UPDATE: Dec 18 2019: President Trump has been Impeached and we have a transcript audio recording of the Trump Zelensky call that resulted in this trainwreck HERE.
There are just so many confusing details about how US President Donald Trump ended up being accused of trying to extort political support from the Ukraine in exchange for desperately need military weapons.
To clarify this mess we spent hours digging through records and press releases to develope this complete Biden, Ukraine, Obama, Russia, Trump Impeachment timeline:
| Year | Month | Notable Event | |
| 1997 | Boies Schiller Flexner LLP law firm is founded and takes on very high profile litigation like DoJ vs Microsoft and Bush v Gore | ||
| 2002 | Burisma Holdings is co-founded in the Ukraine by Mykola Zlochevsky and becomes one of its largest private natural gas producers | ||
| 2006 | President Bush appoints Hunter Biden to the board of Amtrak | ||
| 2009 | Hunter Biden steps down from Amtrak board and becomes an attorney with Boies Schiller Flexner | ||
| 2009 | Jan | Senator Joe Biden becomes US Vice President under Barak Obama | |
| 2012 | Ukranian Prosecutor General opens an investigation in Burisma founder and owner Mykola Zlochevsky, into money laundering, tax evasion and corruption complaints from 2010 through 2012 | ||
| 2013 | May | Hunter Biden becomes a Direct Commission Offices of the US Navy Reserve | |
| 2013 | Jun | Hunter Biden’s Navy required urinalysis shows cocaine | |
| 2014 | Feb | Ukrainian Revolution forces President Yanukovich to flee to Russia | |
| 2014 | Feb | Russian military enter Ukraine and over the next month ‘annex’ the important port area known as the Crimean Peninsula | |
| 2014 | US Vice President Biden and others senior officials push President Obama to supply military hardware to the Ukrane but Obama only provides humanitarian aid | ||
| 2014 | Co-founder of Burisma Holdings, and a senior Ukranian Government Minister, Mykola Zlochevsky, is put under investigation for stealing / taking bribes relating to oil and gas companies he owned, including Burisma | ||
| 2014 | Apr | Hunter Biden, US Vice President Joe Bidden’s son, joins the board of Burisma Holdings and is paid up to $50,000 per month | |
| 2014 | President Obama’s aids are concerned with optics of having VP Joe Biden be heavily involved in US policy toward Ukraine because of Hunter Bidens prominence | ||
| 2014 | Jun | Petro Poroshenko is elected Ukranian President | |
| 2014 | Dec | Hunter Biden and Burisma Board member Devon Archer found investment firm BHR Partners in China | |
| 2015 | Feb | Viktor Shokin is appointed as Ukranian Prosecutor General, inheriting the still ongoing investigation into Burisma owner and senior Ukraine Minister, Mykola Zlochevsky, into money laundering, tax evasion and corruption | |
| 2015 | It becomes obvious that Viktor Shokin is protecting Ukranian oligarchs and politicians including Burisma owner and senior Ukraine Minister, Mykola Zlochevsky | ||
| 2015 | Viktor Shokin becomes so ineffectual the Obama administration seriously considers opening their own investigation of Burisma | ||
| 2016 | Mar | Viktor Shokin is fired as Ukranian Prosecutor General | |
| 2016 | Nov | Donald Trump is elected President of the United States | |
| 2017 | Dec | Trump reverses Obama administrations position of providing only political and humanitarian support for the Ukraine, by sending Javelin antitank missiles | |
| 2018 | Feb | Audio recordings between Ukranian Prime Minister Poroshenko and Zlochevsky implicates Zlochevsky in accepting bribes | |
| 2018 | Jun | Ukranian courts annulled an anti-corruption ruling against Zlochevsky | |
| 2019 | May | Actor, comedian and political novice, Volodymyr Zelensky, is sworn in as Ukraines President | |
| 2019 | May | Viktor Shokin claims he was fired because he had been actively investigating Burisma, even though both US officials under President Trump and Ukranian officials state that his Burisma investigation was non-existant | |
| 2019 | Apr | Hunter Biden’s 5 year term on the board of Burisma Holdings is completed on schedule and he stepped down | |
| 2019 | Jul | US President Trump orders the freezing of USD$391M in military aid to the Ukraine | |
| 2019 | Jul | 25 | US President Trump calls Ukraine President Zelensky and tells him “…There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great…” |
| 2019 | US President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani repeatedly claim that in 2015 then US Vice President Biden lobbied the Ukranian Government to fire Ukranian Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, in an effort to sheild his son Hunter Biden from prosecution | ||
| 2019 | Sep | 5 | The Washington Post reported “we’re reliably told that the president… is attempting to force Mr. Zelensky to intervene in the 2020 US presidential election by launching an investigation into the leading Democratice candidate, Joe Biden” |
| 2019 | Sep | 9 | The New York Times and Washington Post report “Democrats investigate whether Trump, Giuliani pressured Ukraine to aid 2020 reelection bid” |
| 2019 | Sep | 9 | The US Inspector General officially notifies both the US Senate and Congress’ Intelligence Committees of a ‘Whistle blower complaint’ |
| 2019 | Sep | 10 | House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff, formal requests a copy of the ‘Whistleblower complaint’ |
| 2019 | Sep | 11 | Without explanation, the Trump administration reinstated military aid for Ukraine, with no conditions |
| 2019 | The US Congress begins impeachment hearings into President Trump’s alleged extortion attempt of trading arms for political assistance | ||
| 2019 | Sep | Ukrainian anti-corruption investigation agency states the current investigation of Burisma was restricted to investigating the period of 2010 to 2012, before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014 | |
| 2019 | Sep | 13 | Date that New York Times stated Ukranian President Zelensky was going to announce and investigation into ‘The Biden’s’ was underway – no announcement was made |
| 2019 | Sep | 18 | The Washington Post publishes the back story behind the, whistler blower compliant, the alleged extortion attempt by President Trump |
| 2019 | Sep | 24 | The US Congress begins impeachment hearings into President Trump’s alleged extortion attempt of trading arms for political assistance |
| 2019 | Russian military forces are still battling Ukranian forces along their southern boarder and Crimea is now fully controlled by Russia |
It may not be the most exciting read, but if you don’t understand the facts you shouldn’t be arguing a side… any side.
To the best of our knowledge all of the items in this timeline are factual and not opinion. Please POLITELY let us know if we have a something wrong or we missed something important.
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