Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This is a chronology of significant events in 2016 and 2017 related to the many suspicious

2020, and 2021
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Relevant individuals and organizations

This is a list of individuals and organizations that have been involved in the events related to either the election interference that Russia conducted against the 2016 U.S. elections and/or the resulting investigations into suspected inappropriate links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials. Seth Abramson estimated more than 400 people could be listed here.[1]: 3 

A–E

F–M

N–R

S–Z

Pre-election

Post-election transition

November 2016

December 2016

  • December:
    • Concerned that the incoming Trump administration will suppress the information collected in the Russia investigation, the White House spreads it across government agencies to leave a trail for future investigators.[73]
    • At an "all-hands" oligarch meeting, Putin tasks
      Richard Burt, whose primary role at Alfa-Bank is to facilitate introductions to business contacts in the U.S. and other Western countries. Burt reaches out to Simes, whom he knows through his work as a board member of CNI. Simes declines to assist in setting up a secret communications channel because of media attention on Russian interference in the election and didn't want CNI to be seen as the intermediary.[13]
      : 163–165 
  • Early December: In Russia, FSB cyber chief Sergei Mikhailov, senior Kaspersky Lab researcher Ruslan Stoyanov, and hacker Dmitry Dokuchayev (known as "Forb") are arrested for treason.[74][75]
  • December 6: During a National Security Council meeting, Obama instructs Clapper to have the intelligence community prepare a comprehensive report on Russian interference in the presidential election.[16]: 26 
  • December 8
    • The IRA runs an ad on Craigslist to hire someone to walk around New York City dressed as Santa Claus while wearing a Trump mask.[76][13]: 32 
    • Kilimnik sends Manafort a detailed email about the proposed Ukrainian peace plan. He writes that the plan is ready to move forward if Trump appoints Manafort as a "special representative" to manage it, that "[Yanukovych] guarantees your reception at the very top level" in Russia, and that "[Trump] could have peace in Ukraine basically within a few months after inauguration."[13]: 142–143 
    • Page is in Moscow. Kilimnik emails Manafort to inform him of Page's presence, and that Page is telling people he is "authorized to talk to Russia on behalf of [Trump] on a range of issues of mutual interest, including Ukraine."[13]: 166 
  • December 9:
    • Republican Senator John McCain delivers the Steele dossier to Comey.[77]
    • The Trump transition team dismisses reported intelligence assessments finding Russian interference in the election. Their statement says, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It's now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'"[78]
    • Page dines with Shlomo Weber and Andrej Krickovic of the New Economic School in Moscow. They are briefly joined by Arkady Dvorkovich at Krickovic's invitation. Dvorkovich asks Page to facilitate connecting him with individuals on the transition team to begin discussing future cooperation. He also discusses forming a future academic partnership with Page.[13]: 166–167 
  • December 10: Glenn R. Simpson tells Ohr that Cohen was the "go-between from Russia to the Trump campaign", and gives him a memory stick containing evidence. Ohr memorializes the meeting in handwritten notes.[79]
  • December 11: Trump tells Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that intelligence reports of Russian interference are "ridiculous". He says, "It could be somebody sitting in a bed some place." He claims the Democrats are pushing the story because they lost the election.[15]: 21–22 
  • December 12: Kislyak meets with Kushner's assistant,
    Vnesheconombank.[80][81][82][83] He says Gorkov has a direct line to Putin.[13]
    : 161 
  • December 13:
    • UBS investment banker Bob Foresman meets with Gorkov and VEB deputy chairman Nikolay Tsekhomsky in Moscow just before Gorkov leaves for New York City to meet with Kushner. They tell Foresman that they are traveling to New York to discuss election issues with U.S. financial institutions on a trip approved by Putin, and will be reporting back to Putin when they return.[13]: 162 
    • Gorkov arrives from Moscow to secretly meet Kushner in at the
      Colony Capital building in New York,[13]: 161  before flying to Japan, where Putin is holding a summit. The meeting is first reported in March 2017, and attracts the interest of federal and congressional investigators in May. Kushner later characterizes the meeting as brief and meaningless. The White House later describes the meeting as a diplomatic encounter. The bank later says they discussed Kushner's real estate business.[80][82][84] The Mueller investigation is unable to resolve the conflicting accounts[clarification needed].[13]
      : 163 
    • Trump picks Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State; Russian officials praise the decision.[85]
  • December 14: Dmitriev reaches out via text messages to Kushner's close friend and hedge fund manager Rick Gerson to help arrange meetings with the Trump transition team to help improve economic cooperation with Russia. Nader had introduced Dmitiev to Gerson in early December. Gerson responds that confidentiality is required before the new administration takes power. He says he will reach out to Kushner and Flynn to find out who the "key person or people" are that Dmitriev should meet with. Dmitriev tells Gerson he was tasked by Putin to develop and execute a reconciliation plan between the U.S. and Russia. In June 2018, Gerson tells Mueller's team that he engaged with Dmitriev as a private citizen and not on behalf of the transition team.[13]: 157 
  • December 15:
    • Clinton tells a group of donors in Manhattan that Russian hacking was ordered by Putin "because he has a personal beef against me" due to her accusation in 2011 that Russian parliamentary elections that year were rigged.[86][87] Clinton's comment is backed by U.S. Intelligence reports.[88]
    • Kushner, Gerson, Nader, Flynn, Bannon, U.A.E. ambassador to the U.S.
      Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, and former British prime minister Tony Blair meet at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City. The crown prince broke diplomatic protocol by traveling to the U.S. without announcing his visit to the U.S. government. In June 2018, a spokesman for Gerson tells NBC News that Blair gave a presentation on Israeli-Palestinian peace.[89][90][91][92]
  • December 16: Speaking at his final press conference as president, Obama comes just short of saying Putin was personally behind the DNC and Podesta hacks.[93]
  • December 18:
    • Speaking to CBS News, Conway says it is "false" and "dangerous" to suggest that members of the Trump campaign spoke to any Russians during the campaign.[31][94]
    • Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Priebus declines to state whether Trump accepts the intelligence community's assessment of Russian interference. He denies any contact or coordination between the Russians and the campaign and calls the "whole thing" a Democratic "spin job".[15]: 22
  • December 19: Gorkov's assistant Ivanchenko texts Berkowitz, "Hi, please inform your side that the information about the meeting had a very positive response!"[13]: 163 
  • December 20: The CIA first learns of the Steele Dossier from the FBI.[16]: 38 
  • December 22:
    • At Kushner's direction,[13]: 167–168  Flynn asks Kislyak to delay or defeat a pending vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to cease settlement activities in Palestinian territory. Flynn later pleads guilty to lying to the FBI about the effort to defeat the resolution.[95][96]
    • Burt informs Aven of Sime's decision not to assist with a secret communications channel to the transition team because of the current political climate in the U.S. regarding Russia. Aven tells Burt to drop the project.[13]: 164–165 
  • December 23: Kislyak calls Flynn and tells him Russia will not vote against the United Nations Security Council resolution they spoke about the day before.[96] The resolution passes 14–0, with the U.S. abstaining.[13]: 168 
  • December 26: Oleg Erovinkin, a former KGB official, is found dead in the back seat of his car in Moscow. He was suspected of assisting Steele in compiling his dossier.[97]
  • December 28: Kislyak texts Flynn and asks him to call, setting off the series of calls in the following days.[98] Flynn, who is on vacation in the Dominican Republic, does not immediately respond.[13]: 169 
Transcript summaries of phone calls between Michael T. Flynn and Sergey Kislyak.

January 2017

  • January 11:
    • Trump tweets, "Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!".[150] USA Today says this is "not exactly true".[151]
    • Trump holds a press conference in which he calls the Steele dossier a disgrace and denies having any dealings with Russia.[15]: 23
    • 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".[152][153]
    • Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the U.A.E., facilitates and attends.[159][120] In May 2018 Dmitriev suggests the meeting was more than a chance encounter.[160] The meeting occurs amid a series of meetings of politically connected individuals from Russia, France, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa that are part of a larger gathering hosted by the crown prince.[161]
    • Michael Cohen tells Sean Hannity on The Sean Hannity Show that there is no relationship between Russia and the people around Trump or the Trump campaign.[162][163]
    • Politico publishes a report on its investigation into the involvement of some Ukrainian government officials in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including helping Alexandra Chalupa with her research and revealing Manafort's name in the Party of Region's "black ledger". The report concludes that the Ukrainian government is too fragmented and factionalized to perform an interference campaign of the scale attributed to Russian interference.[164]
    • Trump asks Clapper, Comey, and other intelligence community leaders to publicly refute the Steele dossier allegations.[15]: 28 

Continuation of 2017

Investigations' continuing timelines

See also

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