It’s easy to lose the larger narrative of the Trump-Russia story given the relentless pace and complexity of the news. Stepping back to view the timeline from beginning to end reveals how these parallel threads — contacts, hacking and social media fraud — often crossed during the election. Campaign aides who denied knowledge of Russian contacts were later revealed to have either known about them or pursued them, though none ever told the F.B.I.
Trump’s Russia ties
New York Times: This timeline shows the full scale of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and its aftermath
A photograph taken on July 17 in Moscow shows the front pages of Russia's main newspapers featuring pictures of the summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
