Carter Page is one of the names that keeps coming up in the ongoing probe by Robert Mueller into possible Russian collusion (with the Trump campaign’s knowledge) in the 2016 election. Much of the case, especially in the early days, focused on Page, because he was a guy with Russian ties who also worked as a Trump campaign advisor.
Page also figured heavily in the “Nunes Memo,” the document released by Congressman and House Intel chair Devin Nunes that claims the FBI received not-quite-legal permission from a court in October 2016 to secretly spy on Page, based on information in the notorious “Steele Memo.” This all raises more questions than have been answered about the mysterious Carter Page.
But Time might be putting together the puzzle pieces, in part because Carter Page did the job for them. The newsmagazine has obtained a letter in which Page actually brags that he was an advisor to the Kremlin, a.k.a., the highest levels of the Russian government. Also, the letter is dated Aug. 25, 2013, and it was sent by Page to a publisher over edits to a book he was trying to get published.”
“Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preparation for their presidency of the G-20 summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda,” Page wrote at the time, unaware of how bad that would all look five years in the future. He had major connections to Russia, and long before there even was a Trump campaign…in which he was a major figure.