Posted on 01/06/2018 10:32:58 AM PST by SSS Two
A former Trump campaign adviser claims the Obama administration used false Russian propaganda underwritten by the Hillary Clinton campaign to illegally spy on him. The material, he says, was used to frame him as a Russian spy, in a scheme to derail Trump’s bid for the White House and later cripple his presidency.
The aide’s name is Carter Page, a native New Yorker and the main target of the controversial anti-Trump dossier, which is now the subject of a congressional and possibly criminal investigation. Depending on who you believe, he is either an agent for the Russian government or a victim of political espionage carried out by his own government.
[PARAGRAPH 4] In a wide-ranging Post interview, Page described the dubious dossier’s author, retired British spook Christopher Steele, as a “sleazeball” whom he claims had an ax to grind against Trump and was hungry for money. Steele pocketed at least $168,000 for his series of opposition-research memos accusing Trump and his aides of conspiring with Russian intelligence to hack the Clinton campaign and leak stolen e-mails.
On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) requested the Justice Department open a criminal investigation of Steele for making possible “false statements,” a development Page says “makes me increasingly confident that the justice system is going to do the right thing.”
Page contends that, in fact, it was the Obama government that interfered in the election to derail Trump by using Steele’s so-called “intelligence reports” to target him and the campaign for investigation — and even secret surveillance.
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Good article: glad the Post ran it. I kinda like Carter Page. Smart, ballsy. Not afraid.
MAGA!!!
Our sides turn to leak now.
“The big dam holding back all the lies of 2016 that are still festering in DC is about to break in the New Year,” Page said.
Good
Even at the lowest level, these traitors all deserve maximum sentences (DEATH) and NO pardons. The only way to truly MAGA is to drain the DC swamp in such a way that fear of legal consequences lives in the minds of every politician and bureaucrat who works or will ever work there.
“Good article: glad the Post ran it. I kinda like Carter Page. Smart, ballsy. Not afraid.”
Please be careful. You could say exactly the same things about Steve Bannon. I say that with due respect. Both Bannon and Page are seekers of reflected glory from their proximity to others who are actually in charge and who actually have succeeded at something. In Bannon’s case, I would change “not afraid” to “reckless” and “disloyal”, but that’s only one difference in the overall comparison.
I have nothing negative to say about Page, but he is quite the tertiary player in the overall scheme of things.
This would appear to be defamation of the most rank sort; pick out a business type who lived in Russia and gave some speeches there (par for the course for Merrill Lynch which encourages participation like this to stir up publicity and business) and tar the guy because he had some tenuous connection with the Trump campaign, forcing him to spend zillions in criminal lawyer defense fees. And to use the government for this purpose is beyond contemptible. He should be able to financially ruin this bunch, including the “news” sources that posted these phony rumors.
I like Steve Bannon, too. I believe he probably should quit drinking, though. He sure stepped in it with Trump. Often something like that is enough to make a change.
Still a big fan of brietbart also.
I don’t give a rats a$$ if that bothers anyone.
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