Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (2020–2021)
This is a timeline of events in 2020 and 2021 related to investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials that are suspected of being inappropriate, relating to the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It follows the timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, both before and after July 2016, until November 8, 2016 election day, the transition, the first and second halves of 2017, the first and second halves of 2018, and 2019.
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These events are related to, but distinct from, Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections.
Relevant individuals and organizations
This is a list of individuals and organizations that have been involved in the events related to either the election interference that Russia conducted against the 2016 U.S. elections and/or the resulting investigations into suspected inappropriate links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials. Seth Abramson estimated more than 400 people could be listed here.[1]:3
A–E
- Aras Agalarov, Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire oligarch and President of the Crocus Group, close to both Trump and Vladimir Putin
- Emin Agalarov, Russian pop singer, and son of Aras
- Zainab Ahmad, associate of Robert Mueller
- Rinat Akhmetshin, Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet counterintelligence officer[2] who emigrated to the U.S. in 1994[3]
- Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates
- Justin Amash, U.S. Representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district, first Republican to call for Donald Trump's impeachment, became an Independent July 4, 2019
- Greg Andres, associate of Robert Mueller
- Tevfik Arif, Soviet-born Turkish real estate developer and investor, founder of the Bayrock Group
- Andrii Artemenko, Ukrainian member of parliament
- Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks
- Arron Banks, primary funder and co-founder of Leave.EU campaign
- Stephen K. Bannon, Breitbart News chairman (2012–2016), Trump campaign CEO (August–November 2016), and White House Chief Strategist (January–August 2017)
- William Barr, United States Attorney General (1990–1993, and again since February 2019), head of the United States Department of Justice (DoJ)
- John R. Bolton, National Security Advisor (April 2018 – September 2019)
- John O. Brennan, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (2013–2017)
- Richard Burr, North Carolina Senator (R), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
- Maria Butina, founder of "Right to Bear Arms" and associate of Alexander Torshin
- Steve Calk, banker who helped Paul Manafort and Rick Gates steal and launder money
- Cambridge Analytica, a now defunct political consulting, data mining, and analysis firm that worked for Trump's campaign; its parent company was SCL Group
- Michael Caputo, former chief of communications in New York for the Trump Campaign, contracted to perform public relations work for Putin in 2000[4]
- James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) (2010–2017)
- Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Secretary of State (2009–2013), First Lady of the United States (1993–2001)
- Sam Clovis, former co-chairman and policy adviser for the Trump campaign
- Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence (since March 2017)
- Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney (2006–2018)
- Columbus Nova, the American investment arm of Viktor Vekselberg's business empire
- James B. Comey, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2013–2017)
- Concord Management and Consulting, accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election
- Rafael Correa, former Ecuadorian president
- Jerome Corsi, American political commentator and associate of Roger Stone
- Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel
- Randy Credico, American perennial political candidate
- Rick Dearborn, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (January 20, 2017 – March 16, 2018) and executive director of Trump's presidential transition team
- Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch, aluminum magnate with close ties to Putin
- Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund
- Annie Donaldson, former Deputy White House Counsel
- Michael Dreeben, associate of Robert Mueller
- Eric A. Dubelier, former Federal prosecutor and attorney for Concord Management and Consulting
- Yuri Dubinin, Ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States (1986–1990)
- Electronic Privacy Information Center, DC-based non-profit that filed FOIA lawsuit for release of complete Mueller Report
- T. S. Ellis III, a United States District Judge of the Eastern District of Virginia presiding over Paul Manafort's trial in Virginia. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and took senior status in 2007.
- Paul Erickson, Republican activist involved in several Republican presidential campaigns and romantic partner of Maria Butina
F–M
- Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP (2006–2009, 2010–2016), leader of The Brexit Party (since its founding in 2018) and a Member of the European Parliament (since 1999)
- Dianne Feinstein, California Senator (D), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee (chairwoman, 2009–2015) and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
- Michael T. Flynn, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (2012–2014), National Security Advisor (January–February 2017)
- Dabney L. Friedrich, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Rick Gates, deputy to Manafort during the Trump campaign
- Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City (1994–2001), and personal attorney for President Trump (since April 2018)
- John Gleeson, District Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1994 – March 2016), advisor to Emmet G. Sullivan
- Andrew D. Goldstein, associate of Robert Mueller
- Rob Goldstone, British publicist of Russian singer Emin Agalarov
- J. D. Gordon, Trump transition team member, and Director of National Security for the Trump campaign (since March 2016)
- Chuck Grassley, Iowa Senator (R), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2015–2019), and President pro tempore of the United States Senate (since 2019)
- Guccifer 2.0, a hacker alias used by the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
- Stefan Halper, FBI informant
- Alvin K. Hellerstein, District Judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Hope Hicks, press secretary for the Trump campaign and White House Communications Director (August 2017 – February 2018)
- Beryl A. Howell, Chief United States District Judge for the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian entity charged with coordinating online propaganda efforts, finances managed by Khusyaynova, funded by Prigozhin
- Andrew Intrater, Columbus Nova CEO, cousin of Viktor Vekselberg
- Frederick Intrater, brother of Columbus Nova CEO Andrew Intrater, cousin of Viktor Vekselberg
- Anton Inyutsyn, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy
- Amy Berman Jackson, U.S. District Court Judge in the District of Columbia overseeing one of Mueller's cases against Paul Manafort
- Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (since July 2019)
- Jones Day, law firm that worked for the Trump campaign
- Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze, Georgian-American senior vice president at the Crocus Group
- Bijan Kian, also known as Bijan Rafiekian, business partner of Michael Flynn and part of the Trump transition
- Konstantin V. Kilimnik, Paul Manafort's right-hand man in Kiev, Ukraine, alleged Russian intelligence operative[5]
- Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to the United States (2008–2017)
- Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, Russian accountant who managed social media troll operation finances (including the IRA) which interfere in 2016 elections and 2018 midterm elections, called "Project Lakhta"
- Simon Kukes, Russian-American businessman and associate of Vekselberg, German Khan, Len Blavatnik, Mikhail Fridman, and Vyacheslav Pavlovsky with ties to Russian businesses and the Russian government
- Jared Kushner, real estate investor, son-in-law and Senior Advisor to President Trump
- Richard J. Leon, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Corey Lewandowski, former manager of Trump's primary election campaign (until June 2016)
- Jessie K. Liu, attorney involved in the Roger Stone case
- Paul Manafort, political consultant and former lobbyist for Viktor Yanukovych, campaign manager and chairman of the Trump campaign (June–August 2016), and Trump convention manager (March 2016)
- Simona Mangiante, Italian lawyer and wife of George Papadopoulos (since March 2018)[6]
- Andrew McCabe, Deputy (February 2016 – January 2018) and Acting Director of the FBI (May–August 2017)
- Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Senator (R) and Senate Majority Leader
- Kayleigh McEnany, White House Press Secretary (since April 2020)
- K. T. McFarland, political commentator and served as Deputy National Security Advisor under Michael Flynn for the first four months of the Trump administration
- Donald McGahn, White House Counsel to President Trump (January 2017 – October 2018)
- Amit Mehta, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Joseph Mifsud, Maltese academic and former diplomat for the Maltese government connected with Russian politicians and George Papadopoulos
- Andrew Miller, Roger Stone's associate
- Andrey Molchanov, member of the Federation Council of Russia (since 2008)
- Robert S. Mueller III, 6th FBI Director (2001–2013), appointed special counsel for the Russian interference investigation
N–R
- George Nader, businessman and lobbyist who acted as the Trump campaign's liaison to the United Arab Emirates
- Jerrold Nadler, Congressman (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (since January 2019)
- Paul M. Nakasone, Commander of United States Cyber Command (since May 2018)
- National Rifle Association, commonly known as the NRA
- Richard Neal, Congressman (D-MA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (since January 2019)
- Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security (December 2017 – April 2019)
- Alexander Nix, former CEO of Cambridge Analytica
- Sam Nunberg, former political advisor to Trump campaign
- Devin Nunes, Congressman (R-CA), ranking member (since 2019) and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (2015–18)
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
- Bruce Ohr, director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (2014–2017) and Associate Deputy Attorney General (2017)
- Carter Page, oil industry consultant, former Trump campaign advisor on foreign policy
- George Papadopoulos, former advisor to the Trump campaign on foreign policy
- W. Samuel Patten, a lobbyist and associate of Paul Manafort, senior consultant for SCL Group
- Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (since January 2017)
- Dmitry Peskov, Putin's Press Secretary, and diplomat
- Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State (since April 2018); CIA director (January 2017 – March 2018)
- Reince Priebus, Trump's first White House Chief of Staff, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch who funded the IRA and owns "Concord Management and Consulting" and "Concord Catering", called "Putin’s chef"
- Erik Prince, chairman of Frontier Services Group, brother of Trump Administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and founder of private military company Academi (formerly known as "Blackwater")
- Vladimir Putin, 2nd and 4th President of Russia
- James L. Quarles, associate of Robert Mueller
- Edgardo Ramos, District Judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Michele Reagan, Arizona Secretary of State (January 2015 – January 2019)
- Jeannie Rhee, associate of Robert Mueller
- Susan Rice, National Security Advisor (2013–2017)
- Michael S. Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) (2014–2018)
- Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (2011–2018)
- Dana Rohrabacher, Congressman (R-CA) (1989–2019)
- Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, acting Attorney General for Russia–Trump investigations
- Wilbur Ross, 39th United States Secretary of Commerce (since February 2017)
- Marco Rubio, member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican candidate for president in 2016
- Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2015–2018)
S–Z
- Bernie Sanders, 2016 Democratic primary presidential candidate, Vermont Senator (I) (since 2007)
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary (July 2017 – June 2019)
- Felix Sater, Russian-American former mobster, real estate developer, and former managing director of Bayrock Group LLC
- Adam B. Schiff, Congressman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (since 2019), and ranking member (2015-2018)
- Keith Schiller, former Deputy Assistant and concurrent Director of Oval Office Operations, and longtime personal body guard to Trump
- SCL Group, parent company of Cambridge Analytica
- Jay Sekulow, chief counsel at the American Center for Law & Justice, former personal attorney of Donald Trump
- Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General (February 2017 – November 2018), Alabama Senator (R) (1997–2017), member of the Center for the National Interest's advisory council (2016)[7]
- Cody Shearer, political activist and former journalist, author of the "Shearer memo/dossier" that Steele passed on to the FBI
- Brad Sherman, Congressman (D-CA) (since 1997)
- Dimitri Simes, publisher of The National Interest and CEO of think tank Center for the National Interest (CNI)
- Glenn R. Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, who hired Steele to compile damaging information on Trump and Russia
- Skadden, New York City-based international law firm
- Peter W. Smith, Republican operative and Illinois financier who had ties to Michael Flynn as early as 2015
- Gordon Sondland, United States Ambassador to the European Union (since June 2018)
- Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary (January–July 2017) and White House Director of Communications (June–July 2017)
- Christopher Steele, former British MI6 intelligence officer, author of dossier on Trump and Russia
- Jill Stein, Green Party nominee in the 2016 United States presidential election
- Roger Stone, political consultant, staffer to President Richard Nixon (1972–1974), business partner of Manafort (1980s)
- Peter Strzok, FBI agent removed from the investigation in August 2017
- Emmet G. Sullivan, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Rex Tillerson, 69th United States Secretary of State (February 2017 – March 2018), and CEO of ExxonMobil (2006–2017)
- Ivan Timofeev, program director of the Kremlin-sponsored Valdai Discussion Club
- Alexander Torshin, Russian Senator from Mari El Republic (2001–2015) and Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (2015–2018)
- Anthony Trenga, District Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States (since January 2017), real estate developer (1971–2016)
- Donald Trump Jr., Executive Director of The Trump Organization, son of Donald Trump
- Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, son of Donald Trump
- Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump
- Ivanka Trump, Advisor to the President (since March 2017), daughter of Donald Trump
- Cyrus Vance Jr., New York County District Attorney (2010–present)
- Alex van der Zwaan, Dutch attorney guilty of making false statements to the FBI
- Viktor Vekselberg, Russian oligarch
- Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian attorney, best known for lobbying against the Magnitsky Act
- Kurt Volker, US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations (July 2017 – September 2019)
- Reggie Walton, District Judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia
- Jennifer Williams, advisor to Mike Pence on European and Russian affairs
- Allen Weisselberg, Chief Financial Officer of The Trump Organization
- Andrew Weissmann, associate of Robert Mueller
- Matthew Whitaker, acting US Attorney General (November 2018 – February 2019)
- Andy Wigmore, director of communications for Leave.EU and close associate of Arron Banks
- Michael Wolff, journalist and author of Fire and Fury about the Trump White House
- Christopher A. Wray, Director of the FBI (since August 2017)
- Alexander Yakovenko, Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom (since 2011)
- Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine (2010–2014)
- Aaron Zebley, associate of Robert Mueller
- Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine (since May 2019)
2019
2020
January
- Early January: Prosecutors recommended Flynn serve up to six months in jail; which is overruled on January 29, when new a sentencing recommendation asks for only probation for Flynn.[8]
- January 3: Oral arguments in the House's suit against the Justice Department over access to unredacted grand jury testimony in the Mueller probe.[9] and in the McGahn case.[10] The possibility of gun battles is discussed.[11]
- January 4: Mueller records show that Manafort admits to link from Russian intelligence to origins of Ukraine investigation.[12]
- January 7: Prosecutors recommend prison time for Flynn.[13]
- January 14: Flynn asks to withdraw his guilty plea.[14]
- January 15:
- January 16:
- The impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins with the swearing in of Chief Justice John Roberts and 99 of the 100 Senators. The Senators then unanimously vote to issue a summons requiring President Trump respond in writing by the evening of Saturday, January 18, to the charges against him. The Senate then adjourns until the morning of January 20.[17]
- Flynn sentencing is postponed yet again after he asks to withdraw his guilty plea.[18]
February
- February 5:
- Barr issues new restrictions on investigations into politically sensitive individuals or entities, including requiring he approve any inquiry into a presidential candidate or campaign.[19][20]
- Wray warns of Russia's continuing "information warfare" against the US heading into the 2020 election.[21]
- Donald Trump is acquitted on both impeachment charges by the Senate.[22][23]
- February 7:
- February 10:
- Judge indefinitely postpones Flynn sentencing.[27]
- In a sentencing memo filing, federal prosecutors recommend Stone serve 7–9 years.[28]
- Schumer calls on all 74 inspectors general to investigate retaliation against whistleblowers who report presidential misconduct, after the firing of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.[29][30][31]
- February 11:
- Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) blocks three election security bills.[32]
- Under Trump's pressure, the DoJ abruptly moves to seek a shorter prison sentence for Stone.[33]
- February 12:
- Trump defends Stone in a series of tweets while attacking federal judge Amy Berman Jackson and the prosecutors involved in the case, and confirms that Barr intervened in Stone's sentencing recommendation. Trump also implies Judge Jackson is biased because of her role in the sentencing of Manafort and dismissal of a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.[34][35]
- Trump withdraws Jessie K. Liu's nomination to become the Treasury Department's terrorism and financial crimes undersecretary because of her office's handling of the Stone and Flynn cases.[36][37][38][39]
- All four federal prosecutors resign from Stone's case after Barr's Justice Department announced that it planned to reduce its own sentencing recommendation.[40][41][42][43]
- It is reported Judge Jackson denied Stone's request for a new trial.[44]
- Jessie K. Liu resigns.[45][46]
- February 14:
- It is reported Barr has assigned outside prosecutors, including Jeffrey Jensen and prosecutors from the office of the Deputy Attorney General, to review the handling of cases against involving former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and the Blackwater founder Erik Prince. It is also reported Flynn case federal prosecutors have been pressured by senior DoJ officials to recommend a lighter sentence for Flynn than they had previously proposed.[47][48][8][49]
- February 17: More than 2,000 DoJ officials and former prosecutors call for Barr's resignation.[50]
- February 18: The Washington Post reports that the Federal Judges Association, representing 1,100 life-term federal judges, has an called an emergency meeting that "could not wait" regarding Barr.[51][52]
- February 19: Assange's barrister alleged at Westminster Magistrates' Court that Rohrabacher had visited Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in August 2017 and, on instructions from President Trump, offered a pardon if Assange said Russia had no role in the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leaks. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham denied the allegations.[53] Rohrabacher had previously confirmed the August 16 meeting, saying he and Assange talked about "what might be necessary to get him out" and discussed a presidential pardon in exchange for information on the theft of DNC emails that were published by WikiLeaks before the 2016 presidential election.[54]
- February 20: Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months in prison, a $20,000 fine, and two years of supervised release.[55]
- February 21: Stone's attorneys file a motion requesting that Judge Jackson recuse herself from the case because her comment during the sentencing hearing that the jury "served with integrity" showed bias against Stone.[56]
- February 23: Judge Jackson strongly rejects Stone's attorneys' request that she remove herself from Stone's case before ruling on a pending request to delay the beginning of Stone's prison sentence.[57] She castigates the attorneys for using the court to air meritless claims that she is biased against Stone.[57]
- February 25: Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson rebukes Trump regarding his comments on Stone jury.[58]
- February 28: D.C. Cir. rules 2–1 in favor of appeal overturning a lower court's decision requiring McGahn's testimony.[59][60][61][62]
March
- March 5:
- House lawyers announce appeal of February 28 Circuit court ruling.[63]
- Judge Reggie Walton calls Barr "unreliable" and that Barr's public statements about the Mueller report "distorted" and "misleading". Walton cited "inconsistencies" between Barr's statements and the public, partially redacted version of the report, saying Barr's "lack of candor" called "into question [his] credibility and, in turn, the department's"; demands unredacted Mueller report for review.[64][65][66]
- March 6: Regarding the February 28 Circuit court ruling, House lawyers argue that blocking lawmakers from suing to obtain information from the executive branch would leave Congress with little choice but to "direct its sergeant at arms to arrest current and former high-level executive branch officials for failing to respond to subpoenas."[67][68]
- March 10: D.C. Cir. federal appeals court permits access by the House to grand jury Mueller probe evidence from the DoJ, including redactions as well as underlying interviews and memos. The ruling can be appealed to the full court or to the Supreme Court.[69][70][71]
- March 13: On appeal from the House, the full Court agrees to reconsider the McGahn Congressional subpoena case.[72]
- March 16: The charges against Concord Management and Consulting are dismissed with prejudice.[73][74]
- March 23: Barr's scheduled March 31 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee is postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was scheduled to testify regarding three topics: overruling prosecutors on Roger Stone's recommended sentence, the arrangement for Giuliani to provide information on Ukraine, and the pulled nomination of Jessie K. Liu.[75][76] The GOP-majority Senate had previously asked Barr not to testify about the Justice Department's decision to reduce Stone's sentencing recommendation.[77][78][79]
April
- April 3: Trump fires Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Michael Atkinson months after Atkinson delivered the whistleblower complaint to Congress that kicked-off the Trump–Ukraine scandal, as required by law. Atkinson states the reason Trump fired him "derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial Inspector General."[80]
- April 16: Judge Jackson denies Roger Stone's motion for a new trial, rejecting his claim that the jury forewoman was biased against him.[81]
- April 21: A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report reaffirms the U.S. intelligence community's conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the goal of making Trump president. The report rejects Trump's repeated claims that a "deep state" intelligence community was biased against him and that Kremlin assistance to his campaign was a "hoax," perpetrated by Democrats. The committee found "specific intelligence reporting to support the assessment that Putin and the Russian Government demonstrated a preference for candidate Trump," and that Vladimir Putin "approved and directed" aspects of the interference.[82][83][84][85][86][87]
- April 26: Trump tweets, then deletes, a series of Twitter attacks against journalists who received awards for their reporting on Trump/Russia and the Mueller probe.[88]
- April 28:
- Oral arguments in the McGahn case are heard before the full US Court of Appeals.[89]
- Nearly three-dozen search warrants of Stone are unsealed, which reveal contacts between Stone, Assange, and other key 2016 Russian interference figures; and that Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts and bloggers to run a political influence scheme on social media.[90][91][92]
May
- May 1: In her first press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany incorrectly states the Mueller probe is "the complete and total exoneration of President Trump."[93]
- May 7:
- The Trump administration asks the US Supreme Court to temporarily block the release of secret Robert Mueller grand jury evidence, which the D.C. Circuit cleared in March regarding US House investigation of Trump for obstruction and potential new articles of impeachment.[94][95][96]
- The DoJ drops its prosecution of Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with Russian diplomat Sergey Kislyak in the weeks before Trump's inauguration.[97][98][99][100]
- May 13: Manafort released from prison early due to COVID-19 concerns. He will spend the rest of his sentence in home confinement.[101]
- May 21: Cohen released from prison early due to COVID-19 concerns. He will spend the rest of his sentence in home confinement.[102]
- May 29: The Justice Department delivers the Flynn-Kislyak phone call transcripts to Congress.[103] The transcripts were first requested on February 15, 2017.[104]
June
- June 1: A judge in the Flynn case refuses to dismiss it. The Justice Department announces that it will appeal.[105]
- June 3: Rosenstein testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing reviewing the FBI and Mueller investigations into contacts between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russians.[106]
- June 10: Judge Gleeson advises Judge Sullivan that he should reinstate the charges against Flynn.[107]
- June 23:
- The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton is published.[108]
- Stone's attorneys request that Stone delay the start of his prison sentence from June 30 to September 3 over COVID-19 concerns; five prisoners at the federal prison camp in Georgia that Stone was scheduled to report to have tested positive.[109] The DoJ declines to oppose the motion.[109] Judge Jackson orders the DoJ to explain its position in writing.[109]
- June 24: Court of Appeals orders Judge Sullivan to dismiss Flynn case.[110]
- June 26: Judge Jackson orders Stone to surrender himself at FCI Jesup in Georgia on July 14 to begin his prison sentence.[111] She orders Stone to remain under confinement in his southern Florida home until then so that he can quarantine himself before traveling to Georgia in accordance with DoJ policy.[111]
- June 30: Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) files H.R. 1032, impeaching Attorney General Barr for misusing his office in relation to the Russia investigation.[112]
July
- July 2: Supreme Court grants cert on Mueller grand jury materials case.[113]
- July 6: Roger Stone's attorneys' petition DC appeals court to delay prison sentence yet again.[114]
- July 9:
- Former SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.[115]
- The Supreme Court rules on Trump subpoenas, sending them back to the lower courts.[116]
- Judge Sullivan, through his attorney, Beth Wilkinson, files a petition for an en banc review by the entire D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the three-judge panel was improperly trying to force the district court "to grant a motion it had not yet resolved ... in reliance on arguments never presented to the district court."[117][118]
- Michael Cohen is sent back to prison following violations of his home confinement terms.
- July 10: Trump commutes Stone's sentence after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier in the day that Stone is ineligible for a delayed sentence.[119][120]
- July 13: Judge Jackson orders prosecutors and Stone to provide her with a copy of Trump's commutation order so that she can determine which parts of Stone's sentence are affected by it.[121]
- July 17: The DoJ provides the Senate Intelligence Committee with an unclassified but redacted copy of the interview report on the FBI's January 24–26, 2017, interview of Igor Danchenko, a primary source for the Steele dossier, about the information he provided to Steele.[122][123] Danchenko's name is redacted in the report because he is a confidential informant, but the report contains sufficient information for people to determine his identity and make it public a few days later.[122]
- July 20: Cohen files suit against Barr alleging that his incarceration is a violation of his First Amendment rights.
- July 23: Judge Hellerstein orders that Cohen be re-released to home confinement.
- July 28: Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee.[124] He provides the following testimony:
- His intervention in Stone's case was "one-of-a-kind".
- July 30: Full DC Court of Appeals voids Flynn's writ of mandamus and sets further hearing for two weeks hence.[125]
August
- August 3: Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr. announces that he is investigating Trump and the Trump Organization for fraud.[126]
- August 5: Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, refuting accusations of partisan fraud in relation to the probe of potential collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign in 2016.[127]
- August 6: Completing an investigation two years earlier in relation to Maria Butina and Russian inflitration of the National Rifle Association, NY Attorney General Letitia James files lawsuit to dissolve the organization and penalize its leadership.[128]
- August 7: The full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules 7-2 that Congress has standing to seek court enforcement of a subpoena for McGahn's testimony, reversing a three-judge panel's February 28 ruling.[129] In the majority opinion,[130] D.C. Circuit Judge Judith Rogers writes, "To level the grave accusation that a President may have committed 'Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,' the House must be appropriately informed. And it cannot fully inform itself without the power to compel the testimony of those who possess relevant or necessary information."[129] Karen Henderson and Thomas B. Griffith, who were the majority on the original panal, dissented.
- August 11: Scheduled date for hearing on Flynn case by full Court of Appeals.[131]
- August 14: Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleads guilty to falsifying a document that was part of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election. Clinesmith admitted to altering an email in order to continue a secret wiretap on former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Carter Page. Trump called Clinesmith "corrupt" and said the plea deal was "just the beginning".[132]
- August 24: 2020 Republican National Convention. Trump is expected to be renominated for a second term.
September
- September: Senate Judiciary Committee to hear testimony from James Comey regarding the origins of the Russia probe, including abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.[133]
November
- November 3: End of voting in the 2020 presidential election. The start of voting is dependent on state laws.
2021
January
- January 20: Trump's first term in office will end or this will mark the first day of his second term.
See also
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External links
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- Desjardins, Lisa (February 21, 2019) [June 7, 2018]. "The giant timeline of everything Russia, Trump and the investigations". PBS NewsHour.
- "Joint Statement from the Department Of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security", October 7, 2016
- Trump Investigations by the Associated Press
- Bill Moyers: Interactive Timeline: Everything We Know About Russia and President Trump
- Committee to Investigate Russia has five timelines.
- Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks, March 19, 2018 Channel 4
- Trump and Russia: A timeline of the investigation, USA Today
- Tracking the Russia investigations, CNN
- The Trump Russia Investigation, WhatTheFuckJustHappenedToday.com
- "The Russia investigation and Donald Trump: a timeline from on-the-record sources", PolitiFact
- Public Documents Clearinghouse: Congressional Russia Investigations, Just Security