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==Alexandra Chalupa timeline==
==Alexandra Chalupa timeline==
[[File:Mueller-and-yanu.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Special Counsel Robert Mueller [[colluding]] with Manafort's boss, Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Yanukovych is considered a Putin stooge. The [[Podesta Brothers]] and Obama [[White House]] Counsel [[Greg Craig]] worked for Yanukovych as well. Manafort was investigated by Mueller for work he did while managing [[Sen. John McCain]]'s 2008 presidential campaign.]]
[[File:Mueller-and-yanu.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]] [[colluding]] with Manafort's boss, Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych]]. Yanukovych is considered a Putin stooge. The [[Podesta Brothers]] and Obama [[White House]] Counsel [[Greg Craig]] worked for Yanukovych as well. Manafort was investigated by Mueller for work he did while managing [[Sen. John McCain]]'s 2008 presidential campaign.]]
{{See also|Obamagate timeline}}
{{See also|Obamagate timeline}}
===2016===
===2016===
*'''Late July.''' Alexandra Chalupa leaves the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to work full-time on her research into Manafort, Trump and Russia; and provides off-the-record guidance to “a lot of journalists.”
*'''Late July.''' Alexandra Chalupa leaves the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to work full-time on her research into Manafort, Trump and Russia; and provides off-the-record guidance to “a lot of journalists.”
'''18 July.''' RNC Convention platform completed. It reads, {{Quotebox|Repressive at home and reckless abroad, their policies imperil the nations which regained their self-determination upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. We will meet the return of Russian belligerence with the same resolve that led to the collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]. We will not accept any territorial change in Eastern Europe imposed by force, in Ukraine or elsewhere, and will use all appropriate measures to bring to justice the practitioners of aggression and assassination.<br>We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russia unless and until Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored. We also support providing appropriate assistance to the armed forces of Ukraine and greater coordination with NATO defense planning.}}
*Mainstream media reports [[fake news]], based on Clinton's ''Steele dossier'', that Donald Trump "gutted" the RNC platform on support for an independent Ukraine.
:*Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News interviews Mike Flynn live: {{quotebox|'''Isikoff:''' You flew over to Moscow to participate in the 10th anniversary—a celebration of RT—Russian television, a propaganda arm of the Russian government. And you sat next to Vladimir Putin at a celebratory dinner. Why did you attend that event?<br>'''Flynn:''' Because I wanted to tell Russia to get [[Iran]] the hell out of the four proxy wars that they’re involved in in the [[Middle East]] in order for us to settle the situation down … my intent for speaking at that event—and they allowed me to do it—was to talk about Russia’s influence over Iran and to essentially tell Russia that they have got to get Iran out of the situations they are involved in in the region … Iran has got to back out of many of the things they’re doing.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-supporter-defends-payment-russian-175611942.html</ref>}} Isikoff ignored Flynn’s entire response and continued his line of questioning: {{quotebox|'''Isikoff:''' Were you paid for that event?}} Following the Isikoff interview, the matter was pursued further by ''Washington Post'' reporter Dana Priest, who published a combined an-person and telephone interview with Flynn in an August 15, 2016.
*'''21 July.''' Anne Applebaum of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' writes a “Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.” The issue, she explained, was Trump’s positive attitude toward Putin. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum. She named Carter Page and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the kenard that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for Ukraine” from the Republican National Committee’s platform. Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort’s ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]]. The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''Steele dossier''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref> The talking points come directly from Hillary Clinton opposition research, FusionGPS and the ''Steele dossier''.
*'''21 July.''' Anne Applebaum of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' writes a “Trump presidency could destabilize Europe.” The issue, she explained, was Trump’s positive attitude toward Putin. “The extent of the Trump-Russia business connection has already been laid out, by Franklin Foer at ''Slate'',” wrote Applebaum. She named Carter Page and his “long-standing connections to Russian companies.” Applebaum repeats the kenard that the “Trump’s campaign team helped alter the Republican party platform to remove support for Ukraine” from the Republican National Committee’s platform. Maybe, she hints, that was because of Trump aide Manafort’s ties to Ukrainian President [[Viktor Yanukovych|Victor Yanukovich]]. The Manafort-Yanukovich relationship is an important part of the ''Steele dossier''. So is the claim that in exchange for Russia releasing the DNC emails, “the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.” For Applebaum, it was hard to understand why Trump would express skepticism about the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]], except to appease Putin. She referred to a recent interview in which Trump “cast doubt on the fundamental basis of transatlantic stability, NATO’s Article 5 guarantee: If Russia invades, he said, he’d have to think first before defending U.S. allies.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-a-trump-presidency-could-destabilize-europe/2016/07/21/9ec38a20-4f75-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html?sw_bypass=true</ref> The talking points come directly from Hillary Clinton opposition research, FusionGPS and the ''Steele dossier''.
*'''14 August.''' Deripaska's revenge: ''New York Times'' publishes ''Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief''” two weeks after Bruce Ohr’s meeting with Steele. The article states: “Mr. Deripaska would later say he invested $18.9 million in Pericles [Manafort's company] in 2008 to complete the acquisition of Black Sea Cable. But the planned purchase—including the question of who ended up with the Black Sea assets—has since become the subject of a dispute between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html</ref>
*'''14 August.''' Deripaska's revenge: ''New York Times'' publishes ''Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief''” two weeks after Bruce Ohr’s meeting with Steele. The article states: “Mr. Deripaska would later say he invested $18.9 million in Pericles [Manafort's company] in 2008 to complete the acquisition of Black Sea Cable. But the planned purchase—including the question of who ended up with the Black Sea assets—has since become the subject of a dispute between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort.”<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html</ref>
*'''15 August.''' John Brennan briefs [[Harry Reid]] on Christopher Steele and [[Spygate]] material. Reid asked Brennan if he could include the information they discussed on Russia in a letter to Comey to ask for investigation of Trump.<ref>https://bigleaguepolitics.com/john-brennans-leak-to-harry-reid-is-now-under-scrutiny/</ref>
:*Bruce Ohr talks directly with Strzok. Within a month of Bruce Ohr passing along Steele’s dirt, the FBI scheduled a follow-up meeting with Steele. The path was laid for the ''Steele dossier'' to support a FISA warrant to surveil the Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
:*Peter Strzok texts Lisa Page: {{Quotebox|"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy [McCabe]'s office that there's no way he gets elected -- but I'm afraid we can't take that risk. It's like '''an insurance policy''' in the unlikely event you die before you're 40..."<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/24643/one-insane-text-message-may-have-just-fatally-ben-shapiro</ref>}}
:*Dana Priest of ''WaPo'' publishes follow up on Isikoff's July 18 interview with Flynn: {{quotebox|'''Priest:''' Tell me about the RT [state-run Russian Television] relationship?<br>'''Flynn:''' I was asked by my speaker’s bureau, LAI [Leading Authorities, Inc.]. I do public speaking. It was in Russia. It was a paid speaking opportunity. I get paid so much, the speaker’s bureau got paid so much, based on our contract. The gig was to do an interview with [RT correspondent] Sophie Shevardnadze. It was an interview in front of the forum, probably 200 people in the audience. My purpose there was I was asked to talk about [[radical]] [[Islam]] in the Middle East. They asked me to talk about what was going on in the situation unfolding in the Middle East.<br>'''Priest:''' Have you appeared on RT regularly?<br>'''Flynn:''' I appear on [[Al Jazeera]], Sky News Arabia, RT. I don’t get paid a dime. I have no media contracts. … [I am interviewed] on CNN, Fox …<br>'''Priest:''' Why would you go on RT, they’re state-run?<br>'''Flynn:''' Well, what’s CNN?}}
*'''19 August.''' Ukrainian parliament member Sergii Leshchenko holds news conference to draw attention to Paul Manafort and Trump’s “pro-Russia” ties.
*'''19 August.''' Ukrainian parliament member Sergii Leshchenko holds news conference to draw attention to Paul Manafort and Trump’s “pro-Russia” ties.