Timeline
June 14, 2016: Washington Post reports that the Russia government hacked DNC computers.
June 15, 2016: Guccifer 2.0 claims responsibility for the hack as “a lone hacker.”
August 5, 2016: Stone’s article claiming Guccifer 2.0 and not Russia hacked DNC is published in Breitbart.
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August 8, 2016: In a video : Stone says he has communicated with Assange:
QUESTIONER: With regard to the October surprise, what would be your forecast on that given what Julian Assange has intimated he’s going to do?
ROGER STONE: Well, it could be any number of things. I actually have communicated with Assange . I believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation but there’s no telling what the October surprise may be.
[Note: Stone would later claim he meant that he was communicating with Assange through “an intermediary.” A spokesperson for Assange has issued several denials including, “Wikileaks has had no contact with Roger Stone.” and “No communications, no channel”]
August 12, 2016: Guccifer 2.0 releases Democrats’ records it says were taken from a breach of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
August 12, 2016: @GUCCIFER_2 tweets at Stone: “thanks that u believe in the real #Guccifer2.″
August 13, 2016: Stone tweets at @wikileaks @GUCCIFER_2 that it is “Outrageous” that Twitter has suspended Guccifer’s account.
August 13, 2016: Stone tweets that Guccifer is a “HERO.”
August 14-September 9, 2016: Stone communicates privately with Guccifer 2.0 using Twitter’s Direct Messages. (Only after a news outlet revealed the existence of these communications in March 2017, Stone publishes the exchange. Stone says this is the entirety of his communication with Guccifer, but the exchange ends abruptly, and there is no way of telling if the two did not continue through other Twitter accounts or other platforms.)
[ Note: Stone does not notify law enforcement authorities.]
August 15, 2016: In one Direct Message exchange, Guccifer 2.0 asks Stone: “do you find anything interesting in the docs i posted?”
August 17, 2016: Donald Trump is briefed by US intelligence agencies that Russia is implicated in the DNC hack (h/t: @RVAwonk ).
August 17, 2016: In one Direct Message exchange, Guccifer 2.0 says to Stone. “ please tell me if i can help u anyhow . it would be a great pleasure to me.”
August 21, 2016: Stone tweets : “Trust me, it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel . #CrookedHillary.”