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> No doubt by 1987....
>
> 1986: Donald Trump is seated next to Russian
> Ambassador Yuri Dubinin at a lunch organized by
> Leonard Lauder, the son of cosmetics scion Estée
> Lauder, who at the time is running her cosmetics
> business. “One thing led to another, and now
> I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel
> across the street from the Kremlin” in
> partnership with the Soviet government, Trump
> later writes in his 1987 book, The Art of the
> Deal. Also present at the event is Russian
> diplomat Vitaly Churkin, later the Russian
> ambassador to the United Nations. (Churkin died in
> February 2017 at age 64.)
>
> January 1987: Intourist, the Soviet agency for
> international tourism, expresses interest in
> meeting with Trump.
>
> “Almost all of the oligarchs were in the
> room,” Trump said of his 2013 visit to Moscow
> for his Miss Universe contest.
> July 1987: Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, fly to
> Moscow to tour potential hotel sites. Trump
> spokesman Dan Klores later tells the Washington
> Post that during the trip, Trump “met with a lot
> of the economic and financial advisers in the
> Politburo” but did not see Mikhail Gorbachev,
> then the USSR’s leader.
>
> December 1, 1988: The Soviet mission to the United
> Nations announces that Gorbachev is tentatively
> scheduled to tour Trump Tower while the Soviet
> leader is visiting New York, and that Trump plans
> to show him a swimming pool inside a $19 million
> apartment.
>
> December 7, 1988: Trump welcomes the wrong
> Gorbachev to New York—shaking hands with a
> renowned Gorbachev impersonator outside his
> hotel.
>
> December 8, 1988: President Ronald Reagan invites
> Donald and Ivana Trump to a state dinner, where
> Trump meets the real Gorbachev. According to
> Trump’s spokesman, the real estate mogul had a
> lengthy discussion with the Soviet president about
> economics and hotels.
>
> January 1989: For $200,000, Trump signs a group of
> Soviet cyclists for a road race from Albany, New
> York, to Atlantic City, New Jersey, dubbed the
> Tour de Trump, that will take place that May.
>
> November 5, 1996: Media reports note that Trump is
> trying to partner with US tobacco company Brooke
> Group to build a hotel in Moscow.
>
> January 23, 1997: Trump meets with Alexander
> Lebed, a retired Soviet general then running to be
> president of Russia, at Trump Tower. Trump says
> they discussed his plans to build “something
> major” in Moscow. Lebed reportedly expressed his
> support, joking that his only objection would be
> that “the highest skyscraper in the world cannot
> be built next to the Kremlin. We cannot allow
> anyone spitting from the roof of the skyscraper on
> the Kremlin.”
>
> 2000: Michael Caputo, who later runs Trump’s
> primary campaign in New York during the 2016 race,
> secures a PR contract with the Russian
> conglomerate Gazprom Media to burnish Russian
> President Vladimir Putin’s image in the United
> States.
>
> 2005
> Date unknown: Trump reportedly signs a development
> deal with Bayrock Group, a real estate firm
> founded by a former Soviet official from
> Kazakhstan, to develop a hotel in Moscow and
> agrees to partner on a hotel tower in Fort
> Lauderdale, Florida. Trump works on the projects
> with Bayrock managing partner Felix Sater, a
> Russian American businessman. The New York Times
> will later publish a story revealing Sater’s
> criminal record, which includes charges of
> racketeering and assault.
>
> June: Paul Manafort, later Trump’s campaign
> chairman, pens a strategy memo to Russia oligarch
> and Putin confidant Oleg Deripaska, with whom he
> would sign a $10 million lobbying contract the
> following year. “We are now of the belief that
> this model can greatly benefit the Putin
> Government if employed at the correct levels with
> the appropriate commitment to success,” Manafort
> writes, noting that the effort “will be offering
> a great service that can re-focus, both internally
> and externally, the policies of the Putin
> government.” (Manafort later denies working to
> advance Russian interests as part of this
> contract, first reported by the Associated Press.
> Deripaska later calls the AP story a
> “malicious…lie” and says, “I have never
> made any commitments or contacts with the
> obligation or purpose to covertly promote or
> advance ‘Putin’s Government’ interests
> anywhere in the world.”
>
> 2007
> September 19: Sater and the former Soviet official
> who founded Bayrock, Tevfik Arif, stand next to
> Trump at the launch party for Trump SoHo, a
> hotel-condominium project co-financed by Bayrock.
>
> November 22: Trump Vodka debuts in Russia, at the
> Moscow Millionaire’s Fair. As part of its new
> marketing campaign, Trump Vodka also unveils an ad
> featuring Trump, tigers, the Kremlin, and Vladimir
> Lenin.
>
> At the Millionaires’ Fair, Trump meets Sergey
> Millian, an American citizen from Belarus who is
> the president of the Russian-American Chamber of
> Commerce in the USA (RACC). Subsequently, Millian
> later recounted, “We met at his office in New
> York, where he introduced me to his right-hand
> man—Michael Cohen. He is Trump’s main lawyer,
> all contracts go through him. Subsequently, a
> contract was signed with me to promote one of
> their real estate projects in Russia and the CIS.
> You can say I was their exclusive broker.”
> According to Millian, he helped Trump “study the
> Moscow market” for potential real estate
> investments.
>
> December 17: The New York Times publishes a story
> about Felix Sater’s controversial past, which
> includes prison time for stabbing a man with a
> margarita glass stem during a bar fight and a
> guilty plea in a Mafia-linked racketeering case.
> The article characterizes Sater as a Trump
> business associate who is promoting several
> potential projects in partnership with Trump.
>
> December 19: In a deposition, Trump is asked about
> his plans to build a hotel in Moscow. He says,
> “It was a Trump International Hotel and Tower.
> It would be a nonexclusive deal, so it would not
> have precluded me from doing other deals in
> Moscow, which was very important to me.”
>
> 2008
> April: Trump announces he is partnering with
> Russian oligarch Pavel Fuks to license his name
> for luxury high-rises in Moscow, St. Petersburg,
> and Sochi, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
> But Fuks ultimately balks at Trump’s price,
> which the Russian business newspaper Kommersant
> estimated could have been $200 million or more.
>
> July: Billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev, a Russian
> oligarch, buys a Palm Beach mansion owned by Trump
> for $95 million, despite Florida’s crashing real
> estate market and an appraisal on the house for
> much less. Trump bought the property for $41.35
> million four years earlier. Rybolovlev goes on to
> give conflicting explanations for why he bought
> the property.
>
> September 15: Donald Trump Jr. speaks at a real
> estate conference in Manhattan, where he says,
> “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate
> cross-section of a lot of our assets…We see a
> lot of money pouring in from Russia.”
>
> Date unknown: Trump’s team reportedly invites
> Sergei Millian to meet Trump at a horse race in
> Florida, where, according to Millian, they sit in
> Trump’s private suite at the Gulfstream race
> track in Miami. “Trump team, they realized that
> we have a lot of connection with Russian
> investors. And they noticed that we bring a lot of
> investors from Russia,” Millian told ABC News in
> a 2016 interview. “And they needed my
> assistance, yes, to sell properties and sell some
> of the assets to Russian investors.” Millian
> says that following this meeting with Trump, he
> worked as a broker for the Trump Hollywood
> condominium project in Miami, selling a “nice
> percentage” of the building’s 200 units to
> Russian investors.
>
> 2010
> May 10: Jody Kriss, a former finance director at
> Bayrock, files a lawsuit against the company. The
> suit alleges that Bayrock financed Trump SoHo with
> mysterious cash from Kazhakstan and Russia and
> calls the building “a Russian mob project.”
> (The complaint notes that “there is no evidence
> that Trump took any part in” Bayrock’s
> interactions with questionable Russian financing
> sources.)
>
> Date unknown: Bayrock’s Sater becomes a senior
> adviser to Trump, according to his LinkedIn
> profile. Though Trump later claims he would not
> recognize Sater, Sater has a Trump Organization
> email address, phone number, and business cards.
>
> 2013
> January (date unknown): At an energy conference in
> New York, energy consultant Carter Page meets
> Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence operative
> who in 2015 will be charged with being an
> unregistered agent of a foreign government, along
> with two other Russians. Until June 2013, Page
> will continue to meet, email, and provide
> documents to Podobnyy about the energy business,
> thinking that he is an attaché at the Russian
> mission to the United Nations who can help broker
> deals in Russia. Meanwhile, Podobnyy and one of
> his colleagues discuss efforts to recruit Page as
> an asset.
>
> May 29: Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star and the
> son of billionaire real estate developer Aras
> Agalarov, releases a music video for his song
> “Amor.” In the video, he pursues Miss Universe
> 2012, Olivia Culpo, through dark, empty alleys
> with a flashlight. Following the video’s
> release, representatives of Miss Universe, which
> Trump at the time owns, discuss with the Agalarovs
> the option of holding the next pageant in Moscow.
> The Agalarovs persuade them to host Miss Universe
> at a concert hall they own on the outskirts of
> Moscow.
>
> June 18: Following the Miss USA contest in Las
> Vegas, Trump announces he will bring the Miss
> Universe pageant to Moscow.
>
> The Miss Universe Pageant will be broadcast live
> from MOSCOW, RUSSIA on November 9th. A big deal
> that will bring our countries together!
>
> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19,
> 2013
>
> He also wonders if Putin will attend the pageant,
> and if Putin might “become my new best
> friend?”
>
> Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss
> Universe Pageant in November in Moscow – if so,
> will he become my new best friend?
>
> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19,
> 2013
>
> June (date unknown): Defense Intelligence Agency
> head Michael Flynn visits Moscow at the invitation
> of Igor Sergun, the chief of the GRU, Russia’s
> military intelligence agency. During his visit,
> Flynn gives an hourlong lecture on leadership and
> intelligence to a group of GRU officers at the
> agency’s headquarters. He is reportedly the
> first US intelligence officer ever allowed inside
> the headquarters.
>
> June 21: Vladimir Putin awards Rex Tillerson, now
> Trump’s secretary of state, with Russia’s
> Order of Friendship. As the CEO of Exxon Mobil,
> Tillerson had developed a long-standing
> relationship with the head of Russia’s
> state-owned oil company, Rosneft, dating back to
> 1998.
>
> October 17: In an interview with David Letterman,
> Trump says, “I’ve done a lot of business with
> the Russians,” noting that he once met Putin.
>
> November 5: In a deposition, Trump is asked about
> a 2007 New York Times story outlining the
> controversial past of Felix Sater. Trump replies
> that he barely knows Sater and would have trouble
> recognizing him if they were in the same room.
>
> “Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful
> present,” Trump boasted.
> November 8: Trump, in Russia for the Miss Universe
> pageant, meets with more than a dozen of
> Russia’s top businessmen at Nobu, a restaurant
> 15 minutes from the Kremlin. The group includes
> Herman Gref, the CEO of the state-controlled
> Sberbank PJSC, Russia’s biggest bank. The
> meeting at Nobu is organized by Gref—who
> regularly meets with Putin—and Aras Agalarov,
> who owns the Nobu franchise in Moscow.
>
> – According to a source connected to the
> Agalarovs, Putin asks his spokesman, Dmitry
> Peskov, to call Trump in advance of the Miss
> Universe show to set up an in-person meeting for
> the Russian president and Trump. Peskov reportedly
> passes on the message and expresses Putin’s
> admiration for Trump. Their plans to meet never
> come to fruition because of scheduling changes for
> both Trump and Putin.
>
> November 9: Trump spends the morning shooting a
> music video with Emin Agalarov.
>
> – The Miss Universe pageant takes place near
> Moscow. A notorious Russian mobster, Alimzhan
> Tokhtakhounov, attends the event as a VIP,
> strolling down the event’s red carpet within
> minutes of Trump. At the time, Tokhtakhounov was
> under federal indictment in the United States for
> his alleged participation in an illegal gambling
> ring once run out of Trump Tower. Emin Agalarov
> performs two songs at the pageant.
>
> – MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts asks Trump if he has
> a relationship with Putin. Trump replies, “I do
> have a relationship and I can tell you that he’s
> very interested in what we’re doing here
> today.”
>
>
> November 11: Trump tweets his appreciation to Aras
> Agalarov, the Russian billionaire with whom he
> partnered to host Miss Universe, also
> complimenting Emin’s performance at the pageant
> and declaring plans for a Trump tower in Moscow.
>
> @AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and
> your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP
> TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!
>
> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November
> 11, 2013
>
> November 12: Trump tells Real Estate Weekly that
> Miss Universe Russia provided a networking
> opportunity: “Almost all of the oligarchs were
> in the room,” he says. The same day, two
> developers who helped build the luxury Trump SoHo
> hotel meet with the Agalarovs to discuss
> replicating the hotel in Moscow. Aras Agalarov,
> whose real estate company secured multiple
> contracts from the Kremlin and who once received a
> medal of honor from Putin, later claims he and
> Trump signed a deal to build a Trump Tower in
> Moscow following the pageant. (The deal never
> moved past preliminary discussions.)
>
> November 20: Emin Agalarov releases a new music
> video featuring Trump and the 2013 Miss Universe
> contestants.
>
>
> 2014
> March 6: Trump gives a speech at the Conservative
> Political Action Conference and boasts of getting
> a gift from Putin when he was in Russia for the
> 2013 Miss Universe pageant. “You know, I was in
> Moscow a couple months ago, I own the Miss
> Universe pageant, and they treated me so great,”
> Trump said. “Putin even sent me a present,
> beautiful present, with a beautiful note.”
>
> May 27: At a National Press Club luncheon, Trump
> says, “I was in Moscow recently and I spoke,
> indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who
> could not have been nicer.”
>
> October 8: The counsel’s office of the Defense
> Intelligence Agency responds to an inquiry from
> Michael Flynn about ethics restrictions that will
> apply to him after his Army retirement. The office
> explains in a letter that he can not receive
> foreign government payments without prior
> approval, due to the Constitution’s emoluments
> clause. “If you are ever in a position where you
> would receive an emolument from a foreign
> government or from an entity that might be
> controlled by a foreign government, be sure to
> obtain advance approval from the Army prior to
> acceptance,” the letter states.
>
> 2015
> September: FBI special agent Adrian Hawkins
> contacts the Democratic National Committee, saying
> that one of its computer systems has been
> compromised by a cyberespionage group linked to
> the Russian government. He speaks to a help desk
> technician who does a quick check of the DNC
> systems for evidence of a cyber intrusion. In the
> next several weeks, Hawkins calls the DNC back
> repeatedly, but his calls are not returned, in
> part because the tech support contractor who took
> Hawkins’ call does not know whether he is a real
> agent. The FBI does not dispatch an agent to visit
> the DNC in person and does not make efforts to
> contact more senior DNC officials.
>
> September 21: On a conservative radio show, Trump
> says, “I was in Moscow not so long ago for an
> event that we had, a big event, and many of
> [Putin’s] people were there…I was with the
> top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and
> top-of-the-government people. I can’t go further
> than that, but I will tell you that I met the top
> people, and the relationship was
> extraordinary.”
>
> September 29: Trump praises Putin during an
> interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly: “I
> will tell you, in terms of leadership he is
> getting an ‘A,’ and our president is not doing
> so well.”
>
> November: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange writes
> to a private Twitter group stating his
> organization’s preference for a Republican
> victory in the 2016 election: “We believe it
> would be much better for GOP to win.
> Dems+Media+liberals woudl then form a block to
> reign in their worst qualities. With Hillary in
> charge, GOP will be pushing for her worst
> qualities., dems+media+neoliberals will be
> mute.” He adds, “She’s a bright, well
> connected, sadistic sociopath.”
>
> November 10: At a Republican presidential primary
> debate, Trump says he “got to know [Putin] very
> well because we were both on 60 Minutes, we were
> stablemates.”
>
> November 11: The Associated Press, Time, and other
> media outlets report that Trump and Putin were
> never in the same studio. Trump was interviewed in
> New York, and Putin was interviewed in Moscow.
>
> December 10: Retired General Michael Flynn, the
> former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
> who was reportedly forced out in 2014, attends and
> is paid more than $30,000 to speak at Russia
> Today’s 10th-anniversary dinner in Moscow, where
> he is seated next to Putin.
>
> December 16: Then-CIA Director John Brennan writes
> in an internal memo that some members of Congress
> don’t “understand and appreciate the
> importance and gravity” of Russian interference
> in the presidential election. The criticism is
> reportedly directed at Senate Majority Leader
> Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Majority Whip John
> Cornyn (R-Texas), according to a BuzzFeed article
> published in August 2017. Brennan’s memo also
> says then-FBI Director James Comey and
> then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper
> agree on the scope of Russian involvement.
>
> December 17: Putin praises Trump in his year-end
> press conference, saying that he is “very
> talented” and that “he is an absolute leader
> of the presidential race, as we see it today. He
> says that he wants to move to another-level
> relations, a deeper level of relations with
> Russia…How can we not welcome that? Of course,
> we welcome it.” Trump calls the praise “a
> great honor” from “a man so highly respected
> within his own country and beyond.” He adds,
> “I have always felt that Russia and the United
> States should be able to work well with each other
> toward defeating terrorism and restoring world
> peace, not to mention trade and all of the other
> benefits derived from mutual respect.”
>
> 2016
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