As the midterms approach and MSM & Dems have rightfully slowed down a bit on Mueller and Russia talk (seems that they're making the drunken rapemaster Brett Kavanaugh and his victims [but, for some reason, not sober rapemaster Donald Trump and
his victims] the central issue), the NYT did quite a job creating a detailed, color coded Trump-Russia timeline the other day. I'm surprised it wasn't posted here yet.
Article:
A Timeline Showing the Full Scale of Russia’s Unprecedented Interference in the 2016 Election, and Its Aftermath
Tweet:
https://twitter.com/nytgraphics/stat...580041729?s=19
Here's some collusion-y stuff I didn't know about until reading the article:
Quote:
OCT 12 In another private Twitter message, WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr. if he can ask his father to tweet about the Podesta emails. »
Soon after Trump Jr. receives the message, Trump tweets: “Very little pick-up by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks. So dishonest! Rigged system!"
Trump seemed to tweet about the emails 15 minutes after WikiLeaks sent its request to Trump Jr.
Late December, 2016 was a pretty crazy part of the transition. No wonder such a big deal was made over Flynn discussing sanctions with Kislyak and everyone lying about it. Remember also that KT McFarland just revised her testimony a couple of days ago.
Quote:
DEC.1 Kushner meets with Kislyak and seeks a direct line of communication to Putin. Flynn also attends this meeting. »
Kislyak asks if the transition has a secure channel to discuss Syria. Kushner says they don’t and asks if they could use one at the Russian Embassy.
DEC 13 Kushner meets with Sergey N. Gorkov, the head of a Russian state-run bank under American sanctions, who Kislyak said has a direct line to Putin.
DEC 28 President Obama announces sanctions against Russia for interfering in the election. »
DEC 28 Kislyak contacts Flynn about the sanctions.
DEC 29 Flynn calls a senior transition official at Trump’s Florida resort about how to respond to Kislyak. They discuss that “members of the presidential transition team” do not want Russia to escalate. Flynn asks Kislyak not to retaliate.
White House officials tried to portray Michael T. Flynn as a renegade who acted independently in his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States. But emails and court documents suggest this was not the case.
DEC 29 K.T. McFarland, the future deputy national security adviser, emails another transition official, Thomas P. Bossert, that Flynn will be speaking with Kislyak as part of an effort to reassure Russia.
Bossert forwards McFarland’s email about the sanctions to other top transition officials, including Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and Bannon.
DEC 30 Putin says Russia will not retaliate. »
DEC 30 Trump tweets: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"
DEC 31 Kislyak tells Flynn that Russia chose not to retaliate in response to Flynn's request.
Flynn tells the Trump transition team that Kislyak said Russia did not retaliate because of Flynn’s request.
Sorry about the length of that segment. The whole NYT article is very long, but the graphics do a good job showing when each of the different types of shady activity ramps up.