Lets talk Russia, Wikileaks and Trump.
July 2015 – Russian hackers breach the DNC. The US intelligence committee agrees this was orchestrated by the Kremlin.
March 6, 2016 – George Papadopoulos becomes a Trump Campaign advisor.
March 2016 – Russian hackers again breach the DNC. US intelligence reports that the hacked information was then provided to WikiLeaks.
March 14, 2016 – George Papadopoulos meets Joseph Mifsud who claims to have contact with Russian officials. Papadopoulos believes this contact would increase his standing in the Trump org.
March 19, 2016 – Russian hackers access Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s emails.
March 21, 2016 – Trump touts George Papadopoulos as one of his Foreign policy advisors.
March 24, 2016 – Papadopoulos emails the Trump campaign suggesting meeting with the Russians, including Putin. Papadopoulos then meets with a “female Russian national”
March 28, 2016 – Paul Manafort becomes the Trump Campaign Chairman.
March 31, 2016 – At a campaign national security meeting in Washington attended by Trump and Sessions, Papadopoulos tells the group that he had connections that could facilitate a meeting with Putin. We even have photos of this meeting.
April 2016 – This begins the 7 month period where Mike Flynn, Jared Kushner, and other senior members of the trump campaign had contact with Russian officials including Sergey Kislyak. There were at least 18 known points of contact during this period that were somehow forgotten until they were confronted with evidence. For more details regarding Flynn’s contacts, check out “What is going on with Mike Flynn?”
Early April 2016 – Papadopoulos emails the foreign policy team about his “outreach to Russia” with “Putin’s niece” and a professor with contact with high level Russian officials.
April 10-11, 2016 – Papadopoulos emails arranging a meeting with Putin’s ‘niece’ and the professor. Putin’s niece says “I have already alerted my personal links to our conversation and your request . . . As mentioned we are all very excited by the possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump. The Russian Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be officially announced.”
April 11, 2016 – Paul Manafort asks a russian oligarch how to use his media position to “get whole” with Oleg Deripaska.
April 18, 2016 – Papadopoulos is introduced to a high ranking Russian, currently believed to be Ivan Timofeev of the Russian International Affairs Council.
Later April 2016 – Papadopoulos continues to have “multiple conversations over Skype and email” setting up the meetings with the Russians.
April 25, 2016 – Papadopoulos emails a ‘senior policy adviser’ in the Trump Campaign “The Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet when he is ready. The advantage of being in London is that these governments tend to speak a bit more openly in ‘neutral’ cities.”
April 26, 2016 – Trump Campaign advisor George Papadopoulos was informed by a professor who had just returned from meetings in London with “high-level Russian officials” in Moscow that they had thousands of Clinton emails containing “dirt.” “‘They have dirt on her’; ‘the Russians had emails of Clinton’; ‘they have thousands of emails.’” Trump then talks on the stump about “We’re going to have a great relationship with Putin and Russia.”
April 27, 2016 – Papadopoulos emails a “senior campaign staffer” about the messages they’d been getting from Russia, and notifies a “high ranking campaign official” that Putin would like to host Trump. It’s been reported that the official was Corey Lewandowsky.
