12-03-2017, 10:01 AM
November 9, 2013
Donald Trump and family members attend the 2013 Miss Universe competition in Moscow. The pageant, owned by Trump at the time, was sponsored by Aras Agalarov, a Russian real estate developer. Following the pageant, Trump signed a deal with Agalarov to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, though the deal was stalled at some point during Trump's campaign for president.
April 2014
The Obama White House moves to fire Michael Flynn from his post as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency over his brusque management style.
June 16, 2015
Trump launches his campaign for president.
December 10, 2015
Michael Flynn takes a paid trip to Russia to appear at a gala for the Russian media outlet RT. Flynn dined at a table with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
January 2016
Carter Page shows up at Corey Lewandowski’s office to begin volunteer work for the Trump campaign. That month, attends an initial meeting as a volunteer with an unpaid informal committee: the “initial foreign policy committee.”
Early March 2016
George Papadopoulos, an international energy and oil consultant who was living in London at the time, learned he would be a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign.
March 6, 2016
George Papadopoulos spoke with a Trump campaign official identified in court records as just "Campaign Supervisor” and says that he learned that a principal foreign policy focus of the Trump campaign was an improved U.S. relationship with Russia.
March 14, 2016
Traveling in Italy, George Papadopoulos met an individual who was a professor based in London. Later identified in federal court records as “The Professor," the man initially seemed uninterested in Papadopoulos. However, after Papadopoulos informed the Professor he had joined the Trump campaign, the Professor appeared to take great interest, court documents said. Papadopoulos was interested in the Professor because he claimed to have substantial connections with Russian government officials, which Papadopoulos thought could increase his importance as a policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
Donald Trump and family members attend the 2013 Miss Universe competition in Moscow. The pageant, owned by Trump at the time, was sponsored by Aras Agalarov, a Russian real estate developer. Following the pageant, Trump signed a deal with Agalarov to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, though the deal was stalled at some point during Trump's campaign for president.
April 2014
The Obama White House moves to fire Michael Flynn from his post as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency over his brusque management style.
June 16, 2015
Trump launches his campaign for president.
December 10, 2015
Michael Flynn takes a paid trip to Russia to appear at a gala for the Russian media outlet RT. Flynn dined at a table with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
January 2016
Carter Page shows up at Corey Lewandowski’s office to begin volunteer work for the Trump campaign. That month, attends an initial meeting as a volunteer with an unpaid informal committee: the “initial foreign policy committee.”
Early March 2016
George Papadopoulos, an international energy and oil consultant who was living in London at the time, learned he would be a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign.
March 6, 2016
George Papadopoulos spoke with a Trump campaign official identified in court records as just "Campaign Supervisor” and says that he learned that a principal foreign policy focus of the Trump campaign was an improved U.S. relationship with Russia.
March 14, 2016
Traveling in Italy, George Papadopoulos met an individual who was a professor based in London. Later identified in federal court records as “The Professor," the man initially seemed uninterested in Papadopoulos. However, after Papadopoulos informed the Professor he had joined the Trump campaign, the Professor appeared to take great interest, court documents said. Papadopoulos was interested in the Professor because he claimed to have substantial connections with Russian government officials, which Papadopoulos thought could increase his importance as a policy adviser to the Trump campaign.