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Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January–June 2017)
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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 

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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]
Susan Rice's email to herself on January 20, 2017
  • 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 
Redacted FBI notes on the Flynn interview conducted on January 24, 2017.
  • 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:

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:
  • 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
    • Trump tells reporters he did not know about Flynn's December discussions of sanctions with Kislyak.[83]
    • According to Trump's lawyers, Flynn tells McGahn, Priebus, and Pence in a phone call that the FBI had said their investigation was being "closed out."[55]
  • 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:
    • Flynn is dismissed after less than a month in office.[86][87][36]: 38 
    • Appearing on Fox News's Your World with Neil Cavuto hours before Flynn leaves, Nunes says he has confidence in Flynn and thinks he shouldn't resign, adding, "He's probably the best intelligence officer of his generation."[88]
  • 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
  • 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:
    • Asked about links between Trump and Russia, Spicer says that "there are no connections to find out about".[115]
    • Nigel Farage tells an audience at CPAC that Trump's election and Brexit launched a "great global revolution."[116]
  • 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:

March

  • March
  • 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]
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