Michael
Cohen’s plea deal and subsequent filings have filled in many of the gaps in the
previously reported timeline of Trump-Russia connections in the 18 months prior
to Trump being elected. With the help of
the Washington Post’s latest reporting and timeline (which I’ve borrowed
for this post) and the older timelines I previously compiled, here is a
condensed chronology of the Trump-Russia connections actually during the
election campaign that we can be reasonably sure about now, and some of their
implications (in red).