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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 8–13: Outspoken Trump supporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Sheriff%27s_Office" title="Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Milwaukee Sheriff</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clarke(sheriff)" title="David Clarke (sheriff)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">David Clarke</a>, former NRA President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keene" title="David Keene" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">David Keene</a>, future NRA President Pete Brownell, NRA Golden Ring of Freedom Chair Joe Gregory, major NRA donors Hilary<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-185" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[185]</a> and Arnold Goldschlager, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_Channel" title="Outdoor Channel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Outdoor Channel</a> CEO Jim Liberatore,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-BeforeHerArrestWapo20180725-186" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[186]</a> and NRA member <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erickson(activist)" title="Paul Erickson (activist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Paul Erickson</a> travel to Moscow for the "Right to Bear Arms" convention. They meet Russian government officials, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Russia" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Russia" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Deputy Prime Minister of Russia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rogozin" title="Dmitry Rogozin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Dmitry Rogozin</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-187" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[187]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs(Russia)" title="Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Foreign Minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Lavrov" title="Sergey Lavrov" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Sergey Lavrov</a>. Rogozin is under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Ukrainian_crisis" title="International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">U.S. sanctions</a>. Butina accompanies the delegation on a tour of the gun manufacturer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORSIS" title="ORSIS" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">ORSIS</a>, where they meet with the company's executives, including Svetlana Nikolaev, president of ORSIS's parent company and wife of billionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Nikolaev" title="Konstantin Nikolaev" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Konstantin Nikolaev</a>. They also meet with Torshin and Sergei Rudov, the head of the Saint Basil the Great Charitable Foundation. They attend a party at a Moscow hunting club hosted by Torshin and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Gusev(journalist)" title="Pavel Gusev (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Pavel Gusev</a>, the Chairman of the Public Council of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence(Russia)" title="Ministry of Defence (Russia)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Russian Ministry of Defense</a>. Clarke later files an ethics report showing that Butina's organization, "Right to Bear Arms", covered $6,000 of his expenses.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TwoRussianGunLovers20180308-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[48]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MoscowCoziesUpToRightTime20170310-133" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[133]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-RussiansInfitrateNRARollingStone20180402-188" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[188]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-189" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[189]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-KremlinDiscussedButinaNRAMedium20180406-190" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[190]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-191" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[191]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-192" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[192]</a> Butina covers some of the cost of Liberatore's attendance, and is subsequently reimbursed $6,000 by the NRA from its president's budget.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-RussiansUsedGreedToDailyBeast20190927-193" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[193]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-WydenUnveilsReportOnSFC20191227-194" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[194]</a> After the Lavrov meeting, Butina emails Torshin, writing, "We should let them express their gratitude now, and put pressure on them quietly later."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-195" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[195]</a> In May 2018, NRA spokeswoman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Loesch" title="Dana Loesch" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Dana Loesch</a> denies there was an NRA trip to Moscow, then clarifies in July 2018 that it wasn't an official trip.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-NRAHasDeepTiesMotherJones20180719-119" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[119]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-196" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[196]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-197" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[197]</a> A 2019 report by the Democratic Minority of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Finance_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Finance Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Senate Finance Committee</a> concludes that despite the public denials, internal NRA documents show the trip was an officially sanctioned event that may have imperiled the NRA's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_exemption" title="Tax exemption" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">tax-free status</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-NRAMayHaveViolatedWaPo20190927-198" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[198]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-WydenUnveilsReportOnSFC20191227-194" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[194]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 10:<ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Flynn gives a paid speech on world affairs in Moscow, at a gala dinner organized by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_News" class="mw-redirect" title="RT News" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">RT News</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-199" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[199]</a> Flynn had appeared on RT as an analyst after retiring from the U.S. Army. Putin is the dinner's guest of honor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-Crowley-200" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[200]</a> Flynn is seated next to Putin; also seated at the head table are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States" title="Green Party of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Green Party</a> presidential candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein" title="Jill Stein" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Jill Stein</a> and members of Putin's inner circle, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Ivanov" title="Sergei Ivanov" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Sergei Ivanov</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Peskov" title="Dmitry Peskov" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Dmitry Peskov</a>, Vekselberg, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Gromov" title="Alexey Gromov" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Alexey Gromov</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-201" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[201]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-202" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[202]</a> For his speech, Flynn nets $33,500 of the $45,000 paid to his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers_bureau" title="Speakers bureau" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">speakers bureau</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-203" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[203]</a> For all of 2015, Flynn receives more than $65,000 from companies linked to Russia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-204" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[204]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">ABC News reports that Trump denied knowing Sater under oath in a 2013 video deposition even though Sater was involved in several of his high-profile projects. Trump testified, "If he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn't know what he looked like." On December 30, Sater tells Cohen that he helped bury the story.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MemoryLapseTrumpABC20151210-205" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[205]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-206" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[206]</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 16: Smith declines to help Ledeen's endeavor to find Clinton's emails because he feels the search isn't viable at the time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:63</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 19: In an email to Cohen, Sater talks about securing financing from VTB, a Russian bank under American sanctions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-SubvertTime-144" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[144]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:76 Sater also asks for Cohen's and Trump's passport information so that VTB can facilitate obtaining visas.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a>:76 VTB would be issuing the invitation, he writes, because "[p]olitically neither Putins office nor Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot issue invite, so they are inviting commercially/ business."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a>:76 He writes that they will be invited to the Russian consulate that week to receive an invitation and visas for traveling to Russia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[27]</a>:76 Cohen sends images of his own passport but not Trump's.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-207" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[207]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:76</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 21:<ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Clinton campaign chairman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podesta" title="John Podesta" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">John Podesta</a> receives an email, which is later leaked by WikiLeaks, advising the campaign on how to handle Trump, recommending that the "best approach is to slaughter Donald for his bromance with Putin".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-208" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[208]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sater texts Cohen asking again for a copy of Trump's passport.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:77 Cohen replies, "After I return from Moscow with you with a date for him."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:77 In September 2018 Cohen tells Mueller's team that Rhona Graff provided Trump's passport to Cohen's office, but the Mueller Report says the team could not find any evidence of a copy being sent to Sater.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:76-77</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">On Russian Deputy Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eduardovich_Prikhodko" title="Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Sergei Prikhodko</a>'s behalf, Mira Duma emails Ivanka Trump an invitation for Donald Trump to attend the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Petersburg_International_Economic_Forum" title="St. Petersburg International Economic Forum" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">St. Petersburg International Economic Forum</a>. Duma is acquainted with Ivanka from the fashion industry.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:78</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 30: Cohen emails Sater complaining about the lack of progress on the Trump Tower Moscow project. Sater responds that he helped bury an ABC News story in which Trump denied knowing him.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MemoryLapseTrumpABC20151210-205" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[205]</a> Cohen tells Sater in a text message that he will set up a meeting with Russian government officials himself."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:74</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">December 31: Sater tells Cohen that Genbank (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Генбанк (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Генбанк</a> [<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA" class="extiw" title="ru:Генбанк" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">ru</a>]), recently put under U.S. sanctions, will be the new funder for the Trump Tower Moscow project.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Late 2015 – early 2016: Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump are included on emails about the Trump Tower Moscow project. Ivanka Trump recommends an architect.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-209" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[209]</a></li></ul><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">January–March 2016[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: January–March 2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January:<ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Flynn applies to renew his security clearance for five years. In an interview with security investigators he claims U.S. companies paid for his trip to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT(TV_network)" title="RT (TV network)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">RT</a> dinner in Moscow. Documents subsequently obtained by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Oversight_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Oversight Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">House Oversight Committee</a> show that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT(TV_network)" title="RT (TV network)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">RT</a> paid for the trip.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-CummingsLetter20170522-210" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[210]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">FBI initiates tax evasion and money laundering investigation regarding payments from the Ukrainian government to Paul Manafort.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-211" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[211]</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 7: Ivanka Trump forwards to Rhona Graff the December 21 invitation for her father she received from Duma on Prikhodko's behalf.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:78</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 11: Cohen tries to send an email to Dmitry Peskov asking to be connected to Putin's chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, but it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_message" title="Bounce message" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">bounces</a> because of a typo in the email address.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:74</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 14:<ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cohen emails Peskov at<code style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); border-radius: 2px; padding: 1px 4px;">info@prpress.gov.ru</code> seeking help to jump-start the Trump Tower Moscow project because "the communication between our two sides has stalled", but does not receive a response.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-SubvertTime-144" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[144]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-cnn-20170830-212" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[212]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-213" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[213]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:74 In August 2017 Peskov tells CNN that Cohen's email "went unanswered [because it] was solely regarding a real estate deal and nothing more."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-cnn-20170830-212" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[212]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Graff responds to Duma's December 21 email that Trump is "honored to be asked to participate in the highly prestigious" St. Petersburg Forum, but must decline the invitation because of his "very grueling and full travel schedule." Graff asks Duma if she should "send a formal note to the Deputy Prime Minister," and Duma replies that that would be "great."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:78–79</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 16: Cohen emails at Peskov at <code style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); border-radius: 2px; padding: 1px 4px;">Pr_peskov@prpress.gov.ru</code>, the correct address he mistyped on January 11, and repeats his request to speak with Ivanov.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:74 Later Cohen tells Congress and Mueller's team that he received no response to this email and abandoned the Trump Moscow Project. He later admits to federal prosecutors that he did receive a response and continued working on the project and keeping Trump updated on progress into June 2016.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-214" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[214]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:74–75</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 19: Konstantin Sidorkov, executive at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VKontakte" class="mw-redirect" title="VKontakte" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">VKontakte</a> (commonly called VK, Russia's equivalent of ), emails Trump Jr. and social media director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Scavino" title="Dan Scavino" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Dan Scavino</a> offering to help promote Trump's campaign to its nearly 100 million users. Goldstone brokered the overture.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-SubvertTime-144" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[144]</a> Sidorkov emails again on November 5, 2016.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-SidorkovTrumpJrWapo20171207-215" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[215]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 20:<ul w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" skins.vector.styles="skins.vector.styles" images="images" bullet-icon.svg="bullet-icon.svg" f1="f1" margin="margin" em="em" px="px" padding="padding" style="list-style-image: url("");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A Russian social media company emails Trump Jr., Trump's personal assistant, and Scavino about setting up a page for Trump's campaign.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-SubvertTime-144" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[144]</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Peskov's personal assistant Elena Polikova sends an email to Cohen from her personal account asking him to call her on her personal phone number, which she provides.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75 Cohen calls her and explains the nature and status of the project, and asks for assistance with securing land and financing.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-50MilllionPenthouse20181129-216" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[216]</a> The conversation includes a discussion of giving Putin a $50 million <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penthouse_apartment" title="Penthouse apartment" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">penthouse</a> in the tower as a gift.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-50MilllionPenthouse20181129-216" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[216]</a> Later Cohen tells prosecutors that Polikova took notes, asked detailed questions, and said she needed to follow up with people in Russia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 21: Sater texts Cohen asking for a call. He writes, "It's about Putin they called today."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-II-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[54]</a>:136<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a> Sater emails Cohen a draft invitation from Genbankfor Cohen to visit Russia, which Sater says is being offered at the behest of VTB, and asks Cohen if any changes need to be made.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75 Sater and Cohen work on edits for the next few days.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">January 25: Sater sends Cohen a signed invitation from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Ryabinskiy" title="Andrey Ryabinskiy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Andrey Ryabinskiy</a> of the company MHJ to travel to "Moscow for a working visit" about the "prospects of development and the construction business in Russia," "the various land plots available suited for construction of this enormous Tower," and "the opportunity to co-ordinate a follow up visit to Moscow by Mr. Donald Trump."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-II-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[54]</a>:136<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-TheEventsThatLedWapo20181129-165" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[165]</a> In September 2018 Cohen tells Mueller's team that he didn't use the invitation to travel to Moscow because he didn't receive any concrete proposals for suitable land plots.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#cite_note-MUELLER-REPORT-VOL-I-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a>:75-76</li></ul></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div>