By: Kayla Passacreta

Pro-tip: for the juiciest diets, scroll to the 2017 portion. This is most relevant to the latest headlines.

Pro-tip: for the juiciest diets, scroll to the 2017 portion. This is most relevant to the latest headlines.

Let’s start, way way back. Trump has a had a thing for Putin (Russian president, and essentially dictator).

June 18, 2013:

October 17, 2013: Trump boasts, “Well I’ve done a lot of business with the Russians,” Trump says. “They’re smart and they’re tough.” Dude clearly likes Russians!

Fast forward...

2015

September – The DNC (Democratic National Committee) database is hacked. As a result we get tons of leaks and emails from various top Democratic staffers. This creates a lot of buzz, further getting people talking about those damn emails!
December 17: Putin praises Trump as the leader of the presidential race, which is welcomed by Russia…Trump takes great pleasure in being complimented by Putin, “It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond.”

2016

February: Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn (pictured below), misleads officials on his security clearance application – claiming he received no income from foreign officials (when he did in fact, receive over $40K from a Putin financed television network)

photo via NBCnews.com

March: Clinton staffers are given false instructions to change their email passwords, allowing Russian hackers to get more info via their emails.
Trump announces Carter Page, American banker who lived in Moscow for three years, as a foreign policy adviser.
May: Director of National Intelligence (James Clapper) acknowledges there are reports of cyber threats to presidential campaigns (ehm, the Clinton Campaign – the only campaign to experience leaks)
July: Jeff Sessions, now head of the Department of Justice, meets with a Russian ambassador (off the record, of course) …later in July, WikiLeaks leaks almost 20,000 emails from the DNC. DNC Chairman resigns amid biased content revealed in her emails.
July 26th: Intelligence officials confirm they have “high confidence” that Russia is leading these hacks.

A LOT went down after this but for the sake of brevity, we’re going to skip it and fast forward to November.

November 9, 2016 – Trump is elected (sigh)

2017

January 6, 2017: The Office of National Intelligence: “We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election…we further assess that Putin and the RussianGovernment developed a clear preference for President-Elect Trump…”

Donald predictably panics, takes to Twitter to call this whole Russia story/investigation #FakeNews, despite the confirmation from major security officials that there is in fact a link between his win and Russia hacking. Ah, Donald. You are far too predictable.

January 10, 2017: Sessions (pictured below) swears under oath that during the campaign, he did not have communications with Russia. ** see March 1st

January 27, 2017: Trump and Comey have dinner. Trump asks Comey for his loyalty (amid Russia investigation), Comey reportedly refuses.

February 13, 2017: Michael Flynn resigns amid heat about his lies, stating, “I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador,” he wrote. “I have sincerely apologized to the president and the vice president, and they have accepted my apology."
March 1st: It is reported that Sessions spoke with Russian ambassadors throughout the campaign, meaning HE LIED UNDER OATH ABOUT HIS TIES WITH RUSSIA.
March 2nd: Sessions recuses himself from the Russia/Trump Campaign investigation.
March 20, 2017: FBI Director Comey confirms: “The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence effort, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 president election.”

Here comes the real tea, folks. We like to call this: road to impeachment!

May 9th, 2017: Trump fires FBI Director James Comey, citing the firing as the recommendation from the Department of Justice (this is what our friend Jeff Sessions is in charge of, the same one who recused himself from the Russia investigation). White House cites Comey’s poor handling of Clinton emails as a reason for his firing.
May 12th: Trump tells NBC’s Lester Holt, “When I decided to just do it (to fire Comey), I said to myself…this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, its an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.” This directly contradicts the White House’s initial statement regarding reasons for Comey’s firing, essentially confirming that Donald fired Comey because of the Russia investigation.
May 19th: The New York Times reports that Trump boasted to Russian officials, “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job…I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”… later that night, sources revealed that the Trump Administration has been researching impeachment proceedings.
May 26th: It is released that the FBI Investigation of Russia’s meddling is considering the role of Jared Kushner, husband to Ivanka Trump and senior White House adviser
May 31st: It is announced that Comey is expected to testify publicly in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee that Trump attempted to pressure him into ending the Russia investigation…also, the Senate Intelligence Committee issues their first subpoenas to Michael Flynn (see earlier) and Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, requesting personal records and documents

That’s right, Trump fired the guy who was investigating him, because he didn’t want him investigating him. That’s obstruction of justice, and we believe that calls for impeachment. Stay tuned as we sip this tea about the latest Russia developments, folks.