Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
This is a timeline of major events related to election interference that Russia conducted against the U.S. in 2016. It also includes major events related to investigations into suspected inappropriate links in 2016 between associates of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian officials.
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2007–2012
* October 15, 2007: Trump praises Putin in an interview on CNN.
* 2007-2012: Paul Manafort receives $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from the Ukrainian Party of Regions.
* July 2008: Trump sells the Palm Beach estate Maison de L'Amitie to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for a record $95 million. Trump bought the property for $41.35 million three years earlier and made only minor improvements.
* September 2008: Donald Trump Jr., then an executive vice president of The Trump Organization, states, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets, say, in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia."
* 2010: The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto receives timely financing from Vnesheconombank, a Russian state-run investment bank.
* 2011–2013: Russians protest against the legislative and presidential election processes. Putin accuses then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of interfering in Russian politics.
* December 14, 2012: President Barack Obama signs the Magnitsky Act into law.
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