 Guccifer 2.0, WikiLeaks, and Roger Stone Timeline: Hacking and the Trump Team This timeline is not complete, but it gives an impression of the incidents and interactions that may be of interest during the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian hacking in the U.S presidential election, scheduled for March 20. October 2011 WikiLeaks announces an aggressive fundraising campaign - Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union has cut off 95% of their revenue. This may be when Assange and WikiLeaks began a financial relationship with the Kremlin, to replace financing lost by the shutdown of financing from major U.S. sources. Most experts agree that, while the origins of WikiLeaks were not Kremlin-connected, the current version of WikiLeaks is definitely a Russian propaganda tool. July 22, 2016 WikiLeaks releases "over 2 publications 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee -- part one of our new Hillary Leaks series." July 22, 2016  August 5, 2016 Roger Stone writes Breitbart article stating that Guccifer 2.0 is the hacker, not "the Russians." August 9, 2016 MediaIte reports: "Trump ally Roger Stone confirmed that he was in communication with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about the controlled release of hacked Clinton documents." August 9, 2016  August 14-16, 2016 Roger Stone communicates with Guccifer 2.0 (now known to be a team of GRU hackers). Messages, as provided by Roger Stone, are attached at the end of the timeline. August 21, 2016  October 1, 2016  October 3, 2016  October 5, 2016 Yevgeniy Nikulin is arrested in Prague. As reported in The Guardian October 19, 2016: "Czech police have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of cyber-attacks in the United States, officials said on Wednesday." The indictment against Nikulin describes hacks to LinkedIn, DropBox, and Formspring in 2012. October 7, 2016 "Access Hollywood" tape released by NBC (either NBC News or “Today” show), which contained audio of Donald Trump describing assaulting women. It was clear as soon as the tape aired that this could be very damaging to the Trump campaign. October 7, 2016 Podesta emails released by Wikileaks October 28, 2016 According to the New York Times: "The presidential campaign was rocked on Friday after federal law enforcement officials said that emails pertinent to the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server were discovered on a computer belonging to Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide." Anthony Weiner used Formspring as an application on the laptop on which the Clinton emails were found. He denied having used that computer since 2013. November 4, 2016  November 8, 2016 United States Presidential Election Results: Hillary Clinton 62,523,326 votes, 232 electoral votes Donald Trump 61,201,031 votes, 306 electoral votes March 4, 2017  March 4, 2017  March 5, 2017  March 7, 2017 Wikileaks releases what they say are thousands of internal CIA documents. March 9, 2016 Nigel Farage visits Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Buzzfeed News reported: "Approached by BuzzFeed News as he left to get into a car waiting round the corner, Farage said he couldn’t remember what he had been doing in the building. Asked specifically if he had gone to the Knightsbridge building to meet with Assange, Farage said: “I never discuss where I go or who I see.” March 9, 2017 Roger Stone tells Business Insider Stone told Business Insider "in an email late Thursday night that he had a private conversation on Twitter with the person, nicknamed Guccifer 2.0, and that the interaction was so 'brief and banal, I had forgotten it.'" March 10, 2016 Business Inside reports that Nigel Farage and Julian Assange have a longstanding relationship, and that "Farage has also advocated on behalf of Assange since WikiLeaks' involvement in the US presidential election." March 10-12, 2017     Roger Stone's purported private conversations with Guccifer 2.0 were published on his website, There has been no external verification of the document, so it is not included here.. The press release from the U.S. Justice Department, and the indictment against Nikulin, can be found here. 
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