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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.

:::*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>

:::*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: [[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>}} 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.”}}

{{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.

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