Three weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump Jr left the campaign trail and the country to speak at a private dinner in Paris organized by a pro-Russia group that promotes Kremlin foreign policy and has since nominated Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.
July 19, 2016: Then-Senator and Trump Surrogate Jeff Sessions, along with two Trump campaign advisers JD Gordon and Carter Page, meet Russia's ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak at the Global Partners in Diplomacy event staged by the Heritage Foundation.
July 27, 2016: Donald Trump holds a press conference in which he asks Russia to hack our government (and they oblige).
July 31, 2016: Jeff Sessions, who said in 2015 that the west has to "unify against Russia," goes on CNN and characterizes US relationship with Russia as a "cycle of hostility" that needs to be resolved.
August 12, 2016: "Guccifer 2.0" releases files purportedly stolen in a cyberattack on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Guccifer 2.0's Twitter account is briefly suspended. When it is reinstated, Roger Stone begins a private Twitter conversation with the alleged hacker. Experts soon link Guccifer 2.0 back to Russia and conclude the so-called hacker is the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.
August 21, 2016: Roger Stone tweets a prediction about Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta. “Trust me, it will soon the [sic] Podesta's time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary”
September 8, 2016: Jeff Sessions and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak meet privately in Sessions' office. An administration official tells NBC in early March — when news of the meeting breaks — that "election-related news" was likely discussed.
September 26, 2016: Carter Page takes a "leave of absence" from the Trump campaign after a Yahoo News report alleges that Igor Sechin offered him the brokerage of a 19% stake in Rosneft (Rosneft is an integrated oil company majority owned by the Government of Russia).
November 3, 2016: Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev flies into Charlotte, North Carolina on his private plane. Trump's plane lands on the tarmac minutes later and parks next to Rybolovlev, whose plane stays in Charlotte for 22 hours afterward.
December 7, 2016: Rosneft signs a deal to sell 19.5% of shares, or roughly $11 billion, to the multinational commodity trader Glencore Plc and Qatar's state-owned wealth fund. Carter Page travels to Moscow to "meet with some of the top managers" of Rosneft the following day, he told reporters at the time.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/timeline-events-unfolded-during-election-151405767.htmlEdited by Badird at 11:40:45 on 03/30/17