The White House rushed to downplay Page's ties to Trump and the campaign. In 2004, he started working at Merrill Lynch's office, before becoming the COO and president. There is new information related to one of those campaign associates.
He said it was not Paul Manafort, a former campaign chairman. "Absolutely not", Page said. "I can assure you of that".
The FBI obtained a warrant to secretly monitor President Trump's former campaign adviser, Carter Page, on suspicions that he was acting as an agent of Russia, The Washington Post reports. While there, Page delivered a speech harshly critical of US policy toward Russian Federation. "They don't want to reveal who they are looking for".
Any day now, we're going to be looking to see who's golfing at Mar-a-Lago with the same interest we once had as to who was going to the opera in Moscow. He's given speeches in Moscow critical of American foreign policy.
"I have done nothing wrong", he told Fox News in an interview. "I can't definitively say it was never raised by anyone as mentioned this morning".
Update: Lewandowski reached out to TheDC after publication and disputed this story. In any case, I don't view surveillance of Page's conversations as the tapping of the wires of the person he talked with. Trump's team had not prepared for a successful campaign, and as he inched closer to the GOP nomination, an all-out scramble ensued to fill out a roster of campaign advisers.
Russian Federation denies trying to influence the 2016 election. Page has become a real man of mystery in the RussiaGate scandal.
Page also suggested that media articles written about his alleged ties to the Kremlin had a bigger impact on the 2016 presidential election than the WikiLeaks release of the emails of DNC staffers and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta - leaks that he said Russian Federation may have orchestrated.
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The campaign escalated to the point that Anglin planned an armed march in Whitefish that he threatened would end at Gersh's home. Spencer and Anglin have appeared on a podcast together and are both leading figures in the alt-right movement.
He told Tapper he had "no comment" when then asked whether it was former Trump campaign adviser Sam Clovis, adding that who connected him to the campaign is "not relevant".
Page officially left the campaign in September amid growing questions about his ties to Russian Federation. While in the Russian capital, Page met Russia's deputy prime minister, Arkady Dvorkovich.
Carter Page delivers a presentation in Moscow on December 12, 2016.
On Tuesday, Page dismissed what he called "the dodgy dossier" of false allegations.
The one-time junior foreign policy adviser said he looked forward to further revelations about the court order that the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court. Three spies who were working under cover met with Page and discussed their recruitment attempts. BuzzFeed News first reported the affidavit earlier this month.
"I have not, since the inauguration, I have not spoken with anyone", said Page.
That's according to documents newly obtained by The Associated Press. Keep reading for information from Carter Page's wiki. "And I also will say, if he's doing that, he's certainly not doing it with the permission or knowledge of the campaign, the activities that you described". During an interview with the Post's editorial page staff in March 2016, Trump identified Page as his adviser. Page said in September that he briefly met Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich during that trip.
This article has been updated with comment from Lewandowski.
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