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I suspect we are going to hear a lot about the ‘Nunes version’ of events, in the next few days, specifically about “how unfairly this Trump Foreign Policy Advisor was treated by the Clinton-infiltrated FBI and the Obama-run FISA Court” …
In hopes of providing some snapshots of the “other side” of the Carter Page story, before that deluge of outrage hits, I’ve consolidated some of Carter’s sketchier activities … over the last few years.
Before they become just so much flotsam, completely ignored by Trump TV.
talkingpointsmemo.com/…
Mar 3, 2017
Discussion of changes to the platform, which drew attention to the ties to a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine that fueled Manafort’s resignation as Trump’s campaign chairman, resurfaced Thursday in a USA Today story. The newspaper revealed that Gordon and Carter Page, another former Trump adviser, met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the GOP convention.
www.cnn.com/…
Mar 21, 2016
Trump's 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. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks confirmed the names to CNN.
"And I have quite a few more," Trump told the Post's editorial board, without offering details. "But that's a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do. But that's pretty representative group."
Later at a Washington news conference on Monday, Trump said, "I have a team, we actually have a very good team," calling it, "a top-of-the-line team."
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Carter Page, the founder of Global Energy Capital, has experience as an investment banker in London and Moscow.
dailyfunnel.com/…
Feb 17, 2017
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July 2016: [...] Steele is no longer the only person to report on the meeting; last July, further confirmation of the meeting came from a U.S. intelligence source who spoke to Yahoo’s Michael Isikoff.”
Huff Post goes on to say that “Politico reports that while in Moscow [Carter] Page may also have met with Sergei Ivanov, the then-chief of Putin’s presidential administration. And Isikoff’s sources claim that Page also met with a third man—a senior Kremlin internal affairs official named Igor Diveykin.”
“Steele’s dossier, which also contends that Page met with Diveykin in Moscow, suggests that it was at this third meeting that Diveykin revealed to Page that the Russian government held compromising material (called kompromat in Russia) on Mr. Trump.”4
[Nov 2016: Trump wins U.S. Election ...]
December 5 – QHG Holding created. One partner is QHG Cayman Limited registered in the Cayman islands.
December 7 and 8 – Russia Announces a sale of 19.5% of the state owned oil company, Rosneft to Glencore and Qatar Investment Authority. However, contributions by both don’t seem to equate to the amount of sale (only about 300 million Euro) It is impossible to find all the owners for 10.2 bn Euros8, however, Russia and Rosneft benefit from the lifting of sanctions by accessing the market for oil, including drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Also, there is a benefit from Russia having the Ukraine as most gas pipelines from Russia to the rest of Europe go through the Ukraine9.
December 8 – Carter Page visits Moscow10 to “meet with business leaders and thought leaders” including “top managers of Rosneft”11.
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Trump FP Advisor Carter Page praises Putin, has ownership in Russia's state owned gas supplier
Published on Aug 8, 2016 — CNN
"When you look at his public comments — some of his public positions, of this senior Trump Foreign Policy Advisor — they almost match word for word the positions of the Kremlin ..."
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THE LECTURE OF TRUMP’S ADVISOR CARTER PAGE IN MOSCOW — [The very short version.]
Published on Jul 9, 2016
The lecture of Trump’s advisor Carter Page in Moscow
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The FreeBeacon.com reported on the ‘ground-breaking’ Carter Page speech in Moscow, back in July 2016:
Trump Adviser’s Links to Russia on Display During Moscow Trip
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The remarks, delivered at an event hosted by the New Economic School, were hardly out of character for Page, who has a history of criticizing U.S. foreign policy and portraying Russia in a favorable light. In online writings, [Carter] Page has defended Moscow’s involvement in the takeover of government buildings in Ukraine by pro-Russian forces in 2014 as "minor," attributed the crisis in Ukraine to U.S. policy, and accused NATO of "meddling in the affairs of Eastern Europe."
His habit of criticizing Western countries raises questions about the foreign policy advice Trump is receiving.
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The following month, Page defended Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine by comparing it to the United States’ support for the ouster of Ukraine’s Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovych.
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www.nationalreview.com/…
April 4, 2016
Carter Page is an out-and-out Putinite. A consultant to and investor in the Kremlin’s state-run gas company, Gazprom, Page has a direct financial interest in ending American sanctions against the company. Not only that, but Page is tight with the Kremlin’s foreign-policy apparatus and has served as a vehement propagandist for it.
If you’re going to ‘swim with the sharks’ Mr Page, don’t be surprised if you end up with a few ‘carpet burns’ — especially when they start getting too close for comfort, with that sandpaper skin.