CAMPAIGN/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE/CARTER PAGE: “Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, on Thursday [4-13-17] said he ‘can’t definitively say’ the issue of US sanctions on Russia ‘was never raised by anyone’ while he was in Moscow last July.
Page’s conversations with Russian officials last summer have come under scrutiny since an unverified dossier about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia named Page as a liaison between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the election.
The dossier said Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia’s state oil company, offered Page and his associates the brokerage of a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia. The dossier says the offer was made in July, when Page was in Moscow giving a speech at the Higher Economic School.
Page’s trips to Moscow and contact with at least one Russian official last year are now reportedly under FBI investigation, and The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that the FBI obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, warrant last summer to monitor his communications.”
-Natasha Bertrand, “Former Trump adviser on discussing sanctions with the Russians: ‘I can’t definitively say’ it never came up,” Business Insider, April 13, 2017