floricain on a former chicken farm near Craiova, Romania (the registration as anonymized by the service). According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, the funds used to pay for DCleaks.com originated from the same account at an online cryptocurrency service that the GRU had used to lease a virtual private server and to register the john356gh account used by Lukashev to spearphish the Clinton campaign staff. The GRU also remotely configured an overseas computer to relay communications between X-Agent malware and the AMS panel and then tested X-Agent’s ability to connect to this new computer, dubbed the “middle server.” This acted as a proxy to obscure the connection between the malware and the GRU’s AMS panel.

April 20, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU directed the X-Agent malware on the DCCC computers to connect to the middle server and receive directions from them.

April 22, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date, the GRU captured the discussions of another DCCC employee about the DCCC’s finances as well as her individual banking information and other personal topics. They also compressed GBs of data from DNC computers including opposition research. They later moved this compressed data using X-Tunnel to a GRU-leased computer in Illinois.

April 26, 2016 – at a London hotel, Joseph Mifsud told George Papadopoulos that he had just learned from high-level Russian officials in Moscow that the Russians had “dirt” on Mrs. Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” This occurred before there was public knowledge of the hack of Democratic National Committee and of John Podesta’s emails, both of which U.S. intelligence agencies believe were carried out by Russia.

April 28, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU connected to and tested the Illinois computer they were leasing and used X-Tunnel to connect to it and get more docs.

May 2016, Papadopoulos told the top Australian diplomat to the United Kingdom, Alexander Downer, that Russia had “political dirt” on Hillary Clinton, leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Donald Trump presidential campaign. The Australian Ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey, personally steered Australia’s dealings with the FBI on explosive revelations of Russian hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign in a sign of how politically sensitive the Australian government regarded the bombshell discovery. ****** THIS ALERT BY AUSTRALIA IS WHAT SET OFF THE FBI INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN ******

The professor introduced Papadopoulos to a Russian who said he was close to officials at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That contact, identified by the Washington Post as Ivan Timofeev of the Russian International Affairs Council, then spoke with Papadopoulos over Skype about laying the groundwork for a meeting between the campaign and officials in Moscow, prosecutors said.

The Russian woman — whom Papadopoulos mistakenly described in an email as the niece of Russian President Vladimir Putin — also tried to arrange a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, the documents say.

May 2016 – Buryakov was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to conpsiring to act in the United States as an agent of Russia, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General. He was one of three Russians working to create Russian intelligence assets and who had been in touch with Carter Page, briefly a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign.

May 3, 2016 – Trump became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party after his victory in Indiana and the withdrawal of the last competitors, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, from the race.

May 4, 2016 – Mitch McConnel says he’s committed to supporting Trump’s candidacy

May 4, 2016 – after Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination, he hinted that Carson would be among those who would vet his vice-presidential pick. The same day, Carson in an interview expressed interest in Ted Cruz serving as Attorney General of the United States, a position that Carson said would allow Cruz to prosecute Hillary Clinton, and then as a Supreme Court Justice nominee from the Trump administration.

May 5, 2016 – Paul Ryan announced that he was “not ready” to endorse Trump for the presidency.

May 9, 2016 – Trump named New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head a team to plan the transition of the presidency in the event of a Trump victory.

Between March and September 2016, George Papadopoulos made at least six requests for Trump or representatives of his campaign to meet in Russia with Russian politicians. In May, campaign chairman Paul Manafort forwarded one such request to his deputy Rick Gates, saying “We need someone to communicate that [Trump] is not doing these trips. It should be someone low-level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.” Gates delegated the task to the campaign’s correspondence coordinator, referring to him as “the person responding to all mail of non-importance.” The recipients of emails about outreach to the Russian government reportedly were Clovis, Corey Lewandowski, Manafort, Gates, representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ivan Timofeev, and others.

May 13, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU covered their tracks by clearing the event logs from a DNC computer.

May 25, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, between now and June 1, the GRU hacked the DNC Microsoft Exchange Server and stole thousands of emails from the work accounts of DNC employees. Yermakov researched PowerShell commands related to accessing and managing the Microsoft Exchange Server.

May 26, 2016 – Trump secured his 1,238th delegate, achieving a majority of the available delegates.

May 30, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date Malyshev accessed the AMS panel in order to upgrade the software. That day, the AMS panel received updates from 13 different X-Agent malware implants on DNC and DCCC computers.

May 31, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, the DNC and DCCC became aware they had been hacked and hired a private security company (CrowdStrike) to identify the extent of the instrusions. On this date, Yermakov searched for open-source information about CrowdStrike and its reporting on X-Agent and X-Tunnel.

June 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, by June the GRU had access to apporximately 33 DNC computers.

This month is also when Jared Kushner, charged with overseeing Trump’s digital operations, hired Cambridge Analytica. Kushner hired a man named Brad Parscale, a Texas-based digital expert who had worked previously for team Trump. According to Confessore and Hakim, Cambridge Analytica convinced Parscale to “try out the firm.” The decision was reinforced by Trump’s campaign manager, Steve Bannon, who is also a former vice president of Cambridge Analytica.

June 1, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU attempted to delete traces of their presence on the DCCC and DNC networks using CCleaner.

June 2, 2016 – Paul Ryan announced that he would vote for Trump.

June 3, 2016 – Donald Trump Jr. received an email from Rob Goldstone, a British publicist who does work in Russia. Goldstone wrote that he was writing at the behest of Aras and Emin Agalarov, a father-son pair of real estate developers who do business with Russia and had worked with the Trumps on the 2013 Miss Universe pageant. (Emin is also a Russian pop star.) In the email, Goldstone said that a Russian prosecutor had met with Aras and “offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.” Crucially, he made clear that the information would be “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump — helped along by Aras and Emin.”

– Trump Jr. responded enthusiastically — “if it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”

– Goldstone then helped set up a phone call between Trump Jr. and Emin Agalarov, and later arranged a meeting between Trump Jr. and someone he calls “The Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow.” The president’s son invited Jared Kushner and then-campaign chair Paul Manafort to attend the meeting, and forwarded the email chain (with the subject line “Russia – Clinton – private and confidential”) to them both.

Full email chain available here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/11/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-email-text.html

Note that Goldstone said in his initial email that “The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.” [note that this line alone wholly invalidates Don Jr’s attempt to say that this was just “Political Opposition Research” in his statement next year when he released these emails]. Per a July 2017 Atlantic article, in the United Kingdom a Crown prosecutor is one that works for the Crown, i.e., a federal prosecutor. There’s no such position in Russia technically, but the analogue would be the top federal prosecutor of Russia, and that is Yury Chaika, the prosecutor-general of the Russian Federation. (It’s also possible Goldstone meant to refer to Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the feared Investigative Committee and Vladimir Putin’s law school classmate. But Chaika is the most likely candidate given that he’s close to Agalarov and is currently a prosecutor.) Goldstone was likely translating a foreign title into its local equivalent. Translated into American titles, Chaika could be referred to as Russia’s attorney general.

Chaika’s past is detailed in the Atlantic story and it’s very shady and corrupt.

June 7, 2016 – When Trump said the judge hearing a lawsuit against him was biased because he was of Mexican extraction, Paul Ryan said Trump’s remarks were “absolutely unacceptable” and “the textbook definition of a racist comment”

June 8, 2016 – the DC Leaks Twitter and Facebook accounts debuted, the day that the site itself appears to have launched. Between this day it launched and the time it was shutdown in March 2017, it received over a million page views. The site claimed it was started by a group of “American hacktivists” but that was false. The Facebook account was setup by “Alice Donovan.” Other false FB accounts were used to promote the site, such as “Jason Scott” and “Richard Gingrey.”

The Twitter account (@dcleaks_) was operated on the same computer used for other efforts to interfere with the presidential election, such as operating another Twitter account called @BaltimoreIsWhr though which they encouraged US audiences to “join our flash mob” opposing Clinton and to post images with the hashtag #BlacksAgainstHillary.

While nobody else had heard of DCleaks, “Guccifer 2.0” had somehow not only discovered the site, but had privileges that allowed him to provide TSG with access to a password-protected section of the site. DCleaks’ registration and hosting information aligns with practices of the hacking group blamed for the DNC and DCCC intrusions. Researchers say the group, which they dub “Fancy Bear,” has longstanding ties to Russia’s military intelligence agency, known as the GRU. The site also includes leaked emails from people whose accounts were breached using digital schemes that were “almost by-the-book, a known Fancy Bear attack pattern,” Gidwani said. On its “About” page, DCleaks describes itself as a “new level project” committed to exposing “Wall Street fat cats, industrial barons and multinational corporations’ representatives who swallow up all resources and subjugate all markets.” At launch, the site’s sparse offerings included documents hacked from George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and e-mails stolen from the Gmail account of Philip Breedlove, a recently retired U.S. General who served as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander.

The DCleaks site was used to release emails stolen from individuals affiliated with the Clinton campaign as well as other docs they had stolen in their spearphishing operations going back to 2015 and individuals affiliated with the Republican Party.

June 9, 2016 – The meeting between the trio of Trump advisers and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian-American former spy Rinat Akhmetshin, Russian-American businessman Irakly Kaveladze, and Goldstone took place at Trump Tower, just one level below the office of Donald Trump. All this — eventually disclosed in a series of New York Times reports and confirmed by Trump Jr.’s own email release — makes it quite clear that the president’s son was ready and willing to work with the Russian government to take down Hillary Clinton. And it’s hard to read these emails and not conclude that the top echelons of the Trump campaign were well aware of the Russian government’s support for Trump and willing to collaborate in the effort. However, we don’t yet know if this meeting actually led to any kind of cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia. And the parties involved — at least the ones who are commenting — are all denying that it did. Trump Jr. has stated that in the meeting, Veselnitskaya proved to have no useful information and quickly changed the subject to discuss other topics she had been lobbying on for years. He’s also said there was no follow-up afterward. So far, no evidence has yet emerged to contradict him. However, we also need to keep in mind that not once during this entire investigation has anyone volunteered incriminating information or confessed to what they actually did until they were backed into a corner and made to do so under penalty of jail time.

June 14, 2016 – The DNC announced via CrowdStrike that it had been hacked by Russian government actors.

June 14, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU registered the domain actblues.com, which mimicked the domain of a political fundraising platform that included a DCCC donations page. Shortly after, they used stolen DCCC credentials to modify the DCCC website to redirect visitors to the actblues.com domain.

June 15, 2016 – “Guccifer 2.0” makes his first appearance, through a blog site created on WordPress. Titled “DNC’s servers hacked by a lone hacker” the post used numerous English words and phrases the GRU had searched earlier that day such as “worldwide known” “think twice about” “company’s competence” “dcleaks” “illuminati” and “some hundreds of sheets.” He wrote:

“Worldwide known cyber security company CrowdStrike announced that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) servers had been hacked by “sophisticated” hacker groups.

“I’m very pleased the company appreciated my skills so highly))) But in fact, it was easy, very easy.

“Guccifer may have been the first one who penetrated Hillary Clinton’s and other Democrats’ mail servers.

But he certainly wasn’t the last. No wonder any other hacker could easily get access to the DNC’s servers.

“Shame on CrowdStrike: Do you think I’ve been in the DNC’s networks for almost a year and saved only 2 documents? Do you really believe it?

“Here are just a few docs from many thousands I extracted when hacking into DNC’s network.”

[bits and pieces of hacked files and spreadsheets show this person has the DNC data]

“The main part of the papers, thousands of files and mails, I gave to Wikileaks. They will publish them soon.

“I guess CrowdStrike customers should think twice about company’s competence.

“Fuck the Illuminati and their conspiracies!!!!!!!!! Fuck CrowdStrike!!!!!!!!!”

June 18, 2016 – Guccifer’s second WordPress post contains more leaked info.

“Here I upload a new part of docs from the DNC network.

“As Debbie Schultz from DNC said no financial information or secret documents were stolen.

“It appears there are a lot of financial reports, donors lists and their detailed personal information including e-mail addresses and private cell phone numbers.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Who still doubts I extracted more than 2 files?

“I got tons of files and docs!!!

[sample shots of DNC donors and financial reports with names, addresses, emails and phone numbers and links to many more leaked documents]

“Hope you’ll appreciate it. Wait for another part! You won’t regret.

“Together we’ll be able to throw off the political elite, the rich clans that exploit the world!

“Fuck the lies and conspirators like DNC!!!”

June 20, 2016 – Trump fired his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, reportedly in response to lagging fundraising and campaign infrastructure (as well as power struggles within the campaign, according to multiple GOP sources). Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, who was brought in during the primary to prepare for a contested convention, assumed the role of chief strategist.

June 20, 2016 – According to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, on this date the GRU deleted logs from the AMS panel that documented their activities on the panel including the login history. The DNC computer security company had disabled X-Agent on the DCCC network and the GRU spent 7 hours trying unsuccessfully to reconnect to X-Agent. They also tried to access the DCCC network using previously stolen credentials.

Also on this date, Guccifer 2.0 posts his third WordPress post.

“I’d like to announce the next piece of docs from DNC.

“I found something like a dossier on Hillary Clinton on the its server. It’s a heavy folder of docs that will attract your attention. You’ll like it.

“Expect it. I’ll publish them on June 21 at 10 a.m (ET).”

June 22, 2016 – Guccifer 2.0 posts his fourth WordPress post announcing he’s available on Twitter and will answer questions by DM but won’t give out his personal information.

“Hi all!

“I see many people wanna know a little more about me and ask a lot of questions.

“And I’m ready to tell you what you’re interested in if it doesn’t threaten my safety.

“Unfortunately I can’t give personal answers to everybody.

“That’s why I’d like journalists to send me their questions via Twitter Direct Messages.

“I’ll post the most popular questions and my answers in this blog so that everybody can read them in original and doesn’t distort my words as some journalists try to do.

“So I’m eager to see your questions and will be glad to give my responses.

“My Twitter account @GUCCIFER_2”

Also on this date, according to the Mueller indictment of 12 GRU officers, “Organization 1” (thought to be WikiLeaks) sent a private message to Guccifer 2.0 to “send any new material [stolen from the DNC] here for us to review and it will have a much higher impact than what you are doing.”

June 27, 2016 – Though “Guccifer 2.0” regularly provided documents swiped during the DNC breach, he wrote from an AOL France account on June 27 offering “exclusive access to some leaked emails” from Clinton’s staff. In a follow-up message, the vandal — whose e-mail account carries the name “Stephan Orphan” — offered a collection of material that was “part of the big archive that includes Hillary Clinton’s staff correspondence.” But instead of attaching the documents to an e-mail or providing a download link to a file sharing site (as he had previously done), “Guccifer 2.0” told TSG that the material would be available through DCleaks, a web site he described as a “sub project” of Wikileaks. In fact, DCleaks has no connection at all with Wikileaks or Julian Assange. “Guccifer 2.0” wrote that he had “asked the DCleaks” to “release a part” of the staff correspondence, but “with a closed access.” After offering to provide TSG a password with which to access the material on DCleaks, “Guccifer 2.0” claimed that DCleaks “asked me not to make any announcements yet.” He added, “So I ask you not to make links to my blog. Ok?” After TSG accepted his offer, “Guccifer 2.0” e-mailed a password that provided access to the e-mails and documents stolen from Sarah Hamilton’s Gmail account three months earlier. “Let me know your opinion. to be continued…” he wrote.

June 28, 2016 – Director Peter Navarro addresses President Donald Trump’s promises to American people, workers, and domestic manufacturers (Declaring American Economic Independence) in the Oval Office with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Jared Kushner found a White House economic advisor by browsing Amazon. Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was asked by Trump to do research on China, and turned to Amazon, the report said. There, he found a book co-written by Peter Navarro and was struck by its title, “Death by China.” Kushner then cold-called Navarro and invited him to be an adviser to the Trump campaign, according to the report. Navarro now directs the White House National Trade Council and serves as the Assistant to the President.

June 29, 2016 – the Trump campaign announced hiring Jason Miller as senior communications adviser. Bloomberg Politics described it as an attempt to “professionalize” the Trump communications operation. After the announcement, some reporters noted the many anti-Trump Tweets Miller had sent prior to the end of Cruz’s campaign. After the election, Miller was part of the Trump transition team, serving as its chief spokesman from November 2016 to January 2017. On December 22, he was announced as the President’s choice for White House Communications Director. However, two days later, Miller declined the offer, stating: “After spending this past week with my family, the most amount of time I have been able to spend with them since March 2015, it is clear they need to be my top priority right now and this is not the right time to start a new job as demanding as White House communications director. My wife and I are also excited about the arrival of our second daughter in January, and I need to put them in front of my career… I look forward to continuing to support the President-elect from the outside after my work on the transition concludes.” His decision came after allegations of personal involvement with Trump campaign staffer A. J. Delgado, and an earlier report of his visiting a strip club with other staffers and several members of the press before a presidential debate. As a result of the personal relationship with Delgado, Miller became the father to a baby boy in July 2017.

June 29, 2016 – “Guccifer 2.0” wrote to The Smoking Gun seeking a correction. “It seems people think it was me who hacked Hamilton,” he stated. “That’s not correct. I just sent you a link. I don’t claim it’s my work! I don’t need another person’s glory.”

June 30, 2016 – Guccifer 2.0 posts his fifth WordPress post “FAQ from Guccifer 2.0” which includes more leaked docs about Hillary from her campaign. He claims to be a man born in Eastern Europe and he moves around a lot because he has to hide. He attempts to make it seem that CrowdStrike and the DNC are incompetent boobs and would “say I’m a Russian bear even if I were a catholic nun in fact.” He sows more seeds of doubt about being a Russian with generalized statements about hackers and his altruistic purposes for leaking this info, giving shoutouts to Snowden, Assange, Manning and others. He also gives technical info on how the hack was carried out and leaves critical comments about Hillary (a lot) and Trump (who he says is wrong about closed borders but at least Trump earned his own money).

June 30, 2016 – Kevin Kellems, a veteran GOP strategist and former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, abruptly resigned from the Trump staff Thursday, less than two weeks after he was hired to help oversee the campaign’s surrogate operations. Erica Freeman, another aide working with surrogates, also quit. “While brief, it has been an interesting experience, and I am proud of the contributions made to our early-phase project endeavors,” Kellems wrote in a goodbye note to colleagues.

July 2016 – weeks after he was named Trump’s campaign chairman, Manafort crafted an unusual, eyebrow-raising proposal for Deripaska, a member of Putin’s inner circle. In emails first reported by the Washington Post, Manafort offered in seemingly coded language to provide “private briefings” on the U.S. presidential race for the Russian aluminum magnate. Manafort directed a trusted associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, to relay his message to Deripaska, remarking that it could be a way to make himself “whole” — possibly an allusion to a multimillion-dollar legal action Deripaska had filed against Manafort. Kilimnik, a Ukrainian citizen, once attended a Russian military academy known for training spies.

Also in July, according to a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page (a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign), “Page traveled to Russia and delivered the commencement address at the New Economic School. In addition to giving this address, the FBI has learned that Page met with at least two Russian officials during this trip. First according to information provided by an FBI confidential human source (Source #1) _____ reported that Page had a _____. Source #1 _______ and has been an FBI source since ____. Source #1’s reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings and the FBI assess Source #1 to be reliable. Source #1 has been compensated _____ by the FBI and the FBI is unaware of any derogatory information pertaining to Source #1.

Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft. At their meeting, Sechin raised the issue of lifting of sanctions with Page.

Page also met secretly with Igor Nikolayevich Divyekin (a former Russian security official who now serves as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by US officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agenices about the US election) and that their agenda for the meeting included Divyekin raising a dossier or “kompromat” that the Kremlin possessed on Clinton and the possibility of it being released to Trump’s campaign.

July 1, 2016, Trump announced he hired Kellyanne Conway, a veteran GOP strategist and canvasser, for a senior advisory position. Conway, who formerly backed Cruz, was expected to advise Trump on how to better appeal to female voters. Conway had headed a pro–Cruz super PAC funded by hedge-fund tycoon Robert Mercer. After Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, the PAC morphed into the “Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC”. When the Trump campaign hired Conway, it referred to her as “widely regarded as an expert on female consumers and voters.” Conway became the first woman to run a Republican general election presidential campaign.

July 4, 2016 – The Smoking Gun’s contact with “Guccifer 2.0” ended on July 4, when he e-mailed two DNC documents along with the greeting “happy independence day!”

July 6, 2016 – Guccifer 2.0 posts his sixth WordPress article “Trumpocalypse and Other DNC Plans for July.”

“I have a new bunch of docs from the DNC server for you.

“It includes the DNC action plan during the Republican National Convention, Surrogate Report, POTUS briefing, financial reports, etc.

“This pack was announced two days ago but I had to keep you waiting for some security reasons. I suffered two attacks on my wp account.

“You might be aware of the rumors about Marcel Lazar aka Guccifer. Those are a.c. fake stories, but who knows.

Please keep me updated if there is any news.

[more leaked DNC docs and spreadsheets]

Also on this date, according to the Muller indictment of 12 GRU officers, “Organization 1” (WikiLeaks) messaged Guccifer 2.0 and said “if you have anything hillary related we want it in the next tweo [sic] days prefable [sic] because DNC [Democratic National Convention] is approaching and she will solidify bernie supporters behind her after.” The response from Guccifer 2.0 was “ok…i see.” Organization 1 explained “we think trump has only a 25% chance of winning against hillary…so conflict between bernie and hillary is interesting.”

July 14, 2016 – Guccifer 2.0 posts his seventh WordPress article “New DNC Docs”

“You m