Carter Page, occasion Mr . trump campaign foreign policy adviser, said Monday he’s been interviewed with the FBI during its investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
The interviews, that she called “extensive discussions,” came ahead of James Comey’s firing as FBI director in May, Page said. Page, an energy consultant who traveled to Moscow last summer to give a speech while advising the Trump campaign, has become a target of the FBI investigation, in addition to the probes being pursued via the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, which are all looking at the potential for collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
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“During my extensive discussions while using the FBI agents just weeks before Comey’s departure, they acknowledged that i am a loyal American veteran but indicated that their ‘management’ was concerned i would not believe the conclusions on the fake January 6 intelligence report,” Page said within a statement, mentioning people assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia sought to sway the presidential election in Trump’s favor.
“I said excitedly that I learned the lessons in the intelligence failures of your original Dodgy Dossier from 2003 which cost america 1000s of service members lives and also a trillion dollars,” he continued. “Our frank and open conversations supplied me with confidence there are still logical, honest individuals at the Bureau who respect civil rights as well as Constitution, quick grown timbers . recent devastating relation to our democracy by self-centered politicians over the rest the Clinton-Obama-Comey regime.”
Page has previously claimed to be the victim on the civil-rights conspiracy because of possible government surveillance of his communications.
The Washington Post first reported that they ended up interviewed by the FBI.