❝The Greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.❞ - Keyser Söze
Trump boasts he cannot lose
- January 23, 2016: Donald Trump, Sr. crows he ❝...could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.❞ though the Republican nomination and subsequent Presidential election was still clearly anyone's game. sources: snopes and mic.com↓
Russia begins hacking Democratic targets
- March 19, 2016: Russian intelligence-linked hackers succeed in spear-phishing John Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff and are able to steal work-related emails which are released by Wikileaks. Some of these emails are thought to discredit the Hillary Clinton campaign. source: Wikipedia↓
FBI sends warning to States about potential hackers
- June 2016: A warning is issued to the States by the FBI indicating that "bad actors" may attempt to probe elections systems. source: Wikipedia↓
Trump Jr., Kushner, and Manafort meet with Russia
- June 9, 2016: Donald Trump Jr., Paul J. Manafort, and Trump Sr. son-in-law, Jared Kushner meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. source: New York Times↓GOP remarks about Trump-Russia collusion
- June 15, 2016: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says ❝There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.❞ source: Washington Post↓
Wikileaks releases more Russia-obtained emails from the DNC
- July 23, 2016: Over 20,000 Democratic National Convention emails obtained from Russian operatives are publicized by Wikileaks. The emails show the DNC has bias for HRC over other DNC candidates. source: Wikipedia↓
Trump Sr. publicly invites Russia to hack US systems again
- July 27, 2016: Donald Trump Sr. urges Russia to hack United States computer systems in a Nationally televised speech, ❝Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.❞ source: NPR↓FBI says Russia is trying to hack our elections
- September 2016: James Comey, FBI testifies that Russian hackers were potentially attempting to disrupt the United States election system and had hacked state voter registration systems. source: Wikipedia ↓
Wikileaks releases Russia-obtained emails from HRC
- October 7, 2016: Thousands of emails obtained from the John Podesta account are published. source: Wikipedia↓
The FBI reopens and then closes Hillary Clinton email investigation
- October 28, 2016: James Comey, FBI announces to the public that the previously closed Hillary Clinton email investigation from 2015 is being reopened due to potentially newly discovered emails. source: Wikipedia
- November 6, 2016: Two days before Election day, James Comey tells Congress there is no evidence that HRC committed any wrongdoing after reviewing the emails. source: Wikipedia
For more information regarding the Trump-Putin love affair, visit CNN's article: Timeline: Donald Trump's praise for Vladimir Putin
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