Trump-Russia fall guy Carter Page is being hauled before the Senate Intelligence Committee
Who the hell is obscure Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, and what role did he play in Trump’s Russia scandal? Those are the questions the journalism community has been pursuing for the better part of a year. Now that he’s been exposed as having met with the Russian Ambassador, and then lied about it, and then admitted he lied, and was then thrown under the bus by Trump today, it turns out the Senate Intelligence Committee wants answers as well.
Carter Page is an American who spent much of his adult life living and working in Russia, and who was mysteriously hired by the Donald Trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser despite having no qualifications. We were able to definitively confirm earlier today that it was Jeff Sessions who first introduced Page to Donald Trump a year ago. The Trump campaign fired back, however, claiming that it was someone else who brought Page into the fold, and that it’s been cease and desisting Page for months.
In amongst all that chaos, with Carter Page realizing that the Donald Trump campaign is now trying to make him the latest fall guy in the Russia conspiracy, Page decided to do a pair of disastrous television interviews. On Thursday night he appeared on MSNBC and ended up implicating himself in the process. He tried again on CNN on Friday night, and ended up admitting to Anderson Cooper that he’s being hauled in by the Senate Intelligence Committee. But it gets stranger.
Page said that “I’m so excited” to testify before the Senate Intel Committee. No one is ever excited to be hauled before Congress as a suspect in an international treason conspiracy involving the president. Strangely, he didn’t sound sarcastic. He seems to be genuinely excited. Is he that desperate for attention? This the kind of person Trump hired for his campaign and then trusted to partake in the Russia conspiracy? Carter Page is a Scooby Doo villain. Contribute to Palmer Report
