And was barely connected to the Trump campaign and never met trump in person.
Trump CANNOT have it "both ways"
When Trump was asked by
The Washington Post last March who was advising him, Trump listed
“Carter Page, PhD” as a member of the campaign’s foreign policy team. This was a strange choice, given that Page had no foreign policy experience beyond working in and on behalf of the Russian energy sector. The Trump
campaign subsequently cut ties with Page after he claimed that
Vladimir Putin was a better leader than Barack Obama (an assertion Trump himself would later make) and said, “Washington and other Western capitals have impeded potential progress through their often hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption, and regime change.” The campaign’s communications director,
Jason Miller, said that Page had “never been a part of our campaign. Period.”
And when Trump was asked about Page, he said, “
I don’t think I’ve ever spoken to him. I don’t think I’ve ever met him. And he actually said he was a very low-level member of I think a committee for a short period of time. I don’t think I ever met him. Now, it’s possible that I walked into a room and he was sitting there, but I don’t think I ever met him.”