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May 18: Trump said in a restrained statement
Wednesday that Mueller's "thorough investigation will confirm what we already
know -- there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity,"
adding that he looked forward to a speedy resolution to the probe.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-appointment/index.html
May 22: President Trump asked two of the
nation’s top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an
FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and the
Russian government, according to current and former officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-asked-intelligence-chiefs-to-push-back-against-fbi-collusion-probe-after-comey-revealed-its-existence/2017/05/22/394933bc-3f10-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.ca74bea84ba7
May 22: White House officials say Comey’s
testimony about the scope of the FBI investigation upset Trump, who has
dismissed the FBI and congressional investigations as
a “witch hunt.” The president has repeatedly said there was no collusion.
Current and former senior intelligence officials viewed Trump’s requests as an
attempt by the president to tarnish the credibility of the agency leading the
Russia investigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-asked-intelligence-chiefs-to-push-back-against-fbi-collusion-probe-after-comey-revealed-its-existence/2017/05/22/394933bc-3f10-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.ca74bea84ba7
May 24: Latest poll: American voters
disagree with President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, think the
dismissal was for self-serving reasons, and approve of a special counsel being
appointed to investigate Russian government efforts to influence the election
and the Trump campaign.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/24/fox-news-poll-trump-approval-down-voters-support-special-counsel-on-russia.html
June 1:
Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia
politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the
proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party,
made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the
Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising
the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood
statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of
Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends
back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have
something else in common:
Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence
investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s
received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger
Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people
whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.
“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over
again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”
Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI
nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.
The aide, George Cottrell, previously ran the UKIP offices as well as Farage’s
personal blog. He was arrested by the FBI when Farage and Cottrell came to the
US for the Republican Convention. Cottrell was later found guilty of wire fraud
for offering to help criminals launder funds.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/1/1667871/-Nigel-Farage-joins-other-Trump-associates-as-person-of-interest-in-FBI-investigation
June 12: One of President Donald Trump's
friends [Christopher Ruddy] said Monday he believes the President is considering
dismissing special counsel Robert Mueller, who was appointed to lead the FBI
investigation into Russia's potential ties to the 2016 election.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/ruddy-robert-mueller-white-house/index.html
June 12: A source close to the President
said Trump is being counseled to steer clear of ... firing the special counsel.
"He is being advised by many people not to do it," the source said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/ruddy-robert-mueller-white-house/index.html
June 12: "You have to hope that common sense
would prevail," [Rep. Adam] Schiff said. "But it wouldn't surprise me at all,
even though it would be absolutely astonishing were he (Trump) to entertain
this. The echoes of Watergate are getting louder and louder."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/ruddy-robert-mueller-white-house/index.html
June 14: Special counsel Robert Mueller met
on Capitol Hill with the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee [Richard
Burr and Sen. Mark Warner] ... Wednesday afternoon, a long-awaited connection on
Russian meddling in the 2016 election. ...Mueller met with [them] ... in a
secure room. Burr told CNN they had a "good meeting" with Mueller. ...
[He] also said he didn't think they would meet in person with Mueller again, but
would be in touch if deconfliction issues arise.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/mueller-meets-with-senate-russia-investigators/index.html
June 15: The Senate on Wednesday voted
overwhelmingly to enact new sanctions against Russia and make it difficult for
President Donald Trump to lift them ... In a rare moment of bipartisan unity,
[they] voted 97 to two ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/politics/senate-new-russia-sanctions/index.html
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June 21: Publisher of National Enquirer
Subpoenaed in Michael Cohen Probe
Prosecutors eye whether company coordinated with ex-Trump lawyer on payment to
bury affair allegation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/publisher-of-national-enquirer-subpoenaed-in-michael-cohen-probe-1529529151
December 4: Former national security adviser
Michael Flynn has provided "substantial" aid in the Russia investigation and
beyond — and that merits a judge's consideration at Flynn's sentencing this
month,
prosecutors said in court papers late Tuesday.
The government said in a memo to a federal judge that it believes sentencing for
Flynn should be lenient and that even a sentence without prison time "is
appropriate and warranted."
Prosecutors say Flynn helped with "several ongoing investigations," not just the
Russia inquiry, including a redacted criminal investigation. Authorities say
some of Flynn's help may not have yet borne fruit but they've asked a judge to
sentence him anyway as had been planned on Dec. 18.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673473063/michael-flynn-has-provided-substantial-assistance-in-russia-inquiry-feds-say?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181204&utm_campaign=breakingnews&utm_term=nprnews
December 27:
Giuliani calls for Mueller to be investigated for destruction of FBI evidence
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/422963-giuliani-calls-for-mueller-to-be-investigated-for-destruction-of-fbi-evidence
-- 2019 --
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February 22:
On Tuesday, the New York Times published
the results of an extensive investigation into Trump's "two-year war on the
investigations encircling him." The paper found that there has been a
"sustained, more secretive assault by Mr. Trump on the machinery of federal law
enforcement" than has been previously publicly known ....
As part of his efforts to contain the ongoing legal crises he faces, Trump
reportedly tried to install a loyalist in New York's Southern District, US
attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, as the new person in charge of the investigations
into Trump's hush-money payments, like the one apparently made to Stormy Daniels
in 2016.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/22/sf-based-irs-agent-stormy-daniels/
February 22: On Tuesday, the New York Times
published
the results of an extensive investigation into Trump's "two-year war on the
investigations encircling him." The paper found that there has been a
"sustained, more secretive assault by Mr. Trump on the machinery of federal law
enforcement" than has been previously publicly known ....
As part of his efforts to contain the ongoing legal crises he faces, Trump
reportedly tried to install a loyalist in New York's Southern District, US
attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, as the new person in charge of the investigations
into Trump's hush-money payments, like the one apparently made to Stormy Daniels
in 2016.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/22/sf-based-irs-agent-stormy-daniels/
April 17: Everything
We’ve Learned From Robert Mueller’s Investigation (So Far)
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/robert-mueller-investigation-what-we-know.html
April 18: The special counsel, Robert S.
Mueller III, produced a report of more than 400 pages that painted a deeply
unflattering picture of President Trump but stopped short of accusing him of
criminal wrongdoing. Here are seven takeaways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-pdf-takeaways.html
April 30: Mueller's Letter To Barr
Complained That Trump-Russia Report Summary Lacked 'Context'
Special counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter in late March objecting to
Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of the conclusions of the
investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, a
Justice Department official confirmed Tuesday night.
The letter written to Barr expressed the special counsel's frustration that the
attorney general's
memo to Congress "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance"
of the investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718883130/mueller-complained-that-barr-summary-of-trump-russia-probe-lacked-context
May 1: Read: Letter from special counsel
Robert Mueller to Attorney General William Barr
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/01/politics/mueller-letter-to-barr/index.html
May 23: Trump’s
Cover-Up Accelerates
The president directed his attorney general to declassify information—raising
the prospect of selective disclosures.
Trump
directed his attorney general to declassify documents in an effort to depict
Trump’s campaign as a victim of improper surveillance in 2016. Trump tweeted
that the attorney general had “requested” these powers. That may even be true.
But Trump has been demanding such an investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies
since long before William Barr got the top law-enforcement job. Barr is
compliant and complicit, but the idea is all Trump’s.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/trump-tells-barr-declassify-documents/590215/
May 24:
Trump calls Russia investigation 'attempted coup'
... President Trump defended allowing Attorney General William Barr to release
classified information on how the Russia investigation began, saying the
“attempted coup” should never happen again.
https://www.pbs.org/video/news-wrap-trump-calls-russia-investigation-attempted-coup-1558736174/
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