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Somewhere Inside (Disuphere series #4) Chapter 44

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When the knock sounds on the front door of Grandpa’s cabin, Jesus doesn’t know he’s going to move until he does. Dudley’s at his side.

Pearl’s out of the bedroom for the first time all day. She looks rough. Wrecked. Red, swollen eyes. Pale. Exhausted. Devastated. The bedroom door is closed behind her, and Jesus knows Pearl has told Francesca to stay put there.

The knocking is constant. Irritated. Jesus can see her through the window. It’s definitely Pearl’s mom.

“Jesus, what are you…?” Pearl asks, but when he turns to look at her, Pearl falls silent.

“Levi, go hang out with Francesca,” Jesus directs softly. But there’s no movement behind him. Jesus is pretty sure Levi couldn’t move if he wanted to.

Pearl is in no place to deal with her abusive as hell mother today. But if Jesus knows anything, it’s that he’s capable of dealing with a ton of stress. It actually feels normal to him. So, even though his body’s still killing him. Even though he’s still not even close to okay. He can deal with this.

“Mariana. Dominique. Please. Go hang out with Francesca. Take Levi and Pearl, too.”

“No, Pearl’s staying,” Pearl objects, her hands shaking, even as Cleo is in her arms. “She’s my mother. I brought her stress here. I can deal with her.”

“You asked her to stay away and she didn’t listen,” Jesus points out. The knocking is getting to him. Between Dominique and Mariana, they have managed to encourage Levi to come with them, with promises they can all watch some Disney movie together. “Please trust me. I can deal with her. Just go wait.”

“Fine,” Pearl nods.

Jesus is vaguely aware of Pearl going into the bedroom. Of the fact that he does not hear the bedroom door close behind her. Knows Pearl is listening. (Knows it’s her right. It’s her mom, but Jesus finds himself with his fingers crossed behind him that he can do a good enough job warning Pearl’s mom away. That she doesn’t end up coming in here.)

But Jesus is nothing if not determined. He walks to the door, taking deep breaths on the way. Dudley’s right with him.

Unceremoniously, Jesus yanks the door open. Glares at Pearl’s mom.

“What?” he asks, sharp.

“Jesus,” she smiles. “I’m Carla West. Pearl’s mom. Is she here?” Carla asks, friendly.

“She doesn’t wanna see you,” Jesus insists, voice low.

“So, she is here,” Carla says, arms crossed. The act is already falling away. “I need to speak to her.”

“No. You need to get the hell out of here. You need to leave Pearl alone,” Jesus warns.

“Are you threatening me?” Carla scoffs. “You sure fooled everyone, didn’t you? You sure fooled my daughter. With the poor, missing kid act. You’re so traumatized, right? Well, I have news for you. We all go through tough stuff,” Carla insists, lowering her voice. “That doesn’t give you the right to treat my daughter the same way Chris Mitchell treated you.”

Jesus’s eyes flash. “Get out of here. Now.”

“Maybe you have Stockholm Syndrome, like all the news reports claimed. But you know what? That’s no excuse,” Carla rants quietly.

It’s how Carla keeps lowering her voice and glancing around as her true colors show that makes Jesus think of his own moms. It’s Francesca’s observation that Pearl’s mom, and theirs, are alike. And it’s the mention of the news. All of it, in combination, gives Jesus the idea.

“There’s a thing I’ve noticed about small towns being here,” Jesus tells Carla softly. “People talk.”

Carla’s nodding, “Absolutely. They do, and--”

“Gladys...Gary...Steve and Sue…” Jesus lists everyone he’s ever heard Pearl mention from this area, drawing a trail away from Pearl. Away from Levi. Jesus doesn’t want Carla knowing they are the ones he got all of his information from. “Oh, and that nice girl Jolly, at the post office.”

“They all agree with me!” Carla snaps. “A daughter should return her mother’s calls! Not change her number--”

“--And,” Jesus interrupts. “That means I know things. A lot of things. About you. Things that would really suck for you if they ever...I don’t know...went public?”

Carla crosses her arms. “You know nothing,” she spits, her full contempt showing.

“You think? What do you think?” he asks Dudley. “I mean, if you’re willing to risk...say...your local news finding out what local gossip is saying about you anyway? Keep harassing Pearl. Watch what happens.”

“Whoever you’re getting information from is full of shit. No one will believe you,” Carla says, still super pissed, and super quiet.

“Maybe they didn’t believe me Before,” Jesus challenges, looking Carla in the eye. “When I was just a kid with zero power. But I’m a man now. And I have a name. And, believe it or not? People believe the hell out of me when I speak. Because I tell the truth. Even when no one else will. When no one else can. So, I mean, if you wanna test that theory of yours, be my guest.”

“You hate the press. You’ve never done a single interview since you’ve been back. You wouldn’t start now. You’re terrified of cameras,” Carla sneers.

“Doesn’t have to be on camera,” Jesus shrugs. “The written word holds plenty of power. Social media. Your local paper? People read that all over here.”

Jesus sees it the minute he has her. The way fear flickers in Carla’s eyes. How instead of stepping back, she steps forward - toward him - a threat on her lips:

“You wouldn’t…” she laughs, mocking.

Dudley moves in front of Jesus, growling.

“You ever harass Pearl at home? You ever intimidate Levi in town? You do anything to bother them at all...and everything I know about you? Is gonna become everything everyone knows about you. If you see either one of them in town, you’d better walk the other way. Or it’s out.” Jesus assures, taking his own step toward Carla.

“You know what? Fine. I’m done with getting the middle finger from my daughter. I’m done. Keep your little expose to yourself. Pearl doesn’t have a mother anymore. And she can thank you for it,” Carla says, walking quickly down the steps. She turns in the driveway, and calls, “And if I never see Levi again, it’ll be too soon.”

“Hey!” Jesus calls, remembering something. “Key!”

“What?” Carla asks, exasperated.

“The key to Pearl’s cabin. If you’re serious? I want it.” Jesus insists.

Something is pelted at him and Jesus flinches. It lands several feet short, in the grass. Sends Dudley out to retrieve it. It’s a single key on a stretchy band that can be worn around a wrist.

Dudley brings it back. Drops it in Jesus’s hand.

“Thanks, Dudley,” Jesus says, scratching his head.

Jesus stays at the door, watching until she gets in her car and drives out of sight out on the main road. Then, he closes it. Leans against it. Locks every single lock.

Then he goes to the bedroom door and knocks, an all clear.

Jesus is glad to find it closed.

Pearl opens it, worried. “Are you okay?” she asks.

“Yeah. She’s gone. She’s not gonna bother you guys again,” Jesus reassures.

Francesca butts in, beside Pearl. “Levi’s sick in the bathroom. He locked the door.”

“Well, give him space, all right?” Jesus offers. “Let’s all take it easy. Or keep busy. Whatever we need to do, you know, for self care. I gotta get away from this bedroom door for self care,” he tells Dudley.

Jesus is just a little shocked when Pearl follows him out to the living room. “Seriously. What did you say to her?” she asks, perching on the edge of the coffee table.

“Just threatened her with what I figure is her worst fear…” Jesus shrugs.

“Rats?” Pearl exclaims, her eyes wide.

An unexpected laugh bubbles out of Jesus. “No. I mean, I’ve heard Fran say how your mom’s like ours. And our moms’ worst fear is anyone else finding out what they consider private family business. Judging from your mom’s reaction, I was right.”

“You threatened to...what?”

“Go public with what I know about her,” Jesus says, matter of fact.

Pearl’s eyes get big. “Jesus, you promised Levi. You promised me. The Avoiders code of conduct. Was that all a lie?” she asks, devastation evident in her voice.

“Pearl. No,” Jesus explains calmly. “What I told your mom was a risk. A calculated one. I would never out your stuff. Or Levi’s stuff. I threatened to tell what I knew because - with people like her? - their reputation is the most important thing. I knew she’d agree to leave you and Levi alone if her reputation was threatened by the right person.”

“You manipulated her,” Pearl comments, breathless.

Jesus shrugs. “I had four and a half years living around a massive manipulator with a giant ego. I know how to deal with them.”

“Thank you,” Pearl nods, wiping her eyes with shaking hands. “God, thank you.”

“Jesus?” Francesca interrupts. “Levi doesn’t wanna come out of the bathroom ‘cause the thinks Pearl’s mom is really still here.”

“Okay. Thanks for telling me, buddy,” Jesus says. He hopes that soon, the little lurch his insides do when he hears Francesca talk will not be a thing.

Jesus clicks Levi’s name on Messenger, and the video chat option.

In seconds, Levi’s face is there. Almost a twin of Pearl’s. Pale. Devastated. Shaken. His eyes look haunted.

“She’s really gone,” Jesus reassures simply. “You don’t have to stay in there. Come out here with us. Please.”

In response, the screen goes dark. Levi ends the call. But minutes later, Jesus hears the door open. Levi, Mariana and Francesca all venture out together. Levi, casting nervous glances.

“She’s not gonna bother you guys again. If she sees you in town, Levi? She’s gonna walk the other way. And…” Jesus reaches in his pocket. Withdraws Carla’s key. “I got this from her.”

Pearl’s mouth drops open.

“She just gave it to you?” Levi gasps. “‘Cause that’s it. That’s the key she used Wednesday and today…”

“Here,” Jesus offers it to Pearl.

“Levi, will you unclip it?” Pearl asks.

(Jesus doesn’t miss how Pearl didn’t ask him to do it. Is glad that even after all this, she remembers he’s dealing with his own trigger, too.)

Levi unclips the key from the stretchy blue band.

Pearl tosses him something else, encouraging him to clip the key to it, and taking the blue band for herself.

“A cow keychain?” Levi asks, still nervous.

“He’s a stress cow,” Pearl says, like this should be obvious. “You put your key on him and then you can squeeze him whenever you’re nervous.”

“Wait. My key?” Levi asks, incredulous.

“Well, you live there, too. For the last six months I’ve been saying I’ll get you a key and I still haven’t done it. Now it’s even better. You have one. She doesn’t.” Pearl offers a sad smile.

“She’s not coming back to scare us anymore, is she?” Francesca asks.

“No, she’s not. And I’m very sorry she did that,” Pearl says. Jesus can see her shudder a little. “Ugh, I hate that she was inside the cabin for so long. I feel like I have to go next door and disinfect everything…”

“What if she found, like, personal stuff?” Levi asks. “If she looked through and found...I don’t know...something…”

Jesus doesn’t know why, but Levi telling him about the phone he had as a third grader flashes through Jesus’s mind. The one with the video Carla took of him. Jesus casts Levi a sympathetic look. Wishes he had thought to make her turn over anything she had taken from Pearl’s cabin.

“We can walk next door together. You can double check. Make sure she didn’t take anything,” Pearl offers.

“We’ll come with you for girl power,” Francesca offers, nodding at Dominique, who has just joined them as well.

When they’re gone, Mariana sits on the couch with Jesus. He’s waiting anxiously, having sent a question mark to Levi, hoping he’ll find all his stuff still there, including the old phone.

Levi finally sends a thumbs up. And Jesus feels like he can breathe.

“I’ve been meaning to ask...or...I guess not ask...but...check in. If you wanna tell me anything…” Mariana hedges. Jesus can tell she’s struggling to make sure she doesn’t ask him any questions.

“Triggered,” he offers.

“Yeah?” she asks, sad for him. “But you handled Peanut Butter Cookie like a boss, though,” she says, proud.

“Yeah, well, it’s family. Hell, if I’m gonna let some… If I’m gonna let her hurt our family.”

“I’m protecting you, okay? Always,” Mariana tells Jesus seriously.

“Yeah…” Jesus manages, letting out a shaky sigh of his own. “Okay.”

#fic: somewhere inside

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eddiebrock · 7 years ago

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harry potter!!!!

YOU ARE THE BEST, THANK U

Top 5 favourite characters: Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Lily (Evans) Potter, Sirius Black, Harry Potter, Minerva McGonagall (that’s six but fuck it)Other characters you like: Dorcas freaking Meadowes (who is actually a favorite but since she’s literally only mentioned once I felt weird putting her in the Top 5 but I want all of u to know that I would die for Doe), James FREAKING Potter, Hagrid, Luna Lovegood, Remus Lupin, Newt Scamander, Tina Goldstein, Narcissa Malfoy, Alice Longbottom, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and the Weasley TwinsLeast favourite characters: Umbridge, Snape, fucking Vernon & Petunia, Dudley, Otps: JILY, Hinny, Tedromeda!!!!!!!, Newt/Tina, Dorcas/Reginald (the rarest of all rarepairs lmao), Fralice, Jacob/QueenieNotps: please don’t send me any anon hate for this lmao i can’t deal, Dra*mione, Dra*rry, Wolf*star (I HAVE MY REASONS), SNILY, apparently snamione and snarry are a thing???? so that’s fucking gross, Regulus/Sirius, CarrowcestFavourite friendships: Ron and Harry, Harry and Hermione, Ginny and Hermione!!!!!!!!!!, Luna and Ginny, James and Sirius, Lily and Remus, Newt and Jacob, Dorcas and Mary, Dorcas and Alice, Ginny and Neville, Neville and Luna, Kingsley and Remus, and like way 2 many more

Favourite family: The Potters and the Weasleys!!!Favourite episodes moment: ‘Humph,’ snorted Professor McGonagall. ‘It’s high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she’s got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have – particularly after what happened at the Ministry.’Favourite season/book/movie: I think the third book was probably my favorite book, but Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 my favorite movie (despite some stupid shit that happened)Favourite quotes: i have way, way, WAY too many favorite quotes to list them all, so i’m just gonna put down my favorite under-appreciated quote because i’ve never seen anyone talk about it, but in the cursed child when draco is like “mY sOn Is MiSsInG” and ginny fucking potter gets up in his face and screams “SO IS MINE” and i just???? ugh, man. S O I S M I N E. ginny is the bestBest musical moment: Dumbledore’s Farewell & S T A T U E S are two of the most powerful music moments in the entire franchise, sue me, and the only reason i say statues and not Courtyard Apocalypse is because of the absolute masterful cinematography that went along with the song Statues and how the sound was really MADE for that moment, i will fight everyone on thisMoment that made you fangirl/boy the hardest: returning back to statues scene because honestly, ‘Hogwarts is threatened!’ shouted Professor McGonagall. ‘Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!’ gets me EVERY TIMEWhen it really disappointed you: not a single canonical bisexual Saddest moment: “Does it hurt?“ The childish question had escaped Harry’s lips before he could stop it. “Dying? Not at all,” said Sirius. “Quicker and easier than falling asleep.” / harry listening to his own parents die during the cursed child Most well done character death: fuck dude, definitely fred’s because till my dying fucking day i will never forget the phrase “the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face”Favourite guest star: Dorcas Meadowes counts as a guest star because she’s only mentioned one (1) time and I literally named my dog after herFavourite cast member: Emma Watson (but also Daniel Radcliffe)Character you wish was still alive: Sirius Black One thing you hope really happens: I want Seraphina Piquery to get 100000x more screentime, she is a badass bitch and I could really use some woc American presidentst in my life, also make her BISEXUALMost shocking twist: honestly, snape killing dumbledore. like i know that’s a big joke now like SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE, but man, i remember reading it and just about shitting myself because i could not fucking believe it. also the whole “the elder wanda ctually belonged to draco but then i disarmed draco so it belonged to me but voldemort thought it belonged to snape so,” was WILDWhen did you start watching/reading?: a little over 10 yrs ago or somethingBest animal/creature: B O W T R U C K L E SFavourite location: godric’s hollow, and it’s because of the way it was staged for the cursed child (i talk more about it later on in this massive meme answer lol)Trope you wish they would stop using: it’s not a trope but i’m gonna harp on this again, there is not a single canon bisexual One thing this show/book/film does better than others: fucks up my entire world in less than a second. but in all seriousness, this whole franchise has such a way of touching that piece of nostalgia, and family and love and all these wonderful things that make me and many others feel so warm and safe. it has such an important and underlying positive message to it and i really just don’t think anything else in the world has touched so many people in such a massive and important way like harry potter has. plus, according to an actual scientific study, people who have read harry potter tend to be better human beings, so there’s that, tooFunniest moments: “There’s no need to call me sir, professor.” / “Have a biscuit, Potter.”Couple you would like to see: Newt and Tina!!! Seraphina and another woman!!!!!!Actor/Actress you want to join the cast: Imogen Poots!!!!!!!!!! but that has a 0% chance of happening, so Maisie Williams and Natalie DormerFavourite outfit: seraphina’s crazy cool outfits and hermione’s sweater in the woods in deathly hallows pt. 1 (but in the books, hermione’s perriwinkle yule ball gown)Favourite item: the invisibility cloak for sure, but also harry’s glassesDo you own anything related to this show/book/film?: the sheer audacity of this question…….. the ability to even list it all is……….. unfathomableWhat house/team/group/friendship group/family/race etc would you be in?: GRYFFINDORMost boring plotline: the entire lavender/ron stint Most laughably bad moment: voldemort trying to hug draco lolBest flashback/flashfoward if any: it’s not really a flashback, but in the cursed child, when they go back in time to the night james and lily died, i can’t remember if the script talked about this but on stage, lily (WHO WAS APPROPRIATELY AGED) took baby harry in a stroller out of the house and there were pumpkins and all sorts of cute halloween decorations all around, and it was peaceful and quiet and when they got out the door she was cooing and talking to harry and making all these cute funny faces at him, and i literally could not keep it together. shortly thereafter, when harry’s gone back in time too, on stage they’re all standing there as voldemort walks off the stage and harry’s forced to listen to his parents die. i’ve never wept so much in my entire life. it was so good. Most layered character: i think narcissa malfoy, probably, if not albus dumbledore, who isn’t the most popular character around but face it, the guy’s got layersMost one dimensional character: umbridge, her only dimension is Evil and i’m ok with it staying that wayScariest moment: fucking basiliskGrossest moment: fucking aragogBest looking male: percival graves probably lmao colin farrell is fine as fuckBest looking female: obviously hermione grangerWho you’re crushing on (if any): i always have a crush on ginny and hermioneFavourite cast moment: that time when they’re wrapping up the final movie, and they’re watching this memories video while they were all still in costume, and emma started crying and daniel hugged her and it was just the cutest thing i’ve ever seen and i still cry, also all of them crying and hugging jk rowling at the premiere of dhp2Favourite transportation: definitely broomsticksMost beautiful scene (scenery/shot wise): deathly hallows part 2 where they’re putting up the protective spells over hogwarts, and it’s got all the colours in that enormous shield and it just brings tears to my eyesUnanswered question/continuity issue/plot error that bugs you: WHY ARE JAMES AND LILY PORTRAYED BY REASONABLY PARENTAL-AGED PEOPLE??? THEY DIED WHEN THEY WERE 21 AND EVERYONE DESERVESTO KNOW HOW FUCKING SAD THAT IS, also what the fuck happened to the real percival graves??? is he dead??? do i get to see colin farrell come back as a good guy at any point????Best promo: i will never forget the day that the audio from the SDCC trailer for deathly hallows part 1 came out, and all you could hear was kingsley shacklebolt saying “the ministry has fallen. the minister of magic is dead. they are coming.” and i just remember sitting at my old desk and whispering “oh my god!!!!! oh my god!!!!!!” and playing the audio over and over again and that was like. magicalAt what point did you fall in love with this show/book: “Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

#ask meme #meerareeed #julie #hp #about me #this was Crazy

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paulinedorchester · 8 years ago

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Thoughts after rewatching “Among the Few”:

In no particular order:

Then again, first things first: could we please spare a few thoughts for poor Connie? She as much as anyone else is victimized by these events. (I am not impartial on this point and will make no apologies for it: without going into all of the gory details, almost thirty-five years ago I found myself standing in something bearing a significant resemblance to her shoes. Some positive things actually did emerge from that horrible experience, but I still have a certain amount of residual anger about it on behalf of other heterosexual women who are treated in this way - and I consider it righteous anger.)

Okay, now in no particular order:

"We’re trying to think who we can put into the Bexhill fuel depot.”: Sam may have to talk Foyle into sending her undercover, but she does so after he and Milner have not only discussed the case right in front of her, but told her about it. It’s been barely six months since she began working for the Hastings Police, but their confidence in her has already grown by leaps and bounds!

And here I thought I was the one who endowed Sam with a hyper-retentive memory (and then tried to mitigate the Mary Sue-ish aspect of this by making a Stewart family trait)! Long before that, AH had her remember Sean O’Halloran’s face and what he was doing after seeing him once and memorizes the combination to the safe after watching Mrs Bennett open it just once!

Milner’s reaction to learning about the possible uses of bicarbonate of soda: there’s a good piece of fic about this, but what I see in his face there is mostly dismay - presumably because Milner knows that if Jane is pregnant at this point he couldn’t possibly be the father, because Jane won’t let him anywhere near her.

Miss Violet Davies: sweet Louise, where do I even begin? First she wants Andrew to take her to a hotel for the night (for which she will presumably expect him to pay, out of his meager Pilot Officer’s salary), then she accuses him of trying to get her into bed! And I’m betting that this whole “engagement” thing is part of her fantasy life. No one is claiming that this has been Andrew’s finest moment, but honestly, his biggest misstep was to become entangled with her in the first place. Good riddance to bad rubbish!

And finally, please bear with me as I think aloud:

In the notes to the first chapter of Separate Boxes I attached Andrew to Coastal Command, rather than Fighter Command, on the basis of our being told more than once in canon that he is flying reconnaissance missions in a Spitfire. Spitfires could be either Coastal or Fighter Command, but reconnaissance was strictly Coastal Command’s responsibility. Or so I thought. While I am as certain as I can be that Spitfires were among the aircraft used for that purpose, the division of labor between the two commands may not have been as cut-and-dried as I thought. Not only that, but I’m currently reading I Seek my Prey in the Waters: The Coastal Command at War, by the pseudonymous Sqn. Ldr. Tom Dudley-Gordon (1943; actually the work of three different R.A.F. officers), which doesn’t list Spitfires among the equipment that Coastal Command used.

But to get back to “Among the Few,” that scramble near the end of the episode doesn’t look to me like a Coastal Command activity. Their ops were usually scheduled, it seems.

Hmmm . . .

#Foyle's War #among the few

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tuseriesdetv · 6 years ago

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Guía de series: Estrenos y regresos de agosto 2018

Agradezcamos a Netflix que salve este mes con producciones propias y ajenas, no se puede decir que las cadenas en abierto se preocupen de entretenernos en agosto. AMC y Amazon también nos presentan un par de experimentos. ¡Feliz agosto! Leyenda:

Verde: series nuevas.

Rojo: series de las que haremos reviews semanales.

Negro: regresos de otras series.

Naranja: miniseries o series documentales.

Amarillo: tvmovies, documentales, especiales o pilotos.

Morado: season finales.

Morado claro: midseason finales.

Calendario de series

1 de agosto:

The Sinner (2T) en USA Network

Alone Together (2T) en Freeform

The Originals (series finale) en The CW

Six (series finale) en History

2 de agosto:

Cuckoo (4T) en BBC Three

Cloak & Dagger (1T finale) en Freeform

3 de agosto:

Fariña (1T) y Like Father en Netflix

Animals (3T) en HBO

Quantico (series finale) en ABC

5 de agosto:

Chesapeake Shores (3T) en Hallmark

Succession (1T finale) en HBO

6 de agosto: Better Call Saul (4T) y Lodge 49 (1T) en AMC

7 de agosto:

Wrecked (3T) en TBS

The 100 (5T finale) en The CW

The Bold Type (2T finale) en Freeform

8 de agosto: Hang Ups (1T) en Channel 4

10 de agosto: Insatiable (1T completa), All About the Washingtons (1T completa), La casa de las flores (1T completa), The Package y The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society en Netflix

12 de agosto:

Ballers (4T) y Insecure (3T) en HBO

Get Shorty (2T) en Epix

Fear The Walking Dead (4bT) en AMC

Claws (2T finale) en TNT

14 de agosto: Shadowhunters (3bT) en Freeform

17 de agosto: Disenchantment (1T completa) y To All The Boys I've Loved Before en Netflix

19 de agosto: Shades of Blue (series finale) en NBC

21 de agosto: Animal Kingdom (3T finale) en TNT

22 de agosto: Mr. Mercedes (2T) en Audience Network

23 de agosto: Rob Riggle's Ski Master Academy (1T) en Sony Crackle

24 de agosto: The Innocents (1T completa) y Ghoul (1T completa) en Netflix

26 de agosto: Sharp Objects (1T finale) en HBO

28 de agosto: Greenleaf (3T) en OWN

30 de agosto: One Dollar (1T) en CBS All Access

31 de agosto:

Jack Ryan (1T) en Amazon

Ozark (2T completa) en Netflix

Estrenos de series

Age Before Beauty (BBC One)

Bel (Polly Walker; Line of Duty, Roma), que lleva dieciocho años siendo ama de casa, intentará salvar el decadente negocio familiar, un salón de belleza del norte de Manchester, lidiando con exigencias, peleas y rivalidades. Completan el reparto Sue Johnston (Waking the Dead, Downton Abbey), Lisa Riley (Three Girls, Fat Friends), Robson Green (Grantchester, Strike Back), James Murray (Him, Cucumber), Kelly Harrison (The End of the F***ing World, The Level), Vicky Myers (The Five), Struan Rodger (Save Me, Stardust) y Madeleine Mantock (Into the Badlands, Charmed). Creada, escrita y producida por Debbie Horsfield (Poldark, Cutting It). Seis episodios. Estreno: 31 de julio

A favor: El retrato actualizado de la sociedad desde Cutting It.

En contra: Es la segunda vez que Horsfield hace la misma serie.

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Lodge 49 (AMC)

Sean 'Dud' Dudley (Wyatt Russell; Everybody Wants Some, 22 Jump Street) es un perezoso y optimista exsurfero de California que, tras la muerte de su padre y el hundimiento del negocio familiar, se une a una vieja fraternidad. Allí le recibe Ernie (Brent Jennings), un vendedor de piezas de fontanería que le descubre un mundo de cerveza barata, camaradería y la promesa de recuperar el estilo de vida que perdió. Completan el reparto Sonya Cassidy (Humans, Vera), David Pasquesi (Veep, Boss), Eric Allan Kramer (Good Luck Charlie, The Hughleys), Linda Emond (Julie & Julia), Jocelyn Towne y Hayden Szeto (The Edge of Seventeen). Creada y escrita por Jim Gavin. Producida por Paul Giamatti (Outsiders) y Peter Ocko (Weird Science, Pushing Daisies). Diez episodios. Estreno: 6 de agosto

A favor: Los secundarios. Y un reparto muy bien elegido.

En contra: El personaje protagonista es el menos atractivo.

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Hang Ups (Channel 4)

Escrita y protagonizada por Stephen Mangan (Episodes, The Split), es un remake de Web Therapy que nos trae a Richard Pitt, un terapeuta cansado de las sesiones tradicionales de cincuenta minutos que comienza a tratar a sus pacientes por webcam en sesiones cortas y, aun así, interrumpidas por su familia. Le acompañan Charles Dance (Game of Thrones, And Then There Were None), Richard E. Grant (Gosford Park, The Iron Lady), Jessica Hynes (W1A, Up the Women), David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Nanny McPhee), Katherine Parkinson (Humans, The IT Crowd), Karl Theobald (Plebs, Sick Note), Arsher Ali (Line of Duty, The Missing) o Paul Ritter (No Offence, Friday Night Dinner). Seis episodios. Estreno: 8 de agosto

A favor: Recordar la original.

En contra: Sabemos exactamente qué vamos a ver.

Insatiable (Netflix)

Una adolescente que ha sufrido acoso en el instituto (Debby Ryan, Jessie) decide presentarse a concursos de belleza para vengarse de sus compañeros, y un abogado que quiere cambiar de vida (Dallas Roberts; The L Word, The Good Wife) decide representarla. Completan el cast Alyssa Milano (Charmed, Who's the Boss), Christopher Gorham (Covert Affairs, Ugly Betty), Erinn Westbrook (Awkward, Glee), Michael Provost (The Case for Christ, Chance), Sarah Colonna (Scare Tactics), Kimmy Shields (Big Little Lies, Girlboss), Irene Choi (Community) y Arden Myrin (Still the King, Shameless). Creada por Lauren Gussis (Dexter). Trece episodios. Estreno: 10 de agosto

A favor: Abrir el melón del fat-shaming.

En contra: Cientos de miles de firmas pidiendo su cancelación por el fat-shaming que pudiera o no pudiera mostrar la propia serie.

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All About the Washingtons (Netflix)

Protagonizada por Rev Run y su esposa Justine, e inspirada en sus vidas, tratará sobre un rapero famoso cuyos planes de bajar el ritmo son frustrados por el sueño de su esposa. Creada por Jeremy Bronson (The Mayor). Diez episodios. Estreno: 10 de agosto

A favor: Echar unas carcajadas tremendas y continuas.

En contra: Fue rechazada por ABC. Repetimos, por ABC.

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La casa de las flores (Netflix)

Dramedia en la que un patriarca, al morir inesperadamente su amante, se lleva a casa a los hijos que tuvo con ella y la matriarca trata de mantener la fachada de perfección que tiene su familia. Forman el reparto Verónica Castro (Los exitosos Pérez, Valentina), Cecilia Suárez (Sense8, The Air I Breathe), Aislinn Derbez (Easy, Gossip Girl: Acapulco), Dario Yazbek Bernal (Los paisajes), Natasha Dupeyrón (Qué pobres tan ricos, Verano de amor), Sheryl Rubio (Guerra de ídolos, Corazón Esmeralda), Roberto Quijano (Cuando los hijos regresan, La Doña), Sawandi Wilson (Battle of the Year), Juan Pablo Medina (Guerra de ídolos), Arturo Ríos (Y tu mamá también, Cosas insignificantes), Claudette Maillé (Como agua para chocolate, Amor de barrio), Lucas Velazquez (Mentir para vivir, El manantial), Paco León (Aída, Kiki), Sofía Sisniega (Club de Cuervos, Gossip Girl: Acapulco) y Luis de la Rosa (Luis Miguel). Creada por Manolo Caro (No sé si cortarme las venas o dejármelas largas, La vida inmoral de la pareja ideal). Trece episodios. Estreno: 10 de agosto

A favor: El regreso de Verónica Castro a las telenovelas.

En contra: La polémica de Paco León es lo único que hemos oído de ella.

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Disenchantment (Netflix)

Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), Nat Faxon (Friends From College, Ben and Kate) y Eric Andre (Man Seeking Woman, Apartment 23) prestan su voz a una princesa borracha, un elfo y un demonio que enfurecen al rey con sus aventuras en la nueva serie de Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Futurama). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 17 de agosto

A favor: Una versión alternativa, quizá incluso feminista, de un cuento de hadas.

En contra: ¿Mansplaining?

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Rob Riggle's Ski Master Academy (Sony Crackle)

Rob Riggle (Rob Riggle; Modern Family, Angie Tribeca), tal vez le recuerden de sus ocho películas de motos acuáticas, ha invertido todo su dinero y reputación en una academia de pilotaje y pasará un semestre junto a su equipo defendiéndola de las críticas cueste lo que cueste. Completan el reparto Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings, Future Man), Britt Baron (GLOW), Billy Merritt, Dave Allen (Love, Trial & Error), Alison Rich (The Goldbergs), Carl Tart, Samm Levine (Wet Hot American Summer) y Rizwan Manji (The Magicians, Schitt's Creek). Ocho episodios. Estreno: 23 de agosto

A favor: Eliza Coupe, siempre.

En contra: El colmo del egocentrismo.

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The Innocents (Netflix)

Cuando June (Sorcha Groundsell; Clique, In Plain Sight) y Harry (Percelle Ascott; Wizards vs. Aliens, A Brilliant Young Mind) huyen de sus familias para estar juntos, su viaje de autodescubrimiento pondrá trabas a su sueño inocente; June conocerá un secreto que le ocultaron sus padres, un extraordinario poder que pondrá a prueba su relación, y acudirá a Halvorson (Guy Pearce; Memento, L.A. Confidential), un misterioso hombre con el mismo problema, con la esperanza de encontrar una solución. Creada por Hania Elkington y Simon Duric (McMafia, The Crown). Ocho episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 24 de agosto

A favor: El poder de la chica.

En contra: El tono épico.

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Ghoul (Netflix)

Miniserie india de terror en la que un prisionero llega a un remoto centro de interrogatorios y le da la vuelta a la situación exponiendo los secretos más vergonzosos de los militares que le retienen. Radhika Apte (Sacred Games) interpreta a una soldado con un futuro prometedor. Escrita y dirigida por Patrick Graham. Tres episodios. Estreno: 24 de agosto

A favor: De los productores de Insidious y Get Out.

En contra: Que todo se reduzca a un demonio.

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One Dollar (CBS All Access)

Thriller de misterio ambientado en un pueblo estadounidense tras la recesión, donde un billete de dólar conecta a varios personajes involucrados en un brutal asesinato múltiple. Protagonizado por John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, American Horror Story), Chris Denham (Manhattan, Billions), Jeff Perry (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy), Nathaniel Martello-White (Collateral, Kiri), Leslie Odom Jr. (Smash, Hamilton), Philip Ettinger (November Criminals), Kirrillee Berger (Just Add Magic), Gracie Lawrence (Did You Hear About the Morgans?) y Sturgill Simpson. Creada por Jason Mosberg (Arsenal) y dirigida por Craig Zobel (The Leftovers). Diez episodios. Estreno: 30 de agosto

A favor: El retrato de un pueblo del cinturón industrial.

En contra: Necesitaremos un tráiler para saber más.

Jack Ryan (Amazon)

John Krasinski (A Quiet Place, The Office) protagoniza esta versión moderna de las novelas de Tom Clancy en la que un analista de la CIA, al observar una serie de transferencias bancarias sospechosas, se ve obligado a abandonar su trabajo de oficina y viajar a Europa y Oriente Medio, donde descubrirá la preparación de un ataque terrorista en Estados Unidos. Completan el reparto Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch, Limitless), Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme), Peter Fonda (Easy Rider, Ghost Rider), Timothy Hutton (American Crime, Leverage), Dina Shihabi (Amira and Sam), Amir El-Masry (Age Before Beauty), Ali Suliman (The Attack, Body of Lies), Al Sapienza (Person of Interest, Game of Silence), Mena Massoud (Aladdin), Marie-Josée Croze (Les invasions barbares, Le scaphandre et le papillon) y John Hoogenakker (Bosch, Chicago Fire). Escrita y dirigida por Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel). Producida por Krasinski, Cuse y Michael Bay (Black Sails, Transformers). Diez episodios. Ya está renovada por una segunda temporada. Estreno: 31 de agosto

A favor: Gracias a ella existe A Quiet Place.

En contra: Puede ser absolutamente maravillosa o anodina y olvidable.

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Trump & Russia - A timeline

Having trouble keeping up with it all? Constantly being asked to “show me some facts”? Can’t keep the order of events straight? Well, here you go. I’ve included as many data points regarding Trump’s ties to Russia (or background) as I can find to date. I’ll keep adding. Feel free to share widely.

July 1991 -Trump's Taj Mahal files for bankruptcy protection.

March 9, 1992 - The Trump Castle and Trump Plaza both file for bankruptcy protection.

November 22, 2004 - Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts files for bankruptcy protection, claiming $1.8 Billion in debt.

2005 - Konstantin Kilimnov meets Paul Manafort in the early 2000s and begins working for him in the Ukraine in 2005 through President Yanukovych’s presidential campaign in 2010. Manafort would work for Yanukovych from 2004 to 2014.

2007 - Carter Page is working as Vice President, COO for the Moscow office of Merrill Lynch's energy and power dept, working on transactions involving Gazprom and other leading Russian energy companies.

July 15, 2008 - Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian billionaire and investor in Bank of Cyprus, purchases a beach house from Donald Trump for $95m. Trump purchased the home at auction in 2005 for $41 million. Rybolovlev would later demolish the house without moving in and sell off the land.

February 17, 2009 - Trump Entertainment & Resorts field for bankruptcy protection.

April 2009 - Sergei Millian (born Sergei Kukut), President of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce (an organization that bailed Trump out after his last bankruptcy when no bank would loan him money) states “We have signed formal agreements with… The Trump Organization… to jointly service the Russian clients’ commercial, residential and industrial real estate needs, [After meeting Michael Cohen] Trump Organization & Related Group […] signed an exclusive contract with me for promoting their companies in Russia and CIS countries,” Millian said. Millian was quoted in an ABC News interview as saying Trump benefitted to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars from business dealings with Russia.

September 16, 2011 - The Russian Direct Investment Fund, a government-backed investment fund, was started by Putin in 2011. A high-powered board of international advisers was brought in to oversee its activities, a group that included American private equity executives David Bonderman of TPG and Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group. After the United States and Europe imposed economic sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict in 2014, many board members distanced themselves (Schwarzman was one). The fund had been known to make numerous LARGE investments ($1B+) in Russian businesses with equally large conflicts of interest.

April 18, 2012 - In a joint announcement by Exxon/Mobil’s CEO Rex Tillerson and Rosneft Executive Chairman Igor Sechin, Exxon and state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft unveil an offshore exploration partnership that could invest upward of $500 billion in developing Russia's vast energy reserves in the Arctic and Black Sea. Sechin, a close ally of Russian Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin, hailed the partnership, saying it had already added $7 billion to Exxon and Rosneft's combined market capitalization since it was announced.

March 21, 2013 - The Guardian reports that TNK-BP agrees to sell to Rosneft for $55Billion that will make the Russian state-owned oil company by far the world's largest listed oil producer. BP collects $16.7bn cash and 12.5% stake. The deal takes BP's stake in Rosneft to 19.75%, and BP gets two seats on the Russian company's board - one of whom would be Bob Dudley, CEO of BP and the other Donald Humphreys, then CFO of Exxon Mobil, serving under Rex Tillerson. BP's partners in the TNK-BP joint venture – billionaires Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik, known collectively as AAR (Alfa-Access-Renova) – collect $27.7bn for their stake. In 2017, Leonard Blavatnik would donate $1 million to the Trump Inauguration through his company, Access Industries.

April 14, 2013 - The government of Cyprus announces relaxed restrictions on foreigners seeking citizenship. Non-residents who invest at least 3 million Euros in Cyprus real estate will be eligible for citizenship within 6 months (formerly 5 million euros). The program sparked over 4B in investments and by 2017, Cyprus had issued over 2,000 passports.

May 3, 2013 - Russian mob boss and Senator Alexander Torshin attends NRA Annual Meeting in Houston. Torshin was deputy governor in Russia’s Central Bank. Maria Butina was his aide at the bank. One of his superiors was Deputy Governor Sergey Aleksashenko, who was a former head at Merrill Lynch in Moscow (at the time Carter Page was there) and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington.

June 21, 2013 - Vladimir Putin awards Rex Tillerson the Order of Friendship.The Order of Friendship is awarded to Russian and foreign nationals for special merit in strengthening peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding between nations.

June 26, 2013 - Glencore founder, Marc Rich dies in Lucerne Switzerland of a stroke. In 1983, he was on the FBI’s 10-most-wanted list indicted for tax evasion, fraud and racketeering. He remained under threat of a life sentence in a U.S. jail until Bill Clinton pardoned him during the last hours of his presidency. Rudolph Giuliani, who had worked as a prosecutor on the Rich case before becoming New York Mayor, said in a statement: “Marc Rich committed serious crimes against the United States and then fled the country when he was called to account for his conduct. He should never have been pardoned.”

October 24, 2013 - Stephen Schwarzmann announces at a groundbreaking ceremony for Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing that $260 million has been raised for Schwarzman Scholars (including a $100 million contribution from Schwarzman), an elite international scholarship program in China. Among the new donors supporting the program were Ivan Glasenberg, founding partner of Glencore and Viktor F. Vekselberg (Bank of Cyprus).

November 19, 2013 - Trump holds Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. During this trip, the later published ��Steele Dossier” would suggest the KGB/FSB filmed Trump watching Russian prostitutes perform "golden showers" in his hotel room and began compiling compromising financial and personal information on Trump.

December 17, 2013 - A treaty between the President of Ukraine (Viktor Yanukovych) and Russian President Vladimir Putin is signed whereby it was agreed Russia would buy $15 billion of Ukrainian Eurobonds and that the cost of Russian natural gas supplied to Ukraine would be lowered to $268 per 1,000 cubic metres (the price was more than $400 at the time). The deal relinquished Crimea's Kerch peninsula to the Russian Navy, granting Russia highly desirable warm-water ports and strategic access to the Mediterranean and beyond. The treaty became defunct months later when Russia halted its purchase of Eurobonds and ousted President Yanukovych on February 22, 2014 and the Russian natural gas discount was cancelled in April 2014.

February 20, 2014 - Ukrainian riot police open fire on demonstrators in central Kiev. They were protesting President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to back out of entering the EU. In a series of hacked texts sent by Andrea Manafort (daughter of Paul Manafort) to her sister Jessica, the Ukrainian authorities claim Andrea said "You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly, as a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."

February 5, 2014 - Leonid Lebedev sues Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik for $2Billion for his share of TNK-BP, an oil company sold to Rosneft on March 21, 2013. Lebedev would win his case to proceed with litigation in a NY Appeals court on October 6, 2016.

February 22, 2014 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych flees Kiev during a series of violent protests. Later, Vladimir Putin admits to helping Yanukovych escape Ukraine to Russia.

February 28-March 18, 2014 - Russia invades the Ukraine and annexes Crimea and Sebastopol.

March 3, 2014 - Vitaly Churkin, Russian Ambassador to the UN, shows a letter to the UN council purportedly from Viktor Yanukovych to Putin asking Putin to use Russian military to restore order to the Ukraine. The letter was dated March 1, 2014.

March 6 & 17, 2014 - The US, the EU and Canada introduce the first round of specifically targeted sanctions against Russian the day after the Crimean referendum and hours before Vladimir Putin, by signing a decree recognizing Crimea as an independent state, laid the groundwork for its annexation by Russia. The sanctions lead to the Russian financial crisis with losses estimated at $100 Billion Euros and individually sanction: Yelena Mizulina, Leonid Slutsky, Andrei Klishas, Valentina Ivanova Matviyenko, Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin, Vladislav Yurievich Surkov & Sergey Glazyev.

March 24, 2014 - In interviews with Fox and NBC News, Trump suggests imposing sanctions to hurt Russia economically and then later supports such sanctions. Trump also says (about Mitt Romeny) "Well, Mitt was right, and he was also right when he mentioned in one of the debates about Russia, and he said, 'Russia's our biggest problem, and Russia is, you know, really something."

April 28, 2014 - The United States imposes a ban on business transactions within its territory on seven Russian officials, including Igor Sechin, executive chairman of the Russian state oil company Rosneft, and seventeen Russian companies. The result includes a block of the formerly announced partnership between Exxon and Rosneft worth $500 billion.

October, 2014 - An investment fund led by Wilbur Ross invests $734 million in the Bank of Cyprus. Ross becomes Vice Chairman. Another Vice Chairman of Bank of Cyprus is Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, a former KGB agent who served as CEO of Russian mining Company Norilsk Nickel. In 2012, Strzhalkovsky negotiated an end to a $1.4B dispute between Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin over the rights to Norilsk and received a $100 million golden parachute for his efforts.

November 11, 2014 - Former CEO of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann is nominated as Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus. Backing him were Wilbur Ross and Viktor Vekselberg, the 2nd richest man in Russia. At the time, Ross said, "Ackermann is key. We made up a very small list of names, and the most prominent on the list was Josef Ackermann.

February 27, 2015 - Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov is shot dead near the Kremlin as he was walking home. Nemtsov had written a sensitive report on Russian soldiers secretly fighting in Ukraine.

May 28, 2015 - Nemtsov's report was published with the help of friends Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza. The report alleges that Russian troops were taking part in the Ukrainian conflict – with at least 220 killed – and that Russia was covertly supplying the rebels with military hardware, intelligence and training. Putin denied Russian forces were involved in the war.

May 27, 2015 - Kara-Murza is hospitalized from an attempted poisoning. He would survive, only to be hospitalized from a 2nd attempted poisoning in 2017 following a trip to Russia.

June 16, 2015 - Donald Trump announces he will run for president of the United States.

July 2015 - A hacking group possibly linked to the FSB, the main successor to the K.G.B., entered Democratic National Committee servers undetected for nearly a year, security researchers said. The group was nicknamed Cozy Bear, the Dukes and/or A.P.T. 29 for “advanced persistent threat.”

September 28, 2015 - Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund with $300 Billion in assets, holds a NY launch event. Attendees include Stephen Schwarzmann (head of Trump’s economic advisory board), BlackRock Chief Larry Fink (a member of Trump’s business council) and Citigroup CEO Mike Corbat.

November 6, 2015 - Pter Aven (Alfa Bank) invites Putin's press minister, senior adviser (and founder of RT) Mikhail Lesin to Washington, DC. Aven was due to collect an award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in recognition of his "Corporate Citizenship" and his contribution to U.S.-Russian relations.

November 7, 2015 - Mikhail Lesin is found dead in a hotel room in Washington. Russian media called the cause of death a heart attack but the medical examiner claimed he died from “blunt force injuries”.

December 10, 2015 - Lt. Gen Michael Flynn sat at Putin's table for the 10th anniversary gala of Russia's state owned television network, RT. Flynn had made a paid appearance on the network. It would later be discovered Flynn was paid $68,000 in fees for the trip including $11,250 from Kaspersky Labs, a Russian cyber-security firm.

December 11, 2015 - David Keene, then-President of the NRA flies to Moscow to attend the “Right to Bear Arms” gun event and meet with Alexander Torshin. Also at that meeting were NRA First Vice President Pete Brownell, CEO of the world’s largest firearm accessories supplier; NRA funder Dr. Arnold Goldschlager and his daughter, NRA Women’s Leadership Forum executive committee member Hilary Goldschalger; Outdoor Life channel head Jim Liberatore and Milwaukee County Sheriff and Fox News regular David A. Clarke. The event was organized by Maria Butina.

December 17, 2015 - Putin is quoted as saying (about Trump), "He’s a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt,” according to a translation by Interfax. "It’s not our job to judge his qualities, that’s a job for American voters, but he’s the absolute leader in the presidential race.”

February 25, 2016 - Russia Insider reports Theofanis Philippou, law partner of the President of Cyprus (Nicos Anastasiades) is under investigation in Cyprus and in New York for allegedly concealing assets, cashflows, and money-laundering, and for lying to a Cyprus court and to the Cyprus Ministry of Interior, for the benefit of Leonid Lebedev. Philippou is a key witness in a $2 billion claim in the New York Supreme Court against TNK-BP partners Blavatnik and Vekselberg. Leonid Lebedev is the claimant, where his court filing says he is a Russian citizen. In Cyprus, Lebedev appears in government records as having been granted Cyprus citizenship in the spring of 2011 by the state Ministerial Council. He qualified, according to the Council record, with €11.5 million in assets on the island.

March 2016 - Investigators believe that the G.R.U., or a hacking group known as Fancy Bear or A.P.T. 28, was the second group to break into the D.N.C., but it played a bigger role in releasing committee emails.

March 21, 2016 - Trump names Carter Page one of his foreign policy advisors. Page, now Managing Partner of Global Energy Capital, is known for brokering energy deals in Russia and has been an advisor to (and investor in) Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled natural gas company.

April 16, 2016 - Trump promotes Paul Manafort to campaign chair and chief strategist. During his time working as a consultant for Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Manafort persuaded the Ukrainian government to change its grain policies in a way that benefited a U.S. agribusiness giant, and to consider deals with Exxon and Chevron for oil exploration. Manafort and Roger Stone (both now working for Trump) were former business partners at Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, a Washington lobbyist group that lobbied on behalf of foreign dictators like Mohamed Siad Barre of Somalia, dictator Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and Jonas Savimbi of Angola. They also represented Bethlehem Steel and The American Tobacco Institute as well as helping get Senators Phil Gramm, Jesse Helms, Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr., Arlen Specter, Paula Hawkins and David F. Durenberger get elected.

April 21, 2016 - Trump announces first major foreign policy address for April 27 to be hosted by the Center for the National Interest (CNI) to be held at the National Press Club.

April 26, 2016 - Trump campaign (Manafort) moves the location of the event to the Mayflower Hotel.

April 27, 2016 - Trump hosts a cocktail party before the event in a VIP room at the Mayflower. Attendees were Trump, Trump Jr, CNI event coordinator Heilbrunn, Kushner, Sessions, Lewandowski, Manafort, ambassadors to Russia, Singapore, Italy and Philippines, and Bud McFarlane. It is believed this was the event which included a negotiated sale of 19.5% of Rosneft - 0.5% to Trump, and Russian help in the election in exchange for lifting sanctions against Russia.

May 22, 2016 - Alexander Torshin attends NRA national convention and shares a dinner table with Donald Trump.

June 14, 2016 - Russian government hackers penetrate the computer network of the DNC and gain access to the entire database of opposition research on Donald Trump.

June 15, 2016 - American cyber-technology firm Crowdstrike releases a detailed statement about Russian hacking of the DNC. Trump’s team issues a statement: “We believe it was the DNC that did the ‘hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader.” A hacker calling himself Guccifer 2.0 says he’s given the hacked emails to WikiLeaks, and also publishes them himself, complete with telltale Russian-language formatting errors.

July 2016 - The later-released Steele Dossier says an offer of a stake in the Russian oil company, Rosneft was made in exchange for lifting of US sanctions on Russia. The dossier claims the offer was made by Igor Sechin in July, 2016 when Carter Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School and just prior to the Republican National Convention. The claim was sourced to "a trusted compatriot and close associate" of Sechin, according to the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele. On that same Page trip, U.S. intelligence agencies received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow — Igor Diveykin. A former Russian security official, Diveykin was serving as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election.

July 4, 2016 - Bloomberg News reports Mikhail Fridman (owner of Russia-based Alfa Bank) and three Russian billionaires are considering expanding their investment portfolio into US healthcare. Flush with almost $14 billion from the sale in 2013 of TNK-BP to state-owned Rosneft PJSC, Fridman and his partners.

July 18, 2016 - Working behind the scenes on a Republican convention platform plank, the Trump campaign guts the GOP's longstanding support for Ukrainians' popular resistance to Russia's 2014 intervention. Reportedly the change in the GOP plank was a result of conversations between Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik. JD Gordon, the Trump campaign's national-security policy representative, said that at the RNC he and others "advocated for the GOP platform to include language against arming Ukrainians against pro-Russian rebels" because "this was in line with Trump's views, expressed at a March national security meeting at the unfinished Trump hotel" in Washington, DC. Gordon reportedly told CNN that "this was the language Donald Trump himself wanted and advocated for back in March [2016]” On March 2, 2017, USA Today reported that Gordon and another former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, met with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, at the RNC.

July 22, 2016 - WikiLeaks publishes the first in a series of hacked emails taken from the DNC.It releases a statement on Twitter reading, "Today, Friday 22 July 2016 at 10:30am EDT, WikiLeaks releases 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee -- part one of our new Hillary Leaks series," the introduction says."The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC," including Communications Director Luis Miranda (10,770 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3,797 emails), Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer and others. The newly released emails cover the period from January 2015 through May 25, 2016.

July 24, 2016 - Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns from her position as DNC Chair amid email revelations that party officials were trying to undermine the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders.Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook tells ABC News' "This Week" that their researchers (Crowdstrike) believe the Russians are responsible for the attack.

July 25, 2016 - The FBI announces it's investigating the hack.The DNC apologizes to Sen. Sanders.Trump: "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."

July 27, 2016 - In a news conference, Trump tells reporters that if Russia is behind the DNC hack that they most likely accessed her deleted emails from her tenure as secretary of state."By the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails. I hope they do," Trump said. "They probably have her 33,000 emails that she lost and deleted.” He then says, directly facing toward the cameras: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." At the same press conference Trump insisted, "I never met Putin. I've never spoken to him."

July 28, 2016 - Donald Trump, in an interview on"Fox & Friends," clarifies that "of course" he was being "sarcastic" with his comments about Russia hacking into Clinton's deleted emails. August 6, 2016NPR confirms the Trump campaign's involvement in the Republican platform change on Ukraine.

August 14, 2016 - A New York Times investigation conducted with the help of Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau shows that Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort received $12.7 million in cash from the former president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych.

August 19, 2016 - The investigation causes Manafort to step down from his post. Steve Bannon replaces Manafort as Chief Strategist and Kellyanne Conway replaces Manafort as Trump’s campaign manager.

August 30, 2016 - Harry Reid (R-Nev) writes to FBI Director James B. Comey asking him to initiate an investigation into Page’s Moscow visit stating the FBI should investigate his meetings as part of a larger look into whether the Trump campaign was conspiring with the Russian government to tamper with the U.S. presidential election.

September 8, 2016 - Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) meets with Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador (Kislyak would also meet with Michael Flynn in December) in his Senate offices. Sessions was one of Trump's top foreign policy advisors at the time. Sessions would later be asked during his confirmation hearings for Attorney General whether he had any contact with Russian officials during the campaign and he responded "No" both orally and in writing. The Attorney General would normally oversee an investigation at the DoJ and FBI. After being confirmed, Sessions would later admit to the meeting and recuse himself from the investigation.

September 13, 2016 - UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin lodges a formal complaint with the United Nations over a top U.N. official's condemnations of Donald Trump and some European politicians. Eight days before, Zeid went after Trump in a speech in The Hague, Netherlands, lumping the billionaire businessman with several populist leaders in Europe. "All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form, where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion," Zeid said, calling it a sentiment they share with the Islamic State. "This is not only strange — it's scary," senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said. "A major-party candidate for the presidency of the United States is being protected by the Kremlin. Wow."

September 23, 2016 - Yahoo news reports that although Trump first mentioned Carter Page’s name when asked to identify his “foreign policy team” during an interview with the Washington Post editorial team, his precise role in the campaign remains unclear; Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks last month called him an “informal foreign adviser” who “does not speak for Mr. Trump or the campaign.” When Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller was asked about Page he responded Page “has no role” and added: “We are not aware of any of his activities, past or present.” Miller did not respond when asked why Trump had previously described Page as one of his advisers.

September 26, 2016 - Carter Page announces he is taking a leave of absence from his work with the Trump campaign due to the controversy over Rosneft. At the first presidential debate, Trump states “I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. [Clinton’s] saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don’t—maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?”

Oct 1, 2016 - Six days before Wikileaks releases the first batch of DNC emails, Trump's informal advisor, Roger Stone, tweets "Wednesday @HillaryClinton is done #Wikileaks"

October 6, 2016 - DC Leaks publishes some hacked DNC emails.

October 7, 2016‪ - Beginning on Oct. 7, WikiLeaks publishes the first in a series of 50,000 emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence issue a joint statement concluding: “The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process.”

October 9, 2016 - Trump questions whether Russia is behind the hacks and suggests "maybe there is no hacking."“I notice any time anything wrong happens, they like to say ‘The Russians!’ She doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking," Trump said of his rival Hillary Clinton. "Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame Russia and the reason they blame Russia is because they think they are trying to tarnish me with Russia.”

October 20, 2016 - Trump: [Clinton] has no idea whether it is Russia, China or anybody else.Clinton: I am not quoting myself.Trump: You have no idea.Clinton: I am quoting seventeen, seventeen [US intelligence agencies.] Do you doubt…Trump: Our country has no idea.

October 30, 2016 - FBI Director James Comey announces an investigation and possible link between Clinton email server and emails from Anthony Weiner.Trump holds campaign rally in Las Vegas. That same day Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev flies in to Las Vegas.

October 31, 2016 - Slate.com reports that in July of 2016 a computer server owned by the Russia-based Alfa Bank "repeatedly looked up the contact information for a computer server being used by the Trump Organization”. Later it would be reported that 99% of all activity to Trump’s server in Trump Tower were Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health. Spectrum Health is owned by the DeVos family. Alfa Bank is owned by Mikhail Fridman, a Russian billionaire.

November 3, 2016 - Trump flies into Concord, NC for a campaign rally. That same day, Dmitry Rybolovlev flies in to Concord, NC (a single strip airport) from New York.

November 6, 2016 - FBI Director Jamey Comey affirms the FBI’s July decision not to charge Clinton after review of Weiner emails.

November 7, 2016 - WikiLeaks releases second batch of thousands of DNC emails.

November 8, 2016 - Donald Trump wins the US presidential election. Russian diplomat Sergei Krivov found unconscious at the Russian consulate in NY and died at the scene. Krivov was released earlier in the year from a Russian prison after serving three years for demonstrating against election fraud in 2012. After initial reports said Krivov had fallen to his death from the roof of the consulate, the story was changed to say he had died of a heart attack.

November 10, 2016 - Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov states that Russian government officials conferred with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team in an interview with the Interfax news agency.

November 12, 2016 - Maria Butina hosts a birthday party in Washington DC. The event is attended by Trump staffers. At the event, Butina claims she had been part of the Trump campaign’s communications with Russia.

November 17, 2016 - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, tells reporters she believes there should be a federal investigation into the hacking and that her team's own investigations alongside the DNC and other Democratic groups had led them to believe it was the Russians. Trump names Lt Gen Michael Flynn National Security Advisor.

December 2016 - National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. Trump advisor Jared Kushner participated in the meeting. This was contrary to public assertions by Trump officials.

December 5/6, 2016 - Sergei Mikhailov, a senior officer of the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B. (formerly the K.G.B.) in their cyber security department was attending a routine staff meeting when several armed police officers burst in, threw a hood over his head, and dragged him from the room. That is the last anyone has seen of him. Following that day, the Russian State charged him with treason. Later, Russian media broke the story that another high ranking intelligence official Ruslan Stoyanov), at Kaspersky Labs, a leading private sector cybersecurity firm, had been detained along with two officers of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), since identified as Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev.There was sketchy information as to whether or not the official had also been imprisoned and charged. Kaspersky Labs, maker of anti-virus software, has long been rumored to be associated with the Russian government. It is not known whether any of these three individuals may have been working for the US as spies. The day the Rosneft deal is believed to have been closed. Bud McFarlane and Kislyak both visit Trump Tower.

December 7, 2016 - Russia makes surprising announcement it has sold 19.5% of Rosneft, the state-controlled oil company. Reports on the investors are hazy, but include Glencore and Qatar with the remaining investment coming in the form of secured loans from Gazprombank, VTB and Bank Intesa (Italy, Moscow). Although Rosneft is valued at $59 Billion, total investment by Glencore and Qatar is $3B Euros and additional funding may have occurred of up to $2.5Billion by Russian and Cayman Island banks and a series of shell companies.The deal defies expectations that no investor would dare buy a share in the Russian asset, given Western sanctions against the government. December 9, 2016President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco announces that the intelligence community’s review of the Russian hacking incident will be completed before the inauguration and presented to Congress. Washington Post and NYTimes report the CIA says the hack was done to help Trump get elected. The Republican National Committee was also hacked but information wasn’t shared. Trump's transition team says of the intelligence community: "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and 'Make America Great Again.'"

December 10, 2016 - The Blackstone Group, for which Stephen Schwarzman serves as co-founder and CEO, acquired Intertrust, a Dutch trust firm, in 2012. Intertrust has a series of assets located in the Cayman Islands, including Walkers Management Services (WMS). Walkers shares an address with and registered a Limited Liability Partnership called QHG Cayman Limited on December 16, only nine days after the Rosneft deal took place and just before the assets were moved to QHG Shares Pte. Ltd.

December 11, 2016 - RNC Chairman, and Trump's incoming White House Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus and Trump deny the RNC was hacked and separately deny that Russia was trying to interfere in the election, counter to the DHS and DNI's October statement. Trump tells "Fox News Sunday" that the reports of Russia's hacking are "ridiculous" and “Nobody really knows, and hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don’t catch them in the act you’re not going to catch them.” Trump also argues that U.S. intelligence has "no idea" if Russia or China are behind the hackings. Breach remediation firm Crowdstrike points out that it did in fact catch the hackers “in the act,” monitoring their activities inside the DNC network for weeks. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) calls for a select committee to investigate the Russian hacking, saying "it’s clear the Russians interfered."

December 12, 2016 - Republican lawmakers announce that congressional committees will also investigate the allegations made by the CIA.

December 13, 2016 - Trump names Rex Tillerson his nominee for Secretary of State.

December 14, 2016 - Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California, who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, releases a statement, calling it "unacceptable" that intelligence community directors declined the House Intelligence Committee's request to be briefed on the hacking. "The Committee is vigorously looking into reports of cyber-attacks during the election campaign, and in particular we want to clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us," Nunes added in the statement. "The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes."

December 16, 2016 - In a press conference, Obama says that the hacks were initiated by the “highest levels of the Russian government.” Obama suggests he will retaliate but doesn’t specify how.

December 19, 2016 - Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated by a police officer at a photo exhibit in Ankara. Petr Polshikov, a senior figure in the Latin American Dept of Foreign Ministry is shot dead in his Moscow apartment that same day.

December 26, 2016 - Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB and its successor the FSB (believed to be the primary source of the Steele Dossier), was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day in mysterious circumstances.

December 28, 2016 - On reports of impending sanctions,Trump tells reporters, "I think we ought to get on with our lives.”

December 29, 2016 - Obama announces sanctions against Russian officials, including expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and the closing of Russian compounds in Maryland and New York on suspicion they were used for intelligence gathering. Russian entities and people specifically called out:1. Main Intelligence Directorate (a.k.a. GRU)2. Federal Security Service (a.k.a FSB)3. Special Technology Center (a.k.a. STLC)4. Zorsecurity (a.k.a. Esage Lab)5. "Professional Assoc of Designers of Data Processing Systems" (a.k.a. ANO PO KSI) Individuals1. Igor Valentinovich Korobov2. Sergey Aleksandrovich Gizunov3. Igor Olegovich Kostyukov4. Vladimir Stepanovich Alexseyev Trump: "It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation."The Russian government vows retaliation.

December 30, 2016 - Putin makes the surprise announcement that he won’t kick U.S. diplomats out of Russia."We will not create problems for U.S. diplomats," Putin says in a statement. "We will not expel anybody.”Trump: "Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!"

December 31, 2016 - Trump: “I know a lot about hacking. And hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else. And I also know things that other people don’t know, and so they cannot be sure of the situation.”

January 5, 2017 - Trump: "So how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers? What is going on?” NBC News reports that the FBI said they had already captured the necessary forensic data via “upstream” intelligence, a term that refers to capturing data in transit.

January 6, 2017 - Classified documents are presented to President Obama and President-elect Trump by four of the senior-most US intelligence chiefs -- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers. These documents include allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.

January 9, 2017 - Russian Consul in Greece, Andrei Malanin is found dead in his apartment with no evidence of a break-in.

January 10, 2017 - The Daily Beast (1/11/17) reports a leaked dossier says that Diveykin (the report identifies him as “Devykin”) had warned Page at their meeting in July about the Kremlin preparing an ugly “kompromat” or compromising materials on Trump that involved the golden shower video.

January 11, 2017 - Trump: “Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’ into the public,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?”Trump admits to Russia hacking but denies the attacks were meant to boost him.

January 17, 2017 - In a WSJ interview Trump suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia.

January 19, 2017 - The New York Times reports that American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are investigating “intercepted communications” that potentially show ties between longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone and Russian officials.

January 20, 2017 - Inauguration DayMaria Butina attends the invitation-only Freedom Ball with business partner Paul Erickson. Together they are partners in Bridges LLC out of South Dakota. The business’ purpose is unknown.

January 22, 2017 - Rex Tillerson's nomination for Secretary of State receives the endorsement of the Senate Panel.

January 23, 2017 - Trump announces James Comey will remain FBI Director.

January 24, 2017 - Acting attorney general (Sally Yates) informed White House Chief Counsel Donald Mcghan, that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. officials said.

January 27, 2017 - Russian Ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin dies after “a brief illness”.

January 30, 2017 - Deutsche Bank is fined $425 million by the US government for assisting in a $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme between 2011 and 2015. The scheme involved mirror trading with money directed toward New York and London. Over the past few years, Trump has received over $364 million in loans from Deutsche Bank for four separate properties.

January 31, 2017 - According to The Moscow Times, a report in Novaya Gazeta claims Mikhailov (currently charged with treason) implicated Vladimir Fomenko and his server rental company King Servers. In September 2016, ThreatConnect (a US cyber investigations agency) accused King Servers of involvement in the hacking of the Arizona and Illinois voting systems. And according to The New York Times, Fomenko claims he was unaware that this had happened until ThreatConnect released its findings.

February 1, 2017 - Rex Tillerson is sworn in as Secretary of State.

February 2, 2017 - The U.S. Treasury Department eases economic sanctions on Russia, allowing some cyber-security transactions with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

February 3, 2017 - Congress repeals Dodd-Frank anti-corruption law. As a result, oil companies like Exxon Mobil will no longer be required to publicly state the taxes and other fees they pay to foreign governments (like Russia). The Hill reports that Trump invited Stephen Schwarzmann, CEO of Blackstone Group aboard Air Force One for his flight down to Mar-A-Lago. Schwarzmann is also a financial advisor to Trump and serves on the Advisory Board for the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development.

February 13, 2017 - Michael Flynn resigns from National Security Advisor role. Trump attends Stephen Schwarzman's 70th birthday party with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe along with daughter Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Wilbur Ross and Steve Mnuchin.

February 14, 2017 - James Comey meets with Trump, Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence for a briefing. After the meeting, Comey would document his conversation with Trump in the form of a memo, as reported on May 16. According to the memo, after the briefing, Trump asked Sessions and Pence to leave so he could talk to Comey alone. Trump then suggested Comey end the Flynn investigation when he said “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” It was part of a paper trail Mr. Comey created documenting what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation.

February 19, 2017 - NY Times reports a backchannel deal to lift sanctions on Russia was hand-delivered to Michael Flynn's office the day he resigned. The proposal, a peace plan for Ukraine and Russia, remains, along with those pushing it: Michael D. Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, who delivered the document; Felix H. Sater, a business associate who helped Mr. Trump scout deals in Russia; and a Ukrainian lawmaker, Andrii Artemenko, trying to rise in a political opposition movement shaped in part by Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager Paul D. Manafort. Michael Cohen is Trump's chief personal lawyer and was named in the Steele Dossier as having "an ongoing secret liaison relationship between the Trump’s campaign and Russian leadership,” and that he met secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016. Sater is a longtime Trump associate who helped Trump scout deals in Russia and worked out of Trump Tower. He has been in prison twice, once for embezzlement and once for stabbing a man in the face with a broken margarita glass. He has also been a US government informant. Manafort, as discussed earlier, has deep ties with the former Ukrainian President Yanukovych and was also named in the Steele Dossier as working directly with the Russian government during the Trump campaign.

February 20, 2017 - The Washington Post reports that Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, died suddenly in New York today. He is believed to have suffered from cardiac arrest while at the Russian Mission on East 67th Street, a law enforcement official said. On September 13, 2016, Churkin publicly defended Donald Trump when a top UN official criticized Trump's action during his campaign.

February 21, 2017 - The NY Times reports prosecutors in Ukraine are investigating whether Andrii V Artemenko, a member of Parliament, committed treason by working with two associates of President Trump’s to promote a plan for settling Ukraine’s conflicts with Russia. In a court filing, prosecutors accused Artemenko of conspiring with Russia to commit “subversive acts against Ukraine,” in particular by advancing a proposal that could “legitimize the temporary occupation” of the Crimean peninsula.

March 2, 2017 - Andrii Artemenko, who helped broker a peace plan with Michael Cohen and Felix Sater, announces on Facebook that Alex Oronov, Russian millionaire, has died. Oronov was a business partner of Michael Cohen and his brother and reportedly the one to arrange the meeting. Michael Cohen’s brother is married to Oronov’s daughter.

March 5, 2017 - Famagusta Gazette reports that Wilbur Ross has stepped down as Vice Chairman of the Bank of Cyprus.

March 9, 2017 - The Trump administration orders 46 US attorneys to tender their resignation immediately, including Preet Bahrara, US attorney in Manhattan. Two US Attorneys survived the firing, Dana Boente, the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia and acting deputy Attorney General, and Rod Rosenstein, the top prosecutor in Baltimore, whom Mr. Trump has nominated to be deputy attorney general. At the time of his dismissal, Bahrara was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s health secretary, Tom Price, according to a person familiar with the office.

March 19, 2017 - FBI Director James Comey and NSA head Mike Rogers confirm there is an ongoing investigation into the ties between Trump, his staff and the Russian government.White House confirms that Rex Tillerson will forgo a NATO meeting to travel to Russia to visit with Russian leaders.

March 21, 2017 - AP reports Paul Manafort secretly worked for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska as far back as 2005, to benefit the interests of Putin. Manafort was paid $10 million/year from 2006 until at least 2009.

March 22, 2017 - In a press conference on the White House lawn, Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, admits to briefing the President on confidential information provided by the FBI and NSA regarding the investigation into Russia. Nunes has not yet disclosed, even to the Intelligence Committee, the details of the conversation.

March 23, 2017 - Denis Voronenkov, was shot in the head and killed in Kiev. Voronenkov had testified to Ukrainian investigators as part of their probe into the activities of the nation's former Russia-friendly president, Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted by popular protests in February 2014 and fled to Russia.

March 24, 2017 - Rep Adam Schiff (D-Ranking Member, Intelligence Committee) reports that Chairman Devin Nunes has cancelled all open sessions of the Intelligence Committee.

April 6, 2017 - Devin Nunes recuses himself from the Russia investigation.

April 12, 2017 - Rex Tillerson meets with Vladimir Putin in Moscow both in an open session regarding a US airstrike on a Syrian air base as well as privately. No press were allowed at the private meeting.

May 9, 2017 - James Comey, Director of the FBI and lead on the investigation of ties between Trump, his staff and Russia is fired by President Trump at the recommendation of Jeff Sessions (Attorney General) and Rod Rosenstein (newly appointed Deputy Attorney General). In written statements, the reason for the firing was given as concerns over Comey’s handling of the Clinton email investigation. Publicly, the Asst Press Secretary and Trump would both state the firing was due to concerns over the handling of the Russia investigation with hopes that the investigation would go away, leading to obstruction of justice concerns.

May 10, 2017 - Trump meets with Sergey Kislyak and Sergei Lavrov at the White House. Although Russian media was invited to attend, no US media would be invited to the meeting. Russian media would later release photos from the meeting without the consent of the White House.

May 12, 2017 - Trump (via Twitter): "James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

May 15, 2017 - CNN reports Trump may have revealed classified information regarding ISIS to Lavrov and Kislyak in the meeting on May 10. Rex Tillerson and Gen McMaster would both state that Trump did not reveal anything sensitive. While General McMaster did not deny that White House officials had reached out to intelligence agencies after Mr. Trump’s revelations to contain any potential damage, he said he could not explain why. “I would say maybe for an overabundance of caution,” he said. “I’m not sure.”

May 16, 2017 - Trump (via Twitter) admits to sharing classifed information: As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety. Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism. Multiple sources release the February 14 memo written by James Comey following his meeting with Trump where Trump requested he end the investigation into Flynn. Those same sources suggested Come wrote memos following each of his conversations with Trump.

May 17, 2017 - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints former FBI Director Bob Mueller to be a special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump names David Clarke, Milwaukee County Sheriff and Fox News regular, Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Homeland Security. Clarke is currently in the midst of a prison-death scandal where a mentally ill inmate in his jail died of “profound dehydration”.

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