Timeline
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| June 16, 2015 | Donald J. Trump announces his candidacy for president of the United States. |
| October 21, 2015 | Obama administration hires Stefan Halper to spy on the Trump campaign. |
| October 26, 2015 | Rick Wilson tells MSNBC, They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. And that’s a fact. |
| November 2015 | Nellie Ohr goes to work for Fusion GPS to continue the secret plot against Donald Trump. |
| December 17, 2015 | Peter Strzok asks if the outside the U.S.spies have been set up against Trump associates. |
| March 12, 2016 | Thomas DiMassimo is arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after he breaches the police barricade and attempts to rush the stage during a Trump rally in Dayton, Ohio. |
| March 18, 2016 | First suggestion that Trump could or should be impeached, more than a year before he is even nominated. |
| March 25, 2016 | Ukrainian-American operative for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Alexandra Chalupa meets with top Ukrainian officials at Ukrainian Embassy in Washington D.C. to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort, and Russia. |
| March 30, 2016 | Ukrainian-American operative for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Alexandra Chalupa briefs DNC staff on Russia ties to Manafort and Trump. |
| April 26, 2016 | Reporter Michael Isikoff publishes story on Yahoo News about Manafort’s business dealings with a Russian oligarch. |
| April 27, 2016 | The BBC publishes a video titled, Why Russians Love Donald Trump. |
| May 3, 2016 | Ukrainian-American operative for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Alexandra Chalupa emails DNC that she’ll share sensitive info about Paul Manafort offlineincluding a big Trump component that will hit in next few weeks. |
| May 4, 2016 | Trump becomes the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. |
| June 17, 2016 | Washington Post publishes front page story linking Trump to Russia: Inside Trump’s Financial Ties to Russia and His Unusual Flattery of Vladimir Putin. |
| June 18, 2016 | Michael Steven Sandford attempts to grab a Metropolitan Police officer’s pistol at a Las Vegas Trump rally. Sandford later expressed his desire to murder Trump. |
| June 20, 2016 – December 13, 2016 | The Christopher Steele Dossier. |
| July 15, 2016 | Trump chooses Mike Pence as his running mate. |
| July 19, 2016 | Trump becomes the nominee of the Republican Party. |
| July 31, 2016 | FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok opens Crossfire Hurricane, as instructed by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. |
| August 4, 2016 | Ukrainian ambassador to U.S. writes op-ed against Trump. |
| August 31, 2016 | A DHS official tells DNI James Clapper that there was no indication of a Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count. |
| September 2, 2016 | FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text that [President Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing. |
| September 9, 2016 | Several intelligence community officials agree to tell Obama that Russia probably is not trying ... to influence the election. |
| September 12, 2016 | A report from the intelligence community finds foreign adversaries do not have and will probably not obtain the capabilities to successfully execute widespread and undetected cyber attackson U.S. election infrastructure. |
| September 23, 2016 | Yahoo News publishes article by Michael Isikoff about Carter Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. |
| September 23, 2016 | Michael Isikoff and Yahoo News report U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser [Carter Page] and Kremlin.It is later revealed that the FBI improperly wiretapped Page for a year. |
| October 1, 2016 | The first Carter Page FISA warrant is submitted to the FISC |
| October 7, 2016 | ODNI and DHS suppress intelligence findings that the unlikeness of Russian election interference, and instead state with confidencethat the Russian government directed the DNC and DCCC hacks. |
| November 9, 2016 | Trump is elected to be the 45th President of the United States. |
| November 30, 2016 | The first known unmasking request |
| December 7, 2016 | James Clapper’s office reports to Obama that foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on U.S. election infrastructure, and that no results were altered in that fashion. |
| December 8, 2016 | A President’s Daily Briefing is drafted that says Russian and criminal actors did not impact the U.S. election results. This information is later pulled from the report. |
| December 9, 2016 | At a meeting in the Obama White House, ODNI leaders are tasked with creating an assessment per the President’s request concerning Russian election meddling. |
| December 14, 2016 | Officials in the intelligence community leak to the media that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the U.S. election hack. |
| January 6, 2017 | The Obama administration shares an unclassified Intelligence Community Assessment that falsely alleges that Putin directed an effort to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, based on information from the Steele dossier. |
| January 12, 2017 | The application for the second FISA warrant is submitted to the FISC. |
| January 20, 2017 | Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. |
| January 2017 | The FBI interviews Igor Danchenko and learns that the entire RussiaGate scandal is bogus, and without evidence or merit. |
| March 2017 | Igor Danchenko is hired by the FBI as a Confidential Human Source (CHS). |
| April 7, 2017 | The application for the third FISA warrant is submitted to the FISC. |
| June 29, 2017 | The application for the fourth FISA warrant is submitted to the FISC. |
| September 6, 2017 | Gregory Lee Leingang steals a forklift from an oil refinery and attempts to drive toward the presidential motorcade while Donald J. Trump is visiting to rally public support in Mandan, North Dakota. |
| October 3, 2018 | William Clyde Allen III is arrested and charged with one count of mailing a threat against Donald J. Trump two days earlier. |
| September 18, 2019 | An IC official submits a FOIA request for material related to the Steele dossier as a factor in the Obama Intelligence Community Assessment, which is interesting because information at that time was that DNI James Clapper viewed the Steele Dossier as untrustworthy. |
| December 9, 2019 | The Horowitz report is released, detailing the DOJ/FBI/Mueller FISA abuse. |
| December 18, 2019 | The House of Representatives votes to impeach Donald J. Trump on two articles that charge Trump with abusing power in his dealings with Ukraine and obstructing Congress in their investigation. |
| January 15, 2020 | The House of Representatives transmits the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial. |
| January 16, 2020 | Senate begins impeachment trial. |
| February 5, 2020 | The Senate votes to acquit President Trump forever on each of the two charges. |
| September 20, 2020 | Pascale Cécile Véronique Ferrier is arrested in Buffalo, New York, after writing in a ricin-laced letter to Donald J. Trump that he should drop out of the ongoing 2020 presidential election, calling him an ugly tyrant clown. |
| January 13, 2021 | The House of Representatives votes to impeach Donald J. Trump for incitement of insurrection. |
| January 26, 2021 | The House of Representatives transmits new articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial. |
| February 9, 2021 | Senate begins second impeachment trial. |
| February 13, 2021 | The Senate votes to acquit President Trump forever on the lone charge. |
| March 27, 2022 | Professor calls for Trump’s assassination |
| May 12, 2023 | Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe |
| August 6, 2023 | Rick Wilson again tells MSNBC, They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. And that’s a fact. |
| March 18, 2024 | Keith Olbermann says there’s always hope that Donald J. Trump will be assassinated |
| May 31, 2024 | Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 charges |
| June 28, 2024 | Joe Biden tweets, Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for. |
| July 1, 2024 | Leftists openly call for the assassination of Donald J. Trump. [here and here, for example] |
| July 13, 2024 | Assassination attempt of Donald J. Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally by ActBlue supporter Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump’s right ear is hit with one bullet, one rally attendee is killed with another, while another two are left injured by bullets. |
| September 15, 2024 | Ryan Wesley Routh is spotted with a rifle in shrubs at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, while Donald J. Trump is golfing. It is later confirmed that Routh did intend to kill Trump. |
| November 5, 2024 | Donald J. Trump re-elected for second term as the 47th President of the United States |
| January 20, 2025 | Trump is inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States. |
| February 5, 2025 | USAID and the CIA are linked to the impeachment of Donald J. Trump. |
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See also: Making of a myth: Timeline of media’s role in selling ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ tale
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