Carter William Page was born on June 3,1971 and is an American petroleum industry consultant and a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign.
38 Facts About Carter Page
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Carter Page was a focus of the 2017 Special Counsel investigation into the many suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies and Russian interference on behalf of Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
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Carter Page has filed four lawsuits, all were dismissed by courts.
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Carter Page was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 3,1971, the son of Allan Robert Page and Rachel Page.
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Carter Page's father was from Galway, New York, and his mother was from Minneapolis.
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Carter Page was raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated from Poughkeepsie's Our Lady of Lourdes High School in 1989.
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Carter Page graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy in 1993; he graduated with distinction and was chosen for the Navy's Trident Scholar program, which gives selected officers the opportunity for independent academic research and study.
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Carter Page served in the US Navy for five years, including a tour in western Morocco as an intelligence officer for a United Nations peacekeeping mission, and attained the rank of lieutenant.
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Carter Page has stated that he worked on transactions involving Gazprom and other leading Russian energy companies.
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The fund operates out of a Manhattan co-working space shared with a booking agency for wedding bands, and as of late 2017, Carter Page was the firm's sole employee.
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The building which contains Carter Page's working space is connected to Trump Tower by an atrium, a fact Carter Page referenced when describing his work for the 2016 Trump campaign in a 2017 letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Carter Page received a PhD degree from SOAS, University of London in 2012, where he was supervised by Shirin Akiner.
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One of his original examiners later said Carter Page "knew next to nothing" about the subject matter and was unfamiliar with "basic concepts" such as Marxism and state capitalism.
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Carter Page later ran an international affairs program at Bard College and taught a course on energy and politics at New York University.
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In 1998, Carter Page joined the Eurasia Group, a strategy consulting firm, but left three months later.
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Over time, Carter Page became increasingly critical of United States foreign policy toward Russia, and more supportive of Putin, with a United States official describing Carter Page as "a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did".
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Carter Page is frequently quoted by Russian state television, where he is presented as a "famous American economist".
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Carter Page was the subject of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant in 2014, at least two years earlier than was indicated in the stories concerning his role in the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
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Shortly after Carter Page left the Trump campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained another warrant from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in October 2016 to surveil Carter Page's communications and read his saved emails.
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In January 2017, Carter Page's name appeared repeatedly in the Steele dossier containing allegations of close interactions between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
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In October 2017, Carter Page said he would not cooperate with requests to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee and would assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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Carter Page said this was because they were requesting documents dating back to 2010, and he did not want to be caught in a "perjury trap".
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Carter Page expressed the wish to testify before the committee in an open setting.
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Former US Attorney for the District of Columbia Joseph diGenova, who was under consideration to join Trump's legal team in 2018, argued before and after release of the Mueller Report that the FISA warrants to surveil Carter Page were obtained illegally.
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The FBI applications to the FISA court to wiretap Carter Page were partly founded on the Steele dossier.
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On November 2,2017, Carter Page testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he had kept senior officials in the Trump campaign such as Corey Lewandowski, Hope Hicks, and JD Gordon informed about his contacts with the Russians and had informed Jeff Sessions, Lewandowski, Hicks and other Trump campaign officials that he was traveling to Russia to give a speech in July 2016.
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Carter Page testified that he had met with Russian government officials during this trip and had sent a post-meeting report via email to members of the Trump campaign.
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Carter Page indicated that campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis had asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement about his trip.
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Elements of Carter Page's testimony contradicted prior claims by Trump, Sessions, and others in the Trump administration.
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Carter Page testified that after delivering a commencement speech at the New Economic School in Moscow, he spoke briefly with one of the people in attendance, Arkady Dvorkovich, a Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet, contradicting his previous statements not to have spoken to anyone connected with the Russian government.
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Carter Page testified that he did not "directly" express support for lifting the sanctions during the meeting with Baranov, but that he might have mentioned the proposed Rosneft transaction.
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In June 2017, FBI received written confirmation from the CIA that Carter Page was an "operational contact" of the CIA from 2008 to 2013.
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In December 2019, the Justice Department secretly notified the FISA court that in at least two of the 2017 warrant renewal requests "there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause" to believe Carter Page was acting as a Russian agent.
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In October 2018, Carter Page unsuccessfully sued the Democratic National Committee, Perkins Coie, and two Perkins Coie partners, for defamation.
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On January 30,2020, Carter Page filed another defamation lawsuit against the DNC and Perkins Coie, naming Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann as defendants.
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The judge said that Carter Page admitted the articles about his potential contacts with Russian officials were essentially true.
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In January 2022, Carter Page lost an effort to revive the defamation case over Isikoff's article.
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On November 27,2020, Carter Page filed a $75 million suit against the United States, DOJ, FBI, and several former leading officials alleging they violated "his Constitutional and other legal rights in connection with unlawful surveillance and investigation of him by the United States Government".