2016 Campaign
See also First 100 Days for a comparison of Trump's campaign promises with his actions as president.
Timeline
| 2015.12.16 | Trump indicates during debate that he has no idea what the Nuclear Triad is. rollingstone.com (See also Nuclear Weapons) |
| 2016.03.13 | Trump says he will look into paying the legal fees for a supporter of his who was arrested for assaulting a protester. nytimes.com (See also Trump Effect, Criminality) |
| 2016.06.23 | Trump says he can't recall if he said that he has one of the world's best memories or not. thehill.com |
| 2016.06.30 | Six employees say Trump tapped the phone lines at the Mar-a-Lago. theweek.com (See also Criminality) |
| 2016.07.26 | Paul Manafort denies having connections with Russia. time.com (See also Paul Manafort, Russia) |
| 2016.07.29 | Trump claims Hillary rigged the debates by having them occur during an NFL game. politifact.com |
| 2016.07.29 | Trump pledges to leave marijuana legalization up to states. politifact.com (See also Promises vs Actions, Social Issues) |
| 2016.10.13 | Trump claims that Hillary Clinton meets secretly with banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty. nytimes.com |
| 2016.10.13 | Trump threatens to sue The New York Times over publishing article where they interviewed two women who claim Trump sexually assaulted them. nytimes.com (See also Lawsuits, Fueds, Women, Attempts to Discredit Media, Misogyny) |
| 2017.03.25 | Sources claim Flynn has turned on Trump and become a witness for the FBI. rawstory.com (See also Michael Flynn) |
| 2017.06.27 | A consulting firm led by Paul Manafort, retroactively filed forms Tuesday showing that his firm received $17.1 million over two years from a political party that dominated Ukraine before its leader fled to Russia in 2014. washingtonpost.com (See also Corruption, Conflicts of Interest, Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia, Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.06.29 | The Wall Street Journal reports that Russian hackers discussed during the 2016 presidential campaign if they could obtain emails deleted by Hillary Clinton and get them to Michael Flynn, the retired general who was then a member of the Trump campaign. buzzfeed.com (See also Michael Flynn, Corruption, Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.07.09 | Donald Trump Jr. was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign. nytimes.com (See also Russia, Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption) The meeting was also attended by Paul J. Manafort and Jared Kushner, who only recently disclosed the meeting. |
| 2017.07.12 | Congress and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign’s digital operation – overseen by Jared Kushner – helped guide Russia’s sophisticated voter targeting and fake news attacks on Hillary Clinton in 2016. mcclatchydc.com (See also Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption) |
| 2017.07.14 | The former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy. thedailybeast.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.07.15 | A prominent Russian-American lobbyist and former Soviet military officer attended the meeting with Donald Trump’s son, son-in-law and campaign chairman last year, adding a new wrinkle to the Trump team’s evolving explanations about the June 2016 session, as this wasn't previously disclosed. apnews.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election, Corruption) |
| 2017.07.21 | Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general. washingtonpost.com (See also Russia, Russian Meddling in Election, Jeff Sessions, Department of Justice) |
| 2017.07.22 | Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said that U.S. intelligence agencies uniformly believe the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 presidential campaign, despite Trump’s earlier claim there was a misunderstanding between the agencies. thehill.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.07.24 | In his first public defense of his meetings with Russian officials during Donald Trump’s campaign and transition, Jared Kushner on Monday presented his encounters with those operatives as innocent interactions, saying "I did not collude." politico.com (See also Jared Kushner, Russian Meddling in Election, Jeff Sessions) |
| 2017.07.25 | Paul Manafort, a top campaign aide to President Trump, appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee early Tuesday morning to answer questions about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.08.01 | Here are all the misleading statements made so far about Trump Jr.'s meeting with the Russians. buzzfeed.com (See also Donald Trump Jr, Trump Relationship with Russia) |
| 2017.08.02 | Instead of looking at Russian meddling in last year’s election, Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey and the president’s public drubbing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Republican Bob Goodlatte of Virgina, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has a different priority: investigating Hillary Clinton. bloomberg.com (See also Corruption, Russian Meddling in Election, Assaults on Government, Jeff Sessions) |
| 2017.08.03 | Special Counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington to investigate Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections, a sign that his inquiry is growing in intensity and entering a new phase. wsj.com (See also Legal Activity, Russian Meddling in Election) |
| 2017.08.04 | Investigators working for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently asked the White House for documents related to the former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, and have questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the Turkish government during the final months of the presidential campaign. nytimes.com (See also Michael Flynn, Corruption, Conflicts of Interest) |
| 2017.08.14 | Trump campaign emails show aide’s repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings. washingtonpost.com (See also Russian Meddling in Election, Russia, Trump Relationship with Russia) |
2016.07 The 2016 Republican Platform as confirmed at the 2016 Republican convention
2017.01.10 The Federal Election Commission requests information essential to full public disclosure of Trump's federal election campaign finances from the Trump for President campaign. Failure to adequately respond by the response date noted could result in an audit or enforcement action.