This document’s purpose is to compile all the info I have gathered from every available source (Reddit, twitter, media, etc) on the Trump-Russia connection. I’m not out for conspiracy theories, anything without a reputable source will not be included. My only goal here is to inform. I will continue to improve this document as I go. If you feel I missed anything important, or find any errors, or have any suggestions please let me know.
PostimusMaximus
reddit.com/r/TrumpInvestigation and my twitter will be the home for this document and anything else related I work on.
Dates preceding a given point are most often when the Source was written, not the date of the event being discussed.
Anything mentioned in the Dossier listed off of the Dossier page will be red. I’ve included these for the purpose of seeing plausible links, they are not to be taken as proven fact.
Anything in normal text is a story or report from normal reputable sources (or direct tweets).
Sources are hyperlinked at the end of a given bullet point. Sometimes a link will be featured multiple times in the document in each relevant section or bullet points.
Anything added or updated with the latest doc update will be followed by: (unless I’m provided with a better suggestion)
I encourage you to follow through with the sources. I gave very short descriptions for the sake of keeping the document readable and as you can see it’s still excessive in length. This will hopefully give a clean overview, but the sources will provide you with the full picture of how extensive things are. Feedback may result in me typing up more extensive in document form as opposed to relying on sources to provide the bulk of the information.
Donald Trump JR “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia”
“I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!”
“"I have plans to start business in Russia," Trump said, "I am currently in talks with several Russian companies to build a skyscraper on the model of Trump Tower in New York." The businessman did not name his partners or the size of the investment.”
Trump appears in a music video by the son of Aras Agalarov.
“"What do I have to do with Russia? You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach, Florida... for $40 million and I sold it to a Russian for $100 million including brokerage commissions."
Trump asks Russia to hack Hillary publicly.
Trump campaign specifically pushes pro-Putin move to Republican platform (Under Manafort)
Donald Trump gave an interview Thursday that aired on a television station funded by the Kremlin, arguing that the Russian government was "probably" not meddling in the American presidential race.
In May 2014, the CNI hosted a roundtable discussion at which the director of the Kremlin-backed Institute for Democracy and Cooperation strongly defended Russia’s position in Ukraine. In April, Trump chose the CNI as the venue for his first major foreign policy speech, and the audience included Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.
How did an alleged and notorious Russian mobster connected to an illegal international gambling ring run out of Trump Tower end up as a special guest at a Donald Trump event in Moscow in 2013?
Sergei Millian claims he helped market Trump Condos in Russia.
Trump brought Ms. Universe Pageant to Russia. Was paid for by Aras Agalarov, a man allegedly close ties to Putin.
NYT report looking at Trump trying to get real-estate deals in Russia over 3 decades.
Abe says Trump encouraged him to boost ties, dialogue with Putin to resolve territorial issue.
Trump Reverses Pledge To Mandate U.S. Steel For Keystone Pipeline. A Direct Beneficiary Is A Russian Oligarch With Close Ties To Vladimir Putin
Ivanka was at a party in Russia with the wife of Putin Pal/Rosneft investor who is supplying the steel.
Kusher was also on this trip with Ivanka.
Ivanka and Kusher went to the US open with Abramovich's wife.
“Trump personally met with the Russian ambassador on April 27, 2016, prior to a major foreign policy speech. The Wall Street Journal, in a report that was little-noticed at the time” Trump used the speech to call for warmer relations with Russia.
“Almost all of the oligarchs were in the room,” Trump bragged to Real Estate Weekly upon returning home.”
Trump claims to have gotten a gift from Putin. “"You know, I was in Moscow a couple of months ago. I own the Miss Universe Pageant and they treated me so great. Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present."
Trump claims he met Putin. “Yes, a long time ago," Trump said. "[Putin and I] got along great, by the way."”
Trump denies having a relationship with Putin.
“I don’t know Putin. He has said nice things about me”
“Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and WE tried to play the Russia/CIA card? It would be called conspiracy theory!”
“Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” -
“I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy - yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1 in terror, no problem!
In press conference following Flynn resignation Trump yet again denies links to Russia.
“I have nothing to do with Russia,” he told reporters. “To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.
Trump says “I haven’t called Russia in 10 years”
“James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!”
“The Democrats made up and pushed the Russian story as an excuse for running a terrible campaign. Big advantage in Electoral College & lost!”
“The real story that Congress, the FBI and all others should be looking into is the leaking of classified information. Must find leaker now!” -
“What about all of the contact with the Clinton campaign and the Russians? Also, is it true that the DNC would not let the FBI in to look?”
“"Look at Putin -- what he's doing with Russia -- I mean, you know, what's going on over there. I mean this guy has done -- whether you like him or don't like him -- he's doing a great job in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia period”
“Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?” -
“I am not angry at Russia (or China) because their leaders are far smarter than ours. We need real leadership, and fast, before it is too late”
“I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire. He has zero respect for Obama or the U.S.!” -
“Putin has become a big hero in Russia with an all time high popularity. Obama, on the other hand, has fallen to his lowest ever numbers. SAD” -
“So what I would do—as an example, I own Miss Universe, I was in Russia, I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.”
“America is at a great disadvantage. Putin is ex-KGB, Obama is a community organizer. Unfair.”
“I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so. People say what do you mean? I just think we would. Obama and him, he hates Obama. Obama hates him. We have unbelievably bad relationships.”
“I’ve always felt fine about Putin. I think that he’s a strong leader”
"If Putin respects me and if Putin wants to call me brilliant and other things that he said that were frankly very nice, I'll accept that, and I'll accept it on behalf of our country,”
“"If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him," the Republican nominee said. “I’ve already said he is very much of a leader. The man has very strong control over his country”
Trump defends Putin in interview with Joe Scarborough. "He's running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country," Trump said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I think our country does plenty of killing also."
Trump says he’s never seen proof of Putin killing Journalists on ABC.
““He’s not going into Ukraine,” Trump said. “He’s not going to go into Ukraine. You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” “He’s already there isn’t he?” Stephanopoulos said. “Well, he’s there in a certain way,”
Trump recently defended Putin from being called a killer.
“Who was it that secretly said to Russian President, "Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?" @foxandfriends”
“For eight years Russia "ran over" President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak! “
Red names have resigned while being investigated over Russian ties.
Tillerson (Secretary of State) - Very close to Putin.
Flynn (Former National Security Advisor) - Seems to have a relationship with Putin.
Paul Manafort (Former campaign Advisor) - Seems to have ties to Russia.
Carter Page (Former Trump Advisor) - Has close ties to Putin.
Felix Sater (Trump Associate) - Russian born with ties to Bayrock (Russian Oligarchs)
Jack Kingston (Former Trump Surrogate) - Has a relationship with Russia.
Sergei Millian (Trump Associate)-Millian is a Russian Businessman.
Rick Gates (Former Trump Advisor) - Worked with Manafort pro-Russia Lobbying firm.
Boris Epshteyn(Former Trump Surrogate/advisor)- Russian born, seems to defend Russia.
Roger Stone (Trump Ally) - Has relationship with Assange/positive views on Russia
Wilbur Ross (Trump Commerce Secretary) - Has a relationship with Russia.
Howard Lurber( Trump Economic Advisor) - Major Russia investor.
Mike McSherry(Convention Strategy Lead) -pro-Russia Ukrainian lobby.
Richard Burt (Former Trump Advisor) - Sits on advisory board for Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Ivanka Trump (Daughter) - Ivanka vacationed with Putin’s rumored girlfriend.
Donald Trump Jr (Son) - Met with Pro-Russia Diplomats in Paris to discuss Syria.
Trump Dossier leaks. He's possibly being blackmailed.
Trump denies the Dossier “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
“Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!” -
“Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!”
“Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans - FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists.”
Trump asked Clapper to refute the Dossier.
The day after Flynn speaks with Russia Trump tweets “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!”
Story breaks that Trump knew for weeks that Flynn lied and didn’t say anything.
Trump tweets “This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.”
Trump says he didn’t direct Flynn to talk sanctions with Russia, but would have.
Fox news Correspondent John Roberts confirms Trump was fully briefed on the conversation Flynn had with Russian ambassadors.
“Before I, or anyone, saw the classified and/or highly confidential hacking intelligence report, it was leaked out to @NBCNews. So serious!”
“Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?”
“released by "Intelligence" even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days!”
Following the Flynn Scandal: “The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?”
“information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia”
"The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW,”
Some of the tweets or statements listed here are listed elsewhere but it seemed important to note the trend in his response to list them all together.
Trump denies the Dossier “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
Trump tweets “This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.”
“FAKE NEWS media, which makes up stories and "sources," is far more effective than the discredited Democrats - but they are fading fast!”
“The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!” -
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”
Trump at CPAC attacks the use of anonymous sources and the media (Following story of Priebus pressuring FBI to deny Russia story.
News orgs blocked from attending White House Gaggle, seeming those banned were those who had broken stories on the Trump-Russia connection. Buzzfeed, NYT, Politco, CNN, WaPo.
“Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!”
“Just watched the totally biased and fake news reports of the so-called Russia story on NBC and ABC. Such dishonesty!”
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping Trump tower in a series of tweets. 1. Source 2. Source 3. Source 4.
An Obama spokesperson has stated this is “simply false”
“Donald F. McGahn II, the president’s chief counsel, was working to secure access to what Mr. McGahn believed to be an order issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorizing some form of surveillance related to Mr. Trump and his associates.”
Multiple GOP Reps/Sens call on Trump to share info to support his claims.
Sean Spicer tweets out that Trump is requesting Senate Intel Committee as part of their Russia investigation to look into possible abuse of power by executive branch in 2016. No additional comments will be given.
Clapper denies a wiretap of Trump tower.
“White House spokeswoman: Trump doesn't believe Comey that Obama didn't wiretap.
Comey asks Justice Dept to reject Trump’s wiretapping claim.
Comey was frustrated that his request for DOJ to knock down the story went unanswered over the weekend, according to the source familiar with the matter, and the FBI director is still trying to figure an appropriate channel for the FBI and DOJ to formally come out and say the allegations are not true.
Trump administration wants more time to give Intel committee wiretapping proof.
Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping
Ryan, Senate Intel committee see no evidence of Trump wiretap.
Spicer says Trump ‘stands by’ unproven allegation that Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower.
British Spy Service Says Claim That It Wiretapped President Trump Is 'Utterly Ridiculous'.
Trump Offers No Apology for Claim on British Spying.
Justice Dept. delivers documents on wiretap claim to Congress.
Zero evidence for Donald Trump's wiretap claim in Justice Department review, house intelligence chairman says.
FBI director expected to undercut Trump claims of wiretapping.
Comey and Rogers deny any wiretap during hearing with Intel Committee.
* The reason I have included this is because it might very well pertain to completely LEGAL FISA warrants the FBI had gotten in the investigation related to Trump and his associates over Russia. They attempted to obtain a FISA on 3 separate occasions, and were successful on the third attempt on Oct 15 2016, when a FISA was granted on
Putin gives award to Aras Agalarov, an individual Trump seems to associate with.
Experts say Russian propaganda helped spread fake news during election, favoring Trump.
Putin was invited to attend Trump’s Miss Universe pageant but had to decline last minute, instead sending a gift.
Russia confirms it had communication with Trump during campaign.
Truth about Manafort coming out seemed to anger Russia, they blame Ukraine for “sabotaging Trump”.
Russia denies any talks with US about lifting sanctions in a peculiar tweet. Source *Small note on why that tweet may be peculiar.
Russia now denies it had communication with Trump. (Post Flynn Resignation.)
Russia looks to exploit white house “turbulence” analysts say.
Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings.
Kislyak spoke with Flynn in regards to sanctions in December.
Kislyak spoke with JD. Gordon and Carter Page at the Rep. National convention as well as additional Trump campaign members.
Kislyak spoke with Kusher and Flynn at Trump tower in December 2016.
Kislyak had met with Trump in April prior to a foreign policy speech which called for warmer relations with Russia.
Russian ambassador denied meeting with Trump or campaign officials in October speech.
Kislyak is considered by US intelligence to be one of Russia's top spies and spy-recruiters in Washington.
Russia denies its US ambassador is a spy.
Kremlin denies any knowledge of Ukraine peace plan with Trump Administration
Russia denies the claims in the Dossier.
Russia purges people in charge of intel (FSB). Multiple arrests/charges of treason following the Dossier leak and new sanctions.
Additional FSB members charged with Treason following new FBI announcements.
(ex-KGB chief and Aide to Igor Sechin who now heads Rosneft) who was suspected of helping with Dossier is found dead in his car.
Churkin had met with Trump twice. First time was inviting him to the USSR in 1986.
Churkin oddly defends Trump at the UN. “A senior U.N. diplomat familiar with the discussion said Churkin specifically "condemned the fact that Zeid mentioned Trump." (Churkin denies this happened)
Medical examiners who performed an autopsy on Russia's ambassador to the UN said Tuesday that more tests are needed to determine how and why he fell ill in his office and later died.
State Dept asked NYC Medical Examiner not to disclose cause of death of Russian UN ambassador who died last month. Source (nyt tweet until article is posted)
Oronov is said to be who organized the peace plan set up by Cohen, Sater and Flynn. He’s also the father-in-law of Michael Cohen’s brother and is a partner in a business the Cohen brother’s set up in Ukraine.
Petr Polshikov, Russian Diplomat, found in his home with a gunshot wound to the head.
Yves Chandelon, Nato Auditor General found in his car with gunshot wound to the head.
Andrey Malanin, head of consular section, found dead in his apartment under mysterious circumstances.
Andrei Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaşan, an off-duty Turkish police officer.
Sergei Krivov, Russian security agent in charge of “Prevention of Sabotage” falls from a building under mysterious circumstances.
MOSCOW — Exxon Mobil won a coveted prize in the global petroleum industry Tuesday with an agreement to explore for oil in a Russian portion of the Arctic Ocean that is being opened for drilling even as Alaskan waters remain mostly off limits. (In Partnership with Rosneft).
Sanctions on Russia have crippled the Russian economy.
Exxon (Tillerson) has numerous deals with Rosneft and potentially hundreds of billions tied up by sanctions.
Russia sells 19.5% Rosneft, identity of purchaser is unknown (as mentioned in Dossier).
CEO of Rosneft Sechin supposedly offered former Trump Advisor Page brokerage of 19% in exchange for sanctions being lifted. (Mentioned in Dossier).
Rosneft, an oil corporation majority-owned by the Russian government, says it has the right to claim an ownership stake in U.S. oil company Citgo Petroleum if Citgo’s cash-strapped parent company defaults on billions in loans.
The leader of the California independence movement lives in Russia.
Two officers with the Russian intelligence service FSB — at least one them from a unit designed to fight cybercrime — directed a far-reaching hacking and espionage scheme that targeted Yahoo users.
You can read the official US charges here :
Deutsche bank was fined for Russian-Money laundering.
Jared Kushner’s Kushner Companies landed a $370 million loan from Deutsche Bank and SL Green Realty to refinance its 250,000-square foot retail condominium on West 43rd Street.
European banks may reach faster, less costly settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice as a result of Donald Trump’s unexpected triumph in the U.S. presidential election, according to Barclays Plc analysts.
Trump was loaned over a billion dollars from Deutsch Bank.
Trump May Have a $300 Million Conflict of Interest With Deutsche Bank.
hit bank that loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump has conducted a close internal examination of the US president’s personal account to gauge whether there are any suspicious connections to Russia, the Guardian has learned.
“I love WikiLeaks,” he told listeners during a campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Trump seemingly praises Wikileaks for exposing Hillary.
“Julian Assange said “a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta” - why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!” -
Roger Stone, a Trump Ally and former member of the Campaign has communication with Assange, often knows about incoming leaks ahead of time.
Wikileaks released 20k emails the day after Republican National Convention.
Assange goes on RT (Russian propaganda news). When asked if he’s supporting Trump says Trump “Would not be permitted to win” and that everyone was assisting Hillary and proceeds to attack Hillary.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, says the WikiLeaks release seems to be timed purposefully for a moment of weakness for President Trump.
Assange claims on twitter that Hillary Clinton with the help of two intelligence officials were pushing to make Pence take over Presidency.
Russia Today gives Assange his own TV talk show.
Wikileaks release excludes evidence of €2B transfer from Syria to Russia.
Report on how Russia often benefits from Wikileaks by NYT.
Additional articles covering connections of Wikileaks to Russia :
(Immediately after Trump’s bad week) Wikileaks dumps info on CIA hacking tools, including those which can match “fingerprints” of stolen Malware from places like Russia.
Unsurprisingly this gets promoted on numerous Russian Propaganda sites. Source and
NBC News national security analyst Jeremy Bash joins TODAY to discuss WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of documents that reveal the CIA’s playbook for hacking. He says that “WikiLeaks has become in effect an agent of the Russian Federation.
This section has been added to look closer at Comey, the Trump campaign and the events surrounding the email October Surprise that likely led to Trump’s victory. There’s some key points that are relevant to the Russia discussion.
“"I think my father-in-law forced their hand in this,” Lara Trump said in an interview with Rita Cosby on WABC radio.”
“But although Mr. Comey told Congress this summer that the Clinton investigation was complete, he believed that if word of the new emails leaked out — and it was sure to leak out, he concluded — he risked being accused of misleading Congress and the public ahead of an election, colleagues said.”
Giuliani hinted at October surprise, knowledge of things coming from FBI.
Trump group at the FBI intensified after Comey decision to not recommend indictment of Clinton.
A Russian hacker, Yevgeniy Nikulin, was picked up by the FBI in Prague. Formspring, one of the sites he allegedly hacked, was the platform used for sexting by Anthony Weiner, the former New York mayoral candidate and husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s closest aide. The discovery of emails linked to Clinton on Weiner’s laptop damaged her campaign in its final two weeks after the FBI director, James Comey, revealed their existence.
Justice Department: Yevgeniy Nikulin Indicted for Hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring.
Official paperwork :
Ex-Director of CIA “In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” -
Clapper speaks with Trump regarding leaks, dossier, intel reports.
Last April, the CIA director was shown intelligence that worried him. It was - allegedly - a tape recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into the US presidential campaign. It was passed to the US by an intelligence agency of one of the Baltic States. The CIA cannot act domestically against American citizens so a joint counter-intelligence taskforce was created.
Current and Former American Officials confirm the Trump campaign had contact with Russia.
Our own Intel agencies and spies are withholding information from the White House because of the concern that it has been compromised by Russia.
“US intel community ready to go nuclear against Trump over Russia ties, claims former NSA analyst.
Report comes out that Trump called CIA director angry about report of them withholding information. CIA denies.
But sources told CBS News there is a “chill” in the flow of intelligence to the White House, both because of comments from the president about the intelligence community and anxiety over the handling of sensitive information about Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Day after Kislyak met with Trump camp Department of Homeland Security began preparing a nationwide warning about foreign intelligence officials attempting to elicit information from U.S. government personnel.
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden isn’t ready to say there’s a direct link between Russia and President Trump or his campaign — but, he says, “there’s a lot of smoke.”
Is Trump Being Investigated? ‘No Comment,’ Justice Dept. Says.
Intelligence expert Malcolm Nance on Trump scandal: “As close to Benedict Arnold as we’re ever going to get”
The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's campaign, US officials told CNN.
US Allies have now also Intercepted Russia-Trump Advisor Communications.
American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump, according to three former American officials who requested anonymity in discussing classified intelligence.
Comey gives a briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors.
The Senate Intelligence Committee sends formal requests to more than a dozen organizations and agencies asking them to preserve all material related to the investigation into Russian interference in 2016 election and related issues.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday she wants former national security adviser Michael Flynn to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“Top democratic senator on Russia investigation : “This may very well be the most important thing I do in my public life “
Ark., told Chuck Todd on "Meet The Press" on Sunday that he felt they would be getting "way, way getting ahead of ourselves" to say a special prosecutor was necessary.
GOP Intel Chair Burr under fire over ties to Trump.
Former CIA Officer John Sipher “Russians have been doing this for decades, If not hundreds of years, it’s what they do.”
Panel reaches written agreement on scope of investigation into Trump.
Rep Schiff accuses Comey of withholding information on Russia Probe.
Nunes- “I would assume that because it's quite complicated as it relates to, if, for example, you were on the phone with the Russian ambassador and somehow your phone call got recorded, would you want them turning over that phone call and that transcript to the committee?”
The Senate Intelligence Committee will gain access this week to the "raw intelligence" relevant to Congress' probe of Russia's role in the presidential election, Sen. Chris Coons said Monday.
Intelligence Committee contacts Carter Page and asks him to preserve all information related to his involvement in Trump campaign and Russia.
/ “Sen Cornyn says he saw at CIA four large binders of information given to his colleagues for a bipartisan probe about Russian interference.”
House schedules first hearing on March 20th.
Schiff seeks Trump dossier author testimony.
Rep Swalwell added part of his site focusing on Trump and Russia.
Comey meets with senators on matters related to Trump Tower.
“From everything that I can see, his conversations with the Russian ambassador, he was doing this country a favor, and he should be thanked for it,” Mr. Nunes said.
Intel Comm asked FBI, CIA, NSA to provide names of people whose names were "incidentally" collected. With Threat of subpoena if deadline not met.
Senate Intelligence chairman plans public hearing on Russia.
Senators ask Roger Stone to preserve Russia-Related Documents.
Rep. Schiff: “Circumstantial Evidence of Collusion”, Between Trump Campaign and Russia.
Nunes in an interview with Fox states one person still at the White House is under investigation/Surveillance. (This may have been classified?)
Nunes claims no evidence of collusion.
"surprised' ex-DNI Clapper said he'd seen no evidence of Trump/Russia collusion; "not consistent with what I've reviewed"
Nunes seems to leak information about members of Trump team being incidentally collected, informs Ryan and White House.
Schiff holds a conference following Nunes leak.
In a sharply worded statement, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said it was a “profound irregularity” for Nunes to bring these claims to Trump in the middle of an ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the election, which includes a probe into ties between Trump allies and Russian officials.
Schiff: There is now 'more than circumstantial evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion.
King: Trump Surveillance Report Shows 'Shameful' Intel Violations.
Nunes apologizes to House Committee members.
“I haven’t called Russia in 10 years,” Trump told a reporter who asked him whether a special prosecutor should carry out an investigation.
Sean Spicer knocked down calls for a special prosecutor “We have now for six months have heard story after story about unnamed sources say the same thing over and over again and nothing came of it.
White House lawyers have instructed the president's aides to preserve materials that could be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 election and other related investigations, three administration officials said Wednesday.
"There is no reason that we have to think that the president is the target of any investigation whatsoever," Spicer said at a news briefing.
Trump feels “Somewhat vindicated” after Nunes Briefing.
The White House contacted the FBI to knock down Russia stories, FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories.
White house defends contact with FBI over Russia Reports.
In an interview, Burr acknowledged that he “had conversations about” Russia-related news reports with the White House and engaged with news organizations to dispute articles -
Cia Directon Brennan: “It has been my experience working with Jim that he would not do anything that was going to in any way compromise the integrity of an ongoing investigation”.
“Trump spokesman says FBI called links ‘BS’ but agency has yet to comment”
Devin Nunes, one of the senators the White House contacted to knock down stories says he hasn’t found evidence of Trump team’s ties to Russia.
Sessions said Monday that he wasn’t aware that FBI Director James Comey and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had contact with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus about a New York Times report contending that those around Trump had contacts with Russian intelligence officials. )
Priebus talk with FBI appears to break White House rules.
Minority Whip Dick Durbin wants independent probes into Trump-Russia.
Rep Darrel Issa backs calls for special prosecutor “if justified”
George W. Bush on Trump and Russia : “We all need answers”
AG Jeff Sessions says he’ll recuse himself on Russia Probe “if needed”
Ky.) is pushing back on calls for a special prosecutor.
Paul Ryan “We need answers” on alleged ties between Trump and Russia.
Newt Gingrich “Independent investigator needed for Trump-Russia Probe.
House GOP defeats resolution requesting Trump-Russia documents.
Mccain says he believes “a lot more shoes to drop” in regards to Russia.
“McCain: Select Committee on Russia Now A ‘Requirement’.
Slate reports about suspicious server activity at Trump tower communicating with Russian banks. Source (Reports since have claimed this communication resulted in a FISA on Alfa-bank + SVB Bank)
Multiple members of the Trump campaign are known to have been under investigation and may still be (Manafort, Page, and Stone).
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing at least three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential elections, according to five current and former government officials with direct knowledge of the situation.
Sen. Coons “believes” the FBI has transcripts involving Trump-Russia communication.
Two leading members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are asking the FBI and the Justice Department to hand over any warrant applications related to possible wiretaps of Donald Trump and his team after the president accused his predecessor of illegally tracking his conversations.
Graham ready to subpoena for Trump wiretap information.
FBI investigation continues into “odd” computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization. Source . (Sources currently tell CNN there is no FISA on the server)
Comey meets with senators on matters related to Trump Tower.
FBI counterintel division has 15-20 agents on Russia probe. Info regularly briefed to FBI's "highest levels."
FBI to brief Graham on any surveillance related to Trump.
Comey will testify publicly on Russia investigation next week.
Sen. Feinstein on meeting with FBI Dir. Comey: "This briefing was all on sensitive matters and highly classified".
Grassley Refuses To Confirm DOJ Nom Until He Gets Full Briefing On Russia.
Alfa Bank, one of the banks said to be named in the FISA is now saying hackers are attempting to frame it with new server activity.
Comey has officially announced Investigation into possible cooperation between Trump Campaign and Russia.
influence probe includes a look at Breitbart, InfoWars news sites.
Conway suggests Trump doesn’t know the individuals being investigated.
Russian bank sends threatening letter to computer scientist who called for Trump investigation.
FISA warrants require evidence of probable cause that the target is an “agent of a foreign power”
Louise Mensch reported this much earlier but due to the source not being a well-known news source I did not originally provide it. But if you wish you can view it here :
“FBI applied for a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance (FISA) court over the summer in order to monitor four members of the Trump team suspected of irregular contacts with Russian officials. The FISA court turned down the application asking FBI counterintelligence investigators to narrow its focus.”
“On October the 15th, the US secret intelligence court issued a warrant to investigate two Russian banks. This news was given to me by several sources and corroborated by someone I will identify only as a senior member of the US intelligence community.”
The FBI attempted to obtain a FISA on 3 separate occasions, and were successful on the third attempt on Oct 15 2016, when a FISA was granted on
Nunes named as part of Trump transition team.
Nunes began assisting Trump campaign in March, grew close with Flynn, and recommended national security position posts.
Nunes defends Trump on CNN, cites CIA leaks.
Nunes is asked by Trump to knock down Trump-Russia stories.
Nunes claims he has seen no evidence of Russian officials communicating with Trump. ““As of right now, I don’t have any evidence of any phone calls. It doesn’t mean they don’t exist … What I’ve been told by many folks is that there’s nothing there,” Nunes said.”
Nunes says he won’t subpoena Page, Stone, Manafort. Warns against McCarthyism Witch-Hunt.
Nunes spends most of his questions during the initial House Intelligence meeting with Comey/Rogers trying to clear Trump/Republicans of any wrongdoing.
Nunes claims he’s never heard of Carter Page or Roger Stone, despite previously saying he would not subpoena them.
Nunes comes forward with information, immediately brings the information to Trump before sharing with HISCI. Claims US had incidental collection of communications of Trump transition team members.
Advisor/Social Media Manager to Trump praises Nunes for being loyal to Trump.
“It was extremely odd that he showed up in a tuxedo to the Russian government propaganda arm’s party,” one former Pentagon official told me.” -
Flynn, like Trump, seems to defend Putin from being called a killer. Source(Video)
Flynn seemingly has a relationship with Putin., was paid to speak in Russia
Trump adviser had five calls with Russian envoy on day of sanctions.
Flynn along with Kushner met with Russian envoy at Trump tower.
Flynn was being investigated by the FBI as recently as December.
Officials claim Flynn discussed sanctions with Russia before Trump took office.
Story breaks that Flynn supposedly may have discussed sanctions with Russia.
3PM EST Kellyane Conway states Trump has “Full confidence” in Flynn.
10PM EST- Story breaks that The White House was warned by Yates in late Jan about Flynn communication with Russia and could be vulnerable to blackmail.
11PM EST - Flynn resigns amidst Russia call Scandal.
Story breaks that Trump knew for weeks that Flynn lied and didn’t say anything.
Flynn denied discussing sanctions in FBI interview, however, “Senior Justice and intelligence officials who have reviewed the phone call thought Flynn’s statements to Kislyak were inappropriate, if not illegal, because he suggested that the Kremlin could expect a reprieve from the sanctions.”
Flynn changed stories to FBI but no charges expected.
Flynn admits to being an “agent of a foreign government” and actively working as a lobbyist for Turkey.
Flynn writes Pro-Erdogan piece.
Turkish Client Paid Trump Adviser Michael Flynn’s Company “Tens of Thousands” of Dollars for Lobbying.
Donald Trump was unaware his former national security adviser Michael Flynn was working as a “foreign agent” when he gave him the job, according to his press secretary.
Pence claims he was not aware and had only heard reports as they surfaced Thursday in interview with Fox.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent Pence a letter on November 18 requesting more information about the potential conflicts of interest posed by Flynn's lobbying work.
The White House has confirmed the president's transition team was informed before Inauguration Day that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn might need to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department.
Flynn Disclosed Working as a Foreign Agent to Trump Team Twice.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn paid an ex-FBI agent at the center of one of Hillary Clinton’s email scandals as part of his lobbying work, newly filed financial disclosures show.
F.B.I. Official Acknowledges Role in New Clinton Email Controversy. Source.
Mike Flynn was paid by Russia's top cybersecurity firm while he still had top-secret-level security clearance.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was paid more than $67,000 by Russian companies before the presidential election, according to documents released Thursday by a Democratic congressman.
Gordon was heavily involved in changing Trump campaign- GOP platform on Ukraine-Russia stance.
CNN’s Jim Acosta in a series of tweets- “Former Trump campaign national security advisor JD Gordon tells me he and other national security advisors met with Russian Ambassador in Cleveland during GOP convention., Gordon says he discussed goal to forge better US relationship with Russia. But there was no conversation about Russians helping Trump camp. At convention Gordon says he and others advocated for GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels”.
Gordon tells Acosta the change in GOP platform on Ukraine was Trump’s idea.
Donald Trump campaign spoke with Russian Ambassador about closer cooperation five months before election. “It was maximum five minutes.”
Numerous reports related to Trump and Bayrock in NY can be found here.
A replica of Bayrock/Sapir’s Trump Soho hotel may be Moscow’s first big new hotel in ten years. Alex Sapir and Rotem Rosen of the Sapir Organization, co-developers on the Soho hotel at 246 Spring Street, met with Russian developer Aras Agalarov and Donald Trump over the weekend to discuss plans for the new project — Trump’s first in Russia.
Donald Trump Settled a Real Estate Lawsuit, and a Criminal Case Was Closed.
Bayrock funded multiple Trump projects Worldwide Company practically embedded with him.
Trump had numerous deals and made millions off of partnership with Bayrock via Felix Sater and Arif Tevfik.
Mr. Trump said that the two had discussed “numerous deals all over the world” and that Mr. Arif had brought potential Russian investors to Mr. Trump’s office to meet him.
Arif worked for the USSR's Ministry of Commerce and Trade for 17 years.
Trump walks out of BBC interview when pressured about relationship with Sater.
ABC investigative report on Trump’s relationship with Sater.
“Mr. Trump has sought to distance himself from Mr. Sater in recent years. If Mr. Sater “were sitting in the room right now,” Mr. Trump said in a 2013 deposition, “I really wouldn’t know what he looked like.” -
Sater has links to the Russian Mob.
Sater donates $5,400 to the Trump campaign and visited Trump tower for “confidential reasons”.
Felix Sater has testified that he joined Bayrock, controlled by Tevfik Arif, around 2002. Bayrock was based in Trump Tower. In a sworn deposition in 2008, Sater testified that he would pitch business ideas to Trump ("just me and him") and his team ("on a constant basis").
A Manhattan judge has unsealed a civil tax fraud case brought in behalf of New York State against associates of Donald Trump. The suit accuses convicted racketeer and Felix Sater, Bayrock Group, and prominent law firms of conspiring to launder as much as $250 million dollars of profit on Trump projects Bayrock was co-developing out of the country in a scheme to evade $100 million dollars of state and federal income tax.
Russian-born businessman and director of Bayrock Group LLC, a firm preferred by Russian oligarchs.
“Mr. Sater, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump’s with connections in Russia, was willing to help Mr. Artemenko’s proposal reach the White House.”
Trump Soho financed by Bayrock, an Icelandic firm preferred by Russian Oligarchs with ties to Putin.
Kusner (and Ivanka) have a relationship with with Abramovich's wife. Source and Source
Mr. Kushner’s company also bought several floors of the old New York Times building for $295 million in 2015 from Lev Leviev, an Israeli who is chairman of one of the largest real estate development companies in Russia and close friend to Putin.
Flynn along with Kushner met with Russian envoy, Kislyak, at Trump tower.
Ivanka Trump to get top security clearance and office in WH, going against earlier claims she would not.
Ivanka has a relationship with with Abramovich's wife. Source and Source
Ivanka Trump’s Website Promotes A Russian App That Quietly Tracks Your Location.
Kaspersky, the company that designed the app has close ties to Russian spies.
Russia Arrests Kaspersky Cybercrime Hunter In 'Treason Probe'.
“Trump Jr. noted that he traveled to Russia six times in 18 months, and “several buyers have been attracted to our projects there and everything associated therewith.”
Donald Trump’s eldest son, emerging as a potential envoy for the president-elect, held private discussions with diplomats, businessmen and politicians in Paris last month that focused in part on finding a way to cooperate with Russia to end the war in Syria.
Three weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump Jr. left the campaign trail and the country to speak at a private dinner in Paris organized by an obscure pro-Russia group that promotes Kremlin foreign policy initiatives and has since nominated Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Donald Trump Jr. was likely paid at least $50,000 USD for event held by Hosts allied with Russia on Syria.
A week (or less) after NYT article on secret ledger payments drops Manafort “resigns”
Manafort is still a resident of Trump tower after he resigns.
Manafort seems to be the reason Trump ended up picking Pence.
Sources claim Manafort is still working with the Trump campaign, heavily communicating with Pence.
How Paul Manafort wielded power in Ukraine before advising Trump.
Seemingly has ties to Russia (and received undisclosed payments from Russia).
Manafort denies any knowledge of investigation by the FBI.
Truth about Manafort coming out seemed to anger Russia, they blame Ukraine for “sabotaging Trump”.
Dmytro Firtrash, a Ukrainian Oligarch with ties to Paul Manafort is facing extradition to the US.
Manafort faced blackmail attempt in regards to his relationship with Russia.
Manafort’s Ukrainian “Blood money” caused qualms hack suggests.
If you wish to read the hacked information mentioned in the above article you can find it here, though obviously it being hacked information I cannot validate the source.
An associate of an ex-Trump campaign chairman is suspected of connections to Russian intelligence.
A Ukrainian human rights attorney representing the victims of mass police shootings in Kiev in 2014 has asked prosecutors to investigate what are purported to be the hacked text messages of one of Paul Manafort's daughters, saying the texts point to possible influence Manafort had with Ukraine's president during that period.
Former Trump campaign Chief Paul Manafort wanted for questioning in Ukraine corruption case.
Manafort sought for questioning - in D.C. and Kiev.
New documents show Trump aide laundered payments from party with Moscow ties, lawmaker alleges
Sen. Mark Warner: We have to talk to Paul Manafort.
Former Trump aide Manafort hires crisis communications firm.
Before Trump job, Manafort worked to aid Putin
U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned.
Gates worked with the Trump campaign and was meant to be a “liaison between RNC and Trump campaign”
Manafort is gone, but his business associate remains a key part of Trump’s operation.
Rick Gates, who was identified as an agent of a Ukrainian oligarch in a 2011 racketeering lawsuit that also named Manafort
Worked with Paul Manafort’s Pro-Russian Ukrainian lobbying firm.
Trump names Carter Page when questioned about who is on his foreign policy team, (He was previously a mostly unknown name)
Page holds a conference in Moscow. Claims to know Trump. (Also speaks of Tillerson before Trump makes formal announcement in NY?
Page was among Trump campaign members to speak with Kislyak at Rep. National Convention.
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski approved foreign policy adviser Carter Page’s now-infamous trip to Moscow last summer on the condition that he would not be an official representative of the campaign, according to a former campaign adviser.
Kellyanne Conway tells Jake Tapper that Carter Page, formerly named as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, is no longer involved. Denying any knowledge of his communications with Russia.
Page denies dossier and tries to deny relationship with Trump in interview with Channel 4’s Jon Snow.
Page publishes blogpost defending Igor Sechin.
Page has close ties to Russia and views it as a strength. Was also directly affected by sanctions on Russia.
Page has slammed the United States for showing "hypocrisy" towards Russia, during an address in Moscow.
“In early June, a little-known adviser to Donald Trump stunned a gathering of high-powered Washington foreign policy experts meeting with the visiting prime minister of India, going off topic with effusive praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump.” -
But someone is paying attention. As I started looking into Page, I began getting calls from two separate “corporate investigators” digging into what they claim are all kinds of shady connections Page has to all kinds of shady Russians.
“But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian’s leading oil company, a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.”
Page was being investigated for possible backroom deals related to sanctions.
Page was in Moscow the day after the 19% Rosneft deal went through.
Page is also believed to have met with senior Kremlin internal affairs official Igor Diveykin while he was in Moscow last July, according to Isikoff's intelligence sources.
Interview with Carter Page: ‘I don’t deny’ meeting with Russian ambassador
Page says he has been contacted by the Senate intelligence Committee about its investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election.
A former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump has written to congressional investigators claiming, without evidence, that his mobile phone may have been tapped last year.
Page denies any meetings with Russian officials.
When asked about meeting with Kislyak in July Page responded with “I can neither confirm nor deny any meeting with him at that event in the interest of respecting the confidentiality rules that people agreed to as it was an off the record session.
Page denies having any meaningful meeting with Kislyak.
Sessions led the Foreign Policy team which brought in Carter Page.
Sessions has a relationship with Richard Burt, who also worked with him on Trump’s foreign policy team.
Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions confirmation hearing to become attorney general. Source* If you wish to view the discussion between Franken and Sessions during his hearing to become AG where he denied any Russian contact you can view that here.
U.S. investigators examined sessions as part of a counterintelligence investigation into possible Trump campaign communications with Russia.
The FBI did not inform the Senate Judiciary Committee about its investigation.
Records show attorney general used campaign account for travel expenses to Cleveland, where he met Russian envoy.
Jeff Sessions Likely Met Russian Ambassador A Third Time.
“I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign.”
Spokeswoman for Sessions claims he didn’t mislead Senate despite denial.
Sessions holds a press conference giving some information about the meetings which at one point Ukraine was mentioned and announces his recusal from any investigations on Trump.
Sessions appears to give differing statements on the degree of communications with Russia.
Sessions states “I don’t have any idea” when asked if Russia wanted Trump to win.
Sessions : “Meeting with Russian envoy 'hyped beyond reason “criticism “unfair'”
Sessions will “amend Senate Confirmation Testimony”, answer questions in writing.
Senator Elizabeth Warren calls on Sessions to resign.
Dem leader Nancy Pelosi calls on Sessions to resign.
Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, calls on Sessions to resign.
Senator Sanders calls on Sessions to resign.
Senate Dem. Leader Schumer said Thursday that Sessions should resign.
McMullin believes that Sessions should resign.
Franken states that sessions needs to resign for lying under oath.
Franken “I think Jeff Sessions committed perjury”
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz on Thursday morning said Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself.
“There’s nothing to recuse himself,” - Sean Spicer White House Press Sec.
President Trump said Thursday he "wasn't aware at all" that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had twice met with the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign.
President Trump says he has “total confidence” in Sessions.
Asked by reporters traveling with the President in Virginia if Sessions should recuse himself, the President said. "I don't think so."
“Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional," Trump said. "This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election and now, they have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total witch hunt!"
Trump tries to compare democratic members from meeting with Russians and says they should be investigated in a series of tweets. Source
Pelosi, Schumer respond to Trump claims. Pelosi - Source Schumer -
Trump reported to be “furious” Sessions recused himself.
Former Bush White House ethics lawyer - “Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail “
ACLU calls for investigation into potential perjury by Sessions.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said Thursday that information about Attorney General Jeff Sessions' conversations with a Russian ambassador "should never have made it to the public domain." Source’
Top Bush Ethics Lawyer: Russia could have blackmail on Sessions and he must resign.
Kremlin states Sessions controversy could impact US-Russia relations.
Greenblatt met last summer with Rabbi Berel Lazar, the chief rabbi of Russia and an ally of Putin, they deny discussion of Ukraine or sanctions.
Farage and Trump are close, and Farage was the first foreign politician to meet with President-elect Trump.
Nigel Farage visited Ecuadorian Embassy to meet Julian Assange, Ukip source says.
Leaked emails reveal Nigel Farage's longstanding links to Julian Assange.
Millian was under investigation by the FBI for possible involvement in a program to recruit Americans as Russian spies.
“After inquiries from The Daily Beast, the reference to Trump in his biography was scrubbed”, Article also describes Millian meeting Michael Cohen.
Sergei Millian claimed he helped Trump “Study the Moscow Market”
Millian is a Russian Businessman (covered in other sources well enough).
Millian is the source of the most salacious allegations in the uncorroborated dossier about Trump and the Russians is a onetime Russian government translator, according to a person familiar with the raw intelligence provided to the FBI.
A look into Cohen’s ties to Ukraine, including a family ethanol business
“I have never been to Prague in my life.”
In an interview conducted a week before the Dossier became public Cohen told the WSJ that he traveled to Prague in 2001.
On Wednesday, a US government source told CNN's Jake Tapper that a different Michael Cohen, not Trump's lawyer, was in Prague in August and September 2016.
Trump lawyer hand-delivered plan to Michael Flynn to lift sanctions on Russia.
Cohen has now given 4 different accounts on his involvement with the plan that Flynn was pushing.
Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko said he discussed his left-field proposal for Ukraine in January with US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who offered to deliver the plan to the Trump administration.
Artemenko states he got confirmation that the offer made it to the White House. He also claims he began working on this deal last year at the time of the primaries
Rybolovlev bought an estate from Trump in Palm Beach.
Ryblovlev’s airliner oddly seems to be in the same locations as Trump quite often.
Maddow had a well-done piece covering Rybolovlev and his relationship to both Trump and Russia. Source (transcript)
Further examination of Dmitry’s plane often being where Trump is.
"No member of the Trump campaign or Mr. Trump met with Mr. Rybolovlev during the campaign or any other time," said the official, who requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Dmitry is the largest shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus.
Russian billionaire and businessman.
Since START treaty was signed he has worked with US-Russia Business Council.
Burt argued against sanctions on Russia.
Burt sites on the senior advisory board of Russian Alfa Bank. Source*some unproven stories of Trump server communication with Alfa Bank.
Burt is chairman of the advisory council of The National Interest, a publication of the Center for the National Interest, a strongly pro-Russian think tank based in Washington.
McSherry was involved in lobbying for Ukraine’s pro-Russian ex-President along with Manafort
Boris was born in Russia.
“We could talk about the conflict that happened between the Ukraine and Crimea, it’s an ongoing conflict, but there was no seizure by Russia. That is an incorrect statement, characterization of what happened,” he continued.”
“Howard has major investments in Russia,” Trump told Russian politician Alexander Ivanovich Lebed after his trip to Moscow with Lorber, according to a 1997 profile of Trump in the New Yorker. “See, they don’t know you,” Trump told Lorber. “With all that investment, they don’t know you. Trump they know.”
"Trump can look at sanctions. They've been in place long enough," Kingston told NPR in Moscow. "Has the desired result been reached? He doesn't have to abide by the Obama foreign policy. That gives him a fresh start."
Roger stone claims he quit the Trump campaign.
Guccifer tweets to stone “ @RogerJStoneJr thanks that u believe in the real #Guccifer2
“@wikileaks @GUCCIFER_2 Outrageous ! Clintonistas now nned to censor their critics to rig the upcoming election. “
Stone tweets “@DailyCaller Censorship! Gruciffer2 is a HERO.”
“First #Milo, now Guccifer 2.0 - why are those exposing the truth banned? @RealAlexJones @infowars #FreeMilo”
Guccifier tweets to stone “@RogerJStoneJr paying u back”
Stone tweets “Trust me it will soon be the Podesta’s time in the barrel. Source (Months before Podesta leaks)
In an interview on his radio show Roger Stone claims “ Greater Freedom of the Press and expression in Russia than US “
Stone tweets “Wednesday@HillaryClinton is done. #Wikileaks. Source (Which is when the emails leaked)
“Libs thinking Assange will stand down are wishful thinking. Payload coming #Lockthemup”
“I remain confident the @Wikileaks disclosures will roil this race and neither they or I work for the Russkys. #ClintonCampaignBS “
“No proof whatsoever that @wikileaks leaks came from Russians #LyingHillary “
“@LaBellDebi ZERO proof Kremlin works with @Wikileaks - guilt by association- weak. Source”
Mr. Stone, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s, said in a speech in Florida last summer that he had communicated with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that published the hacked Democratic emails. During the speech, Mr. Stone predicted further leaks of documents, a prediction that came true within weeks.
Stone was also under investigation by the FBI for his ties to Russia and denies all claims about his relationship with Russia
Roger Stone denies any contact with Russian officials.
Roger stone calls Russia a witch-hunt and claims to have had no “direct communication” with Assange and states “Nor did I have advance knowledge of either the matter of his subsequent disclosures or who he did or did not hack”
Stone tweets, among other undesirable things, that he had a “perfectly legal back channel to Assange”.
Report comes out that Stone had communications with Guccifier 2.0 on twitter.
Stone does an interview on RT (Russia media) and claims Trump was wiretapped, defends Russia against accusations that they hacked the election and also complains about “New McCarthyism”.
Stone confirms communications with Guccifer, claims they occurred after the leaks and were innocuous.
Trump associate plays down Twitter contact with Guccifer 2.0.
Stone claims his communications might have been picked up in a FISA related to Guccifer.
Senators ask Roger Stone to preserve Russia-Related Documents.
Ross helped prevent Trump going into Bankruptcy with his Casino.
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Ross went into private equity in 2000, forming WL Ross & Co. He still runs it, but he sold it to investment firm Invesco in 2006 for some $375 million. In 2013 Invesco partnered with Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
For the past two years, Ross has been a business partner with Vekselberg in a major financial project involving the Bank of Cyprus, the country’s largest and most significant financial institution.
Maddow does an excellent report on information available about Wilber Ross’s relationship with Russia and Trump as well as Ross’s relationship with Rybolovlev .
White House accused of blocking information on bank’s Trump-Russa links.
Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration’s new commerce secretary, presided over a deal with a Russian businessman with ties to Vladimir Putin while serving in his previous role as vice-chairman of the Bank of Cyprus.
There is an excessively extensive research document on Rex Tillerson (270 pages).
Tillerson: “I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job.”
Tillerson has a very close relationship to Putin.
Tillerson (via Exxon) has billions at stake over Russia sanctions.
Additional look at his relationship with Putin.
Tillerson seems to have mixed response in regards to Russian sanctions.
Leak reveals Rex Tillerson was director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil firm.
Immediately after Tillerson was confirmed as Secretary of State the House removes transparency rule for oil companies.
ExxonMobil promises to spend $20B on 10-year Gulf Coast expansion.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may have still owned millions of dollars of ExxonMobil stock at the time President Trump made praising the oil giant a matter of White House policy.
The White house plagiarized some of Exxon’s press release in a statement praising Exxon.
“Buy American & hire American are the principles at the core of my agenda, which is: JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! Thank you @exxonmobil.
“Thank you to @exxonmobil for your $20 billion investment that is creating more than 45,000 manufacturing & construction jobs in the USA!”
Trump raises eyebrows with heavy promotion of ExxonMobil announcement
The Exxon-ROSNEFT agreement commits Exxon to spend about $1 billion looking for oil off Russia’s Black Sea coast, and holds the promise of sharing in the prize if it is discovered.
ROSNEFT and ExxonMobil have executed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement under which the companies plan to undertake joint exploration and development of hydrocarbon resources in Russia, the United States and other countries throughout the world, and commence technology and expertise sharing activities.
TILLERSON Struck A Deal With ROSNEFT, Hailed By PUTIN Ally Igor SECHIN And Chairman Of ROSNEFT As A “Giant Leap Forward… More Ambitious Than Man's First Walk In Space Or Sending A Man To The Moon.”
Rex TILLERSON And Vladimir PUTIN Met In Sochi To Announce $3.2 Billion Investment By Exxon And Russia’s ROSNEFT To Drill In The Arctic Kara Sea, With Possible Future Investment Reaching $500 Billion.
Exxon Signed An Agreement With Igor I. SECHIN, Head Of Russian State Oil Company ROSNEFT, Weeks After The U.S. Imposed Sanctions On SECHIN.
Igor Sechin Invited Rex Tillerson to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
“Tillerson maintained a close relationship with Russian government, often at odds with US government positions.”
*I have noted some of the instances but there are very many instances of relationships in the full document.
An absolutely astoundingly extensive look into the DNC hack by reddit user DownWithAssad can be found here (Technical) :
Cyber security firm Crowdstrike was hired by DNC to investigate hack and wrote an analysis of their findings, believing Russia to be source of the hack.
Crowdstrike provided another independent cyber security firm, Fidelis, their data and they agreed with Crowdstrike’s conclusions.
A third independent cyber security company, ThreatConnect, did an analysis of the hack and agreed with the Crowdstrike and Fidelis Assessment.
Threat connect later provided additional evidence for their claims.
CIA believes individuals acting for Moscow hacked DNC and gave them to Wikileaks
FBI, DoNI and CIA in agreement Russia hacked in order to help Trump win.
US sanctions Russia over hacking and expels 35 Russian Intel Operatives.
Office of Director of National Intelligence published report detailing Russia campaign to influence election.
You can read the official report here :
In December, the Obama administration announced sanctions against Mr. Bogachev and five others in response to intelligence agencies’ conclusions that Russia had meddled in the presidential election. Publicly, law enforcement officials said it was his criminal exploits that landed Mr. Bogachev on the sanctions list, not any specific role in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.
Wikileaks released 20k emails the day after Republican National Convention.
Trump publicly asks Russia to hack Hillary.
Trump states he doesn’t know it was Russia who hacked DNC at 1st Presidential debate.
“Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by Wikileaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!
“Unless you catch "hackers" in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking. Why wasn't this brought up before election?”
“If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?”
Trump states “It’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things” in regards to US response to Russian hacking.
“The "Intelligence" briefing on so-called "Russian hacking" was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!” Source 1/4/2017 - “Julian Assange said “a 14 year old could have hacked Podesta” - why was DNC so careless? Also said Russians did not give him the info!” -
Trump mentioned Wikileaks 164 times in the final month of election.
“Is it true the DNC would not allow the FBI access to check server or other equipment after learning it was hacked? Can that be possible?”
According to Intel Russia put hacking on hold based on Trump performance.
Russia denies hacking, demands US present the evidence.
Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms.
Russian propaganda sites circulate wikileaks dump that mentions how CIA can “copy hacking fingerprints” from places like Russia, trying to clear themselves.
Guccifer 2.0 likely a Russian coverup.
Guccifer tweets to stone “ @RogerJStoneJr thanks that u believe in the real #Guccifer2
Guccifier tweets to stone “@RogerJStoneJr paying u back”
RT manages to tweet out the Podesta drop link prior to the official wikileaks twitter doing so, attributing it to “good journalism”.
Julian Assange claims no Russian involvement in DNC hack.
Breitbart seems to post quite a lot of pro-Russian propaganda. The following are examples:
“Donald Trump is pretty pumped about Putin backing Assad and fighting ISIS:”
“Rand Paul: if we say we are establishing a no-fly zone over Iraq, we are saying we are going to shoot down Russian plays”
“Did you hear Trump told Russia to HACK Hillary's deactivated, decommissioned server He said to hack ALL OF HER WEBS”
“After weeks of "PUTIN PUTIN PUTIN," journos immediately stopped talking about Putin yesterday:”
“Back at it again with the Putin conspiracy theories!”
“Daily reminder that Vladimir Putin tried to permanently damage Hillary's brain but was only about 60% successful.”
“Everyone knows Vladimir Putin is skewing these polls”
“Thank heavens, these patriots are standing up to Vladimir Putin's voter intimidation efforts!”
“Glenn Beck, our top doughboy in the fight against Vladimir Putin”
“The ultimate irony of their desperate Putin attacks”
“Shhhhhh! Go back to blaming Russia, Joe!”
“Do the tweets embolden Russia?" —The very top tier of professional journalism, 2016”
“Shhhhh! No, just keep doubling down on Russian haxxation!”
“Why didn't the executive order link a Russian DNC hack to Wikileaks”
“"When Party elders shriek about Russian interference, they’re trying to distract from what DNC emails actually said"
“Headline: RUSSIA CONSPIRACY (No progs read past this) Paragraph Three: "No evidence of such cooperation"
“But… but muh Putin?”
Former Putin adviser : “There were no serious connections” between Trump and Russia”
I didn’t want to dedicate more than a page to this but if you want to see more instances you can find them here:
Twitter Search
How Ukraine wooed Conservative Websites.
Some Breitbart employees say Trump has provided financial backing in exchange for fawning headlines — a charge management strongly denies.
influence probe includes a look at Breitbart, InfoWars news sites.
Multiple people vouch for his credibility.
Steele is in hiding following the Dossier leak.
FBI had once planned to pay former spy who authored the Dossier. Source 2/28/2017 - CNN does a follow-up story to the above. “The FBI reimbursed some expenses of the former British intelligence operative who produced a dossier containing allegations of President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, people familiar with the matter said.”
US Senate requests Steele to give evidence on Trump Dossier.
Steele appears to return to work at Orbis with an extremely scripted statement.
Schiff seeks Trump dossier author testimony, claims he will go to him if he must.
Trump Dossier leaks. He's possibly being blackmailed.
You can read the actual Dossier yourself here: Source Text version:
Dossier claims possible brokerage of 19% share of Rosneft and not long after 19% is sold to a currently unknown party.
There are up to 4 additional source corroborating parts of the Dossier according to BBC’s Paul Wood.
Multiple Source have confirmed some of the conversations between Russian officials occurred on the same days in the same locations as described. “Some of the individuals involved in the intercepted communications were known to the US intelligence community as "heavily involved" in collecting information damaging to Hillary Clinton and helpful to Donald Trump, two of the officials tell CNN.
They are continuing to chase down stuff from the dossier, and, at its core, a lot of it is bearing out,” an intelligence official said”
James Clapper states Trump asked him to refute the Dossier. Clapper also confirms Putin’s distaste for Clinton but says they had not tracked down everything due to the sources and will not say any more in regards to the Dossier.
Maddow report on bits of the Dossier that are confirmed.
On Wednesday, a US government source told CNN's Jake Tapper that a different Michael Cohen, not Trump's lawyer, was in Prague in August and September 2016.
“The Trump dossier is fake and here are the reasons why”
This is a summary analysis of the Trump Dossier that attempts to verify or dismiss claims within the Dossier using factual evidence we have. Full doc without analysis:
I have also created a full dossier analysis which you can view here:
(In Progress)
Anything Green is something that has evidence directly proving it.
Anything Blue is something that has a related story that lends some credibility, but doesn’t fully prove.
Anything that lacks evidence either way or isn’t relevant to specifically Trump has currently not been included, but will be added if more information comes out.
If you believe I missed something that I could add with current information let me know.
Russia has been cultivating supporting and assisting Trump for at least 5 years.
Trump had numerous deals leading back to Russian Oligarchs.
Multiple sources confirmed Russian officials communications had been intercepted known to be involved with collecting info damaging to Hillary/Supportive of Trump.
CIA director reported to have received intel about Russian money going to US campaign.
So far TRUMP has declined various sweetener real estate business deals offered him in Russia in order to further the Kremlin’s cultivation of him.
For all of his rumored projects in Russia none of them were ever completed.
Wikileaks operation was conducted will full knowledge and support of Trump team.
Roger Stone, while working on the Trump campaign stated he directly communicated with Assange and seemingly had knowledge of incoming email leaks before they were actually released. 1. Source 2. Source 3.
Stone had contact with both Guccifer 2.0 and Assange.
Trump publicly asked Russia to find “Hillary’s missing emails”
In return for Wikileaks operations Trump team had agreed to sideline Russian Intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue
Trump and members of his foreign policy team directly changed the GOP platform to be more Pro-Russia in regards to Ukraine.
Trump denied he knew about this, but JD Gordon says it was Trump’s idea.
Both believe Azeri business associate of TRUMP, Araz AGALAROV will know the details of Trump’s possible bribes/sexual acts he’s being blackmailed over.
Trump does have a relationship with Araz Agalarov and he helped fund Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Also close ties to Putin.
Agalarov’s son recently stated “Now that he ran and was elected, he does not forget his friends,”
There have been reports of members of Intel community aware of Trump kompromat.
Russia has a history of using sexual blackmail of key targets.
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in an interview on Howard stern in 2001 Trump was accused of saying “He used to call me when I was a columnist and say, ‘I was just in Russia, the girls have no morals, you gotta get out there”
There was a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between them and the Russian leadership. This was managed on the TRUMP side by the Republican candidate’s campaign manager, Paul MANAFORT
Ex-Ukrainian President YANUKOVYCH confides directly to PUTIN that he authorized kick-back payments to MANAFORT, as alleged in western media. Assures Russian President however there is no documentary evidence/trail
Seemingly has ties to Russia (and received undisclosed payments from Russia).
Trump advisor Carter Page holds secret meetings in Moscow with Sechin over Ukraine-related western sanctions against Russia.
Page was being investigated for possible backroom deals related to sanctions and had made trips to Russia numerous times.
Page had reportedly met with Igor Sechin according to Intel.
Page had also spoken with Igor Diveykin as claimed in the Dossier.
Page was in Moscow the day after the 19% Rosneft deal went through.
Trump says he didn't direct Flynn to talk sanctions with Russia, but would have.
Cohen had become a key middleman in negotiating between Trump and Russia after Manafort departure.
Trump lawyer hand-delivered plan to Michael Flynn to lift sanctions on Russia.
Cohen held meetings in August 2016 in Prague to pay off hackers who worked in EU under Kremlin direction.
Cohen denies ever going to Prague, CNN reports it’s possibly a different Cohen who was in Russia. However there is no outright proof dismissing it.
Cohen had claimed he went to Prague in 2001.
A hacker wanted by the FBI with possible involvement in the DNC hack was picked up in Prague.
US allies picked up intel describing meetings between Russian officials and members of Trump campaign in EU cities. (I believe Cohen was the only person listed to have met officials in an EU city in the Dossier)
DNC email leaks were specifically aimed at switching Sanders voters away from Clinton over to Trump.
This appears to be true. Intelligence agrees emails were timed to help Trump defeat Clinton.
Russian diplomat Mikhail Kalugin was sent back to Russia over fear of his links to Presidential election influence being discovered.
Kalugin did return to Russia in August 2016.
Kalugin was being looked at by Federal Investigators.
Page/Trump associates offered brokerage 19% Rosneft(privatized) stake in Rosneft in exchange for lifting sanctions on Russia.
19.5% Rosneft sold off to Glencore + Qatar unknown buyers not long after Dossier leaks.
A Qatar owned company, Qatar Airways had offices in Trump towers and Trump was looking for additional business opportunities in Qatar.
Putin was motivated by fear and hatred of Hillary Clinton
Former DNI James Clapper confirms this part of the Dossier is true.
Kremlin engaging with several high profile US players, including STEIN, PAGE and (former DIA Director Michael Flynn), and funding their recent visits to Moscow
There is evidence of Russia engaging and funding trips for individuals listed. Flynn - Source Stein - Source Page -