![]() ![]() July 2017: Trump met with Putin in Helsinki. Artemenko and Sater gave Cohen a supposed "peace plan" for Ukraine. January 2017: At the Manhattan Loews Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, met with Trump's business associate, Felix Sater, and Andrey Artemenko, a pro-Putin lawmaker from Ukraine. November 9, 2016: When Russia's Parliament learned of Trump's election, it erupted in applause. presidential election, the pro-Kremlin leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia proclaimed that if Trump won, "Russia would 'drink champagne' in anticipation of being able to advance its positions on Syria and Ukraine." November 2016: A few days before the U.S. He and Manafort discussed a so-called "peace plan" for Ukraine that was actually a "backdoor" for Russia's permanent control of eastern Ukraine. Kilimnik was a Russian-Ukrainian dual citizen and former Soviet military officer with ties to Russian intelligence. That's an incorrect statement, characterization, of what happened." ( Epshteyn is now part of the Trump team urging states to "decertify" the 2020 election of President Biden, which is a legal impossibility.)Īugust 2016: Manafort met in Manhattan with his Kyiv-based business associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, who had just flown in from Ukraine. ![]() We can talk about the conflict that happened between Ukraine and the Crimea. Later that month, Boris Epshteyn, a Russian-born Trump adviser, spouted Kremlin propaganda about the illegal seizure of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014, telling CNN: "Russia did not seize Crimea. After Manafort's repeated denials, another Trump adviser eventually admitted that Trump himself had insisted on the change. July 2016: Working behind the scenes, Trump's campaign weakened a Republican Party platform plank that would have armed the Ukrainian popular resistance with weapons to combat Russia's ongoing attacks in Crimea. For the next four years, that lie became a pervasive Trump talking point. Summer 2016: Manafort began pushing the Kremlin lie that Ukraine was responsible for hacking Democratic National Committee computers. Although deeply in debt, Manafort went to work without pay on the Trump campaign. By March 2016, the dictator had been deposed and Manafort was broke. In 2007, Paul Manafort worked as a paid consultant for Ukraine's pro-Putin dictator. When last updated in early 2021, the Timeline had over 2,000 entries. Launched in February 2017, the Trump-Russia Timeline at documented Putin's efforts, as well as Trump's presidential actions rewarding Russia's dictator. intelligence community, special counsel Robert Mueller, and the bipartisan report of the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Russia interfered with the 2016 election to help Trump win. But Putin's war on Ukraine has made many of the dots easier to connect.Īddressing his nation in 2005, Putin called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century." Restoring it required the conquest of Ukraine, but he needed help to accomplish that mission. The Trump-Putin alliance was always hiding in plain sight. And as recently as April 21, 2022, Trump boasted that, as President, he threatened our NATO allies, saying that he would not defend them against a Russian attack. ![]() ![]() Prior to the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump told aides that he planned to withdraw the U.S. presidential election short of swift and complete success in Ukraine. support for Ukraine made all the difference.īut consider this: Putin fell just one U.S. Instead, he failed miserably and is a global pariah. Vladimir Putin planned to conquer Ukraine by May 9-Russia's annual "Victory Day" celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany. ![]()
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