Former Trump campaign adviser: Any info given to Russian spies "immaterial" t.co
Former Trump campaign adviser: Any info given to Russian spies 'immaterial'
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 04/04/17 10:10 PM EDT
[ Absolutely. Carter Page was a nobody. His Russian handlers called him an idiot and they were right. He had no secrets to give up. Therefore what he gave the Russian spies was harmless. Still, that he was picked as a Trump advisor, makes the Trump team look bad.
He was an idiot who had nothing worthwhile to give Russia, but they thought he would give them stuff so someone promoted him as an "advisor."
Trumpers are in the position of defending this guy as a valuable national security analyst. ]
Carter Page, a former adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, said Tuesday any information he gave Russian spies in an encounter several years ago was "immaterial."
“Any information I could give is, again, immaterial and all public information,” he told ABC News during an interview Tuesday at a New York energy conference.
The comments come after a report Monday that Page met a Russian intelligence operative three years before the 2016 race and passed him documents.
He reportedly met with Victor Podobnyy, a Russian intelligence official whom the U.S. government later charged with acting as an unregistered agent for a foreign government.The January 2015 charges were filed against Podobnyy and two others after federal investigators busted a Russian spy ring looking for information on U.S. sanctions and alternative energy efforts.
Page confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Monday he is the person described as “Male-1” in the court filing, which states he encountered Podobnyy at a 2013 energy conference in New York City.
The filing says Page, an energy consultant, then met with, emailed with and “provided documents to [Podobnyy] about the energy business” from January to June of that year.
During a Monday interview with ABC News, Page said he cooperated in the case.
"I didn't want to be a spy," he said. "I'm not a spy."
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