You really need to stop drinking and posting. J
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You know absolutely nothing about JW!
Mueller’s Investigation Into President Trump Is ‘Built On A Pile Of Corruption’.
The FBI used a dossier, created and paid for by CLINTON and not verified. The FBI claimed Carter Page was a Russian agent!
If Page was a Russian agent, why hasn't Mueller interrogated him or charged him?
Mueller has charged: Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, and Alex Van Der Zwaan.
Since Page was the subject of the FISA warrants that claimed he was a Russian agent he should have been investigated and charged first. He would be the most logical Russian connection to Trump.
Remember they began surveillance on Page in late October, right before the election - BUT - Page had already left Trump's team!
The FBI used Page to get the FISA warrant and then spied on everyone on the Trump team!
On March 21, 2016, Trump named five people who would serve on his foreign policy team. The list included Page and Papadopoulos.
After growing up in New York and spending a few years in the Navy in the 1990s, Page completed a few graduate degrees in international relations and business. Then for most of the 2000s, he worked at the investment banking firm Merrill Lynch, focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe.
His work led him to move to Moscow from 2004 to 2007, and it entailed advising Gazprom, the majority Russian state–owned oil firm, on deals. Soon afterward, he moved back to the US, left Merrill, and went into business for himself, advising investors on Russia-related projects.
Though all this, Page didn’t have a particularly high public profile — until, out of nowhere, Trump dropped his name.
Page reached out to New York’s Republican Party chair, Ed Cox, in late December 2015, asking to be put in touch with Trump’s team.
Cox put Page in contact with then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who sent him over to Clovis, who is said to have put him on Trump’s list of advisers.
The principal foreign policy focus of the Trump campaign was an improved US relationship with Russia that the Obama administration had destroyed.
What did Carter Page actually do when he was a Trump adviser?
To hear some in Trump’s orbit tell it, he did nothing whatsoever. “Mr. Page is not an advisor and has made no contribution to the campaign,” campaign spokesperson Jason Miller said in September 2016. “He’s never been part of our campaign. Period.”
Indeed, Page testified that he’s never met or even spoken to Trump himself, and that he missed out on the one meeting the Trump foreign policy team had with the candidate because, he said, he had a conflict that day.
Page went to Russia for a five-day trip in July 2016. This raised eyebrows even at the time, since Page gave a public speech in which he criticized US policy as too antagonistic toward the Kremlin.
Yet Page and Trump’s team said, then and afterward, that Page took this trip purely as a private citizen and not at all on behalf of the campaign.
After Page returned, he started to keep tabs on preparations for the Republican convention.
But rumors soon swirled about what Page might have been up to during his Moscow trip. After a briefing in August, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid wrote a letter to the FBI saying “questions have been raised” about whether Page met with “high-ranking sanctioned individuals” during his trip.
Finally, in September, Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News reported that the government was investigating Page’s ties to the Kremlin — a revelation that led the Trump campaign to harshly disassociate themselves from Page. (In Page’s own telling, he chose to take a leave of absence. He denied doing anything wrong.)
Newly released texts between Strzok and Page show that the Isikoff Yahoo article was planted by the FBI!
After Trump had won the election, Page never rejoined his team. He took another trip to Russia in December 2016, during the transition, but testified that this trip was also undertaken entirely on his own.
Enter Steel and his pile of bull shit.
Remember Page is an energy field expert and dealt with oil and gas companies.
On July 19, 2016, Steele filed a report for what become known as his “dossier” focused on Page’s Russia trip. Citing Russian sources, he wrote:
That Page had met with Igor Sechin, the CEO of Rosneft, the majority Russian government-owned oil company, and discussed lifting US sanctions.
That Page had also met with Igor Diveykin, a Russian intelligence official, and discussed Russian “kompromat” on Clinton (and Trump)
In a later report, dated October 18, 2016, Steele made an even more astonishing claim:
That when Page allegedly met with Sechin, the oil executive had offered Page and Trump’s associates “the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatized) stake in Rosneft in return” for lifting sanctions, and that Page “expressed interest” and confirmed that Trump would lift sanctions if he won.
But in two years, no one has managed to confirm any of the claims in Steele’s dossier about Page’s trip.
Page furiously denied the claims, saying that he’s never met either Sechin or Diveykin and disparaging what he calls the “dodgy dossier” both in media appearances and under oath.
Page sent other Trump aides a memo about his trip, in which he referred to himself as “Campaign Adviser Page.” In it, he described a “private conversation” he had with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who he said “expressed strong support for Mr. Trump.”
Page admitted that he did meet with a different Rosneft executive — Andrey Baranov, the company’s head of investor relations, with whom he had a preexisting relationship.
FISA surveillance applications have to be renewed every 90 days.
The government is said to have applied for more surveillance on Page at some point in January or February 2017, and then again in late April or May 2017, and again in July or August — with the latter applications approved by Rod Rosenstein.
The Washington Post reported that in March 2017, FBI agents interviewed Page for a total of about 10 hours over five separate meetings, and asked him about claims made in the Steele dossier.
But there’s no indication that this led anywhere, and it happened before Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation in May.
WHY WERE THEY STILL USING PAGE IN THE FISA APPLICATIONS SINCE HE LEFT TRUMP'S TEAM IN OCTOBER OF 2016 AND HAD NO CONNECTION TO TRUMP??
Carter Page is NOT a wealthy man and testified before the House Intelligence Committee last November for more than six hours — without a lawyer.
Page claims his life has been ruined and he has no current income. He is considering suing Steele and the FBI for defamation of character.
Meanwhile Page is waiting for The Justice Department investigation into the controversial Carter Page warrant that would be the basis for his lawsuit.