Wishful thinkers believe that there is nothing to see. Want to see something Trumptards?
If you still can claim there is nothing to see after reading this you are so brainwashed/stupid you just can not be helped. Trump is going down the only question is; will he go to prison?
So just what do we know about what Russia did or didn’t do involving the 2016 election and how the Trump campaign responded? Quite a bit actually, even though new Special Prosecutor Mueller has just started to get his feet on the ground.
I’ll tell you, when you actually lay it out all out item by item in chronological order a lot of patterns and actions/reactions become eminently clear. WIthout getting into classified or confidential data that isn’t yet public knowledge, what is public knowledge is already fairly stunning.
[This timeline has been continued with Vol#2 and Vol#3 due to length]
1985 — Australian government rejects a bid for a Trump Casino in Sydney because of his alleged ties to the mafia.
1986 — Trump attempts to gain a posting to Russia as part of the Reagan Administration and says he could sit down with Gorbechev to negotiate an end to the cold war “in an hour.”
1990 — Trump’s Taj Mahal casino, which is a favorite gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, is cited 106 times in 18 months for violating money laundering rules, particular failing to report when someone wins and withdraws more then $10,000.
1991 — Taj Mahal files for bankrupcy protection, Trump sells his 50% share. After this and his other Casino bankruptcies most major banks no longer authorize loans to the Trump organization.
1998 -- Felix Sater a Russian born violent convict with ties to the Russian Mob — who are frequently used by Russian intelligence to do their dirty work and fund blackbag operations — gets caught up in a $40 Million stock fraud case but is only fined $35,000 in exchange for becoming an FBI informant.
2000 — Former KGB Agent Alexander Litvinenko defects to Britain.
GAO does analysis of Russian-American oligarch Ike Kaveladze and his involvement in starting 2000 shell companies which could be involved in money laundering.
2001-2007 — At least 63 Russian Oligarchs lease, rent or buy various Trump propertetes in South Florida spending upwards of $98.5 Million on them, many of these deals with Russian nationals in Manhattan reportedly are arranged through Bayrock Group LLC whose offices are located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. Felix Sater becomes Bayrock’s managing director. Their first joint project together, in 2003, is building a Trump Tower in Phoenix.
2005 — TrumpCo puts together it’s first proposal for Trump Tower Moscow in coordination with BayRock LLC.
2006 — Alexander Litvinenko is poisoned by Polonium-210 and slowly dies of radiation sickness, he points to Putin as being behind his murder before he dies. His case officer with MI-6 is Christopher Steele.
2008 —Trump sells a Palm Beach Mansion to a Russian Oligarch for $95 Million after purchasing it just 2 years previously for only $45 Million.
Donald Jr. states “We get a lot to money from Russia.”
Felix Sater leaves Bayrock after his criminal record is revealed and goes to work for Trump.
Bayrock founder Tefvik Arif is busted and prosecuted for his connection to an underage prostitution ring in Turkey, he is eventually acquitted.
2009 — U.S. investor Bill Browder is expelled from Russia and his assets are used to setup a $230 Million tax rebate scam. Browder’s lawyer Sergei Magnitski discovers the scam and testifies to reveal it, he is subsequently arrested, tortured and murdered in a Russian jail, beaten to death by the guards.
2010 — A racketeering case is filed against Bayrock, Sater and Arif alleging they had been “substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated.”
2011 — Trump Soho a joint venture condo project by TrumpCO and Bayrock is sued for defrauding buyers with inflated claims. The suit is settled with a payout of $3.19 Million and a potential criminal case is avoided.
March 2011 — Trump begins his birther campaign against President Obama claiming there’s something wrong with his birth certificate. He also demands Obama's college transcripts alleging he didn't deserve access to Harvard, and claims that his best selling book “Dreams From My Father" was really ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.
May 2011 --
Obama authorizes the Bin Laden Raid, then attends the White House Correspondents dinner, Donald Trump is in the audience.
Obama reveals his long-form birth certificate and takes a couple shots at Donald, but Seth Myer brutalizes him from behind the podium. Myer's theorizes Trump decided to run for President right then and there in retaliation.
2012 — Obama signs the Magnitski Act following the jail house death of Sergey Magnitski after he was wrongfully imprisoned for investigation Russia corruption and laundering of money stolen from American businessmen Bill Browder. Putin responds by cancelling the adoption of Russian orphans by American parents. This act is strongly supported by Russian opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Exxon signs a $500 Billion deal with Russian Oil giant Rosneft for drilling in the Black sea.
2013 —
Russian mobsters renting property in Trump Tower just three floors below the penthouse suite are arrested for money laundering and running an illegal gambling ring at the end of a 2 year investigation. One of the attorney’s for the defendant Denys Katsyv of the Prevezon Group is Natalia Veselnitskaya, and the prosecutor is Preet Bharara, some of the stolen money is connected to Bill Browder’s investigation and the murder of Magnitski in Russia.
Several months later Trump holds the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the apparent money-laundering ring leader who remains at large is welcomed on the Red Carpet at the event. While in Moscow Trump reportedly meets with several high ranking oligarchs with ties to Putin, including Billionaire Russian Real Estate developer Arag Agalarov and his Pop Star son Emil who partners with Trump on the pageant.
Video shot before the pageant shows Trump at dinner with Emin and Aras Agalarov, as well as Rob Goldstone Emin’s promoter. Michael Isakoff talks to Goldstone who reveals that Trump has plans to license a new Trump Tower in Russia with Agalarov as the local builder/owner. Don jr. is in charge of the project and Ivanka goes on location scouting trips with Emin. Ike Kaveladze who works for the Agalarov family is also present.
2014 —
Michael Flynn is fired by the Obama administration as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his “odd behavior.”
Eric Trump says in an interview when discussing the funding of Trump Golf courses “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Eric later denies making this statement.
Bayrock is functionally inactive, except for a few outstanding lawsuits.
Putin releases ***** Riot from prison for shooting a Punk Rock video in a Church.
The Winter Olympics takes place in Sochi, Russia.
Russia invades Crimea and begins sending Troops and equipment in the Ukraine to destabilize the Country, Obama rallies the international community to place Sanctions on Russia which crush their economy — plans for the Rosneft/Exxon deal and Trump Tower Russia are both put on hold.
2015 —Trump and his kids are named as witnesses in a $250 Million tax evasion case connected to Bayrock and Trump Soho.
Michael Flynn goes to Russia, meets and sits with Putin for dinner and is paid $45,000 for a speech at RT's 10th Anniversary Gala. He also receives $11,250 from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, and $11,250 from Volga-Dnepr Airlines. He doesn't get prior permission from the Pentagon for this trip or the payments.
Taj Mahal is fined $10 Million for continued money laundering by Treasury’s FinCen unit.
Boris Nemtsov is murdered in the streets of Moscow in the shadow of the Kremlin.
U.S. intel captures discussion by Russians about Trump running for President, when he hasn’t announced his run yet, and talking about multiple contacts they’ve been having with Trump associates and planning to funnel money into the election.
June 17, 2015 -- Trump announces his run for President. He never releases his Taxes, his birth certificate or his school transcripts.
Summer 2015 —Cyber hacking contractors working with the FSB (Cozy Bear) begin infiltrating and extracting copies of documents including the oppo-research on Trump and emails from the DNC servers. Their previous successful attacks include the White House and State Dept. email systems.
They also penetrate some RNC emails accounts and attack various Republicans who oppose Trump in the primaries.
September 2015 — FBI detects the hack and begins trying to inform the DNC, but they start by going to their Help desk not simply calling Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
November 2015 — Felix Sater emails Michael Cohen saying “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected... I know how to play it and how to get this done. Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it... I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
Late 2015 — GCHQ and other western intel agencies from Germany, Poland, Estonia and Australia begin noticing contacts between Russia Spies and members of the Trump campaign. They attempt to notify FBI and CIA who are apparently caught "flat footed.”
January 2016 — Michael Cohen send an email to Putin deputy Dmitry Peskov trying to get talks regarding Trump Tower Moscow restarted.
March 2016 -— US Attorney Preet Bharara prosecutes Russian intelligence officer Evgeny Buryakov an employee of sanctioned Russia bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) of conspiracy to commit espionage in recruiting U.S Businessmen in Manhattan including Carter Page. Page had been cooperating in this investigation as an informant.
FBI receives memo alleging collusion between Loretta Lynch and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to quash the Clinton email investigation — they believe this document is fake.
March 16, 2016 -— John Podesta receives a spearfishing email, his IT people mistakenly tell him that it’s “Legitimate” and his assistant clicks on the link and gives up his password compromising his account.
March 21, 2016 —Trump lists Carter Page & George Papadopoulis as part of his foreign policy team.
March 24, 2016 — Papadopoulis writes an email offering to set up “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity.
March 28, 2016 —Trump hires Paul Manafort to handle the delegate process on his campaign.
April 2016 — GRU Russian military intelligence also attacks the DNC systems with Fancy Bear. The DNC discovers the intrusion and calls in cyber security firm Crowdstrike to address it, they discover both intrusions, briefly monitor them to confirm their ID, then shut them down.
About this time Paul Manafort — former advisor to Putin friendly ex-Ukrainian President Yanakovych who has a close associate with links to the GRU, and who had previous been paid $Millions to allegedy secretly promote Putin’s agenda by Russian aluminum oligarch Oleg Deripaska — becomes Trump campaign chairman.
The Kremlin gives Rep. Dana Rohrabacher instructions to stage a “show trial” in Congress attacking Bill Browder in order to alter the Magnitski Act sanctions on Russia. Rohrabacher is provided a Russian propaganda film against Browder by the Russian Prosecutor Generals Office run by Yuri Chaika, the same person who had jailed Magnitski.
April 27, 2016 -Trump gives his first major foreign policy speech at an event that had been largely arranged by Jeff Sessions Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn, Russian ambassador Kislyak is invited as a special guest, both Trump and Session briefly meet with him at a backstage reception before the speech at the Mayflower Hotel.
Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos writes in an email to campaign manager Corey Lewandowsk he had fielded “a lot of calls over the past month” related to a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russia. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos says in a separate email to Paul Manafort.
May 2016 — US surveillance operations detects Russian Spies vowing to “Get Hillary Clinton” in retaliation for her criticism of Putin’s last election. A GRU Officer is recorded saying they are “getting ready to pay Clinton back for what President Vladimir Putin believed was an influence operation she had run against him five years earlier as Secretary of State”
They also detect them bragging that they have good ties to Michael Flynn and may be able to use him to “influence" Trump.
Obama admin attempts to limit classified information to Flynn.
Russian spies attempt to cultivate Carter Page as an asset, yet again!
FBI obtains a FISA warrant to monitor Page’s communications and possibly on a Trump server in Pennsylvania which keeps being oddly pinged by a server owned by Russia’s Alfa Bank and another owned by the DeVos companies.
Trump backs Brexit says “England is better off without the EU.”
Paul Manafort meets with his assistant from the Ukraine Konstantin Kilimnik, who has alleged ties to the GRU.
Trump releases an attack ad on Hillary claiming she’s “too close to Putin”, WaPo considers if the “Bromance” between Trump and Putin is over? But still Politico reports that Trump is “Putin’s Candidate.”
June 2016 — Russian Think Tank controlled by Putin publishes a blue print to use cyber bots, trolls and social media to push anti-Clinton/pro-Trump propaganda to help swing the election.
Jeff Sessions Chief of staff Rick Dearborn who is an advisor to the Trump campaign writes an email to Lowendowski noting that he’d received and offer from someone referrenced as “WV” to setup a meeting between Trump officials and Putin.
June 2, 2016 — Hillary gives a major speech criticizing Trump’s closeness to Russia and Putin accusing him of praising “dictators like Vladimir Putin” and having a “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.”
June 3, 2016 — Music Promoter Rob Goldstone emails Don Jr, and says he has information from the Russian Government about shady dealings by Hillary and DNC. Don Jr. says “I Love it” and plans to discuss it further on a phone call and eventually a meeting.
June 7, 2016 — Trump says that he’ll give a major speech about Hillary Clinton’s corruption in a week.
June 9, 2016 —
Donald Jr, Kushner and Manafort secretly meet with a prominent Russia lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower after being offered “dirt” about the Clinton Campaign and the DNC being funded by Russia. The information comes through their Miss Universe Moscow partner Aras Agalarov via his son’s Emin’s promoter Rob Goldstone who had received it directly from the “Crown Prosecutor” [actually the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika] of Russia because the Russian Government “supports Trump.” They also discuss the Russian adoption program in the wake of the Magnitski Act, which is a law that blacklists Russian Human Rights violators.
Later that day Donald tweets for the first time about Clinton’s “33,000 missing emails.”
June 12, 2016 — Julian Assange hints that he’s soon release emails linked to Hillary Clinton.
The Pulse Night Club in Orlando is attacked and 49 people are killed by a frustrated gay Muslim man
June 13, 2016 — Trump blames the Pulse attack on Obama’s sympathy with “Radical Islam” and on immigrants even though the shooter was a native born American citizen born in New Hyde Park, NY.
June 14, 2016 -— Wapo Reports that the DNC has been hacked by the Russian government, DNC goes public about the cyber intrusion.
June 15, 2016 — Guccifer 2.0 releases the DNC’s opposition research file on Donald Trump.
Dana Rohrabacher’s scheduled “show trial” hearing on Bill Browder in opposition to the Magnitski Act is cancelled by his committee chairman.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy jokes behind scenes that the only people Putin pays are Rohrabacher and Trump.
June 16, 2016 — Guccifer 2.0 uses DCLeaks to reveal the first set of hacked DNC emails, they have Cyrillic characters and Russian urls in their metadata
June 17, 2016 — Putin says the Trump is a “bright” individual.[Actually the word he used translates more accurately into “Colorful”]
June 20, 2016 — Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is fired after a controversy where he physically grabbed and yanked a Brietbart reporter away from Trump as she asked a question. At first Corey and the Trump campaign denies it ever happened, but it’s on video — then he claims he would’ve “apologized if he knew she was from Breitbart” but he doesn’t. She files a criminal complaint, but it’s thrown out. He goes to work for CNN while still being paid by Trump.
June 22, 2016 — Trump finally gives his big anti-Clinton speech over a week late, he complains about Benghazi, Free Trade, Temperment and that her “Deleted emails could make her vulnerable to blackmail by hostile states.” He doesn’t mention Russian money going into the DNC.
June 24, 2016 — Brexit Referendum Vote Passes.
Trump is in Scotland for the opening of his Turnberry Golf Course, he says he’s glad Scotland Voted to leave the EU — but they didn’t, England did.
June 27, 2016 — Bill Clinton meets privately with AG Loretta Lynch on her plane at the Pheonix Airport while they are both there during a layover. Reportedly they discuss family, golf and travel, but calls of “obstruction” and “undue influence” — even though there is absolutely no evidence to that effect — eventually cause her to defer any decision on the Clinton email investigation to the FBI.
July 2016 — Business Insider publishes a report on the Kremlin’s Troll army based in St. Petersburg. They pose online as Pro-Trump and Pro-Bernie Americans and incessantly attack Clinton.
Cyber attacks are also made on the DCCC in order to impact House races in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina.
Carter Page travels to Moscow, approved by Trump Natsec advisor JD Gordon and Corey Lewandowski, to give several paid speeches.
Former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele while working on oppo-research for a GOP candidate receives intel that Page also has secret meetings with Russian government oil firm Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin who allegedly offers him broker fees on the sale of 19% of Rosneft stock supposedly as a payoff for influencing Trump to drop sanctions on Russia. Page eventually denies all of this.
Steele begins writing memos to the FBI.
U.S. intel intercepts Russian Operatives discussing a request for “Help damaging Clinton’s campaign” from the Trump campaign which mentions Manafort.
July 5, 2016 — Influenced by false email intel generated by the Russians alleging that AG Lynch was “throwing the Clinton case”, and apparently the fact that she has suggested he called the Clinton situation a “matter” rather than an “investigation” — even though DOJ rules prohibit confirming an investigation before it is complete — FBI Director James Comey after announcing that the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s server is complete and no charges will be filed goes on to blast her in an extended public statement.
July 7, 2016 — Comey testifies to Congress about Hillary’s server and manages to debunk just about every Right-wing conspiracy about it.
July 18-21, 2016 — The Republican National Convention takes place during which Trump National Security Advisor J.D. Gordon torpedoes a platform plank supporting the arming of Ukrainian rebels against pro-Russian forces, then lies about it.
Kislyak attends and briefly meets Sessions again at a Heritage Foundation event, as well as Carter Page and J.D. Gordon.
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd’s “Lock her up!” chant. “If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today”
Mike Pence also chants “Lock Her Up” over Hillary’s emails — even though she’s been cleared already — and he himself has AOL for his email for official business as Governor and his account had been hacked.
Flynn fills out his SF-86 form to reactivate his security clearance related to his being selected by Trump as national security advisor. Flynn fails to include that he had received $530,000 from Turkey or that he had taken another $45,000 from Russia in 2015.
July 22, 2016 — One day after end of RNC Wikileaks reveals their first set of DNC emails.
Russia Today, Sputnik News, Breitbart and other right-wing outlets begin doing incessant stories about every little negative revelation in them as well as numerous false and inflammatory rumors these are further pushed by bots and trolls on facebook and twitter until they trend.
The FBI begin to look into the Russia hack based on information from Crowdstrike, they don’t get direct access to DNC servers presumably as that would cause them to shutdown their entire email capability in middle of an election until a replacement set of servers could be installed [I’ve sent a question to the DNC’s Deputy Communications Director on this point, he hasn’t responded yet].
FBI is also looking into links to Trump due to Steele memos and concerns raised by CIA head Brennan.
July 25, 2016 — Democratic Convention starts, because of the brouhaha from the Wikileaks email dump, Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigns and Donna Brazille takes over, RT/Sputnik heightened and amplified rumors swirl about the DNC “rigging the Primary” for Clinton and against Sanders.
July 26, 2016 — Roger Ailes leaves Fox News amid harassment allegations. Trump defends him.
Wapo reporter Sarah Kendzior asks a Kremlin official about the hacking of DNC emails and he refers the issue to Donald Trump Jr.
July 27, 2016 — Trump asks Russia to hack and/or release Hillary’s missing emails.
July 28, 2016 — Sputnik news claims Wikileaks proves the primary and DNC was rigged against Sanders.
July 31, 2016 — Manafort denies that the Trump campaign made any changes to the RNC platform. Various Trump affiliates will repeat these denials 20 more times before finally admitting the truth; Donald personally ordered the change in a meeting with Gordon during the RNC in which Sessions attended. [If this was done as a pay off to Russia to ensure their continued support in their hacking/propaganda efforts, it proves Donald’s direct involvement in a criminal conspiracy.]
August 2016 —Mikail Kalugin who was linked to pension payment scheme by Steele leaves the U.S., and is later confirmed to have been falsely posing as a diplomat while actually being a spy.
Kilminik again travels to the U.S. and meet with Manafort where they allegedly discuss the DNC hack.
CIA Director Brennen sends an “Eyes Only” private note to the WH for Obama and just 3 senior aids which states that “Putin has ordered a cyber attack to defeat or damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and elect Donald Trump.”
August 4, 2016 — Brennen calls his counterpart Alexander Bortnikov Director of the FSB and issues him a stern warning about the hacking and active measures.
August 9, 2016 — Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000
August 16, 2016 — Manafort pushes a false RT/Sputnik News story about terrorist sabotage at a NATO base in Turkey. Trump also pushes the same false story.
August 17, 2016 — Trump receives his first classified briefing. Flynn is with him.
August 19, 2016 — Manafort leaves the Trump campaign amidst allegations that he accepted a $12 Million under-the-table cash payment from his former Putin friendly client, ex-Ukraine President Yanakovych. Pollster Kellyanne Conway, who is a Mercer employee, takes over.
August 21, 2016 -— Trump pal Roger Stone tweets “it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel.” He later claims he was talking about Podesta’s “business dealings” not his email, although Stone had also been sending DM’s to Guccifer 2.0 the public face of Russia’s cyber hacking operation.
September 2016 — Reports are the Russian hackers have attempted to penetrate the voter registration systems in 20 States, 4 were successfully infiltrated.
GOP consultant Aaron Nevins sends a note to Guccifer 2.0 asking if he has anything on Florida Dems, 10 days later he gets 2.5 Gigabits of stolen DCCC data, which confirms the connection between Kremlin intel & Guccifer.
Roger Stone says on Boston Herald Radio that he expects, "Julian Assange and the Wikileaks people to drop a payload of new documents on a weekly basis fairly soon. And that of course will answer the question of exactly what was erased on that email server."
Obama meets Putin at a summit and personally tells him to “Cut it out” with the hacking.
Obama assembles Congress’s “Gang of 12” and informs them of the Russia hack confidentially and asks for a bipartisan public statement in opposition to the attack. Mitch McConnel refuses as he doubts the veracity of the information, no public statement is issued at this time.
Trump transition chair Chris Christie begins to recommend that Flynn be fired after his erratic behavior during a national security briefing.
FBI offers to pay Christopher Steele to continue his work investigating Trump/Russia links.
Jeff Sessions meets privately with Kislyak at his Senate Offices.
Guccifer 2.0 sends Roger Stone a link to a blog post on manipulating voter turnout.
Ignoring McConnel and other Republicans Sen Feinstein and Rep Schiff issue a joint statement revealing the Russia cyber attack.
One week later McConnell and other Reps issues a tepid statement warning state election boards to remain “secure from attack.”
October 2016 — The Russian Think Tank publishes another paper, this one saying the Clinton is likely to win the election, so the online influence campaign needs to focus on claims that the election was “rigged” or “stolen” due to voter fraud.
Trump starts saying the only way he could lose Pennsylvania is because of “Voter Fraud.” and mentions the information revealed by Wikileaks 164 times over the next month.
The FEC unanimously agrees to prioritize investigations into foreign spending.
Around this time before election day NSA detects that the GRU has launched a set of cyber attacks on state and local election registration systems. Some are penetrated.
Kushner Co receives a $285 Million loan from Duetsche Bank for their Times Square building that was facing charges for not stopping Russian money-laundering on the premesis.
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If you still can claim there is nothing to see after reading this you are so brainwashed/stupid you just can not be helped. Trump is going down the only question is; will he go to prison?
So just what do we know about what Russia did or didn’t do involving the 2016 election and how the Trump campaign responded? Quite a bit actually, even though new Special Prosecutor Mueller has just started to get his feet on the ground.
I’ll tell you, when you actually lay it out all out item by item in chronological order a lot of patterns and actions/reactions become eminently clear. WIthout getting into classified or confidential data that isn’t yet public knowledge, what is public knowledge is already fairly stunning.
[This timeline has been continued with Vol#2 and Vol#3 due to length]
1985 — Australian government rejects a bid for a Trump Casino in Sydney because of his alleged ties to the mafia.
1986 — Trump attempts to gain a posting to Russia as part of the Reagan Administration and says he could sit down with Gorbechev to negotiate an end to the cold war “in an hour.”
1990 — Trump’s Taj Mahal casino, which is a favorite gambling spot for Russian mobsters living in Brooklyn, is cited 106 times in 18 months for violating money laundering rules, particular failing to report when someone wins and withdraws more then $10,000.
1991 — Taj Mahal files for bankrupcy protection, Trump sells his 50% share. After this and his other Casino bankruptcies most major banks no longer authorize loans to the Trump organization.
1998 -- Felix Sater a Russian born violent convict with ties to the Russian Mob — who are frequently used by Russian intelligence to do their dirty work and fund blackbag operations — gets caught up in a $40 Million stock fraud case but is only fined $35,000 in exchange for becoming an FBI informant.
2000 — Former KGB Agent Alexander Litvinenko defects to Britain.
GAO does analysis of Russian-American oligarch Ike Kaveladze and his involvement in starting 2000 shell companies which could be involved in money laundering.
2001-2007 — At least 63 Russian Oligarchs lease, rent or buy various Trump propertetes in South Florida spending upwards of $98.5 Million on them, many of these deals with Russian nationals in Manhattan reportedly are arranged through Bayrock Group LLC whose offices are located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. Felix Sater becomes Bayrock’s managing director. Their first joint project together, in 2003, is building a Trump Tower in Phoenix.
2005 — TrumpCo puts together it’s first proposal for Trump Tower Moscow in coordination with BayRock LLC.
2006 — Alexander Litvinenko is poisoned by Polonium-210 and slowly dies of radiation sickness, he points to Putin as being behind his murder before he dies. His case officer with MI-6 is Christopher Steele.
2008 —Trump sells a Palm Beach Mansion to a Russian Oligarch for $95 Million after purchasing it just 2 years previously for only $45 Million.
Donald Jr. states “We get a lot to money from Russia.”
Felix Sater leaves Bayrock after his criminal record is revealed and goes to work for Trump.
Bayrock founder Tefvik Arif is busted and prosecuted for his connection to an underage prostitution ring in Turkey, he is eventually acquitted.
2009 — U.S. investor Bill Browder is expelled from Russia and his assets are used to setup a $230 Million tax rebate scam. Browder’s lawyer Sergei Magnitski discovers the scam and testifies to reveal it, he is subsequently arrested, tortured and murdered in a Russian jail, beaten to death by the guards.
2010 — A racketeering case is filed against Bayrock, Sater and Arif alleging they had been “substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated.”
2011 — Trump Soho a joint venture condo project by TrumpCO and Bayrock is sued for defrauding buyers with inflated claims. The suit is settled with a payout of $3.19 Million and a potential criminal case is avoided.
March 2011 — Trump begins his birther campaign against President Obama claiming there’s something wrong with his birth certificate. He also demands Obama's college transcripts alleging he didn't deserve access to Harvard, and claims that his best selling book “Dreams From My Father" was really ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.
May 2011 --
Obama authorizes the Bin Laden Raid, then attends the White House Correspondents dinner, Donald Trump is in the audience.
Obama reveals his long-form birth certificate and takes a couple shots at Donald, but Seth Myer brutalizes him from behind the podium. Myer's theorizes Trump decided to run for President right then and there in retaliation.
2012 — Obama signs the Magnitski Act following the jail house death of Sergey Magnitski after he was wrongfully imprisoned for investigation Russia corruption and laundering of money stolen from American businessmen Bill Browder. Putin responds by cancelling the adoption of Russian orphans by American parents. This act is strongly supported by Russian opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Exxon signs a $500 Billion deal with Russian Oil giant Rosneft for drilling in the Black sea.
2013 —
Russian mobsters renting property in Trump Tower just three floors below the penthouse suite are arrested for money laundering and running an illegal gambling ring at the end of a 2 year investigation. One of the attorney’s for the defendant Denys Katsyv of the Prevezon Group is Natalia Veselnitskaya, and the prosecutor is Preet Bharara, some of the stolen money is connected to Bill Browder’s investigation and the murder of Magnitski in Russia.
Several months later Trump holds the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the apparent money-laundering ring leader who remains at large is welcomed on the Red Carpet at the event. While in Moscow Trump reportedly meets with several high ranking oligarchs with ties to Putin, including Billionaire Russian Real Estate developer Arag Agalarov and his Pop Star son Emil who partners with Trump on the pageant.
Video shot before the pageant shows Trump at dinner with Emin and Aras Agalarov, as well as Rob Goldstone Emin’s promoter. Michael Isakoff talks to Goldstone who reveals that Trump has plans to license a new Trump Tower in Russia with Agalarov as the local builder/owner. Don jr. is in charge of the project and Ivanka goes on location scouting trips with Emin. Ike Kaveladze who works for the Agalarov family is also present.
2014 —
Michael Flynn is fired by the Obama administration as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for his “odd behavior.”
Eric Trump says in an interview when discussing the funding of Trump Golf courses “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Eric later denies making this statement.
Bayrock is functionally inactive, except for a few outstanding lawsuits.
Putin releases ***** Riot from prison for shooting a Punk Rock video in a Church.
The Winter Olympics takes place in Sochi, Russia.
Russia invades Crimea and begins sending Troops and equipment in the Ukraine to destabilize the Country, Obama rallies the international community to place Sanctions on Russia which crush their economy — plans for the Rosneft/Exxon deal and Trump Tower Russia are both put on hold.
2015 —Trump and his kids are named as witnesses in a $250 Million tax evasion case connected to Bayrock and Trump Soho.
Michael Flynn goes to Russia, meets and sits with Putin for dinner and is paid $45,000 for a speech at RT's 10th Anniversary Gala. He also receives $11,250 from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, and $11,250 from Volga-Dnepr Airlines. He doesn't get prior permission from the Pentagon for this trip or the payments.
Taj Mahal is fined $10 Million for continued money laundering by Treasury’s FinCen unit.
Boris Nemtsov is murdered in the streets of Moscow in the shadow of the Kremlin.
U.S. intel captures discussion by Russians about Trump running for President, when he hasn’t announced his run yet, and talking about multiple contacts they’ve been having with Trump associates and planning to funnel money into the election.
June 17, 2015 -- Trump announces his run for President. He never releases his Taxes, his birth certificate or his school transcripts.
Summer 2015 —Cyber hacking contractors working with the FSB (Cozy Bear) begin infiltrating and extracting copies of documents including the oppo-research on Trump and emails from the DNC servers. Their previous successful attacks include the White House and State Dept. email systems.
They also penetrate some RNC emails accounts and attack various Republicans who oppose Trump in the primaries.
September 2015 — FBI detects the hack and begins trying to inform the DNC, but they start by going to their Help desk not simply calling Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
November 2015 — Felix Sater emails Michael Cohen saying “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected... I know how to play it and how to get this done. Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it... I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
Late 2015 — GCHQ and other western intel agencies from Germany, Poland, Estonia and Australia begin noticing contacts between Russia Spies and members of the Trump campaign. They attempt to notify FBI and CIA who are apparently caught "flat footed.”
January 2016 — Michael Cohen send an email to Putin deputy Dmitry Peskov trying to get talks regarding Trump Tower Moscow restarted.
March 2016 -— US Attorney Preet Bharara prosecutes Russian intelligence officer Evgeny Buryakov an employee of sanctioned Russia bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) of conspiracy to commit espionage in recruiting U.S Businessmen in Manhattan including Carter Page. Page had been cooperating in this investigation as an informant.
FBI receives memo alleging collusion between Loretta Lynch and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to quash the Clinton email investigation — they believe this document is fake.
March 16, 2016 -— John Podesta receives a spearfishing email, his IT people mistakenly tell him that it’s “Legitimate” and his assistant clicks on the link and gives up his password compromising his account.
March 21, 2016 —Trump lists Carter Page & George Papadopoulis as part of his foreign policy team.
March 24, 2016 — Papadopoulis writes an email offering to set up “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity.
March 28, 2016 —Trump hires Paul Manafort to handle the delegate process on his campaign.
April 2016 — GRU Russian military intelligence also attacks the DNC systems with Fancy Bear. The DNC discovers the intrusion and calls in cyber security firm Crowdstrike to address it, they discover both intrusions, briefly monitor them to confirm their ID, then shut them down.
About this time Paul Manafort — former advisor to Putin friendly ex-Ukrainian President Yanakovych who has a close associate with links to the GRU, and who had previous been paid $Millions to allegedy secretly promote Putin’s agenda by Russian aluminum oligarch Oleg Deripaska — becomes Trump campaign chairman.
The Kremlin gives Rep. Dana Rohrabacher instructions to stage a “show trial” in Congress attacking Bill Browder in order to alter the Magnitski Act sanctions on Russia. Rohrabacher is provided a Russian propaganda film against Browder by the Russian Prosecutor Generals Office run by Yuri Chaika, the same person who had jailed Magnitski.
April 27, 2016 -Trump gives his first major foreign policy speech at an event that had been largely arranged by Jeff Sessions Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn, Russian ambassador Kislyak is invited as a special guest, both Trump and Session briefly meet with him at a backstage reception before the speech at the Mayflower Hotel.
Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos writes in an email to campaign manager Corey Lewandowsk he had fielded “a lot of calls over the past month” related to a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russia. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos says in a separate email to Paul Manafort.
May 2016 — US surveillance operations detects Russian Spies vowing to “Get Hillary Clinton” in retaliation for her criticism of Putin’s last election. A GRU Officer is recorded saying they are “getting ready to pay Clinton back for what President Vladimir Putin believed was an influence operation she had run against him five years earlier as Secretary of State”
They also detect them bragging that they have good ties to Michael Flynn and may be able to use him to “influence" Trump.
Obama admin attempts to limit classified information to Flynn.
Russian spies attempt to cultivate Carter Page as an asset, yet again!
FBI obtains a FISA warrant to monitor Page’s communications and possibly on a Trump server in Pennsylvania which keeps being oddly pinged by a server owned by Russia’s Alfa Bank and another owned by the DeVos companies.
Trump backs Brexit says “England is better off without the EU.”
Paul Manafort meets with his assistant from the Ukraine Konstantin Kilimnik, who has alleged ties to the GRU.
Trump releases an attack ad on Hillary claiming she’s “too close to Putin”, WaPo considers if the “Bromance” between Trump and Putin is over? But still Politico reports that Trump is “Putin’s Candidate.”
June 2016 — Russian Think Tank controlled by Putin publishes a blue print to use cyber bots, trolls and social media to push anti-Clinton/pro-Trump propaganda to help swing the election.
Jeff Sessions Chief of staff Rick Dearborn who is an advisor to the Trump campaign writes an email to Lowendowski noting that he’d received and offer from someone referrenced as “WV” to setup a meeting between Trump officials and Putin.
June 2, 2016 — Hillary gives a major speech criticizing Trump’s closeness to Russia and Putin accusing him of praising “dictators like Vladimir Putin” and having a “bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.”
June 3, 2016 — Music Promoter Rob Goldstone emails Don Jr, and says he has information from the Russian Government about shady dealings by Hillary and DNC. Don Jr. says “I Love it” and plans to discuss it further on a phone call and eventually a meeting.
June 7, 2016 — Trump says that he’ll give a major speech about Hillary Clinton’s corruption in a week.
June 9, 2016 —
Donald Jr, Kushner and Manafort secretly meet with a prominent Russia lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower after being offered “dirt” about the Clinton Campaign and the DNC being funded by Russia. The information comes through their Miss Universe Moscow partner Aras Agalarov via his son’s Emin’s promoter Rob Goldstone who had received it directly from the “Crown Prosecutor” [actually the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika] of Russia because the Russian Government “supports Trump.” They also discuss the Russian adoption program in the wake of the Magnitski Act, which is a law that blacklists Russian Human Rights violators.
Later that day Donald tweets for the first time about Clinton’s “33,000 missing emails.”
June 12, 2016 — Julian Assange hints that he’s soon release emails linked to Hillary Clinton.
The Pulse Night Club in Orlando is attacked and 49 people are killed by a frustrated gay Muslim man
June 13, 2016 — Trump blames the Pulse attack on Obama’s sympathy with “Radical Islam” and on immigrants even though the shooter was a native born American citizen born in New Hyde Park, NY.
June 14, 2016 -— Wapo Reports that the DNC has been hacked by the Russian government, DNC goes public about the cyber intrusion.
June 15, 2016 — Guccifer 2.0 releases the DNC’s opposition research file on Donald Trump.
Dana Rohrabacher’s scheduled “show trial” hearing on Bill Browder in opposition to the Magnitski Act is cancelled by his committee chairman.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy jokes behind scenes that the only people Putin pays are Rohrabacher and Trump.
June 16, 2016 — Guccifer 2.0 uses DCLeaks to reveal the first set of hacked DNC emails, they have Cyrillic characters and Russian urls in their metadata
June 17, 2016 — Putin says the Trump is a “bright” individual.[Actually the word he used translates more accurately into “Colorful”]
June 20, 2016 — Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is fired after a controversy where he physically grabbed and yanked a Brietbart reporter away from Trump as she asked a question. At first Corey and the Trump campaign denies it ever happened, but it’s on video — then he claims he would’ve “apologized if he knew she was from Breitbart” but he doesn’t. She files a criminal complaint, but it’s thrown out. He goes to work for CNN while still being paid by Trump.
June 22, 2016 — Trump finally gives his big anti-Clinton speech over a week late, he complains about Benghazi, Free Trade, Temperment and that her “Deleted emails could make her vulnerable to blackmail by hostile states.” He doesn’t mention Russian money going into the DNC.
June 24, 2016 — Brexit Referendum Vote Passes.
Trump is in Scotland for the opening of his Turnberry Golf Course, he says he’s glad Scotland Voted to leave the EU — but they didn’t, England did.
June 27, 2016 — Bill Clinton meets privately with AG Loretta Lynch on her plane at the Pheonix Airport while they are both there during a layover. Reportedly they discuss family, golf and travel, but calls of “obstruction” and “undue influence” — even though there is absolutely no evidence to that effect — eventually cause her to defer any decision on the Clinton email investigation to the FBI.
July 2016 — Business Insider publishes a report on the Kremlin’s Troll army based in St. Petersburg. They pose online as Pro-Trump and Pro-Bernie Americans and incessantly attack Clinton.
Cyber attacks are also made on the DCCC in order to impact House races in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio, Illinois, New Mexico and North Carolina.
Carter Page travels to Moscow, approved by Trump Natsec advisor JD Gordon and Corey Lewandowski, to give several paid speeches.
Former MI-6 agent Christopher Steele while working on oppo-research for a GOP candidate receives intel that Page also has secret meetings with Russian government oil firm Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin who allegedly offers him broker fees on the sale of 19% of Rosneft stock supposedly as a payoff for influencing Trump to drop sanctions on Russia. Page eventually denies all of this.
Steele begins writing memos to the FBI.
U.S. intel intercepts Russian Operatives discussing a request for “Help damaging Clinton’s campaign” from the Trump campaign which mentions Manafort.
July 5, 2016 — Influenced by false email intel generated by the Russians alleging that AG Lynch was “throwing the Clinton case”, and apparently the fact that she has suggested he called the Clinton situation a “matter” rather than an “investigation” — even though DOJ rules prohibit confirming an investigation before it is complete — FBI Director James Comey after announcing that the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s server is complete and no charges will be filed goes on to blast her in an extended public statement.
July 7, 2016 — Comey testifies to Congress about Hillary’s server and manages to debunk just about every Right-wing conspiracy about it.
July 18-21, 2016 — The Republican National Convention takes place during which Trump National Security Advisor J.D. Gordon torpedoes a platform plank supporting the arming of Ukrainian rebels against pro-Russian forces, then lies about it.
Kislyak attends and briefly meets Sessions again at a Heritage Foundation event, as well as Carter Page and J.D. Gordon.
Flynn delivers a speech at the Republican convention, joining in the crowd’s “Lock her up!” chant. “If I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today”
Mike Pence also chants “Lock Her Up” over Hillary’s emails — even though she’s been cleared already — and he himself has AOL for his email for official business as Governor and his account had been hacked.
Flynn fills out his SF-86 form to reactivate his security clearance related to his being selected by Trump as national security advisor. Flynn fails to include that he had received $530,000 from Turkey or that he had taken another $45,000 from Russia in 2015.
July 22, 2016 — One day after end of RNC Wikileaks reveals their first set of DNC emails.
Russia Today, Sputnik News, Breitbart and other right-wing outlets begin doing incessant stories about every little negative revelation in them as well as numerous false and inflammatory rumors these are further pushed by bots and trolls on facebook and twitter until they trend.
The FBI begin to look into the Russia hack based on information from Crowdstrike, they don’t get direct access to DNC servers presumably as that would cause them to shutdown their entire email capability in middle of an election until a replacement set of servers could be installed [I’ve sent a question to the DNC’s Deputy Communications Director on this point, he hasn’t responded yet].
FBI is also looking into links to Trump due to Steele memos and concerns raised by CIA head Brennan.
July 25, 2016 — Democratic Convention starts, because of the brouhaha from the Wikileaks email dump, Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resigns and Donna Brazille takes over, RT/Sputnik heightened and amplified rumors swirl about the DNC “rigging the Primary” for Clinton and against Sanders.
July 26, 2016 — Roger Ailes leaves Fox News amid harassment allegations. Trump defends him.
Wapo reporter Sarah Kendzior asks a Kremlin official about the hacking of DNC emails and he refers the issue to Donald Trump Jr.
July 27, 2016 — Trump asks Russia to hack and/or release Hillary’s missing emails.
July 28, 2016 — Sputnik news claims Wikileaks proves the primary and DNC was rigged against Sanders.
July 31, 2016 — Manafort denies that the Trump campaign made any changes to the RNC platform. Various Trump affiliates will repeat these denials 20 more times before finally admitting the truth; Donald personally ordered the change in a meeting with Gordon during the RNC in which Sessions attended. [If this was done as a pay off to Russia to ensure their continued support in their hacking/propaganda efforts, it proves Donald’s direct involvement in a criminal conspiracy.]
August 2016 —Mikail Kalugin who was linked to pension payment scheme by Steele leaves the U.S., and is later confirmed to have been falsely posing as a diplomat while actually being a spy.
Kilminik again travels to the U.S. and meet with Manafort where they allegedly discuss the DNC hack.
CIA Director Brennen sends an “Eyes Only” private note to the WH for Obama and just 3 senior aids which states that “Putin has ordered a cyber attack to defeat or damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and elect Donald Trump.”
August 4, 2016 — Brennen calls his counterpart Alexander Bortnikov Director of the FSB and issues him a stern warning about the hacking and active measures.
August 9, 2016 — Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm founded by Flynn, signs a contract with Inovo BV, a firm run by a Turkish businessman close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for more than $500,000
August 16, 2016 — Manafort pushes a false RT/Sputnik News story about terrorist sabotage at a NATO base in Turkey. Trump also pushes the same false story.
August 17, 2016 — Trump receives his first classified briefing. Flynn is with him.
August 19, 2016 — Manafort leaves the Trump campaign amidst allegations that he accepted a $12 Million under-the-table cash payment from his former Putin friendly client, ex-Ukraine President Yanakovych. Pollster Kellyanne Conway, who is a Mercer employee, takes over.
August 21, 2016 -— Trump pal Roger Stone tweets “it will soon be Podesta's time in the barrel.” He later claims he was talking about Podesta’s “business dealings” not his email, although Stone had also been sending DM’s to Guccifer 2.0 the public face of Russia’s cyber hacking operation.
September 2016 — Reports are the Russian hackers have attempted to penetrate the voter registration systems in 20 States, 4 were successfully infiltrated.
GOP consultant Aaron Nevins sends a note to Guccifer 2.0 asking if he has anything on Florida Dems, 10 days later he gets 2.5 Gigabits of stolen DCCC data, which confirms the connection between Kremlin intel & Guccifer.
Roger Stone says on Boston Herald Radio that he expects, "Julian Assange and the Wikileaks people to drop a payload of new documents on a weekly basis fairly soon. And that of course will answer the question of exactly what was erased on that email server."
Obama meets Putin at a summit and personally tells him to “Cut it out” with the hacking.
Obama assembles Congress’s “Gang of 12” and informs them of the Russia hack confidentially and asks for a bipartisan public statement in opposition to the attack. Mitch McConnel refuses as he doubts the veracity of the information, no public statement is issued at this time.
Trump transition chair Chris Christie begins to recommend that Flynn be fired after his erratic behavior during a national security briefing.
FBI offers to pay Christopher Steele to continue his work investigating Trump/Russia links.
Jeff Sessions meets privately with Kislyak at his Senate Offices.
Guccifer 2.0 sends Roger Stone a link to a blog post on manipulating voter turnout.
Ignoring McConnel and other Republicans Sen Feinstein and Rep Schiff issue a joint statement revealing the Russia cyber attack.
One week later McConnell and other Reps issues a tepid statement warning state election boards to remain “secure from attack.”
October 2016 — The Russian Think Tank publishes another paper, this one saying the Clinton is likely to win the election, so the online influence campaign needs to focus on claims that the election was “rigged” or “stolen” due to voter fraud.
Trump starts saying the only way he could lose Pennsylvania is because of “Voter Fraud.” and mentions the information revealed by Wikileaks 164 times over the next month.
The FEC unanimously agrees to prioritize investigations into foreign spending.
Around this time before election day NSA detects that the GRU has launched a set of cyber attacks on state and local election registration systems. Some are penetrated.
Kushner Co receives a $285 Million loan from Duetsche Bank for their Times Square building that was facing charges for not stopping Russian money-laundering on the premesis.
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