A Former Trump Advisor Met with a Russian Spy
Source: Buzzfeed News
NEW YORK A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents to a Russian intelligence operative in New York City in 2013.
The adviser, Carter Page, met with a Russian intelligence operative named Victor Podobnyy, who was later charged by the US government alongside two others for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government. The charges, filed in January 2015, came after federal investigators busted a Russian spy ring that was seeking information on US sanctions as well as efforts to develop alternative energy. Page is an energy consultant.
A court filing by the US government contains a transcript of a recorded conversation in which Podobnyy speaks with one of the other men busted in the spy ring, Igor Sporyshev, about trying to recruit someone identified as Male-1. BuzzFeed News has confirmed that Male-1 is Page.
The revelation of Pages connection to Russian intelligence which occurred more than three years before his association with Trump is the most clearly documented contact to date between Russian intelligence and someone in Trumps orbit. It comes as federal investigators probe whether Trumps campaign-era associates including Page had any inappropriate contact with Russian officials or intelligence operatives during the course of the election. Page has volunteered to help Senate investigators in their inquiry.
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And there is some interesting related info in this long thread by Polly Sigh on Twitter.
Link to tweet
George II
(67,782 posts)FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)Shit's getting good.
Fryto
(11 posts)pnwmom
(108,978 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)The 0.5% stake is worth about $230 million and was negotiated as a "commission" for the deal.
It seems Don the Con may have sold out not only for power but for money too.
I think that Ryan and McConnell sold out purely for power and a cushy job for McConnell's wife.