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 offline including 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.
September 2, 2016 FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text that [President Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.
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
November 9, 2016 Trump is elected to be the 45th President of the United States.
November 30, 2016 The first known unmasking request
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.
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