Papadopoulos Papers Offer New Insight into DNC Email Hack Timeline
?? – Further details of the interaction between various Russian political operatives and officials in the 2016 election added more context to the timeline of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee email hacking scandal and its unfolding at the time.
The court documents released regarding the arrest and subsequent guilty plea of former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos have shed new light on the role of Russian trolls in interference in the election.
Here’s how it went:
june 2015
Russian hackers reportedly first gained access to the Democratic National Committee’s network in June 2015, according to CNN.
Early 2016
According to the affidavit, Papadopoulos told FBI agents that in early 2016 one of his overseas contacts (labeled “The Professor” in court documents) “actually told me that the Russians had emails from Clinton “. The affidavit goes on to say that Papadopoulos said he learned this before joining the Trump campaign, which would have been before early March 2016. He also told investigators that he had never told anyone about the Trump campaign about the “dirt” his contact claimed to have. have on Clinton, states the affidavit.
Saturday March 19, 2016
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta received an email saying his Gmail account had been hacked. It was actually a phishing email. A member of the Clinton tech team mistakenly identified it as a legitimate email and Podesta allegedly proceeded to change his password using the link in the phishing email.
Friday March 24, 2016
Papadopoulos has repeatedly tried to arrange a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russian officials. Papadopoulos’ first known email to a campaign official talking about such a meeting was sent on March 24, according to the affidavit in the Papadopoulos case. In the email, he recounts what he learned over lunch with one of the three foreign contacts.
The subject of the lunch was to organize a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russian relations under President Trump. They wish to welcome us to a ‘neutral’ city or directly to Moscow. They said the leaders , including Putin, is ready to meet with us and Mr. Trump if there is any interest. I await everyone’s thoughts to move forward with this very important issue, “Papadopoulos wrote in an e -mail to Trump campaign officials.
Papadopoulos continued to speak to Russian and campaign contacts about a possible meeting until August.
Friday, June 3, 2016
Donald Trump Jr. received an email, which he later posted on Twitter, from music producer and acquaintance Rob Goldstone saying that Russian officials had “offered to provide the Trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary. [Clinton] and his relations with Russia and would be very helpful to your father. Trump Jr. replied that “if that’s what you say, I like it.” A meeting has been organized for June 9th.
Monday, June 7, 2016
Then-candidate Donald Trump teased “a major speech” the following week in which he “was going to discuss all the things that happened with the Clintons.” The Clinton-focused speech never happened.
Wednesday, June 9, 2016
Trump Jr. brought Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort with him to Goldstone’s meeting with a Russian lawyer, later identified as Natalia Veselnitskaya, who Trump Jr. said had damaging information about Clinton and several others. Trump Jr. and Kushner said later in 2017 that they did not receive any such information at that meeting.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers broke into the DNC’s computer network, citing committee officials and security experts.
Thursday July 7, 2016
Manafort wrote an email offering to give private briefings to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum tycoon for whom Manafort had worked in the past and who had close ties to the Kremlin. The email was first reported by the Washington Post on September 20, 2016.
Friday July 22, 2016
WikiLeaks published the first in a series of hacked emails from the DNC.
He posted a statement on Twitter saying, “Today, Friday July 22, 2016 at 10:30 am EDT, WikiLeaks is posting 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee – part one of our news. Hillary Leaks series.
“Leaks come from the accounts of seven DNC personalities” including communications director Luis Miranda (10,770 emails), national finance director Jordon Kaplan (3,797 emails), finance director Scott Comer and others. The recently published emails cover the period January 2015 to May 25, 2016.
Sunday July 24, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned as DNC chairperson amid email revelations that party officials were trying to undermine the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told ABC News’ This Week that their researchers (Crowdstrike) believed the Russians were responsible for the attack.
Monday, July 25, 2016
The FBI announced that it was investigating the hack.
“The FBI is investigating a cyber intrusion involving the DNC and is working to determine the nature and extent of the case,” said an FBI statement.
Wednesday July 27, 2016
During a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida, Trump told reporters that while Russia is behind the DNC hack, the country most likely accessed Clinton’s deleted emails during his tenure. Secretary of State.
“By the way, if they hacked, they probably have his 33,000 emails. I hope they do,” Trump said. “They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted.”
He then said, directly in front of the cameras: “Russia, if you listen, I hope you can find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”
Thursday July 28, 2016
Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends”, clarified that “of course” he was “sarcastic” with his comments about Russia’s hacking of deleted Clinton emails.
Monday, August 8, 2016
At an event hosted for the South West Broward Republican Organization, Trump adviser Roger Stone said he had undisclosed access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
“I actually communicated with Assange. I think the next installment of his documents is for the Clinton Foundation, but it’s unclear what October’s surprise will be,” he said.
Sunday August 21, 2016
Stone posted a cryptic tweet, which was circulated widely at the time, but his account has since been deleted.
“Believe me, it will be time for the Podesta in the barrel soon. #CrookedHillary,” the tweet read.
Over a year later, Stone testified on Capitol Hill and made a statement about this tweet.
“Note that my tweet of August 21, 2016 makes no mention of Mr. Podesta’s email, but accurately predicts that the Podesta brothers’ business activities in Russia with the oligarchs around [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, their uranium deal, their banking deal and their deal with Gazprom would be subject to public scrutiny, ”Stone said in a September 26, 2017 statement.
Friday, October 7, 2016
As of October 7, WikiLeaks published the first in a series of 50,000 emails belonging to Podesta.
This came on the same day that a statement was released on behalf of the entire US intelligence community, saying they were “confident that the Russian government has led the recent email compromises from individuals and institutions. American organizations, including American political organizations “.
It was also the same day that a tape of an Access Hollywood appearance in 2005 was released in which Trump made lewd remarks about women and allegedly groping women.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
During the second presidential debate, Trump questioned whether Russia was behind the hacks and suggested “maybe there is no hack.”
“I notice that every time something bad happens, they like to say ‘The Russians!’ She doesn’t know if the Russians are doing the hacking, “Trump said of Clinton.” Maybe there is no hacking. But they still blame Russia, and the reason they blame Russia is because they think they’re trying to tarnish me with Russia. “
Monday, November 7, 2016
WikiLeaks posted a second batch of thousands of DNC emails.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Election day. Trump won.
January 6, 2017
A report has been declassified detailing Russian hacking activity and why intelligence officials believe Moscow and its supporters have tried to put their imprint on the political process.
The report, which came after an investigation ordered by then-President Barack Obama, said there was no indication that Russian actors directly interfered with the vote count, but it did indicate that there was some number of other ways for the country to get involved in the competition. between Trump and Clinton.
