The Mystery of Trumps Man in Moscow. Reports of deep Russian ties swirl around Trump adviser Carter

[bearssoapbox]

Page. Oddly, nobody in Russia seems to have heard of him. By JULIA IOFFE-September 23, 2016

This article gets into the Carter Page story a little deeper.

I started to scan it, but ended up reading the entire story. I don't know if it's how it's written or the strangeness/oddness of the subject, (Carter), or both. But I liked it.

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“Strangely, I've never heard of Carter Page until this Trump connection,” Bill Browder responded to me in an email. He was one of the biggest Western players in the Russian market until President Vladimir Putin turned on him and Browder became his fierce critic. “It's odd, because I've heard of every other financier who was a player on Moscow at the time.”

>snip<

Enter Carter Page, a 44-year-old Ph.D., and business school graduate who claims an expertise in Russia and energy, yet who, I quickly discovered, was known by neither Russia experts nor energy experts nor Russian energy experts. (“I can poll any number of people involved in energy in Russia about Carter Page and they’ll say, ‘Carter who? You mean Jimmy Carter?’” says one veteran Western investor in Russian energy.) Page also, as I would be surprised to discover, appears largely unknown to Trump’s own campaign.
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I had no idea who Carter Page is other than him being mentioned a few times in the news.

I got the impression that he's forgettable and important only in his own mind and like trCHUMP, a useful idiot to be used by putin to cloud an issue if it needs to be clouded.

The article is a little long but I found it interesting

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the-mystery-of-trumps-man-in-moscow-214283

[roamer65]

1. Personally, I think Page is GRU.

Seems like his main goal stateside is disinformation.

[Demtexan]

2. He is strange.

I want not sit next to him on a bus.

[bearssoapbox]

5. I agree

He's one you keep watch out of the corner of your eye.

Just because.

[Demtexan]

7. Yep.

I would rather just stand for the trip.

He is not all there.

[bearssoapbox]

4. If he isn't GRU then he's being used as a useful idiot

easily manipulated by the GRU.

[MLAA]

3. Very interesting article. Thx for posting.

[bearssoapbox]

6. Your welcome

The things you run across while looking for something else.

I was looking to see if trCHUMP had tweeted anything since this morning. Nothing has shown up on his twitter feed since 9:28am.