Former Trump Advisor Carter Page Won’t Even Say Who Brought Him Into the Trump Campaign

Says It Was Not Manafort

Carter Page, supposedly an oil industry expert who was hired as a foreign policy advisor to the Donald Trump presidential campaign, won’t reveal the name of the person who brought him into the Trump campaign. Page has become a real man of mystery in the RussiaGate scandal. According to The Washington Post, the FBI and the Justice Department obtained a FISA Court “warrant targeting Carter Page’s communications after convincing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge that there was probable cause to believe Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power, in this case Russia, according to the officials.”

On CNN Wednesday afternoon, Page denied acting as an agent for any foreign government.

“This is such a joke that it’s beyond words,” Page told Jake Tapper, after being asked if he were acting as an agent for a foreign government. 

Page went on to say that “all of this false evidence that you’ve been hearing about, myself with the dodgy dossier…will have very real implications,” and be a “real game changer.”

He didn’t really explain what that meant, but anyone who’s seen his MSNBC interview with “All In’s” Chris Hayes, and rthe subsequent commercial they made from it, can understand. Actually, it’s ironic Page used the word “dodgy.”

And right on cue, Page moves into his no comment phase: “I have nothing to say about any ongoing investigations that may or may not be going on,” he tells Tapper. “I have no comment, no.”

And lastly, he refuses to even say who brought him into the Trump campaign. “I don’t want to mention any names.”

“This is the clearest evidence so far that the FBI had reason to believe during the 2016 presidential campaign that a Trump campaign adviser was in touch with Russian agents,” the Washington Post’s article continued. “Such contacts are now at the center of an investigation into whether the campaign coordinated with the Russian government to swing the election in Trump’s favor.”

What we do know? President Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes are not telling the truth.

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This article has been updated to reflect Jake Tapper’s exact phrasing