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This is a timeline of major events in the first half of 2017 related to the investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and spies that are suspected of being inappropriate, relating to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Following the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections before and after July 2016 up until election day November 8 and the post-election transition, this article begins with Donald Trump and Mike Pence being sworn into office on January 20, 2017, and is followed by the second half of 2017. The investigations continued in the first and second halves of 2018, the first and second halves of 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Relevant individuals and organizations
This is a list of individuals and organizations that have been involved in the events related to either the election interference that Russia conducted against the 2016 U.S. elections and/or the resulting investigations into suspected inappropriate links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials. Seth Abramson estimated more than 400 people could be listed here.[1]: 3
A–E
- Aras Agalarov, Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire oligarch and President of the Crocus Group , close to both Trump and Vladimir Putin
- Emin Agalarov, Russian pop singer, and son of Aras
- Zainab Ahmad, associate of Robert Mueller
- Rinat Akhmetshin, Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer[2] who emigrated to the U.S. in 1994[3]
- Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates
- Justin Amash, U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district, first Republican to call for Donald Trump's impeachment, became an Independent July 4, 2019
- Greg Andres, associate of Robert Mueller
- Tevfik Arif, Soviet-born Turkish real estate developer and investor, founder of the Bayrock Group
- Andrii Artemenko, Ukrainian member of parliament
- Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks
- Arron Banks, primary funder and co-founder of Leave.EU campaign
- Stephen K. Bannon, Breitbart News chairman (2012–2016), Trump campaign CEO (August–November 2016), and White House Chief Strategist (January–August 2017)
- William Barr, United States Attorney General (1991–1993, February 2019 – December 2020), head of the United States Department of Justice (DoJ)
- Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (2021–present); Vice President of the United States (2009–2017)
- James E. Boasberg, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- John R. Bolton, National Security Advisor (April 2018 – September 2019)
- John O. Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (2013–2017)
- Richard Burr, North Carolina Senator (R), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
- Maria Butina, founder of "Right to Bear Arms " and associate of Alexander Torshin
- Steve Calk, banker who helped Paul Manafort and Rick Gates steal and launder money
- Cambridge Analytica, a now defunct political consulting, data mining, and analysis firm that worked for Trump's campaign; its parent company was SCL Group
- Christian Cantor, Israeli diplomat in London
- Michael Caputo, former chief of communications in New York for the Trump Campaign, contracted to perform public relations work for Putin in 2000[4]
- James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) (2010–2017)
- Kevin Clinesmith, FBI lawyer
- Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Secretary of State (2009–2013), First Lady of the United States (1993–2001)
- Sam Clovis, former co-chairman and policy adviser for the Trump campaign
- Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence (since March 2017)
- Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney (2006–2018)
- Columbus Nova, the American investment arm of Viktor Vekselberg's business empire
- James B. Comey, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2013–2017)
- Concord Management and Consulting, accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election
- Rafael Correa, former Ecuadorian president
- Jerome Corsi, American political commentator and associate of Roger Stone
- Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel
- Randy Credico, American perennial political candidate
- Rick Dearborn, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (January 20, 2017 – March 16, 2018) and executive director of Trump's presidential transition team
- Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch, aluminum magnate with close ties to Putin
- Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund
- Annie Donaldson, former Deputy White House Counsel
- Alexander Downer, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
- Michael Dreeben, associate of Robert Mueller
- Eric A. Dubelier, former Federal prosecutor and attorney for Concord Management and Consulting
- Yuri Dubinin, Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States (1986–1990)
- Electronic Privacy Information Center, DC-based non-profit that filed FOIA lawsuit for release of complete Mueller Report
- T. S. Ellis III, a United States district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia presiding over Paul Manafort's trial in Virginia. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and took senior status in 2007.
- Paul Erickson, Republican activist involved in several Republican presidential campaigns and romantic partner of Maria Butina
F–M
- Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP (2006–2009, 2010–2016), leader of The Brexit Party (since its founding in 2018) and a Member of the European Parliament (since 1999)
- Dianne Feinstein, California Senator (D), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee (chairwoman, 2009–2015) and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
- Michael T. Flynn, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014), National Security Advisor (January–February 2017)
- Dabney L. Friedrich, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Rick Gates, deputy to Manafort during the Trump campaign
- Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City (1994–2001), and personal attorney for President Trump (since April 2018)
- John Gleeson, District Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1994 – March 2016), advisor to Emmet G. Sullivan
- Andrew D. Goldstein, associate of Robert Mueller
- Rob Goldstone, British publicist of Russian singer Emin Agalarov
- J. D. Gordon, Trump transition team member, and Director of National Security for the Trump campaign (since March 2016)
- Chuck Grassley, Iowa Senator (R), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2015–2019), and President pro tempore of the United States Senate (since 2019)
- Guccifer 2.0, a hacker alias used by the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
- Stefan Halper, FBI informant
- Alvin K. Hellerstein, District Judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Hope Hicks, press secretary for the Trump campaign and White House Communications Director (August 2017 – February 2018)
- Beryl A. Howell, Chief United States district judge for the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian entity charged with coordinating online propaganda efforts, finances managed by Khusyaynova, funded by Prigozhin
- Andrew Intrater, Columbus Nova CEO, cousin of Viktor Vekselberg
- Frederick Intrater, brother of Columbus Nova CEO Andrew Intrater, cousin of Viktor Vekselberg
- Anton Inyutsyn, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy
- Amy Berman Jackson, U.S. District Court Judge in the District of Columbia overseeing one of Mueller's cases against Paul Manafort
- Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (since July 2019)
- Jones Day, law firm that worked for the Trump campaign
- Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, Georgian-American senior vice president at the Crocus Group
- Bijan Kian, also known as Bijan Rafiekian, business partner of Michael Flynn and part of the Trump transition
- Konstantin V. Kilimnik, Paul Manafort's right-hand man in Kyiv, Ukraine, alleged Russian intelligence operative[5]
- Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to the United States (2008–2017)
- Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, Russian accountant who managed social media troll operation finances (including the IRA) which interfere in 2016 elections and 2018 midterm elections, called "Project Lakhta"
- Simon Kukes, Russian-American businessman and associate of Vekselberg, German Khan, Len Blavatnik, Mikhail Fridman, and Vyacheslav Pavlovsky with ties to Russian businesses and the Russian government
- Jared Kushner, real estate investor, son-in-law and Senior Advisor to President Trump
- Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia
- Richard J. Leon, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Corey Lewandowski, former manager of Trump's primary election campaign (until June 2016)
- Jessie K. Liu, attorney involved in the Roger Stone case
- Paul Manafort, political consultant and former lobbyist for Viktor Yanukovych, campaign manager and chairman of the Trump campaign (June–August 2016), and Trump convention manager (March 2016)
- Simona Mangiante, Italian lawyer and wife of George Papadopoulos (since March 2018)[6]
- Andrew McCabe, Deputy (February 2016 – January 2018) and Acting Director of the FBI (May–August 2017)
- Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Senator (R) and Senate Majority Leader
- Kayleigh McEnany, White House Press Secretary (since April 2020)
- K. T. McFarland, political commentator and served as Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn for the first four months of the Trump administration
- Donald McGahn, White House Counsel to President Trump (January 2017 – October 2018)
- Amit Mehta, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Joseph Mifsud, Maltese academic and former diplomat for the Maltese government connected with Russian politicians and George Papadopoulos
- Andrew Miller, Roger Stone's associate
- Andrey Molchanov, member of the Federation Council of Russia (since 2008)
- Robert S. Mueller III, 6th FBI Director (2001–2013), appointed special counsel for the Russian interference investigation
N–R
- George Nader, businessman and lobbyist who acted as the Trump campaign's liaison to the United Arab Emirates
- Jerrold Nadler, Congressman (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (since January 2019)
- Paul M. Nakasone, Commander of United States Cyber Command (since May 2018)
- National Rifle Association of America, commonly known as the NRA
- Richard Neal, Congressman (D-MA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (since January 2019)
- Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security (December 2017 – April 2019)
- Alexander Nix, former CEO of Cambridge Analytica
- Sam Nunberg, former political advisor to Trump campaign
- Devin Nunes, Congressman (R-CA), ranking member (since 2019) and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (2015–18)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
- Bruce Ohr, director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (2014–2017) and associate deputy attorney general (2017)
- Carter Page, oil industry consultant, former Trump campaign advisor on foreign policy
- Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006–2009)
- George Papadopoulos, former advisor to the Trump campaign on foreign policy
- Sean Parnell, Governor of Alaska (2009–2014); Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (2006–2009)
- W. Samuel Patten, lobbyist and associate of Paul Manafort, senior consultant for SCL Group
- Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (since January 2017)
- Dmitry Peskov, Putin's Press Secretary, and diplomat
- Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State (since April 2018); CIA director (January 2017 – March 2018)
- Reince Priebus, Trump's first White House Chief of Staff, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch who funded the IRA and owns "Concord Management and Consulting" and "Concord Catering", called "Putin's chef"
- Erik Prince, chairman of Frontier Services Group, brother of Trump Administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and founder of private military company Academi (formerly known as "Blackwater")
- Vladimir Putin, 2nd and 4th President of Russia
- James L. Quarles, associate of Robert Mueller
- Edgardo Ramos, District Judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
- John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence (May 2020–present), Congressman (R-TX) (2015 – May 2020)
- Michele Reagan, Arizona Secretary of State (January 2015 – January 2019)
- Jeannie Rhee, associate of Robert Mueller
- Susan Rice, National Security Advisor (2013–2017)
- Michael S. Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) (2014–2018)
- Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (2011–2018)
- Dana Rohrabacher, Congressman (R-CA) (1989–2019)
- Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, acting Attorney General for Russia–Trump investigations
- Wilbur Ross, 39th United States Secretary of Commerce (since February 2017)
- Marco Rubio, member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican candidate for president in 2016
- Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2015–2018)
S–Z
- Bernie Sanders, 2016 Democratic primary presidential candidate, Vermont Senator (I) (since 2007)
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary (July 2017 – June 2019)
- Felix Sater, Russian-American former mobster, real estate developer, and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC
- Adam B. Schiff, Congressman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (since 2019), and ranking member (2015–2018)
- Keith Schiller, former Deputy Assistant and concurrent Director of Oval Office Operations, and longtime personal body guard to Trump
- Karen Schreier, District Judge of the District Court for the District of South Dakota
- SCL Group, parent company of Cambridge Analytica
- Jay Sekulow, chief counsel at the American Center for Law & Justice, former personal attorney of Donald Trump
- Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General (February 2017 – November 2018), Alabama Senator (R) (1997–2017), member of the Center for the National Interest's advisory council (2016)[7]
- Cody Shearer, political activist and former journalist, author of the "Shearer memo/dossier" that Steele passed on to the FBI
- Brad Sherman, Congressman (D-CA) (since 1997)
- Dimitri Simes, publisher of The National Interest and CEO of think tank Center for the National Interest (CNI)
- Glenn R. Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, who hired Steele to compile damaging information on Trump and Russia
- Skadden, New York City-based international law firm
- Peter W. Smith, Republican operative and Illinois financier who had ties to Michael Flynn as early as 2015
- Gordon Sondland, United States Ambassador to the European Union (since June 2018)
- Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary (January–July 2017) and White House Director of Communications (June–July 2017)
- Christopher Steele, former British MI6 intelligence officer, author of dossier on Trump and Russia
- Jill Stein, Green Party nominee in the 2016 United States presidential election
- Roger Stone, political consultant, staffer to President Richard Nixon (1972–1974), business partner of Manafort (1980s)
- Peter Strzok, FBI agent removed from the investigation in August 2017
- Emmet G. Sullivan, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Rex Tillerson, 69th United States Secretary of State (February 2017 – March 2018), and CEO of ExxonMobil (2006–2017)
- Ivan Timofeev, program director of the Kremlin-sponsored Valdai Discussion Club
- Erika Thompson, Australian diplomat in London
- Alexander Torshin, Russian Senator from Mari El Republic (2001–2015) and Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (2015–2018)
- Anthony Trenga, District Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States (2017–2021), real estate developer (1971–2016)
- Donald Trump Jr., executive director of The Trump Organization, son of Donald Trump
- Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, son of Donald Trump
- Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump
- Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President (since March 2017), daughter of Donald Trump
- Cyrus Vance Jr., New York County District Attorney (2010–present)
- Alex van der Zwaan, Dutch attorney guilty of making false statements to the FBI
- Viktor Vekselberg, Russian oligarch
- Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian attorney, best known for lobbying against the Magnitsky Act
- Kurt Volker, US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (July 2017 – September 2019)
- Reggie Walton, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Jennifer Williams, advisor to Mike Pence on European and Russian affairs
- Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of The Trump Organization
- Andrew Weissmann, associate of Robert Mueller
- Matthew Whitaker, acting US Attorney General (November 2018 – February 2019)
- Andy Wigmore, director of communications for Leave.EU and close associate of Arron Banks
- Michael Wolff, journalist and author of Fire and Fury about the Trump White House
- Christopher A. Wray, Director of the FBI (since August 2017)
- Alexander Yakovenko, Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom (since 2011)
- Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine (2010–2014)
- Aaron Zebley, associate of Robert Mueller
- Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine (since May 2019)
Post-election transition, starting November 8, 2016
January–June 2017 – Trump administration
January
- January:
- For two days in early January 2017, in a gathering George Nader attended and brokered, Joel Zamel and General Ahmed Al-Assiri met with Michael Flynn and other members of the Trump transition team in New York. Steve Bannon was involved as well. In October 2018, the meeting came under the Mueller investigation's scrutiny.[8]
- White House Counsel Donald McGahn tells Trump he believes that Flynn had misled the FBI and lied to Vice President Pence, and should be fired.[9]
- McGahn researches the Logan Act and federal laws related to lying to federal investigators. Records turned over to the Mueller investigation show McGahn believes Flynn violated one or more of those laws.[10]
- January 20:
- Trump and Pence take office.[11]
- While seated at Trump's inauguration speech, Flynn texts Alex Copson, chairman of ACU Strategic Partners, that Russian sanctions blocking a private Russian-backed plan to build nuclear plants in the Middle East will now be "ripped up".[12][13][14][15][16] An associate of Copson later denies the allegation.[17]
- Sergei Millian, Source D in the Steele dossier, attends VIP inauguration events.[18] He also arranges to meet with Papadopoulos at the Washington, D.C., restaurant Russia House.[19]: 95 [20] Millian brings Moroccan American music producer Aziz Choukri to the meeting. Papadopoulos later claims Choukri accused Millian of working for the FBI, but in a separate interview Choukri denies the accusation occurred.[20]
- Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer involved in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and Rinat Akhmetshin, another participant in that meeting, attend the Liberty Ball[21] at the Library of Congress hosted by Representative Dana Rohrabacher's campaign committee. Akhmetshin later claims he received tickets from event organizers, but Rohrabacher's office claims the campaign has no record of such an invitation or of ticket purchases by the two.[22] Ukrainian oligarch Serhiy Lyovochkin attends using tickets acquired for him by Sam Patten and Kilimnik.[23][24] Ukrainian lawmaker Serhiy Kivalov attends the event, but refuses later to tell reporters how he obtained the tickets he displayed on Twitter.[23] Ukrainian lawmaker Borislav Bereza attends using tickets he says he received from someone "connected to Illinois."[23] Ticket sales are counted as donations to Rohrabacher's campaign. In July 2018, Rohrabacher spokesman Kenneth Grubbs tells ABC News, "Apparently, there was some party-crashing going on."[21]
- Maria Butina attends the inaugural Freedom Ball with Paul Erickson. It is one of the three balls Trump attends.[22][25][26]
- January 20–21: Manafort, Kilimnik, and Lyovochkin meet in a Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss the proposed Ukraine peace plan.[19]: 142
- January 21:
- Trump appoints Flynn as National Security Advisor.[27]
- Bannon phones Page, and they talk about Russia. According to congressional testimony given by Page in November 2017, Bannon referred to the dossier and asked him to cancel a scheduled television appearance.[28]
- January 22: Michael Flynn is sworn in as National Security Advisor.[29]
- January 23
- Sean Spicer repeats that Flynn did not discuss sanctions with Kislyak in late December.[30] Emails from December show Spicer most likely knew Flynn discussed sanctions with Kislyak on December 29, 2016, and may have known about the purpose of the call in advance.[31]
- GCHQ director Robert Hannigan suddenly resigns. The Guardian reports that the resignation may have been over concerns about sharing intelligence with the Trump administration.[32]
- During a committee business meeting, the Senate Intelligence Committee votes unanimously to start a formal inquiry into Russian activities during the 2016 presidential election cycle.[33]: 4
- January 24:
- The FBI interviews Flynn about his conversations with Kislyak.[34][35]: 753, 758, 763, 766–767, 770 Flynn denies discussing sanctions with Kislyak, which the FBI knows is false.[36]: 30 He conceals the interview, which took place without a lawyer present, from the White House.[37] On December 1, 2017, Flynn will plead guilty to lying during the interview.[38][39]
- Comey tells top FBI agents that Trump asked him to stay on as FBI director.[40]
- The Senate Intelligence Committee begins its inquiry into Russian active measures in the 2016 elections.[35]: 1
- January 24–26: The FBI interviews Igor Danchenko, a primary source for the Steele dossier, for three days about the information he provided to Steele.[41][42]
- January 25: The House Intelligence Committee announces[43] that it is investigating "any intelligence regarding links between Russia and individuals associated with political campaigns" and other topics.[44]
- January 26:
- Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warns McGahn and White House Counsel's Office attorney James Burnham that Flynn has not been truthful about his contacts with Russia and may be vulnerable to blackmail by Russian intelligence.[45][36]: 31 Afterwards, McGahn asks John Eisenberg look into the possible legal implications of the Flynn-Kislyak interactions and the FBI interview.[36]: 31 Flynn is fired 18 days later, on February 13.[46]
- Priebus and McGahn personally tell Trump that Flynn is under criminal investigation.[47]
- Dmitriev tells Gerson that Putin is asking for feedback on the reconciliation document and wants Dmitriev to have key U.S. meetings within the next two weeks. He says Putin will speak to Trump by phone on January 28.[19]: 158
- Dmitriev tells Nader that Putin emphasized to him that they need to "build this communication channel to avoid bureaucracy."[19]: 158
- January 27:
- The FBI interviews Papadopoulos at his family's Chicago home about Russian meetings in 2016.[48][49][50] After being cautioned about making false statements, Papadopoulos repeatedly lies to the investigators, telling them he only met Mifsud in February 2016 before he joined the Trump campaign and denying he tried to help Russians set up meetings with the campaign.[51][50] In October 2017 he will plead guilty to making omissions and false statements during the interview.[48][49] Hours after the interview, he applies for the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy.[51][50]
- Eisenberg informs McGahn that Flynn may have violated the law, but is unlikely to be prosecuted.[36]: 31–32
- McGahn has further discussions with Yates about Flynn.[52]
- During a private dinner at the White House, Comey gets the impression that Trump wants to "create some sort of patronage relationship." Comey will later testify that Trump requested "loyalty" from him, and that he offered "honesty" instead.[53]
- Deripaska's longtime American lobbyist Adam Waldman visits Julian Assange.[54]
- January 28: Dmitriev asks Nader whether he can confirm to Putin that Trump may use ideas in his reconciliation document in their phone call later that day. Nader confirms that he and Gerson passed the document on to the Trump team, and that they took it seriously. After the Trump-Putin call, Dmitriev tells Nader "the call went very well" and that Putin wants Dmitriev to continue making public statements on Russian cooperation. Separately, Gerson tells Dmitriev the call went well, and Dmitriev replies that the document "played an important role."[19]: 159
- January 29: Trump's lawyers give Mueller a confidential memo and claim that Trump knew only that Flynn had been interviewed by the FBI, and believed Flynn had been cleared.[55][47]
- January 31:
- Trump dismisses Yates for refusing to enforce Executive Order 13769, calling it "betrayal" and "weak".[56]
- Alexander Torshin, Maria Butina, Paul Erickson, and former Kremlin staffer Andrey Kolyadin dine with Representatives Dana Rohrabacher and Thomas Massie at a private dinner hosted by Rockefeller heir George O’Neill Jr.[25][57]
February
- February:
- According to later reporting by Michael Wolff, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, during a visit to the White House, warns Kushner that UK intelligence services may have had the Trump campaign under surveillance. Blair denies Wolff's claims.[58][59]
- Paul Manafort and Rick Gates falsely assert for a second time in writing to the Justice Department that their work for the Ukrainian government did not require registering as foreign agents in the United States. In September 2018, Manafort pleads guilty to lying to the Justice Department about the extent of his work for the Ukrainian government.[60]
- The FBI investigation of reported cyber links between the Trump Organization and Alfa-Bank concluded that there were no such links.[61][62][63]
- Early February: Cohen delivers a pro-Russian Ukrainian peace plan to Flynn while visiting the White House. The plan was developed by Sater and Andrii Artemenko, a Ukrainian politician who said he was encouraged by "top aides" to Putin.[64] The meeting was arranged by Ukrainian-American Alex Oronov, whose daughter is married to Cohen's brother.[65][66] Allen Tactical Security Consultants founder Tommy Allen vetted the peace plan at the request of former congressman Curt Weldon, a longtime friend of Artemenko.[67] Artemenko and Weldon secured funding for promoting the plan from Vekselberg's fund at Columbus Nova.[67]
- February 2:
- Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina attend the National Prayer Breakfast. Torshin is scheduled to meet privately with Trump beforehand, but the meeting is canceled after a national security aide points out that Torshin is under investigation for organized crime and money laundering.[25] A spokesman for Torshin later says Torshin was officially on vacation at the time, adding, "President Trump has never proposed a meeting to Mr. Torshin."[68]
- Ted Malloch is reportedly Trump's top pick to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. E.U. officials threaten to reject Malloch's credentials if he becomes the new ambassador.[69][70] In 2018, Malloch is served a search warrant by the FBI and questioned by Mueller.[71][72]
- During a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Putin asserts that Ukrainian oligarchs funded Clinton's 2016 campaign.[73][74]
- Senators Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse announce[75] an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism into Russian influence in U.S. elections.[76]
- Eisenberg reviews the underlying information the Justice Department provided on the Flynn-Kislyak phone calls. He discusses it with McGahn, and they decide Flynn is unlikely to be prosecuted, though they do not know what Flynn told the FBI.[36]: 36
- February 3:
- Russian tech magnate Aleksej Gubarev files a libel suit in London against Christopher Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence. Gubarev claims he was defamed by allegations in the Steele dossier.[77]
- Aleksej Gubarev files a libel suit against BuzzFeed in the Broward County Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gubarev claims he was defamed by BuzzFeed publishing the Steele Dossier.[77]
- February 6: Patten publishes an article, "Ukraine Can Win in the Trump Age", in U.S. News & World Report that he and Lyovochkin co-wrote as part of his unregistered lobbying work.[24]
- February 8:
- Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General by a vote of 52 to 47;[78] he is sworn in the next day.[79]
- Comey meets with Priebus at the White House and informs him that Justice Department policy is not to discuss investigations with the White House.[80]
- Flynn publicly denies that he discussed sanctions with Kislyak in December.[81]
- According to Trump's lawyers, Flynn tells McGahn, Priebus, and John Eisenberg in a White House discussion that the FBI had met with Flynn to tell him their investigation was over.[55]
- Vnesheconombank (VEB) head Sergey Gorkov's assistant Ivanchenko texts Kushner's assistant Avi Berkowitz to set up a second meeting between Gorkov and Kushner. In March 2018, Berkowitz tells Mueller's team that he ignored the request because of press coverage of the Russia investigation and did not tell Kushner about it.[19]: 163
- February 9:
- The Washington Post reports that Flynn privately discussed Russian sanctions with Kislyak before Trump took office, which Flynn had previously denied.[81] Flynn's spokesman now says, " couldn't be certain that the topic never came up."[81] The report leads Pence and White House advisors to read the underlying information from the Justice Department.[36]: 37 After speaking to Flynn, Priebus and McGahn conclude that Flynn lied to the FBI and should be terminated.[36]: 37
- Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduces a resolution of inquiry in relation to possible crimes relating to Trump's financial dealings or collusion with Russia.[82]
- February 10
- February 11:
- Flynn omits his paid trip to the Russia Today 10th anniversary gala on a financial disclosure form.[84]
- The FBI interviews Mifsud in the lobby of the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.[85] Mifsud denies that he had advance knowledge of Russia possessing the DNC's stolen emails.[85]
- February 12: Trump asks Flynn if he lied to Pence about his phone calls with Kislyak. Flynn replies that he doesn't think he did, but he may have forgotten some details about the calls.[36]: 37
- February 13:
- February 14:
- Trump asks Comey, per Comey's testimony to Congress, to drop any investigation of Flynn.[89] The White House later denies the charge.[90] Trump will fire Comey three months later (May 9).[91]
- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer states that Trump asked McGahn to determine whether Flynn had broken the law, and that McGahn told the White House that no law had been broken.[92][93][94] He also says no members of the Trump campaign met with Russians during the campaign.[95][94]
- The New York Times reports that current and former American officials assert that phone records and intercepts show Trump campaign aides were in repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials prior to the election.[96] This is consistent with public statements made by Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials on November 10, 2016.[97]
- February 15:
- In a morning tweet, Trump calls reports of Russian connections to the campaign "non-sense" and says they are part of a coverup by the Clinton campaign.[98] Later that day, speaking at a joint White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump describes Flynn as "a wonderful man", adding, "I think it is very, very unfair what has happened to General Flynn." He says the classified documents used against Flynn were "illegally leaked" as part of a "coverup for a terrible loss that the Democrats had under Hillary Clinton."[99]
- Comey asks Sessions to stop direct communications from Trump and to never leave them alone together.[100][101]
- McCabe tells Priebus the February 14 New York Times article on Russian contacts[96] is wrong, but refuses to issue a press release.[102]
- Judy Woodruff interviews Carter Page on PBS News Hour. In response to a direct question about meetings with Russians, Page denies having any meetings with Russian officials in 2016.[103]
- Senators Grassley and Feinstein, in their official capacities as the chair and minority chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, ask the Justice Department and the FBI for a briefing on Flynn and the transcripts of Flynn's phone calls with Kislyak.[104] On May 29, 2020, the DoJ provides the transcripts to Congress.[105]
- February 16:
- The FBI interviews Papadopoulos a second time. In the following days, he deletes the Facebook account he had had since 2005 (containing correspondence concerning Russia), opens a new Facebook account, and changes his telephone number.[106][107]
- During a White House press conference,[108] Trump insists Flynn was fired for lying to Pence. He says he did not tell Flynn to discuss sanctions with Kislyak, but "would have directed him because that's his job." Trump also denies having any connections with Russia.[36]: 41–42
- February 17
- Comey meets privately with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.[35]: 775 Later the same day, the Committee votes to issue letters asking the White House and several government agencies to preserve communications related to the Committee's Russia investigation.[109] The Committee also issues a letter to Roger Stone asking him to preserve records.[110]
- Cambridge Analytica senior executive Brittany Kaiser visits Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to discuss the U.S. election. The visit is recorded in the embassy's visitor log. In May 2018, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix tells the British Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, "We have never spoken to anyone at WikiLeaks."[111]
- February 19
- Corey Lewandowski says in an interview with White House correspondent Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week that he does not know of anyone on the campaign having any contacts with any Russians.[112]
- Andrii Artemenko is expelled from the Radical Party amid calls for him to step down from his seat in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada). The party was outraged by the Ukrainian peace proposal he delivered to Michael Cohen in January.[113]
- February 20:
- Trump appoints H. R. McMaster to replace Flynn as National Security Adviser.[114]
- Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders states during a White House press briefing that "to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place" between the Trump team and Russia.[115]
- Ukrainian prosecutors announce they are investigating Artemenko for treason. They allege he conspired with Russia by promoting a peace plan that would "legitimize" the Russian occupation of Crimea.[113]
- February 23: Trump offers to make McFarland the ambassador to Singapore in exchange for an email stating that he did not instruct Flynn to discuss sanctions with Kislyak. She declines after discussing the offer with Eisenberg.[36]: 42–43
- February 24:
- February 25: Farage, Trump, his daughter Ivanka, Kushner, and Florida governor Rick Scott dine together at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Farage is a last-minute addition.[116]
- February 26:
- Andy Wigmore tells The Guardian that Robert Mercer donated Cambridge Analytica's services to the Leave.EU campaign. The U.K. Electoral Commission says the donation was not declared.[117]
- Manafort meets with Kilimnik in Madrid. When asked about the meeting by Mueller's team, Manafort initially denies meeting Kilimnik while in Madrid, then acknowledges the meeting after being shown evidence of Kilimnik traveling there from Moscow. He claims Kilimnik updated him on the status of Ukraine's criminal investigation into the "black ledger" payments to Manafort.[19]: 143
- February 28:
- A resolution of inquiry is defeated in the House Judiciary Committee by an 18–16 party-line vote. The resolution would have required the White House to turn over documents related to Trump's ties to Russia and any conflicts of interest related to his businesses. A Republican member of the committee, Matt Gaetz, calls the motivation for the resolution, which was introduced by Democrat Jerrold Nadler, sour grapes over Clinton losing the election.[118]
- White House lawyers instruct White House staff to preserve documents related to Russian interference in the election. The instructions are in response to a February 17 letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee asking for the preservations.[109][119]
- Aleksej Gubarev files a libel suit against BuzzFeed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for publishing the Steele dossier.[120]
March
- March
- Citigroup gives Kushner's company a $325 million loan days after Kushner meets with Citigroup's CEO Michael Corbat.[121] Kushner also borrows $75 million from Apollo Global Management and $10 million from Rockwood Capital. In April 2018, lawyers for Apollo tell The Guardian that the money was used by Kushner to buy out real estate positions owned by Invesco Real Estate. The lawyers insist Kushner and Apollo executive Josh Harris did not discuss Apollo's loan before it was granted.[122]
- Based upon a complaint by Senators Patrick Leahy and Al Franken, the FBI opens an investigation into whether Sessions perjured himself during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[123]
- March 1:
- Sessions comes under scrutiny after reports that he had contact with Russian government officials during the election campaign, even though he denied it during his confirmation hearings. Democratic representatives ask Sessions to resign his post as United States Attorney General.[124][125][36]: 48
- Comey receives an "urgent" call from Trump that Comey views as an attempt to win him over to Trump's side.[126] Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=Timeline_of_investigations_into_Donald_Trump_and_Russia_(January–June_2017)
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