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Given that WikiLeaks published its archive of Clinton emails on March 16, 2016, the chances Stone waited until June to locate an intermediary to WikiLeaks are low, especially as the Washington Post says by "spring 2016" he was talking to people about upcoming WikiLeaks releases.
2/ In other words, as time goes on the phrase "but her emails" becomes less a joke about how poorly media covered the 2016 presidential election and more a sober assessment of where the Mueller investigation is headed. Trump's obsession with "her emails" could end his presidency.
3/ March 2016 is shaping up as perhaps the most critical month of activity in the Trump-Russia timeline. The number of suspicious Trump campaign events then (involving Stone, Manafort, Papadopoulos, &c), alongside the number of hacking events, will increasingly be a major focus.
4/ While the number of key Trump-Russia events in April 2016 is very large, so many of them seem to have been directly "set up" by March 2016 events. As for January/February 2016, that's when Trump was still building his team, and not yet clearly a favorite to win the nomination.
5/ (I don't mean in any sense to take away from the overwhelming volume of suspicious events taking place in and around the Trump campaign between June 3rd, 2016 and August 3rd, 2016, but I think we'll start to see this as the *second* of three phases of pre-election collusion.)
