1. Carter Page was as innocent as they come. He was a Merrill Lynch employee somehow working with Russians?! I wonder what the basis was for the surveillance?? After all the FISA surveillance (4 FISA renewals?) Carter Page is still innocent. It was a political hit job on Trump based on the "two hop rule" meaning that the entire Trump campaign could legally be spied on using the Carter Page FISA warrant. Nothing regarding conspiracy was ever found, as confirmed by Mueller. The FISA surveillance was a political dirty trick by the Obama admin, aka the biggest scandal in US history.
Thats a bunch of bull.
Carter was a known Russian spy ring cooperator and those Russians even joked that he flies out to Moscow more often then they do. Incidently thats exactly where he headed after his time with the Trump campaign, where he met with high level Gasprom execs.
He was behaving conspicous as hell, even if he evaded any charges.
House Intelligence Committee testimony
On November 2, 2017, Page testified
[50] to the
House Intelligence Committee that he had he kept senior officials in the Trump campaign such as
Corey Lewandowski,
Hope Hicks, and
J. D. Gordon informed about his contacts with the Russians
[51] and had informed
Jeff Sessions, Lewandowski, Hicks and other Trump campaign officials that he was traveling to Russia to give a speech in July 2016.
[52][53][54]
Page testified that he had met with Russian government officials during this trip and had sent a post-meeting report via email to members of the Trump campaign.
[55] He also indicated that campaign co-chairman
Sam Clovis had asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement about his trip.
[56] Elements of Page's testimony contradicted prior claims by Trump, Sessions, and others in the Trump administration.
[52][55][57][58] Lewandowski, who had previously denied knowing Page or meeting him during the campaign, said after Page's testimony that his memory was refreshed and acknowledged that he had been aware of Page's trip to Russia.
[59]
Page also testified that after delivering a commencement speech at the
New Economic School in Moscow, he spoke briefly with one of the people in attendance,
Arkady Dvorkovich, a Deputy Prime Minister in
Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet, contradicting his previous statements not to have spoken to anyone connected with the Russian government.
[60] In addition, while Page denied a meeting with Sechin as alleged in the
Trump–Russia dossier, he did say he met with Andrey Baranov,
Rosneft's head of investor relations.
[61] The dossier alleges that Sechin offered Page the brokerage fee from the sale of up to 19 percent of Rosneft if he worked to roll back
Magnitsky Act economic sanctions that had been imposed on Russia in 2012.
[61][62][63] It also alleges that Page confirmed, on Trump's "full authority", that this was Trump's intent.
[61][64][65][66][67][68] Page testified that he did not "directly" express support for lifting the sanctions during the meeting with Baranov, but that he might have mentioned the proposed Rosneft transaction.
[61]
Carter Page - Wikipedia