Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page accused academics who twice failed his PhD of bias
Luke Harding and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Fri 22 Dec ‘17 01.00 EST
Carter Page, Donald Trump’s former foreign policy adviser, accused his British examiners of “anti-Russian bias” after they took the highly unusual step of failing his “verbose” and “vague” PhD thesis, not once but twice.
Page was a little-known oil consultant who lived and worked in Moscow when he joined Trump’s campaign in March 2016. The then-candidate named Page as one of five foreign policy advisers, calling him “Carter Page PhD” in a meeting with the Washington Post’s editorial board.
In fact, Page took three attempts to gain his doctorate from the University of London, finally succeeding in 2011.
In emails seen by the Guardian, Page compares his decade-long struggle to get a postgraduate qualification to the ordeal suffered by Mikhail Khodorkovsy – the Russian oligarch sent to a Siberian prison by Vladimir Putin.
In one unhappy note to his examiners, he writes: “Your actions to date have been far more destructive than anything I have personally experienced in my 39 years on this planet.” The fate of Khodorkovsky, he adds, represents “the closest analogy in recent history to my trials”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/trump-carter-page-phd-thesis-trump
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