1/28/17: Cohen (Trump Org) and Sater (formerly Trump Org) cease regular text messaging; they switch to the encrypted app, Dust
5/3: Cohen re-engages with Sater in a regular text message
5/4: Alfa Bank server starts to search for the IP address of the Trump Organization server
"Tea Leaves had provided the above chart of the activity. It shows very few DNS lookups from May 5 until late June. Then, the activity increased in a series of spikes until late September."
Millian had never been formally employed by The Trump Organization like Cohen and Sater, though in 2008 he had been contracted to market Trump Hollywood properties by a brokerage firm who had been hired by The Trump Organization and The Related Group.
"One of the people on an explosive email thread allegedly involving Hunter Biden has corroborated the veracity of the messages, which appear to outline a payout for former Vice President Joe Biden as part of a deal with [CEFC's Ye Jianming]."
Remember that story from 2019 about an unidentified foreign-government-owned company that was being fined $50k/day for not complying with a subpoena from Mueller's Special Counsel?
"Russian spies tried to recruit [Carter Page] in 2013, and he was dismissive when [FBI] agents warned him about it. That warning even made its way back to Russian intelligence, leaving agents suspecting that Mr. Page had reported their efforts to Moscow."
"After Steele's memos were published in January 2017, Steele asked Winer to either destroy all the earlier reports Steele had sent the Department of State or return them to Steele. Winer said, 'So I destroyed them and I basically destroyed all the correspondence I had with him.'"
"...but most of his reports from 2014 are missing."
"...[redacted] indicated there was a meeting at the METROPOLITAN CLUB that was attended by SESSIONS, KISLYAK, BOYD, SIMES, and possibly KUSHNER. [...] [redacted] could not recall why he previously had indicated that they had been in attendance."
"For example, when Stone attacked Lewandowski, he thought he was being helpful from the outside. Manafort did not ask or need Stone to do it, as he did not think it was helpful."
"Stone and Gates did not get along; Stone thought Gates was a liar."
"Manafort did not convey Stone's information about the emails to Trump. [...] Manafort knew Trump would want him to do something and he did not want to."