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*'''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.}}

*'''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.

*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.

:*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''.

:*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.

:*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>}}

:*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?}}

:*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.

:*Isikoff met with Steele and Simpson at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson.

:*Isikoff met with Steele and Simpson at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson.

[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska helped frame Manafort over a personal grievance; [[Andrew McCabe]] was Deripaska's longtime FBI handler.]]

[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin with Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska helped frame Manafort over a personal grievance; [[Andrew McCabe]] was Deripaska's longtime FBI handler.]]

:*According to [[Adam Waldman]]'s account, [[Oleg Deripaska]] was approached by three FBI agents in New York; at least one agent (McCabe) had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Robert Levinson. According to [[David Ignatius]] of ''[[WaPo]]'': {{quotebox|“We think Russia is colluding with the Trump campaign, and we think Manafort is the key guy,” one of the agents told Deripaska, according to the knowledgeable source. The oligarch responded, “I hate Manafort, and I’m suing him.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>}} John Solomon of ''The Hill'' reported, {{Quotebox|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}

:*According to [[Adam Waldman]]'s account, [[Oleg Deripaska]] was approached by three FBI agents in New York; at least one agent (McCabe) had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Robert Levinson. According to [[David Ignatius]] of ''[[WaPo]]'':  

{{quotebox|“We think Russia is colluding with the Trump campaign, and we think Manafort is the key guy,” one of the agents told Deripaska, according to the knowledgeable source. The oligarch responded, “I hate Manafort, and I’m suing him.”<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-gop-spin-on-the-russia-probe-reads-like-a-noir-thriller--but-doesnt-add-up/2018/09/25/1b940c92-c0ca-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html</ref>}}  

::John Solomon of ''The Hill'' reported  

{{Quotebox|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent [[Adam Waldman]]. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch</ref>}}

*'''2 September.''' Lisa Page wrote about preparing talking points for Dir. James Comey: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “'''[[POTUS|potus]] wants to know everything we’re doing.'''”<ref>https://theblacksphere.net/2018/02/fbi-text-message-potus-wants-know-everything/</ref>}} The text raises questions about Obama’s involvement in an ongoing FBI investigation.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-texts-obama-wants-know-everything-we-re-doing-n845531</ref>

*'''2 September.''' Lisa Page wrote about preparing talking points for Dir. James Comey: {{quotebox|Lisa Page - “'''[[POTUS|potus]] wants to know everything we’re doing.'''”<ref>https://theblacksphere.net/2018/02/fbi-text-message-potus-wants-know-everything/</ref>}} The text raises questions about Obama’s involvement in an ongoing FBI investigation.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-texts-obama-wants-know-everything-we-re-doing-n845531</ref>

::*''Politico'' publishes a lengthy article, “Who Is Carter Page? The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow,” by Julia Ioffe. This article appears to highlight FusionGPS's media campaign: [[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|''Yahoo News'' was used by the Obama DOJ to hoax the FISA court with supposedly independent corroboration; the same paid FBI source was the ''Yahoo News'' source. Additionally, the source was paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign. The information was false and invented. The FISA warrant granted authority to spy on the entire Trump campaign in 50 states, the [[Trump Transition]], and the first 10 months of the [[Trump Administration]], violating the civil rights and intruding into the lives all Trump appointees.]]

::*''Politico'' publishes a lengthy article, “Who Is Carter Page? The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow,” by Julia Ioffe. This article appears to highlight FusionGPS's media campaign: [[File:27067022 1565197686869300 6687960957434384962 n.jpg|right|250px|thumb|''Yahoo News'' was used by the Obama DOJ to hoax the FISA court with supposedly independent corroboration; the same paid FBI source was the ''Yahoo News'' source. Additionally, the source was paid by the DNC and Clinton campaign. The information was false and invented. The FISA warrant granted authority to spy on the entire Trump campaign in 50 states, the [[Trump Transition]], and the first 10 months of the [[Trump Administration]], violating the civil rights and intruding into the lives all Trump appointees.]]

{{quotebox|“As I started looking into Page, I began getting calls from two separate ‘corporate investigators’ digging into what they claim are all kinds of shady connections Page has to all kinds of shady Russians. One is working on behalf of various unnamed Democratic donors; the other won’t say who turned him on to Page’s scent. Both claimed to me that the FBI was investigating Page for allegedly meeting with Igor Sechin and Sergei Ivanov, who was until recently Putin’s chief of staff—both of whom are on the sanctions list—when Page was in Moscow in July for that speech.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283</ref>}}  

{{quotebox|“As I started looking into Page, I began getting calls from two separate ‘corporate investigators’ digging into what they claim are all kinds of shady connections Page has to all kinds of shady Russians. One is working on behalf of various unnamed Democratic donors; the other won’t say who turned him on to Page’s scent. Both claimed to me that the FBI was investigating Page for allegedly meeting with Igor Sechin and Sergei Ivanov, who was until recently Putin’s chief of staff—both of whom are on the sanctions list—when Page was in Moscow in July for that speech.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283</ref>}}  

::Ioffe noted that “seemingly everyone I talked to had also talked to the ''Washington Post'', and then there were these corporate investigators who drew a dark and complex web of Page’s connections.” Her article also mentioned rumors regarding Alfa Bank: {{quotebox|“In the interest of due diligence, I also tried to run down the rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russia’s Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin; that Page met with Sechin and Ivanov in Moscow; that he is now being investigated by the FBI for those meetings because Sechin and Ivanov were both sanctioned for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”}}

::Ioffe noted that “seemingly everyone I talked to had also talked to the ''Washington Post'', and then there were these corporate investigators who drew a dark and complex web of Page’s connections.” Her article also mentioned rumors regarding Alfa Bank:  

{{quotebox|“In the interest of due diligence, I also tried to run down the rumors being handed me by the corporate investigators: that Russia’s Alfa Bank paid for the trip as a favor to the Kremlin; that Page met with Sechin and Ivanov in Moscow; that he is now being investigated by the FBI for those meetings because Sechin and Ivanov were both sanctioned for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”}}

*'''26 September.''' Carter Page resigns from Trump campaign.

*'''26 September.''' Carter Page resigns from Trump campaign.

*'''30 October.''' '''Steele fired by the FBI''' for unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI to [[David Corn]] of a ''Mother Jones'' magazine.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref><ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/</ref>  The FBI was well aware of Steele's previous contacts with media - the FBI used Steele's leaks to Isikoff's ''Yahoo News'' article to hoax the FISA court nine days earlier.  

*'''30 October.''' '''Steele fired by the FBI''' for unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI to [[David Corn]] of a ''Mother Jones'' magazine.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3571705/posts</ref><ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/</ref>  The FBI was well aware of Steele's previous contacts with media - the FBI used Steele's leaks to Isikoff's ''Yahoo News'' article to hoax the FISA court nine days earlier.  

:**Steele could have been terminated earlier for his previous undisclosed contacts with Isikoff of ''Yahoo News'' and other media outlets in September 2016 - before the Carter Page application was submitted to the FISA court in October 2016 - but Steele improperly concealed and lied to the FBI about earlier contacts. DOJ official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Steele, and demonstrates that Bruce Ohr funneled allegations from FusionGPS and Steele to the FBI.

:*Steele could have been terminated earlier for his previous undisclosed contacts with Isikoff of ''Yahoo News'' and other media outlets in September 2016 - before the Carter Page application was submitted to the FISA court in October 2016 - but Steele improperly concealed and lied to the FBI about earlier contacts. DOJ official Bruce Ohr continued to pass along allegations from Steele to the FBI after the FBI suspended its formal relationship with Steele, and demonstrates that Bruce Ohr funneled allegations from FusionGPS and Steele to the FBI.

*'''8 Election Day.'''

*'''8 Election Day.'''

*'''9 November.''' Alexandra Chalupa posted a message to Facebook about work done in conjunction between the United States Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and an Anonymous-based organisation known as “The Protectors” based in Washington, DC. {{quotebox|“Homeland Security/DOJ teamed up with a group that is part of Anonymous based in Washington, D.C. called ‘The Protectors’. This group saw a lot of activity during Election Day from the Russians and believe that the voting results projected don’t match the internal and public polls because the voting results were manufactured in favor of Trump in heavily Republican counties in key states, and voting results may have been described for Clinton in key Democratic countries via malware that was placed by the Russians when they hacked the election systems of more than half our states.” <ref>https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157855450785389&id=614520388</ref>}}

*'''9 November.''' Alexandra Chalupa posted a message to Facebook about work done in conjunction between the United States Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and an Anonymous-based organisation known as “The Protectors” based in Washington, DC.  

{{quotebox|“Homeland Security/DOJ teamed up with a group that is part of Anonymous based in Washington, D.C. called ‘The Protectors’. This group saw a lot of activity during Election Day from the Russians and believe that the voting results projected don’t match the internal and public polls because the voting results were manufactured in favor of Trump in heavily Republican counties in key states, and voting results may have been described for Clinton in key Democratic countries via malware that was placed by the Russians when they hacked the election systems of more than half our states.” <ref>https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157855450785389&id=614520388</ref>}}

*'''10 November.''' Andrea Chalupa, sister of Alexandra Chalupa, then tweeted: “All election day Anonymous hackers working w/DOJ updated my sister: they were at war w/RU hackers in our systems”.<ref>https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/796932400878063617</ref>

*'''10 November.''' Andrea Chalupa, sister of Alexandra Chalupa, then tweeted: “All election day Anonymous hackers working w/DOJ updated my sister: they were at war w/RU hackers in our systems”.<ref>https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/796932400878063617</ref>