Recent allegations have tied Trump to multiple Russian agencies and foreign individuals who most likely had a hand in the possible meddling of the recent 2016 election. Trump won the electoral vote by 74.

A recent leak has tied Putin and multiple counterparts directly to the U.S. president and his family. A recent CNN article showed Putin has ties to Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump Jr, and Donald Trump himself.

Rex Tillerson– Secretary of state and former chief executive of ExxonMobil. Tillerson developed extensive ties with Russia during his tenure with the oil giant.

1998- Tillerson is appointed head of Exxon Neftegas Limited, which was in charge of the U.S. part of the huge Sakhalin-1 oil project off the coast of Siberia.

2004- Tillerson becomes president of ExxonMobil around the same time Igor Sechin takes control of Russian oil giant Rosneft. The company in charge of the Siberian Sakhalin-1 project.

2006- Tillerson uses his relationship with Rosneft to fight off Gazprom, Russia’s largest gas producer, for exerting control over Sakhalin-1.

2011- Tillerson and Sechin sign in the first series of deals as part of a landmark, “Strategic Cooperation Agreement,” that involved drilling into the Russian Arctic and Black Sea. The agreements led to Tillerson having direct interactions with the then Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin.

April 2012- Sechin and Tillerson go on a publicity tour to promote the ExxonMobil-Rosneft cooperation.

June 2012- Sechin and Tillerson go to a state dinner held by Putin on new advances in energy and oil. The group meet again later that year in Moscow. A video shows Putin and Tillerson toasting

each other with champagne.

2013- Tillerson is awarded the “Order of Friendship” by Putin.

Donald Trump Jr. – Trump’s oldest son has been operating the business since Trump has taken office in January.

2006- Felix Satar claims he was asked by Donald Trump to escort Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. around Moscow.

2008- Trump tells a real estate conference, “Russians make a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” according to a trade publication eTurboNews. “We see a lot of money pouring into Russia.” Also during the speech, Donald Trump Jr. says he traveled to Russia six times in the past 18 months.

October 2016- Trump travels to France to talk to an obscure think tank about his possible ties with Russia.

March 17, 2017- Reuters reports that 63 people with Russian passports or addresses have invested nearly $100 million into seven Trump properties in south Florida.

Donald Trump– President of the United States and real estate developer. His business contracts date back to Russia in late 1980’s.

1986- Trump sits next to Russian Ambassador Yuri Dubinin at a luncheon hosted by Leonard Lauder; the eldest son of Estée Lauder who managed the massive cosmetic business at the time.

1987- Trump visits Moscow and tours various spots to invest in property in Soviet-era Russia. He stays in a hotel overlooking the Kremlin and tells Playboy Russian jets escorted his own on his way into and out of the country.

1988- Trump invites Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to visit Trump tower in New York. This meeting never comes to fruition.

1996- Trump claims he will hold a press conference in Moscow with a Miami-based tobacco company to explain his new plans regarding building a new apartment and office complex similar to that of his tower in New York.

2005- Trump gives the development company Bayrock a one-year deal to find a location for Trump tower. Felix Satar later testified that he gave the deal to a pencil company, but the deal fell apart.

2013-  While in Moscow for the Miss Universe competition, Trump met up with Russian businessmen, including real estate developer Aras Agalarov, an ally of Vladimir Putin. Before the beauty pageant Trump told MSNBC, “I do have a relationship with him [Putin].”

May 2014- Trump tells a group of reporters that while he was in Moscow he spent time with Putin and spoke with him “indirectly and directly.”

July 2015- At a town hall in Las Vegas, Trump tells the audience that he knows Putin. “I don’t think you’d need the sanctions. We get along very, very well.”

September 2015- Putin and Trump are on an episode of “60 Minutes.”Although Trump would later say in the debate, “I got to know him very well because we were both on ‘60 Minutes.’ We were stablemates,” Time magazine then revealed that they were interviewed in separate cities.

December 2015- Putin calls Trump is “colorful” and “talented.” Trump calls the compliment an “honor.” Even as ties to Russia began in the 2016 election, Trump refused to renounce Putin. “A guy calls me a genius, and I’m going to renounce him? I’m not going to renounce him.” (Putin has not publicly called Trump a genius.)

April 2016- Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador, attends a speech in Washington in which Trump vows to have better diplomatic relations with Russia as president. The president of the think tank said he introduced the two in a receiving line.

July 2016- Trump denies all relations between Russia and himself. In news conferences and tweets Trump says he “has nothing to do with Russia,” and “I don’t know who Putin is… I’ve never spoken to him.” He also tweeted, “For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.” At the same time, at a news conference, Trump urged and told the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s email.

November 10, 2016- Two days after the election, a Russian official tells a reporter in Moscow that the Kremlin had been in contact with the Trump campaign. Trump’s spokesperson Hope Hicks denies it, saying, “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”

January 20, 2017- Inauguration Day. Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. He designates this day as “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.”

January 28, 2017-  Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak on the phone for an hour.

March 2017- One of Trump’s personal lawyers, Marc E. Kasowitz, is named to the legal team defending Russia’s largest state-run bank in a corporate-raiding case, Buzzfeed reports.

The Trump campaign has had very specific contact with Russia which could cause it to be a very serious problem for the White House in the future. Due to rising suspicion surrounding the Trumps and their affiliates, political unrest continues to exist on capitol hill.  Recent allegations have also tied former national security advisor, to illegally taking Russian payments, NPR reports.