Timothy Snyder on Twitter: "22/50 In early 2016, the chair of the foreign relations committee of the Russian parliament said that Mr. Trump could "drive the Western locomotive right off the rails" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218)."

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Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "Our Malady," "The Road to Unfreedom," "On Tyranny," "Black Earth," "Bloodlands," and "Reconstruction of Nations"

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12/50 In summer 2014, a Russian advance team was sent to the United States to plan the cyber war of 2016 (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194).

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13/50 In 2014 Mr. Putin's advisor Sergey Glazyev anticipated the "termination" of the American elite (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 226).

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14/50 In 2014 a Russian think tank, the Izborsk Club, outlined the principles of a new information war to be fought against the United States (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 226).

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15/50 Steve Bannon met with Russian energy executives in 2014 and 2015, and tested messages about Putin on American voters. He would later run Mr. Trump's campaign (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194).

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16/50 In late 2014 Russia penetrated the email networks of the White House, the Department of State, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 194).

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17/50 When Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Russia's Internet Research Agency created and staffed a new American Department. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227).

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18/50 In October 2015, while running for president, Mr. Trump signed a letter of intent to have Russians build a tower in Moscow and put his name on it. The Trump Organization planned to give its penthouse to Mr. Putin as a present (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222).

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19/50 In October 2015, Mr. Trump tweeted that "Putin loves Donald Trump" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222).

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20/50 Felix Sater, who had brokered deals between the Trump Organization and Russian investors, wrote in November 2015 that "Our boy can become president of the United States and we can engineer it" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 222).

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21/50 Mr. Trump was endorsed in late 2015 by the think tank of the pro-Kremlin oligarch Konstantin Malofeev (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 150).

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22/50 In early 2016, the chair of the foreign relations committee of the Russian parliament said that Mr. Trump could "drive the Western locomotive right off the rails" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 218).

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  23/50 In February 2016, Mr. Putin's cyber advisor boasted: "We are on the verge of having something in the information arena that will allow us to talk to the Americans as equals" (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 227).
  
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