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*'''28 August.''' Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, tells the the ''Financial Times'' of London that “a Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy.” Leshchenko gave the Black Ledger file of the Ukrainian Party of Regions to Alexandra Chalupa and Glenn Simpson; Chalupa gave it to Mike Isiskoff and Simpson gave it to Nellie Ohr. When Isikoff published allegations about Paul Manafort from the files, Manafort resigned the next day. Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele used some of the Black Ledger file in the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html</ref>
*'''28 August.''' Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, tells the the ''Financial Times'' of London that “a Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy.” Leshchenko gave the Black Ledger file of the Ukrainian Party of Regions to Alexandra Chalupa and Glenn Simpson; Chalupa gave it to Mike Isiskoff and Simpson gave it to Nellie Ohr. When Isikoff published allegations about Paul Manafort from the files, Manafort resigned the next day. Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele used some of the Black Ledger file in the ''Steele dossier''.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html</ref>
*'''September.''' Isikoff met with Steele and Simpson at a DC hotel in a meeting arranged by Simpson.
*'''September.''' The Obama DOJ's illegal FISA warrant on Carter Page was built on an echo chamber of Hillary Clinton's opposition research among journalists, law enforcement and the intelligence community - all reinforcing each other with the manufactured allegations of the ''Steele dossier''. Michael Isikoff’s September 23, 2016 ''Yahoo News'' article, provided by Christopher Steele, was used to corroborate the Obama DOJ's evidence to the FISA court, which likewise was provided by Christopher Steele.
:*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>
*'''23 September.''' '''''Yahoo News'' and Michael Isikoff'''.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html</ref> Michael Isikoff of ''Yahoo News'' publishes an article based on the information Steele personally leaked to Isikoff and several other media outlets at the direction of FusionGPS. The information focuses on Carter Page's July 2016 trip to Moscow. [[Perkins Coie]] hosted the journalists' meeting with Steele where the matter was discussed.
:*Isikoff’s article would later be used by the FBI in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant application to spy on Carter Page, as if it were corroborating information despite the FBI knowing Steele was the source.
::*Steele is later fired from the FBI as an unreliable for leaking to media and violating agency rules.
::*According to the Isikoff article, Congress was briefed on the contents of the ''Steele dossier'' by the FBI.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html</ref>
::*Following the publication of Isikoff’s article, [[Hillary for America]] released a statement on the same day touting Isikoff’s “bombshell report” with the full article attached.
::*Steele testified that he “briefed” ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Yahoo News'', ''The New Yorker'', and CNN at the end of September 2016.
:::*Steele would engage in a second round of media contact in mid-October 2016, meeting again with ''The New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', and ''Yahoo News''. Steele testified that all these meetings were “conducted verbally in person.”<ref>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzgzy2KXyxqtVUxEb2pwRmphOXM/view</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: {{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.”}}
*'''26 September.''' Carter Page resigns from Trump campaign.
*'''21 October.''' '''Carter Page FISA warrant'''. DOJ and FBI sought and receive a [[FISA]] [[probable cause]] order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance of Carter Page from the [[FISA court]]. The warrant application was signed by [[Sally Yates]] and James Comey. The FISA order was ultimately used by Brennan’s Working Group, as the information gathered gave them multiple investigative leads into the Trump campaign.<ref>''per Lisa Page testimony, day 2.</ref>
*'''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>
*'''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>