By David C - March 16, 2017
April 2014 – Flynn is fired as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (“abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc.” according to Colin Powell) (source:Washington Post).

October 2014 – Retaining his top-level national security clearance, Flynn founds Flynn Intel Group, a consulting firm, and starts performing intelligence work for foreign clients.

Late Summer 2015 – Flynn begins advising the Trump campaign (source:Washington Post).

August 2015 – Flynn receives a $15,000 speaking fee from Volga-Dnepr Airlines, a Russian airfreight company that the United Nations had suspended from its list of approved vendors after a corruption scandal involving an indicted Russian United Nations official (source:Washington Post).

October 2015 – Flynn receives an additional $15,000 speaking fee from the subsidiary of a Russian company specializing in “uncovering Western government spyware,” Kaspersky Lab. Ruslan Stoyanov, head of Kaspersky’s computer incidents investigation unit is later arrested in Russia, for treason, in December 2016 (source:Washington Post).

December 2015 – Seated directly at Vladimir Putin’s right hand, Flynn appears at a gala hosted by Kremlin-controlled Russia Today (RT). He receives more than $45,000 for participating in he event. The event occurred in Russia, and his travel and accommodations were covered (source:Washington Post).

February 2016 – Flynn is vetted as a possible Trump VP pick (source). He later attends classified intelligence briefings with candidate Trump (source:Washington Post).

August 2016 – Flynn signs a contract on with Inovo, a Dutch firm owned by Ekim Alptekin, the chairman of the Turkish-American Business Council. The council is run by an appointee of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Flynn is assigned to investigate Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who lives in Pennsylvania and was blamed by Erdogan for helping instigate a failed coup. Flynn ultimately receives $530,000 before the contract terminated in November 2016 (source:Washington Post).

September 2016 – Flynn meets with Turkey’s ministers of foreign affairs and energy and other officials at an undisclosed New York hotel, in a meeting arranged by Alptekin (source:Washington Post).

November 8, 2016 – Flynn publishes a lengthy op-ed entitled “Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support”. He states that “We need to see the world from Turkey’s perspective” and brands Gulen as “a radical Islamist”. Flynn did not disclose to the publisher that he was being paid by Inovo (source:Washington Post).

November 18, 2016 – Flynn accepts president-elect Donald Trump’s offer of the position of National Security Advisor.

Nov./Dec. 2016 – Flynn allegedly meets with Austrian far-right Freedom Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, at Trump Tower. Strache announces weeks later that his party has signed a cooperation agreement with Vladimir Putin’s ruling party. The Trump transition team later denied that the meeting occurred (source:Washington Post).

December 2016 – Flynn secretly discusses relief from U.S. sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on the same day the Obama administration announced retaliatory measures in response to interference in the presidential campaign by the Russian government (source:Washington Post).

Flynn later lies about the discussions in an interview with the FBI, in January 2017 (source:Washington Post).

January 2017 – The Wall Street Journal reports that Flynn is under investigation by U.S. counterintelligence agents for his communications with Russian officials (source:Washington Post).

February 2017 – Flynn is forced out of his role as NSA after The Washington Post reports that Acting Attorney General Sally Yates had warned the Trump White House in late January that Flynn had not been truthful about his contacts with Russia related to sanctions and that he was vulnerable to blackmail by Russian intelligence. Yates is fired as acting Attorney General.

March 2017 – Flynn files papers acknowledging that he worked as a foreign agent in 2016 representing the interests of the Turkish government in a dispute with the United States. A House Oversight panel obtains documents detailing payments from Russian firms and requests an additional investigation, sending a letter detailing the allegations to Trump and the leaders of the Pentagon and FBI (source:Washington Post).

And, of course, the Trumpsters will deny that anything is amiss and blame the "liberal media", or Obama, or Hillary, or Bill Clinton, for everything....it would be a funny play on Broadway if it was not actually happening....

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