Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2017)

This is a timeline of major events in 2017 related to the investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials that are suspected of being inappropriate. Following the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, this article begins with Donald Trump and Mike Pence being sworn into office on January 20, 2017. The investigations continued into 2018.

Relevant individuals and organizations

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2017 – Post-election transition

2017 – Trump administration

January

  • January:
    • White House Counsel Donald McGahn tells Trump he believes that Flynn had misled the FBI and lied to Vice President Pence, and should be fired.[3]
    • McGahn researches the Logan Act and federal laws related to lying to federal investigators. Records turned over to the Mueller investigation show McGahn believes Flynn violated one or more of those laws.[4]
      Susan Rice's email to herself on January 20, 2017.
  • January 11: BBC News's Paul Wood writes that the salacious information in Steele's dossier was also reported by "multiple intelligence sources" and "at least one East European intelligence service".[5][6]
  • January 20:
    • Trump and Pence take office.[7]
    • While seated at Trump's inauguration speech, Flynn texts Alex Copson, chairman of ACU Strategic Partners, that Russian sanctions blocking a private Russian-backed plan to build nuclear plants in the Middle East will now be "ripped up".[8][9][10][11][12] An associate of Copson later denies the allegation.[13]
    • Sergei Millian, Source D in the Steele dossier, attends VIP inauguration events.[14]
    • Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer involved in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, and Rinat Akhmetshin, another participant in that meeting, attend the Liberty Ball[15] at the Library of Congress hosted by Representative Dana Rohrabacher's campaign committee. Akhmetshin later claims he received tickets from event organizers, but Rohrabacher's office claims the campaign has no record of such an invitation or of ticket purchases by the two.[16] Ticket sales are counted as donations to Rohrabacher's campaign. In July 2018, Rohrabacher spokesman Kenneth Grubbs tells ABC News, "Apparently, there was some party-crashing going on."[15]
    • Maria Butina attends the inaugural Freedom Ball with Paul Erickson. It is one of the three balls Trump attends.[16][17][18]
  • January 21:
    • Trump appoints Flynn as National Security Advisor.[19]
    • Bannon phones Page, and they talk about Russia. According to congressional testimony given by Page in November 2017, Bannon referred to the dossier and asked him to cancel a scheduled television appearance.[20]
  • January 22: Michael Flynn is sworn in as National Security Advisor.[21]
  • January 23
    • Sean Spicer repeats that Flynn did not discuss sanctions with Kislyak in late December.[22] Emails from December show Spicer most likely knew Flynn discussed sanctions with Kislyak on December 29, 2016, and may have known about the purpose of the call in advance.[23]
    • GCHQ director Robert Hannigan suddenly resigns. The Guardian reports that the resignation may have been over concerns about sharing intelligence with the Trump administration.[24]
  • January 24:
    • The FBI interviews Flynn about his conversations with Kislyak.[25] Flynn conceals the interview, which took place without a lawyer present, from the White House.[26] On December 1, 2017, Flynn will plead guilty to lying during the interview.[27][28]
    • Comey tells top FBI agents that Trump asked him to stay on as FBI director.[29]
  • January 26:
    • Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warns the Trump administration that Flynn has not been truthful about his contacts with Russia and may be vulnerable to blackmail by Russian intelligence.[30] Flynn is fired 18 days later, on February 13.[31]
    • Priebus and McGahn personally tell Trump that Flynn is under criminal investigation.[32]
  • January 27:
    • The FBI interviews Papadopoulos at his family's Chicago home about Russian meetings in 2016.[33][34][35] After being cautioned about making false statements, Papadapoulos repeatedly lies to the investigators, telling them he only met Mifsud in February 2016 before he joined the Trump campaign and denying he tried to help Russians set up meetings with the campaign.[36][35] In October 2017 he will plead guilty to making omissions and false statements during the interview.[33][34] Hours after the interview, he applies for the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy.[36][35]
    • McGahn has further discussions with Yates about Flynn.[37]
    • During a private dinner at the White House, Comey gets the impression that Trump wants to "create some sort of patronage relationship." Comey will later testify that Trump requested "loyalty" from him, and that he offered "honesty" instead.[38]
    • Deripaska's longtime American lobbyist Adam Waldman visits Julian Assange.[39]
  • January 29: Trump's lawyers give Mueller a confidential memo and claim that Trump knew only that Flynn had been interviewed by the FBI, and believed Flynn had been cleared.[40][32]
  • January 31:

February

  • February:
    • According to later reporting by Michael Wolff, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, during a visit to the White House, warns Kushner that UK intelligence services may have had the Trump campaign under surveillance. Blair denies Wolff's claims.[43][44]
    • Paul Manafort and Rick Gates falsely assert for a second time in writing to the Justice Department that their work for the Ukrainian government did not require registering as foreign agents in the United States. In September 2018, Manafort pleads guilty to lying to the Justice Department about the extent of his work for the Ukrainian government.[45]
  • Early February: Cohen delivers a pro-Russian Ukrainian peace plan to Flynn while visiting the White House. The plan was developed by Sater and Andrii Artemenko, a Ukrainian politician who said he was encouraged by "top aides" to Putin.[46] The meeting was arranged by Ukrainian-American Alex Oronov, whose daughter is married to Cohen's brother.[47][48] Allen Tactical Security Consultants founder Tommy Allen vetted the peace plan at the request of former congressman Curt Weldon, a longtime friend of Artemenko.[49] Artemenko and Weldon secured funding for promoting the plan from Vekselberg's fund at Columbus Nova.[49]
  • February 2: Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina attend the National Prayer Breakfast. Torshin is scheduled to meet privately with Trump beforehand, but the meeting is canceled after a national security aide points out that Torshin is under investigation for organized crime and money laundering.[17] A spokesman for Torshin later says Torshin was officially on vacation at the time, adding, "President Trump has never proposed a meeting to Mr. Torshin."[50]
  • February 3:
    • Russian tech magnate Aleksej Gubarev files a libel suit in London against Christopher Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence. Gubarev claims he was defamed by allegations in the Steele dossier.[51]
    • Aleksej Gubarev files a libel suit against BuzzFeed in the Broward County Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gubarev claims he was defamed by BuzzFeed publishing the Steele Dossier.[51]
  • February 8:
    • Sessions is confirmed as Attorney General by a vote of 52 to 47;[52] he is sworn in the next day.[53]
    • Comey meets with Priebus at the White House and informs him that Justice Department policy is not to discuss investigations with the White House.[54]
    • Flynn publicly denies that he discussed sanctions with Kislyak in December.[55]
    • According to Trump's lawyers, Flynn tells McGahn, Priebus, and John Eisenberg in a White House discussion that the FBI had met with Flynn to tell him their investigation was over.[40]
  • February 9:
    • The Washington Post reports that Flynn privately discussed Russian sanctions with Kislyak before Trump took office, which Flynn had previously denied. Flynn's spokesman now says, "[Flynn] couldn’t be certain that the topic never came up.”[55]
    • Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduces a resolution of inquiry in relation to possible crimes relating to Trump's financial dealings or collusion with Russia.[56]
  • February 10
    • Trump tells reporters he did not know about Flynn's December discussions of sanctions with Kislyak.[57]
    • According to Trump's lawyers, Flynn tells McGahn, Priebus, and Pence in a phone call that the FBI had said their investigation was being "closed out."[40]
  • February 11: Flynn omits his paid trip to the Russia Today 10th anniversary gala on a financial disclosure form.[58]
  • February 13:
    • Flynn is dismissed after less than a month in office.[59]
    • Appearing on Fox News's Your World with Neil Cavuto hours before Flynn leaves, Nunes says he has confidence in Flynn and thinks he shouldn't resign, adding, "He’s probably the best intelligence officer of his generation."[60]
  • February 14:
    • Trump asks Comey, per Comey's testimony to Congress, to drop any investigation of Flynn.[61] The White House later denies the charge.[62] Trump will fire Comey three months later (May 9).[63]
    • White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer states that Trump asked McGahn to determine whether Flynn had broken the law, and that McGahn told the White House that no law had been broken.[64][65] He also says no members of the Trump campaign met with Russians during the campaign.[66]
    • The New York Times reports that current and former American officials assert that phone records and intercepts show Trump campaign aides were in repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials prior to the election.[67] This is consistent with public statements made by Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials on November 10, 2016.[68]
  • February 15:
    • In a morning tweet, Trump calls reports of Russian connections to the campaign "non-sense" and says they are part of a coverup by the Clinton campaign.[69] Later that day, speaking at a joint White House news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump describes Flynn as "a wonderful man", adding, "I think it is very, very unfair what has happened to General Flynn." He says the classified documents used against Flynn were "illegally leaked" as part of a "coverup for a terrible loss that the Democrats had under Hillary Clinton."[70]
    • Comey asks Sessions to stop direct communications from Trump and to never leave them alone together.[71][72]
    • McCabe tells Priebus the February 14 New York Times article on Russian contacts[67] is wrong, but refuses to issue a press release.[73]
    • Judy Woodruff interviews Carter Page on PBS News Hour. In response to a direct question about meetings with Russians, Page denies having any meetings with Russian officials in 2016.[74]
  • February 16: The FBI interviews Papadopoulos a second time. In the following days, he deletes the Facebook account he had had since 2005 (containing correspondence concerning Russia), opens a new Facebook account, and changes his telephone number.[75][76]
  • February 17
  • February 19
    • Corey Lewandowski says in an interview with White House correspondent Jonathan Karl on ABC's This Week that he does not know of anyone on the campaign having any contacts with any Russians.[80]
    • Andrii Artemenko is expelled from the Radical Party amid calls for him to step down from his seat in the Ukrainian parliament. The party was outraged by the Ukrainian peace proposal he delivered to Michael Cohen in January.[81]
  • February 20:
    • Trump appoints H. R. McMaster to replace Flynn as National Security Adviser.[82]
    • Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders states during a White House press briefing that "to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place" between the Trump team and Russia.[83]
    • Ukrainian prosecutors announce they are investigating Artemenko for treason. They allege he conspired with Russia by promoting a peace plan that would "legitimize" the Russian occupation of Crimea.[81]
  • February 24:
    • Asked about links between Trump and Russia, Spicer says that "there are no connections to find out about".[83]
    • Nigel Farage tells an audience at CPAC that Trump's election and Brexit launched a "great global revolution."[84]
  • February 25: Farage, Trump, his daughter Ivanka, Kushner, and Florida governor Rick Scott dine together at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Farage is a last-minute addition.[84]
  • February 26: Andy Wigmore tells The Guardian that Robert Mercer donated Cambridge Analytica's services to the Leave.EU campaign. The U.K. Electoral Commission says the donation was not declared.[85]
  • February 28:

March

  • March
  • March 1:
    • Sessions comes under scrutiny after reports that he had contact with Russian government officials during the election campaign, even though he denied it during his confirmation hearings. Democratic representatives ask Sessions to resign his post as United States Attorney General.[92]
    • Comey receives an "urgent" call from Trump that Comey views as an attempt to win him over to Trump's side.[93]
  • March 1–2: On Trump's instructions, McGahn attempts to persuade Sessions to stop recusing himself from the Russia investigation.[94][95][96][97]
  • March 2:
    • Sessions announces that he will recuse himself from any investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.[98]
    • Carter Page and J.D. Gordon admit publicly for the first time that they met with Kislyak during the campaign.[99][100]
  • March 3: In testimony to Congress, Comey says: “It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election.”[101]
  • March 4:
  • March 5: In a Meet the Press interview, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper states that, while he was in office, the NSA, FBI, and CIA had found no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.[106] On May 12 he clarifies his statement, saying that he wouldn't have known the contents of an FBI investigation.[107]
  • March 9: Nigel Farage visits Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Confronted as he leaves, Farage tells BuzzFeed News that "he [can't] remember what he had been doing in the building".[108]
  • March 10:
    • Trump fires 46 U.S. Attorneys, including Preet Bharara, whom Trump had recently told could keep his job.[109] Bharara had been prosecuting a money-laundering case against the Russian company Prevezon. Prevezon's attorney in the case is Natalia Veselnitskaya.[110] The company reaches a financial settlement with the government on May 15, 2017, two days before the trial was scheduled to start.[111]
    • Roger Stone admits to communicating with Guccifer 2.0.[112]
  • March 13: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr says Roger Stone's communications with Guccifer 2.0 are part of the Committee's ongoing investigation.[113]
  • March 15:
  • Late March: Adam Waldman visits Assange twice.[39]
  • March 16:
  • March 17–25: While in Orange County, California, Farage and Arron Banks attend GOP gatherings at Scott Baugh's invitation. Splitting California into two states is discussed at two of the gatherings. Afterwards, Farage's publicist tells The Sunday Times a fabricated story about Baugh and Gerry Gunster hiring Farage and Banks to help fundraise in California for a campaign to split the state in two.[118][119]
  • March 19: Rohrabacher and Farage go fishing off the coast of Newport, California. Rohrabacher posts a photograph of the two on his Facebook page. In July, he removes the photo from Facebook after a journalist posts it on Twitter.[120][121][122]
  • March 20:
    • The House Intelligence Committee holds its first public hearing. Comey admits that there is an ongoing FBI investigation into whether there were any links between individuals associated with the Russian government and the Trump campaign and whether they coordinated.[123]
    • Devin Nunes tells David Corn of Mother Jones that he has never heard of Carter Page or Roger Stone. Corn is so surprised by the apparent lie that he immediately tweets about it.[124] In February, the White House asked Nunes to read and debunk a February 14 New York Times article[67] that mentioned Page and Stone being under investigation.[125] On March 3, Nunes discussed the article in an interview with Evan Onstot on Fresno, California, television station KSEE. He said he would not call the people named in the story to appear before his committee.[126]
    • WikiLeaks again denies communicating with Roger Stone.[127]
  • March 22:
    • Nunes announces that he discovered the intelligence community "incidentally collected" the communications of some members of Trump's transition team, potentially including the president himself,[128] and claims that the information was "widely disseminated". It is later confirmed that he learned this from Senior Director for National Intelligence Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Assistant White House Counsel Michael Ellis, formerly counsel to Nunes's committee, during his White House visit on the previous day.[129][130]
    • Trump asks Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and NSA Director Mike Rogers to publicly deny any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Both refuse, saying the requests are inappropriate.[131] Coats later tells staffers that Trump also asked him to get Comey to back off the FBI investigation of Flynn.[132]
  • March 23: Rick Gates, longtime deputy to Manafort and Trump campaign advisor, is forced to leave the pro-Trump nonprofit America First Policies after reports that Manafort sought to further Russian interests.[133]
  • March 27: Schiff and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi call for Nunes's recusal from the investigation after details of his White House visit become public.[134]
  • March 30:
    • Flynn tells the FBI and Congress that he would testify in exchange for immunity from prosecution.[135]
    • Former FBI special agent Clint Watts testifies as an expert witness before the Senate Intelligence Committee.[136]
    • According to Comey, Trump calls him in the morning to ask Comey what he can do to lift the "cloud" impairing the Trump presidency.[71]
  • March 31: Flynn files an amended financial disclosure form listing his RT speech. The form also lists previously undisclosed speeches made to Kaspersky Government Security Solutions and Volga-Dnepr Airlines.[58]

April

May

  • May 3:
  • May 4:
    • Rice refuses to testify to Congress.[155]
    • In a Wall Street Journal interview, Peter Smith, a GOP operative and independent opposition researcher, says he tried to acquire the 33,000 deleted Clinton emails. Smith contacted several hackers who claimed to have data, including some potential Russian operatives. Flynn's son Michael G. Flynn was reportedly involved in the effort. Smith kills himself ten days after the interview.[156][157][158]
  • May 5
    • An aide to Sessions asks a member of Congressional staff if they know of any damaging information about Comey, according to January 2018 reporting by The New York Times.[94]
    • Andrii Artemenko is stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship by order of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.[159]
  • May 5–7: At Trump's direction, White House Senior Advisor for policy Stephen Miller drafts a letter of dismissal of Comey.[160]
  • May 8: In an Oval Office meeting, Trump informs Kushner, Pence and McGahn of his intent to remove Comey, and gives them copies of the Miller draft. McGahn objects to the letter's angry tone and convenes a separate meeting later that day with Sessions and Rosenstein, who had previously considered removing Comey from office. Rosenstein is given a copy of Miller's draft and agrees to write a new memo that would support the dismissal, using Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation as the main rationale.[160]
  • May 9:
    • Rosenstein gives Sessions the memo to provide the basis for a recommendation that Comey be dismissed.[161][162]
    • Trump dismisses Comey from his position as FBI Director.[101]
    • Spicer tells the press that Trump "has no business in Russia; he has no connections to Russia."[163]
  • May 10:
    • Trump holds a meeting in the White House with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kislyak. U.S. reporters are excluded.[164] Trump reportedly tells Lavrov and Kislyak he fired Comey to relieve pressure caused by the investigation.[165] Trump shares classified intelligence about ISIS with Lavrov and Kislyak without first seeking permission from the allied sources who collected the information.[166] It is later confirmed that the intelligence came to Trump from Israel via Mike Pompeo.[167][168]
    • Pence characterizes the dismissal of Comey as a reactive decision Trump made in response to a recommendation by Sessions and Rosenstein.[169]
  • May 10–16: Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe meets with Rosenstein to discuss Comey's firing. Rosenstein tells McCabe that Trump wanted him to reference Russia in the Comey memo. Rosenstein says he deliberately omitted Russia in the version he gave Sessions on May 9. He gives McCabe a copy of the original draft dismissal letter Stephen Miller wrote for Trump. McCabe documents his conversation with Rosenstein in a memo and later gives Mueller the memo and the draft letter.[170][160][161]
  • May 11: In an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, Trump says the Russia investigation was a consideration for him in deciding to dismiss Comey.[171][172][173][174][175]
  • May 12:
    • Trump threatens Comey with alleged secret recordings of their conversations.[176]
    • Two of Trump's lawyers, Sheri A. Dillon and William F. Nelson, say in a letter that the only income Trump has had from Russia are the 2008 sale of Maison de L’Amitie for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev and $12.2 million in payments connected to the Miss Universe 2013 pageant in Moscow. The letter is criticized for covering only a short time period.[177]
  • May 15: Deripaska sues the Associated Press (AP) for libel. He claims he was defamed by an AP story about his business dealings with Manafort.[178]
  • May 17:
  • Late May: Mueller's team interviews Comey.[182]
  • May 18: The Russian State Duma approves the nomination of former Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov to replace Kislyak as U.S. ambassador.[183]
  • May 19: Feinstein repeats her statement of May 3 that no evidence of collusion was found, and adds that "there are rumors".[184]
  • May 22: Flynn refuses to hand over subpoenaed documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee, citing the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination.[185]
  • May 23:
    • Experts from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) declare Mueller ethically able to function as special counsel.[186]
    • The House Intelligence Committee hears testimony from former CIA Director Brennan, who states that Russia "brazenly interfered in the 2016 election process" despite U.S. efforts to ward it off.[187]
  • May 24:
    • U.S. media reports that Trump has hired lawyer Marc Kasowitz, his longtime legal counsel, to represent him in any inquiry.[188]
    • Sessions claims the reason he didn't disclose meetings with Russian officials on his security forms is that the FBI told him not to list foreign officials he met with in connection with "his Senate activities."[189]
    • The Washington Post reports that Comey's October 2016 decision to reopen the Clinton email investigation was largely based on a probably fake Russian intelligence document. The document discussed a purported email from Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to Clinton campaign staffer Amanda Renteria in which she promised to go easy on Clinton. Rentaria says she knows a Loretta Lynch who worked for the Clinton campaign during the Whitewater investigation and whom bloggers commonly confuse with the Attorney General.[190]
  • May 25: The Senate Intelligence Committee unanimously votes to give its Republican chairman Richard Burr, and Democratic vice chairman Mark R. Warner, "blanket authority" to issue subpoenas during their investigation.[191]
  • May 26:
    • The Washington Post reports that Kislyak told Moscow that Kushner wanted a secret communications channel with the Kremlin under Russian supervision.[192]
    • The Senate Intelligence Committee requests that the Trump campaign turn over "all of its emails, documents and phone records" related to Russia. Several months earlier, the committee had asked the campaign committee to preserve records.[193]
    • Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan file a libel suit against BuzzFeed in New York state court for publishing the Steele dossier. They allege that allegations in the dossier damaged their reputations. All three are owners of Alfa-Bank.[194][195]
    • The New York Times reports that Deripaska offered to give testimony to congressional intelligence committees in exchange for a grant of full immunity. The committees declined the offer because of concerns that the deal would hamper ongoing criminal investigations.[196]
  • May 27: The FBI searches Manafort's storage locker for evidence related to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Alexander Trusko, an associate of Manafort with a key to the locker, opens it for the FBI without being shown a search warrant. Trusko signs a consent-to-search form. Upon seeing the locker's contents, the FBI leaves and returns with a warrant. In June 2018, Judge Jackson rejects a motion to suppress evidence found in the locker because Trusko's name is on the lease and he opened the locker voluntarily.[197][198][199][147]
  • May 30:
  • May 31:
    • The House Intelligence Committee serves seven subpoenas – including those on Cohen and Flynn – for testimony, personal documents and business records.[204][205]
    • The FBI and Congressional committees inquire about a possible third encounter between Sessions and Kislyak on April 27, 2016.[206]
    • The Trump administration offers to reopen the two Russian diplomatic compounds, in New York and Maryland, that the Obama administration locked down on December 29, 2016.[207]
    • The White House announces that it will no longer take questions relating to Russia-Trump allegations, referring such questions to Trump's lawyers.[208]

June

At a conference in St. Petersburg, NBC's Megyn Kelly repeatedly questioned Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 US elections.[209][210]
  • Summer
    • Mueller's team interviews Rosenstein.[211]
    • According to statements made by Ty Cobb in June 2018, McGahn recuses himself and his entire White House staff from the Russia investigation because of their involvement in Flynn's firing.[212]
  • June:
  • June 2: The Guardian reports that Nigel Farage is a person of interest in the FBI investigation of the Trump campaign.[214]
  • June 3:
    • Mueller takes over an earlier probe into Manafort's activities in Ukraine.[215]
    • The Internet Research Agency's "United Muslims of America" Facebook group organizes the "Make peace, not war!" protest outside Trump Tower in New York City. It is unclear whether anyone attends this protest or instead attends the "March for Truth" affiliated protest held on the same day.[144][216][217]
  • June 5: The Intercept publishes a top secret NSA document that discusses the targeting by GRU of computer systems maintaining voter rolls in several states.[218][219] Reality Winner, an NSA contractor, is arrested for leaking the document.[220]
  • June 7:
    • Coats and Rogers testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee that they never felt pressured by Trump to do anything inappropriate, but decline to answer questions on private conversations with him.[221]
    • In a prepared written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee,[222] Comey confirms telling Trump that he was not personally under investigation, and refusing to say this publicly without prior approval from the Attorney General's office.[223] He also states that Trump felt the Russia story was a "cloud" that prevented him from performing his job as president.[223]
  • June 8: Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence committee.[224]
  • June 12:
  • June 13:
    • The U.S. Senate agrees on a new package of sanctions on Russia in retaliation to the election interference. The bill is drafted to prevent Trump from lifting sanctions unilaterally.[228]
    • Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee.[229]
    • Rosenstein testifies to the Senate that he is the only person empowered to dismiss Mueller, and that he sees no reason to do so.[230]
  • June 14: The Washington Post confirms that Mueller is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice, in relation to his dismissal of Comey.[231]
  • June 16: Trump tweets: "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt."[232]
  • June 18: Trump's lawyer Jay Sekulow states that he has not been notified of any investigation into Trump himself.[233]
  • June 19: ABC News contradicts the Post's report of June 14, saying no decision has yet been made on whether to investigate Trump for potential obstruction of justice.[234]
  • June 20
  • June 21: Kushner's lawyers provide an amended SF-86 to the FBI, their third such change, to list the meeting with the Russian lawyer.[238]
  • June 23: The FBI interviews Kushner about his security clearance.[238]
  • June 27: Manafort registers retroactively as a foreign agent with the DoJ, showing that his firm received $17.1 million over two years from Yanukovych's Party of Regions.[239]
  • June 30: On the Lawfare blog, British security consultant Matt Tait claims that he had a series of conversations with Peter Smith in 2016, concerning Hillary Clinton's emails, an unnamed dark web contact, and a new Delaware company called KLS Research.[240][241] Tait is interviewed by Mueller shortly thereafter.[242]

July

  • July: Nunes staffers Kash Patel and Doug Presly travel to London and try to contact Steele without informing the U.S. Embassy or the British government of their trip. They find Steele at his lawyer's office, but the lawyer refuses to let them meet with Steele.[243][244][245][246]
  • Early July: In response to queries from Politico about assertions made by Peter W. Smith in November 2016, WikiLeaks denies it has been in possession of Clinton's deleted 30,000 emails since February 2016. WikiLeaks also declines to say whether Smith was in contact with the group.[247]
  • July 7: During a two-hour meeting with Trump at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit, Putin denies interfering in the 2016 US election. Trump conducts a second meeting with Putin some hours later, with no US aides. The second meeting is undisclosed by the White House until July 18, following news reports.[248][249][250][251]
  • July 8: Returning from Germany aboard Air Force One, Trump preemptively dictates a misleading statement on behalf of Trump Jr., claiming that the Veselnitskaya meeting on June 9, 2016 concerned child adoption.[252][253][254]
  • July 9:
    • The New York Times first reports that Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort met Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016.[255][256]
    • President Trump says he and Putin "discussed forming an impenetrable cyber security unit so that election hacking, and many other negative things, will be guarded and safe." Trump later says he does not think this will happen.[257]
  • July 10
    • Trump, Hicks, and Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Trump's legal team, have a conference call to discuss the handling of the Veselnitskaya meeting revelations. Corallo says the statement drafted on Air Force One will backfire because the original emails will eventually come out. Hicks responds the emails "will never get out." Corallo resigns shortly thereafter, reportedly due to concerns over possible obstruction of justice.[258]
    • Trump Organization lawyers email Rob Goldstone and two others a prepared statement drafted in Goldstone's name to use as a response to inquires about the Trump Tower meeting. The statement supports Trump Jr.'s account of the meeting.[259]
  • July 10–18: Further details about the Veselnitskaya meeting emerge in the press.[260][261][262]
  • July 11: Trump Jr. tweets his emails about the Veselnitskaya meeting before The New York Times publishes them minutes later.[263][264]
  • July 12:
    • Two Democratic Party donors and a former party staff member file an invasion of privacy lawsuit against Trump’s campaign and Stone.[265]
    • Articles of Impeachment against President Trump are formally filed in the House of Representatives.[266]
    • Speaking on Fox News, Pence's spokesman Marc Lotter repeatedly refuses to clarify whether or not Pence met with Russian representatives.[267][268]
    • Rohrabacher removes a photo of himself and Nigel Farage from Facebook after a journalist posts it on Twitter.[120][122]
  • July 14: Brad Parscale, the digital media director of Trump's campaign, issues a statement stating "I am unaware of any Russian involvement in the digital and data operation of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign" after accepting an invitation to testify before the House Intelligence Committee.[269]
  • July 19:
    • The New York Times reports on offshore transactions and shell companies linked to Manafort's work in Ukraine and investments with a Russian oligarch.[270]
    • The New York Times reports on sources claiming that Deutsche Bank is cooperating with federal investigators about Trump accounts.[271]
    • Trump, in an interview with The New York Times, threatens Mueller's job if the investigation expands to his personal finances.[272]
    • The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it has never certified Kaspersky Lab's security software, an admission that comes just a week after the Trump administration booted the firm from two of its approved suppliers lists.[273]
  • July 20:
    • Bloomberg News reports that Mueller is investigating Trump's business transactions.[274]
    • The Washington Post reports Trump is asking his attorneys about his ability to pardon himself and other key aides and family members.[275]
    • Paul Behrends is removed from his position as staff director for a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee chaired by Rohrabacher. The move comes after news reports about Behrends's and Rohrbacher's trip to Moscow in April 2016.[276]
  • July 21:
    • The Washington Post reports Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Kislyak.[277]
    • The Senate Judiciary Committee requests all communications between Trump Jr. and a group of people, including Jill Stein. She publicly describes the notion that she communicated with Trump Jr. as "an obvious smear designed to generate a fake news feeding frenzy".[278]
    • John M. Dowd replaces Marc Kasowitz at the head of Trump's legal team, following personal threats made by Kasowitz.[279] Legal spokesman Mark Corallo resigns.[280] Michael Wolff later reports that Corallo had been instructed not to speak to the press or to answer his telephone, and that he privately stated his belief that the Air Force One meeting on July 8, 2017 represented likely obstruction of justice.[281]
    • A complaint is filed against Representative Dana Rohrabacher with the Office of Foreign Assets Control alleging violations of Magnitsky Act sanctions.[282][283] In April 2016, Rohrabacher received a document directly from Russian Deputy Prosecutor Viktor Grin, an individual under sanctions, and used it in attempts to weaken the Magnitsky Act.[284] The allegation is that the work Rohrabacher performed was a "service" provided to Grin in violation of the sanctions against Grin.[282]
  • July 22: Trump asserts "complete power" to pardon anyone in relation to the Russia investigation.[285]
  • July 24: After a closed-door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee, Kushner issues a statement denying any collusion with Russian officials.[286][287]
  • July 25:
    • Kushner meets with the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door meeting.[288][287]
    • Manafort meets with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and turns over contemporaneous notes of the June 9, 2016 meeting.[289][290]
    • In an Oval Office interview with The Wall Street Journal's Gerard Baker, Trump states that there was "nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia".[291]
  • July 26: The FBI conducts a predawn raid on Manafort's home, seizing documents and electronic devices.[289][292] The raid happens on the day Manafort was scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[293]
  • July 27: Papadopoulos is arrested upon arrival at Washington Dulles International Airport.[294]
  • July 28: Trump indicates his intention to sign the bill passed by overwhelming veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress taking the sanctions in place against Russia out of the president's control.[295][296]
  • July 30: Putin, responding to sanctions, orders a cut in U.S. diplomatic staff by 755, and bars U.S. officials from entering a warehouse in Moscow used by the United States Embassy and to a site along the Moscow River.[297]
  • July 31: The Washington Post reports that Trump personally dictated a statement for Donald Trump Jr. stating that the Veselnitskaya meeting “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children”.[252]
  • Late July: Mueller removes senior FBI investigator Peter Strzok from his team following the discovery of private texts exchanged with FBI lawyer Lisa Page during the Clinton investigation and the election campaign. According to The Washington Post, the texts contain pro-Clinton comments, are critical of Congress and the media, and call Trump an "idiot" and a "loathsome human".[298][299][300]

August

  • August 1
  • August 2:
    • Trump signs the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), legislation limiting his ability to ease sanctions against Russia. He describes the bill as "flawed" and "unconstitutional".[303][304]
    • The Trump campaign turns over about 20,000 pages of documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee, as demanded by Feinstein and Grassley.[305]
    • Christopher A. Wray is sworn in as the new FBI director.[306]
    • Rosenstein authorizes Mueller to investigate Paul Manafort for "colluding with Russian government officials" and to investigate payments Manfort received from Ukrainian politicians.[307]
  • August 3:
    • The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post report that Mueller has convened a grand jury in the District of Columbia District Court exclusively for his Russia probe.[308][309]
    • Flynn reveals a brief advisory role with Cambridge Analytica, the data mining and analysis firm that worked with Trump’s campaign, and the sponsoring Mercer family in an amended public financial filing. Flynn also discloses income from the Trump transition team.[310][311]
    • Newsweek publishes an interview with Jill Stein in which she describes as "fake news" all suggestion of wrongdoing or collusion in relation to members of the Trump campaign and the visit to Moscow during which she was photographed with Putin and Flynn.[312]
    • Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) unveil legislation designed to prevent Trump from firing Mueller.[313]
  • August 4: CNN reports that some of Mueller's investigators bought liability insurance to protect themselves against possible lawsuits from some of the people under investigation.[314]
  • August 5: Kislyak denies any inappropriate contact with Flynn, and says he will not agree to testify before Congress or a grand jury.[315]
  • August 6: Rosenstein confirms that Mueller is authorized to investigate any crime exposed by his inquiry.[316]
  • August 9: The Washington Post reports on the July 26 FBI raid at Manafort's home.[289] According to The New York Times, Mueller ordered the search for tax documents and foreign banking records.[317]
  • August 11:
    • Rinat Akhmetshin gives sworn testimony for two hours to Mueller's grand jury.[318]
    • The Senate Intelligence Committee asks Sigal Mandelker, the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, to provide any "suspicious" or "derogatory" transaction records reported by banks involving Maria Butina, Alexander Torshin, Paul Erickson, Investing With Dignity, or Bridges LLC. Erickson owns Investing With Dignity and jointly owns Bridges LLC with Butina. The committee sends a follow-up request on December 7 complaining that it hasn't received a response.[319]
  • August 14:
    • Pence says he "never witnessed" and was "not aware" of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.[320]
    • The Washington Post first reports on Papadopoulos's repeated attempts to arrange campaign meetings with the Russian leadership, which Manafort is said to have refused.[321]
    • Thousands of people participate in the "Protest Trump and ideology of hate at Trump Tower!" protest outside Trump Tower in New York City. The protest was organized by the "Resisters" group on Facebook, one of the "bad actor" groups identified by Facebook in July 2018 as possibly belonging to the IRA.[322][323]
  • August 15:
  • August 18: Yahoo! News reports that Charles C. Johnson refused a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee for documents related to his involvement with Peter W. Smiths's effort to locate Clinton's deleted emails.[324]
August 22, 2017 Fusion GPS Testimony Transcript of Glenn R. Simpson
  • August 22:
    • Steele names to the FBI sources for the information in his Trump–Russia dossier.[327]
    • Fusion GPS founder Glenn R. Simpson, who hired Steele to compile the dossier, speaks privately with the Senate Judiciary Committee and hands over more than 40,000 documents.[327] Simpson tells the Committee that Steele knew that the FBI had an informant in Trump's campaign, and that the FBI's own information substantiated the details of Steele's research. Simpson also states that Steele broke off relations with the FBI shortly after October 31, 2016 due to his concerns that Trump's associates were manipulating the FBI. Simpson's attorney Josh Levy states during the meeting that a person has been killed as a result of the Steele dossier's publication.[328][329][330][331]
  • August 23:
    • The FBI requests from the General Services Administration (GSA) copies of communications by nine members of Trump's team, according to Trump transition lawyer Kory Langhofer. A further request is made on August 30.[332]
    • Chairman Grassley confirms that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the question of releasing the transcript of the August 22 Fusion GPS testimony.[333] A vote is never scheduled; Feinstein will unilaterally publish the transcript on January 9, 2018.[331]
    • The Internet Research Agency's @TEN_GOP Twitter account is closed.[334]
  • August 24:
    • The New York Times reports that Akhmetshin had stronger ties to the Russian government and Kremlin-backed oligarchs than previously known.[335]
    • The House Intelligence Committee issues subpoenas to the FBI and the DoJ for documents relating to the Trump dossier. They were not complied with by the September 1 deadline; the deadline is extended to September 14.[336]
  • August 25: The Washington Post and NBC report that Mueller has issued subpoenas to several lobbying firms connected to Flynn and Manafort, including Mercury Public Affairs and SGR LLC.[337][338]
  • Late August: Fancy Bear launches a Spoofing/phishing attack on Senator Claire McCaskill's 2018 reelection campaign.[339]
  • August 29: CNN reports that Mueller has subpoenaed Manafort's former attorney Melissa Laurenza and spokesman Jason Maloni.[340]
  • August 30:
    • Politico reports that Mueller has arranged with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to set up an alternative method of charging people in the case, in case Trump were to use his pardon power to stymie the investigation.[341]
    • Hundred of people attend "The People's Protest. Springfield against Trump" protest near the Loren Cook Co. in Springfield, Missouri, where Trump gives a speech. The protest was organized by the "Resisters" group on Facebook, one of the "bad actor" groups identified by Facebook in July 2018 as possibly belonging to the IRA. In July 2018, Indivisible St. Louis tells The Hill they were already planning the protest when they were contacted by "Resisters" on Facebook.[342][323]
  • August 31:
    • The Daily Beast reports that Mueller has enlisted the IRS's Criminal Investigations Unit to investigate Trump's tax returns.[343]
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that, over the past months, Trump's lawyers have been making their case to Mueller that Trump should not be charged with obstruction of justice.[344]

September

  • September 1: The GSA submits a flash drive to Mueller's team containing tens of thousands of communications by 13 senior members of Trump's transition team, including Kushner, from the official governmental Presidential Transition Team domain, "ptt.gov".[345][346]
  • September 6: Facebook admits selling advertisements to Russian companies seeking to reach U.S. voters.[347] Hundreds of accounts were reportedly tied to the Internet Research Agency.[348][349] Facebook pledges full cooperation with Mueller's investigation, and begins to provide details on purchases from Russia, including identities of the people involved.[350]
  • September 7: Trump Jr. testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he met with a group of Russians in Trump Tower in June 2016 in order to seek damaging information about Hillary Clinton, but that no such information was forthcoming.[351]
  • September 8: Mueller names to the White House six current and former aides he expects to question in Russia probe: Hicks, Spicer, Priebus, McGahn, Josh Raffel of the Office of American Innovation, and James Burnham.[352]
  • September 9: Thousand of people participate in the "We Stand with DREAMers! Support DACA!" rally in New York City.[353] The rally was organized by the "Resisters" group on Facebook, one of the "bad actor" groups identified by Facebook in July 2018 as possibly belonging to the IRA.[323]
  • September 11: The Daily Beast reports that Russia used Facebook events to organize anti-immigrant rallies on U.S. soil.[354]
  • September 12: Yahoo! News reports the FBI has begun a Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violation investigation against the Sputnik news agency.[355]
  • September 13:
    • The United States bans use of Kaspersky Lab software in federal agencies amid concerns of Russian espionage.[356]
    • Flynn's son, Michael G. Flynn, is named as a subject of Mueller's investigation.[357]
    • CNN reports that the DoJ is preventing Senate investigators from interviewing two top FBI officials who could provide firsthand testimony about Comey's firing.[358]
    • Bloomberg reports that Mueller has a “red-hot” focus on Russia’s effort to influence U.S. voters on Facebook.[359]
    • The DoJ asks a company that supplies services to the US affiliate of Russia Today (RT) to register as a foreign agent.[360]
    • Facebook states that a 225,000-member anti-immigrant group that attempted to organize anti-Clinton rallies in Texas during the 2016 presidential campaign was "likely operated out of Russia".[361]
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that Flynn promoted a multi-billion-dollar Middle Eastern Russian-backed nuclear-plant project while working in the White House.[362]
  • September 14: Page files suit against Yahoo and The Huffington Post, alleging defamation in a September 2016 news article about his connections to Russia.[363]
  • September 15:
    • In response to a warrant, Facebook gives Mueller copies of advertisements and account information related to the Russian advertisement purchases beyond what it gave Congress in the previous week.[364][365]
    • According to The Wall Street Journal, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA-R) contacts the White House this week about brokering a deal that would end Assange’s legal troubles in exchange for evidence that Russia was not the source of hacked emails WikiLeaks published during the 2016 presidential campaign.[366]
    • Manafort's spokesman Jason Maloni testifies before Mueller's federal grand jury.[367]
  • September 17: The Senate Intelligence Committee seeks further information about Russian links to Facebook as concerns rise about the role that social media networks played in the 2016 presidential election and Russian interference.[368]
  • September 18:
    • Mueller notifies Manafort that he is a target of the investigation and will be indicted.[369]
    • CNN reports that US investigators had been wiretapping Manafort under secret court orders before the election campaign, at least since 2014. The government surveillance continued into early 2017, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to Trump.[370]
  • September 19:
    • A private Senate Intelligence Committee interview with Michael Cohen is disbanded when it is learned that Cohen has shared his prepared statement with the media. Senators Burr and Warner condemn Cohen's action and announce that he will be recalled to testify publicly on October 25.[371][372]
    • Congressional investigators say Facebook is withholding information that may demonstrate the nature of Russian election interference.[373]
    • CNN reports that Mueller's Manafort investigation covers 11 years of activity.[374]
    • Reports emerge that Trump is using campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) funds to pay legal bills from the Russia probe.[375]
    • During a Senate confirmation, Jon Huntsman, Trump’s pick for ambassador to Russia, says there is no doubt Moscow interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.[376]
    • CBS News independently confirms that the FISA warrant surveillance of Manafort occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign.[377]
  • September 20:
    • Mueller seeks White House documents related to Trump’s actions as President, including records and emails concerning matters including Comey's dismissal and the warning that Flynn was under investigation.[378][379]
    • The Washington Post reports that less than two weeks before Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Manafort offered to provide briefings to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who is close to Putin.[380]
    • The Daily Beast reports on emerging evidence that numerous pro-Trump and anti-Clinton Facebook and Twitter activist accounts, including "Being Patriotic" and "march_for_trump", were run by Russian propagandists.[381]
  • September 21: Facebook hands information on more than 3,000 Russia-linked advertisements to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees.[382]
  • September 22:
    • Trump and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov issue separate denials that Russia purchased advertising space on Facebook.[383][384]
    • Mueller requests phone records about the Trump Jr. statement on the Veselnitskaya meeting that was reportedly prepared aboard Air Force One.[385]
    • The Department of Homeland Security notifies election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems last year; of those, only Illinois reported a successful breach.[386]
    • Grassley asks the FBI whether it warned the Trump campaign in 2016 that Manafort was under federal surveillance while working for the campaign. Grassley compares the situation to the warning the McCain presidential campaign purportedly received in 2008.[387]
  • September 24: The Washington Post reports that then-President Obama warned Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg over the potential electoral impact of fake news on Facebook, an idea Zuckerberg had dismissed as “crazy”.[388]
  • September 25: The Washington Post reports that "Russian operatives used Facebook ads to exploit divisions over black political activism and Muslims."[389]
  • September 26:
    • Stone speaks to a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee. He denies all allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign and describes the inquiry as politically motivated.[390]
    • CNN reports that the IRS is sharing information with Mueller.[391]
    • Politico reports that approximately $150,000 worth of Russian-funded Facebook advertisements promoted candidates Trump, Sanders and Stein.[392]
    • Senator Richard Blumenthal tells Politico that criminal charges against Flynn and Manafort are virtually certain.[393]
    • ABC News reports Mueller is investigating the timing of $2 million in political contributions from Leonard Blavatnik, Simon Kukes, and Andrew Intrater to funds controlled by Trump. All three are associates of Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. Balavatnik is also an associate of Oleg Deripaska.[394]
  • September 27:
    • Senator Mark Warner's office states that Reddit is of interest to the investigation.[395][396]
    • CNN reports that one of the Facebook campaign-time ads bought by Russians referenced Black Lives Matter and was targeted to reach audiences in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore.[397]
    • Facebook says it took down "tens of thousands" of fake accounts created by Russians before the German election.[398][399]
    • The Senate Intelligence Committee invites Facebook, Twitter and Google parent company Alphabet to testify.[400]
    • Zuckerberg says he regrets having dismissed election concerns,[401] among reports of his lack of sensitivity to warnings of Russian trolls.[402]
    • The Daily Beast reports that Russians impersonated American Muslims to create chaos on Facebook and Instagram.[144]
    • BuzzFeed files a motion to compel depositions from James Comey and James Clapper to aid in their defense against the libel suit filed by Aleksej Gubarev. BuzzFeed is seeking information on how seriously the government treated the Steele dossier.[403]
  • September 28:

October

  • October 1
    • Facebook announces that it will send Congress thousands of ads bought by Russian operatives.[407]
    • First CAATSA deadline missed.[408]
  • October 2:
    • The Washington Post reports that Russian Facebook ads showed a black woman firing a rifle, amid efforts to stoke racial strife.[409]
    • The Washington Post reports that the Russians used similar methods to corporate America by using a Facebook tool to ID and influence voters.[410]
    • Facebook announces 10 million Americans saw advertisements purchased by Russian intelligence officers in the 2016 election influence campaign.[411]
  • October 3:
    • CNN reports Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan and Wisconsin.[412]
    • The Washington Post reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to largely endorse intel report on Russian meddling and sound the alarm about next election.[413]
  • October 4: Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan file a libel suit against Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. They allege Simpson and Fusion GPS recklessly distributed the Steele dossier to the media and damaged their reputations when "defamatory statements" about them in the dossier were published. All three are owners of Alfa-Bank.[414]
  • October 5:
    George Papadopoulos statement of the offense
    • Papadopoulos pleads guilty to giving false testimony to the FBI about meetings he had with Mifsud in March 2016.[294] A court transcript of the secret plea hearing shows that federal prosecutors described the Papadopoulos case as just a "small part" of Mueller's investigation.[415] Those documents "represent the first concrete evidence that ... Trump was personally told about ties between a campaign adviser and Russian officials."[416] In the statement of the offense, Sam Clovis as the "Campaign Supervisor",[417] Corey Lewandowski as "High-Ranking Campaign Official",[417] Paul Manafort as "another high-ranking campaign official",[417] Rick Gates as "another campaign official",[417] Walid Phares as "Another Foreign Policy Advisor",[417] Joseph Mifsud as "The Professor",[417] Ivan Timofeev as "Russian MFA Connection",[418] Olga Vinogradova as "Female Russian National",[419] and Steve Bannon as "Senior Policy Advisor".[420]
    • CNN reports that Mueller's investigators met with Steele.[421]
    • Mueller subpoenas Papadopoulos's girlfriend, Simona Mangiante.[422]
  • October 9:
    • The Washington Post reports that Google uncovered Russian-bought ads on YouTube, Gmail and other Alphabet-owned platforms aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election.[423]
    • The Washington Post and ABC News report on correspondence indicating that Veselnitskaya's intended topic for her June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower was the Magnitsky Act.[424]
    • The Daily Beast reports that Russia recruited YouTubers to publicly criticize Clinton.[425]
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook removed mention of Russia from an April report on election influence.[426]
    • Recode reports that Microsoft is reviewing its records for signs of Russian interference during the election.[427]
  • October 10:
  • October 11: The Daily Beast reports that the House Intelligence Committee is looking at Cambridge Analytica's work for the Trump campaign as part of its investigation. The company is in the process of turning over documents to the committee.[433]
  • October 12: Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) state that, despite an October 1 deadline, the White House has still not acted to identify Kremlin-linked targets for sanctions under CAATSA.[434]
  • October 13:
    • Mueller's investigators interview Trump's former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus for the entire day.[435]
    • Politico reports that Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes.[436]
    • Facebook takes down data and thousands of posts, obscuring the reach of Russian disinformation.[437]
    • NBC News reports on the transfer of $26 million from Oleg Deripaska's firm, Oguster Management Ltd, to Yiakora Ventures Ltd, a company linked to Manafort.[438]
    • VTB Bank Chairman Andrey L. Kostin describes as "fake news" all purported connection between Felix Sater and plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow.[439][440]
  • Mid October: Mueller issues a first subpoena to the Trump campaign, which is voluntarily cooperating with his inquiry.[441]
  • October 16: Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump rejects the suggestion that he intends to dismiss Mueller.[442]
  • October 17:
    • The Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Page.[443]
    • Business Insider reports that Mueller has interviewed former GCHQ security specialist Matt Tait, who says he was "recruited to collude with the Russians" as part of Peter W. Smith's effort to locate Clinton's missing State Department emails.[242]
    • The Guardian reports that Russian trolls posing as Americans paid US activists to help fund protests during the 2016 election.[444]
    • Mueller's team interviews Spicer for much of the day.[445]
    • U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle tosses out Deripaska's libel suit against the Associated Press (AP). Huvelle rules Deripaska failed to show the AP knowingly misstated facts when it omitted some information about him from a story. Huvelle also denies a motion by the AP to recover its attorney costs. The suit was over an AP story about Deripaska's business dealings with Manafort. Both the AP and Deripaska file appeals for the two rulings.[446][447]
  • October 19:
    • The Daily Beast reports that Conway, Trump Jr. and Parscale pushed messages from an account operated from Russia’s "troll farm", including allegations of voter fraud a week before Election Day.[334][448]
    • Trump asks whether Russia, the FBI, or Democrats paid for the Steele dossier.[449]
    • Senators Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar introduce the Honest Ads Act, which would require digital platforms such as Facebook and Google to publicly archive advertisements with election content. McCain co-sponsors the legislation.[450]
    • U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says that Russian online interference in American elections is “warfare” and spreading misinformation is the country’s “new weapon of choice.”[451]
    • According to The Washington Post, Pompeo "distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference".[452]
  • October 20:
    • The Guardian reports that Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who bought Florida property from Trump in 2008, is under investigation in Monaco for breach of privacy related to his art dealings.[453]
    • CNN reports that Senate investigators spoke with Russians present at the June 2016 meeting with Trump Jr.[454]
  • October 21: In an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, former President Jimmy Carter says, “I don't think there's any evidence that what the Russians did changed enough votes, or any votes."[455][456]
  • October 23:
    • NBC News reports that Tony Podesta and the Podesta Group are now subjects in Mueller‘s investigation.[457]
    • Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm whose software U.S. officials suspect helped the Russian government spy on Americans, promises to make its source code available for an independent review.[458]
  • October 24:
    • Fusion GPS asks a federal judge in Washington for a restraining order to block the House Intelligence Committee from obtaining the firm's bank records, arguing that turning over the records would violate the First Amendment and poses an "existential threat" to the company.[459]
    • Twitter plans to make political ads more transparent amid Russia revelations.[460]
    • The Washington Post reports that the Clinton campaign and DNC were among the parties who paid for research that led to the Steele dossier.[461]
  • October 25:
    • The head of Cambridge Analytica says he asked Assange for help finding Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails.[462] Assange confirms the request and says he rejected the offer.[463]
    • Feinstein and Grassley break ways in the Russia investigation.[464]
    • Kaspersky Lab discloses that its software has uncovered secret code from the Equation Group on an NSA analyst's home computer.[465]
  • October 26:
    • Twitter says it will no longer accept advertising from accounts owned by Russian-backed news outlets RT and Sputnik.[466][467][468] Twitter vows to give away the $1.9 million already earned from them.[469]
    • RT reports that Twitter pushed RT for a large ad buy for the 2016 US election, but the channel declined the offer.[470]
    • House Speaker Paul Ryan says that the FBI plans to hand over documents related to the Trump dossier.[471]
  • October 27:
    • Feinstein sends five letters to key players, including one asking Facebook and Twitter for copies of advertising that Russian buyers aimed at the U.S.[472]
    • The New York Times reports that The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, initially retained Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump.[473]
    • Mueller's team interviews former CIA Director James Woolsey about Flynn.[474]
    • The ODNI states that the dossier itself played no role in the coordinated intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the U.S. election.[475]
    • A federal grand jury in Washington, DC approves the first charges in Mueller‘s investigation.[476][477][478][479]
  • October 28: Reports further clarify that the charges returned by the grand jury under seal are "related to meddling in the US presidential election."[480]
  • October 29: Mueller seizes three of Manafort's bank accounts.[481]
  • October 30:
    • Manafort and Gates surrender themselves to the FBI after both are indicted on 12 federal charges brought by Mueller, including conspiracy against the United States and money laundering.[482][483][484][485] Appearing in court a few hours later, Manafort and Gates plead not guilty.[486] Manafort is released to home confinement on a $10,000,000 bond, the terms of which will change on November 30. Gates is released to home confinement on a $5,000,000 bond. They are required to surrender all passports and submit to in-home monitoring.[487]
    • Mueller announces that Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to making false testimony to the FBI.[488] According to unsealed court documents, Papadopoulos met a Kremlin-linked professor, later identified by The Daily Telegraph as Joseph Mifsud of the University of Stirling's politics department.[489] Mifsud told Papadopoulos that Moscow had damaging information on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails”.[490][491][492][493]
    • A lawyer for Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis states that Clovis was "being polite", following reports that he encouraged Papadopoulos to meet with Russian officials.[494][495]
    • New disclosures provided to Congress by digital social media companies indicate that during the campaign Russian agents placed 1,000 videos on YouTube, 131,000 messages on Twitter, and, via 170 accounts,120,000 posts on Instagram.[496] 80,000 Russia-linked posts on Facebook were viewed by up to 126 million people.[497]
  • October 31:
    • Trump calls Papadopoulos a "low-level" advisor and a "liar".[498]
    • The Kremlin dismisses as “baseless” and “ludicrous” the notion that charges leveled by Mueller against three former Trump campaign officials constitute possible meddling by Russia in U.S. political affairs.[499]
    • The Ukrainian government says it warned Facebook and U.S. officials years ago that Russia was conducting disinformation campaigns on its platform.[500]
    • Politico reports that Sam Clovis, President Trump’s nominee to be the Agriculture Department’s chief scientist, has been “a fully cooperative witness” in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian interference.[501]
    • Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that Mueller’s probe brought down Papadopoulos only thanks to White House cooperation.[502]
    • Facebook reports to Congress that the Russians succeeded in organizing a "Miners for Trump" rally.[503]

November

  • November:
    • Mueller's prosecutors interview Kushner.[504]
    • The private equity firm Apollo Global Management gives Jared Kushner a $185 million loan. The loan is considered suspicious because Apollo's founder, Joshua Harris, met several times with Kushner at the White House to discuss, among other things, a possible job in the administration. Also, the largest investor in Apollo's real estate trust, the Apollo-controlled entity that made the loan, is the Qatari government's Qatar Investment Authority. Kushner's company had previously tried to get a $500 millon loan from the head of Qatar Investment Authority.[89] The SEC drops an ongoing inquiry into Apollo in December.[505]
  • November 1: The House Intelligence Committee releases a small sample of the ads a Russian troll farm purchased on Facebook during and after the U.S. presidential election.[506]
  • November 2:
    • Page testifies to the House Intelligence Committee for seven hours. He confirms that he met Russian government officials during his July 2016 trip to Moscow,[507] and contradicts Attorney General Sessions's testimony to the Senate in July that he did not know that Page had traveled to Russia during the campaign.[508] Page also tells the Committee that he had briefed Hicks, Gordon and Lewandowski about the trip.[509] Page invokes his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when asked by Committee members why he withheld documents requested by the committee.[510]
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that the DoJ has identified more than six Russian government officials involved in hacking the DNC's servers, and were considering bringing charges against them.[511]
    • Kushner's team turns over documents to Mueller.[512]
  • November 5:
    • NBC News reports that federal investigators have gathered enough evidence to bring charges in their investigation of Flynn and his son.[513]
    • Ryan vows that Congress shall not interfere with Mueller's investigations.[514]
    • The New York Times reports that Wilbur Ross, after becoming Commerce Secretary, did not disclose his retained investments in a shipping firm he once controlled that has significant business ties to a Russian oligarch subject to American sanctions and Putin’s son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov.[515][516][517][518][519]
  • November 6:
    • An analysis of Twitter data shows Kremlin-backed online support for Trump began immediately after he started his campaign.[520]
    • Veselnitskaya says that Trump Jr. indicated that a law targeting Russia could be reexamined if his father won the election, and asked her for written evidence that illegal proceeds went to Clinton’s campaign.[521]
    • BuzzFeed subpoenas the DNC for information related to the DNC hack as part of its efforts to defend itself against an ongoing libel suit connected to its publication of the Steele dossier.[522]
    • Ross says there is “nothing whatsoever improper” about the relationship between an international shipping company he holds significant investments in and a Russian energy company whose owners include a Putin family member and an oligarch, Gennady Timchenko, subject to U.S. sanctions.[523]
    • Politico reports Wendy Teramoto served as a part-time adviser to Ross while maintaining her board seat at the energy shipping company, Navigator, with a Kremlin-linked client.[524]
  • November 7:
    • Corey Lewandowski says that his "memory has been refreshed" of his email exchange with Page in which Page requested his permission to travel to Moscow.[525]
    • The House Intelligence Committee privately interviews Keith Schiller, Trump's longtime bodyguard and, until September 20, his Oval Office Operations director. Schiller testifies that he believes Russians offered to send five women to Trump's hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, but that he did not think Trump met with the women.[526][527] "One source noted that Schiller testified he eventually left Trump's hotel room door and could not say for sure what happened during the remainder of the night."[528]
  • November 8:
    • The Intercept reports that Pompeo met in late October with discredited former U.S. intelligence official William Binney, who has become an advocate for a disputed theory that the theft of the DNC emails was an inside job rather than a hack by Russian intelligence.[529]
    • Simpson agrees to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee.[530]
    • Congressional investigators have interviewed former Trump aides about the campaign’s push to remove proposed language calling for giving weapons to Ukraine.[531]
    • Senate Democrats have been privately investigating Russia’s Europe meddling without Republican help.[532]
  • November 10:
    • As reported in The Washington Post, Kathleen Hall Jamieson determines, through her analysis, Russians could plausibly have affected the outcome of the 2016 election.[533]
    • Russia plans new measures to restrict U.S. media working in Russia after RT said it was pressured into registering as a foreign agent in America.[534][535]
    • NBC News reports that Mueller's investigators are questioning witnesses about an alleged September 20, 2016, meeting between Flynn and Dana Rohrabacher, a staunch advocate of pro-Russia policies.[536]
  • November 11: Despite the unified assessment of the U.S. intelligence community, Trump says he took Putin at his word when Putin again denied directing an election influence campaign.[537][538] Trump later says he sides with the U.S. intelligence agencies.[539] Brennan and Clapper comment that Trump is being "played" by Putin, and accuse him of being "susceptible to foreign leaders who stroke his ego."[540]
  • November 12:
    • British spymasters fear that Kaspersky Lab anti-virus software given away for free by Barclays to more than 2,000,000 customers may be an intelligence-gathering tool for the Russian government.[541]
    • Lawyers for Alexsej Gubarev, who owns the Dallas-based web hosting firm Webzilla, are seeking to force Steele to provide testimony in Gubarev's case against BuzzFeed and its editor, Ben Smith.[542]
  • November 13:
    • RT registers with the DoJ as a foreign agent under FARA.[543]
    • The Atlantic reports that WikiLeaks asked Trump Jr. for his cooperation in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States. The Atlantic also reports that Trump Jr. contemporaneously informed Bannon, Conway, Parscale and Kushner that he was in touch with WikiLeaks, and that Kushner informed Hicks.[544][545][546] Pence denies any knowledge of WikiLeaks contacts.[547]
November 14, 2017 – House Intelligence Committee Transcript by Glenn R. Simpson
  • November 14:
    • Simpson speaks for six hours with the House Intelligence Committee. He states that his research suggests that Trump was involved with Italian mafia figures early in his career and became associated with the Russian mafia in the 1990s.[548][549] He describes evidence of Russian criminals buying Trump properties. He refers to a number of deaths and arrests following the publication of the Steele dossier.[550] Simpson also asserts that Nigel Farage may have given Assange data on a flash drive at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.[551] The testimony transcript will be released on January 18, 2018.
    • Buzzfeed reports that the FBI is scrutinizing more than 60 money transfers from the Russian foreign ministry to its embassies across the globe. Most of the transactions, which moved through Citibank accounts and totaled more than $380,000, contained a memo line reading "to finance election campaign of 2016".[552]
    • The New York Times reports that Rex Tillerson hired a Russian company with a KGB link to Putin to guard the United States Embassy in Moscow.[553][554][555]
  • November 15:
    • The Russian Parliament votes unanimously for a new law about media “foreign agents”, in retaliation for being forced to register RT as a propaganda outlet.[556]
    • Steele says he believes his dossier is "70–90% accurate" and that his FBI contacts greeted his intelligence report with "shock and horror".[557]
  • November 16:
    • The Washington Post reports that Kushner received and forwarded emails about WikiLeaks and a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” that he kept from Senate Judiciary Committee investigators.[558]
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that Mueller subpoenaed Trump campaign officials for Russia-related documents.[559]
    • Guardian Faber publishes Luke Harding's Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House, which details a network of connections originating in the 1980s between Trump and the Kremlin.[560]
  • November 17:
    • CNN reports that Kushner told congressional Russia investigators in July that he did not communicate with WikiLeaks, and did not recall anyone on the Trump campaign who had.[561]
    • Congressional aides say they may have answers on the pro-Russia GOP platform change.[562]
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Defense, and more specifically the Flynn-run Defense Intelligence Agency, flagged Kaspersky Lab as a potential threat as early as 2004.[563]
    • Politico reports that Papadopoulos claimed in a Greek newspaper last year that Trump telephoned him to discuss his new position as a foreign policy adviser to his presidential campaign, and that the two had at least one personal introductory meeting that the White House has not acknowledged.[564]
  • November 21:
    • The Wall Street Journal reports that Mueller’s investigators are asking questions about Kushner’s interactions with foreign leaders during the presidential transition, including his involvement in a dispute at the United Nations in December.[565]
    • The New York Times reports that Rohrabacher has come under Mueller's and the Senate Intelligence Committee's scrutiny in recent months for his "close ties to the Kremlin".[566]
  • November 23: It is reported that Flynn's lawyers have notified Trump’s legal team in recent days that they will no longer discuss Mueller’s investigation.[567][568][569]
  • Late November:
    • Maria Butina and Paul Erickson attend a post-Thanksgiving barbecue at Represetative Mark Sanford's family farm in South Carolina.[570]
    • Adam Waldman visits Assange twice.[39]
  • November 30:
    • Sessions testifies at a private meeting of the House Intelligence Committee. According to Schiff, Sessions refuses to say whether Trump asked him to hinder the Russia investigation.[571][572]
    • The New York Times reports that Trump pressed Republicans Roy Blunt (R-MO), Richard Burr (R-NC), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to end the Senate's Russia inquiry.[573]
    • Stone confirms that his intermediary with Assange during the election was radio host Randy Credico.[574]

December

  • December:
    • The SEC drops an inquiry into how Apollo Global Management reported financial results. The inquiry had been ongoing since the Obama administration. This is considered suspicious because it comes one month after Apollo gave Jared Kushner a $185 million loan, and months after Apollo's founder, Joshua Harris, met with Kushner to discuss a possible job in the administration.[89][505]
    • Butina declines a request to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee because of lack of support from Republican members.[319]
  • Early December: Trump becomes furious about news reports that Mueller has issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank for records related to Trump, telling advisers he wants Mueller's investigation shut down. Trump backs off after Mueller's office tells his lawyers the reports are erroneous.[575]
  • December 1
    Flynn statement of offense
    • Flynn pleads guilty in federal court to giving false testimony to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak.[28] As part of Flynn’s negotiations, his son, Michael G. Flynn, is not expected to be charged.[576][577] In the statement of the offense, K.T. McFarland is identified as "PTT official",[578] and Sergey Kislyak as "Russian Ambassador".[28]
    • Bloomberg reporter Eli Lake speculates in an opinion piece that Kushner is the person mentioned in Flynn's plea documents who is said to have ordered Flynn to contact Russia.[579]
    • ABC News reports Flynn is prepared to testify that Trump directed him to make contact with the Russians, in the context of plans to defeat ISIS.[580]
    • ABC News suspends news correspondent Brian Ross for 4 weeks for wrongly reporting that it was candidate Trump rather than President-elect Trump who had directed Flynn to contact the Russian government.[581]
    • Trump's lawyer Ty Cobb says that Flynn's plea "clears the way for a prompt and reasonable conclusion" to the Russia investigation.[582]
  • December 2:
    • The New York Times reports that even as the White House portrayed Flynn as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official, emails among top transition officials provided or described suggest otherwise.[23]
    • CNN reports that Trump admitted knowing that Flynn lied to the FBI in his tweet that “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI."[583]
  • December 3:
    • Feinstein says on Meet the Press that her group is "putting together of a case of obstruction of justice" against Trump.[584]
    • Trump's personal lawyer, John M. Dowd, says that he wrote the December 2 tweet on the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account about Flynn's firing.[585] Dowd also says Trump knew in January 2017 that Flynn had likely lied to the FBI.[586]
    • Trump calls the FBI a biased institution whose reputation for fairness is “in tatters”.[587]
  • December 4:
    • Trump says he “feels badly” for Flynn, and claims that Clinton “lied many times” to the agency without consequences.[588]
    • An email sent during the transition by Trump’s former deputy national security adviser, K. T. McFarland, appears to contradict the testimony she gave to Congress over the summer. The email shows McFarland knew about Flynn's December 29, 2016, call with Kislyak, while her written testimony says she had no knowledge of it at the time.[589]
    • Prosecutors say that Manafort worked on an op-ed with Ukrainian journalist Oleg Voloshyn,[590] an associate with ties to Russian intelligence, while out on bail; a court filing requests that the judge revoke Manafort's bond agreement.[591][592]
  • December 5:
    • Reports indicate that Mueller has subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for data on accounts held by Trump and his family,[593][594] prompting denials by Trump's lawyers Jay Sekulow and John Dowd.[595][594] Subsequent reports on December 6 indicate that only information on Trump's associates has been subpoenaed.[596]
    • Cambridge Analytica's Alexander Nix and Trump's longtime assistant Rhona Graff are scheduled to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee about the connections between Trump and the Kremlin.[597]
    • Democrats place a hold on McFarland's nomination as ambassador to Singapore until she answers their questions about her knowledge of communications between Flynn and Kislyak.[598]
    • Deripaska and the Associated Press (AP) agree to drop their appeals of rulings in Deripaska's libel suit against the AP. In October, Judge Ellen Huvelle dismissed the suit and denied the AP's request to recover attorney's fees.[447]
  • December 6:
    • An unnamed "whistleblower" claims that Flynn told a former business associate that economic sanctions against Russia would be “ripped up” as one of the Trump administration’s first acts.[12]
    • Trump Jr. testifies to the House Intelligence Committee in private. He refuses to answer questions about conversations with his father, based on attorney-client privilege.[599] Trump Jr. says he communicated with Hicks, not his father, about the response to his Veselnitskaya meeting.[600]
    • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says he was ousted as head of Trump’s transition team due in part to his opposition to hiring Flynn as National Security Adviser.[601]
    • Rosenstein confirms that he is satisfied thus far with Mueller's work.[602]
    • The U.S. House of Representatives dismisses Al Green's resolution to impeach Trump, with 58 members requesting a vote and 364 refusing it.[603]
  • December 7:
    • Mueller's team interviews White House Communications Director Hope Hicks over two days.[604]
    • During testimony to Congress, Director Christopher A. Wray defends the FBI from Trump's criticism of December 3.[605]
    • The House Ethics Committee clears Nunes of misconduct in relation to the matter of his proximity to the White House and accusations that he inappropriately disclosed classified information.[606][607] It is unclear how thorough the ethics investigation was since the Ethics Committee relied upon outside intelligence experts to review the material instead of comparing the material to Nunes's public statements themselves.[608]
  • December 8: Representative Matt Gaetz discusses Mueller's investigation with Trump aboard Air Force One en route to Florida. Representative Ron DeSantis is also aboard.[609]
  • December 12:
    • Trump's lawyers call for an investigation into the FBI's and the DoJ's alleged conflicts of interest associated with the work of Fusion GPS on the Steele dossier.[610]
    • The DoJ shows journalists private text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page exhibiting anti-Trump and pro-Clinton sentiments.[611][300][612]
  • December 13:
    • At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rosenstein states that he has seen no cause to dismiss Mueller, and confirms that Mueller is working within the boundaries of his brief. Rosenstein further states that Strzok's dismissal was appropriate and timely, and he contradicts Trump's claim that Mueller's investigation is a "witch hunt".[612]
    • Trump Jr. meets with the US Senate Intelligence Committee.[613]
  • December 14:
    • The Wall Street Journal reports on the interview of Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix by the House Intelligence Committee, stating that Mueller requested documents from the firm before or during October 2017.[614][615] In undercover videos released by the British Channel 4 in March, Nix described his testimony. According to Nix, the Republicans on the committee asked only three questions and that portion of the interview lasted only five minutes, while the Democrats asked questions for two hours.[616] This description of the nature of the testimony was confirmed by Adam Schiff, who said "my (Republican) colleagues had a habit of asking three questions: Did you conspire, did you collude, did you coordinate with Russians? And if the answer was no, they were pretty much done". Schiff also said the Republicans rejected requests that Nix be brought back before the committee.[617]
    • At his annual news conference, Putin describes allegations of election interference as invented by Trump's political opponents, and states that contacts between Trump's associates and Russian officials before the election were appropriate.[618]
    • The Washington Post reports in detail on Trump's associates' efforts to avoid the subject of Russia, to preclude Trump's "rages".[619]
  • December 15:
    • Answering questions from reporters, Trump reiterates his description of Russian collusion as a "hoax" and declines to comment on a possible pardon of Flynn.[620] Trump declares that his own innocence is now "proven".[621]
    • Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz states that he did not authorize the release to the press of the Strzok/Page text messages.[622]
    • The Washington Post reports that Strzok and Page were using the text messages as a cover story for an extramarital affair between them.[623]
  • December 16:
    • Kory Langhofer, a lawyer for Trump for America, sends Congress a letter alleging that Mueller's acquisition, via the GSA, of tens of thousands of emails sent and received by 13 senior Trump transition team members is unlawful. The communications derive from the official Presidential Transition Team domain, ptt.gov.[345][624][625]
    • Trump escalates his criticism of the FBI over its Russia investigation, saying, "It's a shame what's happened with the FBI ... It's a very sad thing to watch."[626]
  • December 17:
    • Responding to Langhofer's accusation of December 16, GSA Deputy Counsel Lenny Loewentritt states that Trump's transition team was explicitly advised that all material passing through government equipment would be subject to monitoring and would not be held back from law enforcement officers.[627][628]
    • Mueller's spokesman Peter Carr rejects Langhofer's claims, stating that the Trump transition emails were acquired appropriately through the criminal investigation process.[625]
    • White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short states there has been "no conversation" in the White House concerning any potential dismissal of Mueller.[629] Trump shortly thereafter confirms that he is not considering dismissing Mueller.[630]
  • December 18:
    • NBC News reports that the FBI warned Trump after his nomination at the 2016 RNC on July 19, 2016, that foreign adversaries, including Russia, would probably try to spy on and infiltrate his campaign.[631]
    • The Washington Post reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee is looking at Jill Stein's presidential campaign for potential “collusion with the Russians.”[632]
    • The House Intelligence Committee interviews Rob Goldstone and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.[633]
  • December 19:
    • FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testifies in private to the House Intelligence Committee about Russian election interference.[634]
    • Gizmodo reports that the Trump transition team discussed Flynn's use of Signal to encrypt conversations, according to GSA emails under FOIA.[635]
  • December 20:
    • Mark Warner delivers a speech to the Senate warning Trump of "immediate and significant consequences" should he attempt to dismiss Mueller or to pardon those involved in the investigation.[636]
    • Foreign Policy reports that records submitted to Mueller's team indicate that McGahn researched federal law related both to the Logan Act and making false statements to investigators in the early days of Trump's presidency and that he may have warned Trump that Flynn was in potential violation.[4]
    • Reports emerge that a group headed by Nunes has spent several weeks compiling a report on alleged "corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement".[606]
    • In private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee this week, McCabe tells lawmakers that Comey informed him of conversations he had with Trump soon after they happened.[637]
    • Felix Sater is interviewed in New York by Congressional staff.[638]
  • December 22:
    • The New York Times reports that federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York have sought records from Deutsche Bank about entities associated with Kushner's family businesses.[639] The prosecutors are examining a $285 million loan Deutsche Bank made one month before Election Day to lease 229 West 43rd Street, the former New York Times building in Times Square.[640]
    • Journalist David Corn, the first to report the existence of the Steele dossier, denies that FBI General Counsel James Baker was his source, following Baker's reassignment.[641]
  • December 24: The Guardian reports that the FBI has asked the Central Bank of Cyprus for financial information about the defunct FBME Bank, which was used by wealthy Russians with political connections and has been accused by the US government of money laundering.[642] Bloomberg reports that the Russia-related investigation into FBME was connected to a flow of illegal Russian funds into the New York real estate market.[643]
  • December 27:
    • According to The Washington Post, Trump’s legal team plans to cast Flynn as a "liar seeking to protect himself" if he accuses Trump or his senior aides of any wrongdoing.[644]
    • Investigative journalist Michael Isikoff reports that Mueller has begun questioning RNC staffers about the party's digital operation that worked with the Trump campaign to target voters in key swing states.[645][646]
  • December 28: When questioned about his plans regarding the Mueller probe in a New York Times interview with Michael S. Schmidt, Trump says, "I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department."[647]

2018

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