Trump adviser sent email describing 'private conversation' with Russian official

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Rosalind S. Helderman, Matt Zapotosky and Karoun Demirjian November 6 at 10:43 PM

Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to President Trump’s campaign whose visit to Moscow during the election has drawn scrutiny, sent an email to fellow Trump aides during his trip describing “a private conversation” with a senior Russian official who spoke favorably of the Republican candidate, according to records released late Monday by congressional investigators.

Page also wrote that he had been provided “incredible insights and outreach” by Russian lawmakers and “senior members” of Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s administration during the trip.

The email appeared to contradict earlier statements by Page, who had said he had only exchanged brief greetings with the senior Russian official, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, after he delivered a speech at a Russian university.

In his July 2016 note, Page wrote that Dvorkovich had “expressed strong support for Mr. Trump and a desire to work together toward devising better solutions in response to a vast range of current international problems.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-adviser-sent-email-describing-private-conversation-with-russian-official/2017/11/06/b39d4c84-c33b-11e7-84bc-5e285c7f4512_story.html

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Well, well well... look what we have here...

I love the smell of impeachment in the morning!!

[Plucketeer]

2. Drain the Swamp!

Then offer all the critters exposed - positions in the tRump administration.

[lagomorph777]

3. I think he was saying "Train the swamp."

And he has trained a whole pack of alligators, hasn't he?

[Plucketeer]

4. Sounds RIGHT to me!

My hearing IS impaired, so it might be that I've been hearing that phrase wrong all along.

[Calista241]

5. If all of that is true, that's what any politician would say to a politician from another country.

We want to work together. Better solutions. blah blah.

I want to get to the part where some real criminal activity is going on. We need these guys to say they'll give Russia something after the election in exchange for releasing Podesta's emails in the manner that they did.

[Whiskeytide]

14. While your observation is generally true ...

... the tell is that all of these people have publicly lied about contacts btwn admin/campaign reps and Russians. Repeatedly. And some under oath.

Unless one of the parties to the meetings spills what was discussed or summarized it in an email or other writing (and yes, some of them are stupid enough to have done that), we will likely never have the smoking gun. But we don’t need it where they have covered it up. The cover up is enough to get them.

[Abouttime]

16. What more do we need?

This is the collusion we've been looking for!
Impeach now!

[ffr]

6. Deny and deflect, Carter. That's the tRump motto. Lie. Lie. Lie.

Scumbag.

[lagomorph777]

7. Why would anybody be foolish enough to hire a ferret like Carter Page?

Totally boneheaded move on Trump's part.

[not fooled]

15. A puke analyst

on AM Joy this past weekend said that the dump campaign couldn't get the top tier puke foreign policy "experts" (e.g., those that helped promulgate the lies that got this country into the Iraq war, then paid no price afterwards for being either stupid or complicit--but I digress).

So, the dump foreign policy advisory team ended up being populated by a collection of freaks and pond scum like Page.

[lagomorph777]

17. Well, that's how it goes for RePutins.

I hope they've enjoyed their brief reign of terror. The rest of their lives will be far less pleasant.

[Achilleaze]

8. republican TreasonWeasels betrayed America

Lock them up

[Marcuse]

9. I hire the best people!

[riversedge]

10. Seems Page told Sessions, and Sam Clovis and Lewandowki, Hope Hicks, JD Gordon.............

Geeze, seems most of the inner circle knew.






....He told the committee that he informed then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), then a key Trump supporter and now attorney general, and said he “probably” had told national campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis before leaving and definitely did so on his return.

A spokeswoman for Sessions declined to comment; Clovis’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.

Page also wrote an email about the trip to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, communications director Hope Hicks and campaign aide J.D. Gordon. He testified Lewandowski said he could go but as a private citizen not a campaign representative.

In one email to fellow campaign aides, Page suggested that Trump perhaps take his place and travel to Moscow “to raise the temperature a little bit” and, in another, he asked how campaign officials would “prefer me to focus” his remarks.

He said he was unaware at the time that Papadopoulos was making similar proposals for Trump to travel to Russia, though he acknowledged he had received some of Papadopoulos’s emails about Russia.

[L. Coyote]

12. Sessions goose is soooo cooked.

[groundloop]

11. How long can 45* go on denying that he knew what was going on?

It's fairly certain that 45* was instrumental in approving this activity, but he'll certainly deny deny deny. Why the hell did he surround himself with staff who'd had experience dealing with Putin and other Russian criminals?

Damn I hope someone comes forward and admits that 45* told them to do A, B, and C.

[L. Coyote]

13. Interesting how the only Trumpster telling some of the truth is labeled the village idiot.

Link to tweet

[Blue_Tires]

18. IMPEACHMENT WHEN