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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumstrump team issues cease and desist requests to Page in recent months:
The former Donald Trump campaign adviser who is reportedly being investigated over ties to Russia was brought into the Trump orbit last March by Sam Clovis, the co-chairman of Trumps campaign who now serves as White House adviser for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Two Trump campaign officials confirmed the Clovis connection to The Daily Caller on Friday.
TheDC can also reveal that the Trump team issued a number of cease and desist requests to Page in recent months over concerns that he was misrepresenting his role on the campaign.
Page, the managing partner of Global Energy Capital, has been widely cited as a foreign policy adviser to Trump, the assumption being that he was in close touch with the Republican. But Trump and members of the administration have recently said that he does not recall ever meeting Page.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/03/exclusive-who-brought-carter-page-onto-the-trump-campaign/#ixzz4aI17b5qV
Via twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/837734512138268674
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asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Carter Page (Former Trump Advisor) Resigned
- Relationship with Trump
3/21/2016 Trump names Carter Page when questioned about who is on his foreign policy team, (He was previously a mostly unknown name)
12/12/2016 Page holds a conference in Moscow. Claims to know Trump. (Also speaks of Tillerson before Trump makes formal announcement in NY?
3/2/2017 Page was among Trump campaign members to speak with Kislyak at Rep. National Convention. Denials of relationship with Trump
9/25/2016 -Kellyanne Conway tells Jake Tapper that Carter Page, formerly named as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, is no longer involved. Denying any knowledge of his communications with Russia.
2/20/2017 - Page denies dossier and tries to deny relationship with Trump in interview with Channel 4s Jon Snow.
Relationship with Russia
5/2/2014 - Page publishes blogpost defending Igor Sechin. 3/30/2016 Page has close ties to Russia and views it as a strength. Was also directly affected by sanctions on Russia.
6/8/2016 - Page has slammed the United States for showing "hypocrisy" towards Russia, during an address in Moscow.
8/5/2016 - In early June, a little-known adviser to Donald Trump stunned a gathering of high-powered Washington foreign policy experts meeting with the visiting prime minister of India, going off topic with effusive praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump. -
9/23/2016 But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russians leading oil company, a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.
9/23/2016 -Page was being investigated for possible backroom deals related to sanctions.
12/8/2016 Page was also in Moscow from 12/2 until 12/7, and left on the day the 19% Rosneft deal was announced.
3/2/2017 Page denies any meetings with Russian officials.
3/2/2017- When asked about meeting with Kislyak in July Page responded with I can neither confirm nor deny any meeting with him at that event in the interest of respecting the confidentiality rules that people agreed to as it was an off the record session.
3/2/2017 - Interview with Carter Page: I dont deny meeting with Russian ambassador
Vinca
(50,278 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Seems to be confirmed, too.
Nearly a year ago, a local CBS News affiliate in Alabama ran an online story titled Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions arranges meeting between Donald Trump, influential Republicans.
The story went on to state that The team of foreign policy advisers, led by Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, consists of counter-terrorism expert Walid Phares, energy consultant George Papadopoulos, former Defense Department inspector general Joe Schmitz, managing partner of Global Energy Capital Carter Page and former Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)I'll be the show runner
they'd be FABulous together
much better than the new version of the Odd Couple
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)January 2017: Trump doesn't know this so-called "Carter Page" person.
The American people really think you owe us an explanation or two, President Trump.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)page can only be one of two things, the way I see it:
1) clinically insane....psychotic reality break resulting in suicidal compulsion to expose himself to terminal ridicule
2) under the gun to take the brunt of the whole horrorshow.....family threatened....who knows
make it three:
walter white situation....needs the money to support his family....he looks like he's in the first stage of polonium poisoning....we'll know for sure when he starts to look like a skinny Hulk
procon
(15,805 posts)this denial be taken as the truth? If their lips are moving they're lying, so none of that lot is credible.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)weasel, snake oil salesman, mealy-mouth.
Yeah, he sucks.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)ever seen him, and I enjoyed his squirming and blinking and such...but here's what I don't get:
I thought he was making a personal appearance ON BEHALF of trumpco, right? He's going out and making nice nice with the "enemy", ie., the press, to show that nobody's hiding any Russia-connection-scandals, right? I mean, he wasn't even minimally SUCCESSFUL at doing that, but anyway...
I thought, and so did a few other posters last night, that the WH had suddenly "changed strategies" now that the drips have commenced, and to be cordial to the press and take some HEAT off trumpco...send some troops out glad handing, right?
SO, when I saw this article and it appears that trumpco doesn't LIKE this guy and they have ordered cease and desist restraints against him - well, I thought this was "news". plus oh yeah, and now I'm more confused than ever, because why would a guy who trumpco hates be out half-ass trying to "help" them?
I'll never post anything like this again, since (a) it's apparently from trumpco, ie., a big lie and (b) I am getting too lost too often in the quagmire that is our current...duhhhh..."situation"
And if you don't reply to this, please believe me, I get it!!!!!!!!
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)to save/cover his own slimy ass. I didn't buy any of it, and I don't think anybody on the left would.
He was obviously dissembling and obfuscating and all those other big words the Trumplodytes won't understand.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)to the editor" or something!? "Live and in person" is NOT helping whatever "case" he may have!
Much appreciated!
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)wishstar
(5,270 posts)In between his evasiveness and claims of not wanting to breach confidentiality agreements, he seemed to confirm he was part of a committee of Trump foreign policy advisors and as such wrote a paper. He confirmed his frequent Russian activities of giving speeches and making connections there. My hunch is that his rabid anti-Clinton accusations are probably mainly intended to curry favor with Putin and other anti-Clinton Russians in order to facilitate some kind of Russian deals or stay in their good graces.
He seems like such a nutty loose cannon though, I don't know why anyone would want him for an advisor or business partner.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Riiiiiight.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)trump is on tape CITING Page as one of his advisers
haven't read the thread, but they've been playing that clip all over the place this week
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)but I don't plan on posting any more "unknown" sites...makes me nervous or something...!
Appreciate your reply!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)founded by......drum roll....
tucker carlson!!!! edit, and neil patel, suckbutt to dick cheney
impressive credentials, yes?
need to know anything more?
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)while claiming he's a nutball
then...wham...under the bus.....shovel the shit all over him, deflect from the big boys
that's the way they do it
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)commence to singin like a bird? - cuz this strange cat knows some strange (Moscovian/Putinesque) shit, does he not?
Oh man, wait, or do you mean Russia's ditching him? Or do you mean Russia AND DFT/Bannon/Miller/Gorka are BOTH tossing him into the street, and then when he starts snitching for real, he'll appear too discredited to bother with?
Aw, forget it, Gabi - I never read many spy novels and this whole fustercluck is way too much for my biddy brain -
But I thank you kindly for your reply!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)he's singing out to save his own ass
the more pub he gets, the less likely he is to get poloniumized
did you see the story about the russian activist who got poisoned TWICE, and the only reason he survived the second one is that his family recognized the same symptoms and got him treatment in time
they're talking about page right now on don lemon
calling him a hanger on
he knows a LOT about manafort, who's got to be ballsdeep in this. they even blackmailed his daughter
why do you think they fired him AFTER the frickin KGOP convention?
turn page, squeeze manafort, then go for the main prize
that's the way to do it
as for spy novels...check out alan furst
http://www.alanfurst.net/
my favorite: literate, picaresque, seemingly historically accurate, and, most of all.....plausible
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)player than page, or sessions, even
duh!
I hope somebody really puts the fear of god....or should I say, a long, general population stretch at the Q.....into him
he would seem to be the sort to turn on a dime.....I don't think he's a true believer like Bannon, or Stone, even
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)last night - still tap-dancing away!) - yes, Manafort's time is coming, it feels like...
Poor Kara-Murza!! So glad he's recovering! They have sent blood samples of his to labs all over the WORLD, trying to identify the toxic agents (no pun intended) that caused his "total catastrophe of the body", poor man!!
Alan Furst - got it! Thank you!
Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)scared to death...I think that's why he went to the media (I also agree with Carl Bernstein that Page feels used)...
I think that he wants some sort of protection and visibility for a host of reasons.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)maybe he should hang out with that Steele guy