Former Trump adviser Carter Page held strong pro-Kremlin views says ex-boss

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A former adviser to Donald Trump who is at the centre of an FBI investigation was exhibiting “strongly pro-Kremlin” ideology almost two decades ago, his former employer has told the Guardian.

Carter Page, who was reportedly being monitored by the FBI last summer because of suspicions about his ties to Russia, was hired in 1998 by the Eurasia Group, a major US consulting firm that advises banks and multinational corporations, but left the firm shortly thereafter.

The account of Page’s abrupt departure from the Eurasia Group suggests that concerns about Page and questions about his links to Russia were known in some professional circles for nearly two decades and long before Page joined Trump’s successful presidential campaign.

FBI reportedly obtained secret order to monitor Trump adviser for Russia ties

 

 

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Now Page – who has denied all wrongdoing – is at the centre of overlapping FBI and congressional investigations into possible cooperation between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The former Merrill Lynch banker, who was relatively unknown in politics before he was touted as being a foreign policy adviser in the Trump campaign, has steadfastly declined to comment on how he got involved in the Republican campaign. He told ABC News on Thursday that he would not disclose the name of the person who recruited him into the campaign because it would fuel conspiracy theories and have their “lives disrupted”.

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Ian Bremmer, the influential president of the Eurasia Group, on Thursday used Twitter to call Page the “most wackadoodle” alumni of the firm in history.

Bremmer told the Guardian that Page had worked at Eurasia for three months.

“It was very clear he was ideologically very strongly pro-Kremlin, which wasn’t at all clear when he interviewed. As a result, he wasn’t a good fit at Eurasia Group,” Bremmer said through a spokesperson in an email.

Page is the first Trump aide known to have been the subject of a secret surveillance order, known as a Fisa warrant and issued by a secret court, concerning his connections to Russia. The warrant, as revealed by the Washington Post, was issued in summer 2016, around the time the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia allegations began in late July.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/14/carter-page-trump-adviser-pro-kremlin-views-1998-consulting-russia-ties

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1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

 

Sadly as an action film,  Coogan and Brydon didn't find much Get Carter material

 

 

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[ready4ONE 5,400]

2 hours ago, IAMX said:

 

 

 

 

I think it would be fair to say that your clever and transparent attempt at changing the subject is so water thin it doesn't deserve it's own thread?

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2 hours ago, IAMX said:

 

 

 

 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

All they really have is a couple of derogs on a kitchen inspection and some former advisor said something positive about the Kremlin according to a third party, 20 years ago.

 

It must be hard hanging on to a straw while free falling at 120MPH

 

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58 minutes ago, ready4ONE said:

I think it would be fair to say that your clever and transparent attempt at changing the subject is so water thin it doesn't deserve it's own thread?

Because Russian ties and politicians have nothing to do with this subject .

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1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Because Russian ties and politicians have nothing to do with this subject .

Not anything to do with Donald Trump and his band of Merry Men, no.

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5 hours ago, ccneat said:

Sadly as an action film,  Coogan and Brydon didn't find much Get Carter material

 

 

Epic!!!

 

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On 4/14/2017 at 11:04 AM, Jacque67 said:

A former adviser to Donald Trump who is at the centre of an FBI investigation was exhibiting “strongly pro-Kremlin” ideology almost two decades ago, his former employer has told the Guardian.

Carter Page, who was reportedly being monitored by the FBI last summer because of suspicions about his ties to Russia, was hired in 1998 by the Eurasia Group, a major US consulting firm that advises banks and multinational corporations, but left the firm shortly thereafter.

The account of Page’s abrupt departure from the Eurasia Group suggests that concerns about Page and questions about his links to Russia were known in some professional circles for nearly two decades and long before Page joined Trump’s successful presidential campaign.

FBI reportedly obtained secret order to monitor Trump adviser for Russia ties

 

 

Read more

Now Page – who has denied all wrongdoing – is at the centre of overlapping FBI and congressional investigations into possible cooperation between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

The former Merrill Lynch banker, who was relatively unknown in politics before he was touted as being a foreign policy adviser in the Trump campaign, has steadfastly declined to comment on how he got involved in the Republican campaign. He told ABC News on Thursday that he would not disclose the name of the person who recruited him into the campaign because it would fuel conspiracy theories and have their “lives disrupted”.

 

Ian Bremmer, the influential president of the Eurasia Group, on Thursday used Twitter to call Page the “most wackadoodle” alumni of the firm in history.

Bremmer told the Guardian that Page had worked at Eurasia for three months.

“It was very clear he was ideologically very strongly pro-Kremlin, which wasn’t at all clear when he interviewed. As a result, he wasn’t a good fit at Eurasia Group,” Bremmer said through a spokesperson in an email.

Page is the first Trump aide known to have been the subject of a secret surveillance order, known as a Fisa warrant and issued by a secret court, concerning his connections to Russia. The warrant, as revealed by the Washington Post, was issued in summer 2016, around the time the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump-Russia allegations began in late July.

 

It's part of their tactic. They want to beat SNL on ratings.