anexplanationofunfortunateevents:
Most of my Trump-Russia posts so far have been “if you’re going to spend five minutes on this story” Cliffs Notes posts. A few have been more comprehensive examinations of specific aspects of this story, which are longer, but still boiled down. This is not like that. This is a timeline of events happening during the 2016 election which were a part of the Russian interference in the election, may have been part of Russian interference in the election, or which are important to understanding how the various tentacles of the conspiracy played out.
This page has a few goals.
- It’s a compilation of sources which might help make fact-checking the key parts of the story a little bit easier.
- It should also provide context as stories about the 2016 campaign come out. This story is so bonkers that it can be a pain to get a grip on the basic facts when you start reading about it, and once you do read about it for a while the facts can start to blend together. I know it’s helpful for me to have a list of sources when I start going “wait, did that really happen?”
- You also have to see it all laid out to appreciate the chaos of the attack. This is not about cracking some complex code. It is not an imagining of Putin’s Bond villain monologue where he reveals he planned it all along, muahahaha! It’s just a collection of facts which seem relevant.
Disclaimer: I am nobody. I have no inside knowledge. I don’t have any specialization in intelligence, I haven’t worked on a campaign. This is a 100% open source attempt to catalog events as they’re reported by reputable sources, which you should by all means check out for yourself.
Hearseeno 