

Mark Pomerantz, a prosecutor who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last month, said in his resignation letter that he believes the former president is "guilty of numerous felony violations" and he disagreed with the Manhattan district attorney's decision not to seek an indictment. He confirmed that an investigation into Russia's election-related meddling includes an examination of contacts between Trump associates and Russia during the campaign.FILE - President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington, on Dec. March 20: Comey said he has "no evidence" to support Trump's wiretapping claim. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced that the committee had not found any evidence to support Trump's wiretapping claim. March 4: Without presenting evidence, Trump tweets that Obama had Trump Tower's "wires tapped" during the presidential campaign.

March 2: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into whether the Trump campaign communicated with Russia. January 27: Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, holds a meeting with Russian-American businessman Felix Sater and Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko to discuss a backchannel "peace plan" for Russia and Ukraine.įebruary 13: Flynn resigns as national security adviser after reports emerge that he misled Vice President Mike Pence. John McCain hears about the documents and dispatched a former US official to meet the source of the documents and gather more information. November 18: During a security meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sen. November 10: President Barack Obama warns Trump during a meeting at the White House that national security adviser Michael Flynn, a former US Army lieutenant general and Defense Intelligence Agency chief, is a problem. November 8: Trump wins the election to become the 45th president of the United States. Trump's plane lands on the tarmac not long after and parks next to Rybolovlev, whose plane stays in Charlotte for 22 hours afterward. November 3, 2016: Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev flies into Charlotte, North Carolina on a private plane.

October 30: Reid sent Comey another letter demanding that Trump's possible ties to Russia be fully investigated and he cited the existence of "explosive information" that the FBI has in its possession. October 7: The Obama administration publicly accuses Russia of "directing the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organisations' to affect the US election. Page had extensive business links in Russia and is a former Merrill Lynch investment banker in Moscow. September 23: US intelligence officials began investigating links between Trump adviser Carter Page and the Russian government, Yahoo News reported. He wrote: "The evidence of a direct connection between the Russian government and Donald Trump's presidential campaign continues to mount and has led Michael Morrell, the former Acting Central Intelligence Director, to call Trump an 'unwitting agent' of Russia and the Kremlin."
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Harry Reid sent a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey and called for a full investigation and public disclosure. Late July: The FBI opens its investigation into Russia's interference in the election, and the Trump campaign's possible role in it.Īugust 27: Then-US Sen. July 31: Kremlin weighing to release more information about Clinton. July 27: Trump asks Russian hackers to find Clinton's 30,000 emails during a press conference. It also claimed that the Kremlin had compromising material related to "sexually perverted acts" Trump performed at a Moscow Ritz Carlton where former President Barack Obama once stayed.ĭossier also alleged that Trump's inner circle was accepting a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin on Hillary Clinton. It alleged that Trump had been cultivated by Russian officials "for at least five years".
