A Timeline of Trump-Russia Scandal
Source: Rolling Stone
This special prosecutor's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election has delivered a guilty plea – and a trove of new information about the Trump campaign's contacts with Moscow. The new details allow us to piece together the Russiagate puzzle as never before.
On October 30th, Robert Mueller elevated a formerly little-known Trump foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, into a key figure in the Trump-Russia scandal. The 30-year-old Papadopoulos has admitted making false statements to the FBI about his outreach to the Russian government on behalf of the Trump campaign. Papadopoulos made repeated attempts to coordinate a meeting between then candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and spoke with go-betweens about Russia's "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, including "thousands of emails."
Below, Rolling Stone has taken previously public information and woven it together with new details revealed in the "statement of the offense" from the Papadopoulos case, creating a timeline of key dates, figures and events that tie the Trump campaign to Russia. (An asterisk next to a date denotes "on or about," as described in federal documents).
March 17th
In a speech, Sessions promotes a new day with Russia. "There is no reason for the U.S. and Russia to be at this loggerheads," Sessions says. "Strategically it's not justified for either country."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/a-timeline-of-the-trump-russia-scandal-w511067
Another item of note, in the Rolling Stone story, is this;
The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me,” then candidate Trump tweeted in July 2016. Evan Vucci/AP
By Tim Dickinson
From the RS article, George Popodopolous us 3rd from left
May 4th*
Papadopoulos receives an email from a contact with ties to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). "I have just talked to my colleagues from the MFA," the contact writes. "The[y] are open for cooperation." Papadopoulos forwards the email to a "High-Ranking Campaign Official" – identified by The Washington Post as Corey Lewandowski – asking, "What do you think? Is this something we want to move forward with?"
= new reply since forum marked as read
"glad they aren't facing the camera!" 
