Topical timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

Trump–Russia relations
Business interactions Bayrock Group Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia Trump Tower Moscow
Russian election interference 2016 US election leaks Associates' links with Russian officials and spies Cambridge Analytica Classified information disclosures Clinton emails Cyberwarfare by Russia Data seizure DCLeaks Democratic National Committee cyber attacks Democratic National Committee v. Russian Federation Dismissal of James Comey Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal Foreign electoral intervention Foreign policy of Donald Trump (2015–16) Internet Research Agency Podesta emails Russia–United States relations Russian espionage in the United States Russian interference (2016) Russian interference (2018) Russian interference (2020) Social media Timelines Trump Tower meeting WikiLeaks
Investigations and reports Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections Barr letter Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act Criminal charges Crossfire Hurricane Durham investigation Intelligence and Security Committee Russia report Mueller report Mueller special counsel investigation Nunes memo Reactions to the Mueller special counsel investigation Senate report Steele dossier Topics of the Mueller special counsel investigation Trials of Paul Manafort
People Aras Agalarov Emin Agalarov Rinat Akhmetshin Julian Assange / WikiLeaks Maria Butina Michael Cohen Jerome Corsi Oleg Deripaska Michael Flynn Rick Gates Rudy Giuliani Rob Goldstone Guccifer 2.0 Ike Kaveladze Elena Khusyaynova Konstantin Kilimnik Jared Kushner Paul Manafort Carter Page George Papadopoulos Dmitry Peskov Vladimir Putin Felix Sater Donald Trump Donald Trump Jr Eric Trump Ivanka Trump Natalia Veselnitskaya Alex van der Zwaan
Deception and conspiracy theories Allegations of Obama spying on Trump Alternative facts Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory Conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal Deep state Fake news False or misleading statements by Donald Trump Firehose of falsehood Italygate conspiracy theory List of conspiracy theories promoted by Donald Trump QAnon Russia investigation origins counter-narrative Spygate (conspiracy theory) Stop the Steal Trumpism Trump–Ukraine scandal Trump's election lies Trump Tower wiretapping allegations
Literature A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Trump Win Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump Crime In Progress Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President — What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies are Undermining America and Dismantling the West The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump The Threat: How the FBI Protects America In the Age of Terror and Trump Trump: The Kremlin Candidate?
Categories Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election Internet manipulation and propaganda Magnitsky Act Organizations associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Russia–United States relations Russia intelligence operations Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections Trump administration controversies
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This is a timeline of events related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, sorted by topics. It also includes events described in investigations into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies.^[1] Those investigations continued in 2017, the first and second halves of 2018, and 2019, largely as parts of the Crossfire Hurricane FBI investigation, the Special Counsel investigation, multiple ongoing criminal investigations by several State Attorneys General, and the investigation resulting in the Inspector General report on FBI and DOJ actions in the 2016 election.