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The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 11:08 PM Nov 2017

An amazing thread on the Carter Page testimony.

You'll die laughing. He'll die in jail.

https://tttthreads.com/thread/927704357444947968

1. Page 49 of the Page transcript. Dude... even GOWDY was like "Are you KIDDING ME? CUT THE BS!" 😂😂😂😂😂 This stuff is RIVETING.
2. OMG Gowdy's all "did you tell Trump ppl you were going to Moscow?" Page "err um zz rbirbri yeah. Multiple people". G: "WHY THE HELL?"
3. P "Well I wanted to be careful there were started to be rumors about Russia in press!" Gowdy "If you were being careful WHY DID YOU GO?"
4. P. "well I was trying to live my life!" G " If it was UNRELATED to Trump campaign why did you feel need to email them?" 😂 I am laughing .

And on for another 42 tweets. You've never seen anything like this. Apparently even Gowdy nailed him. And Schiff positively eviscerated him.


The Page transcript is here:
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017.pdf
All 243 Pages of it.
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An amazing thread on the Carter Page testimony. (Original Post) The_jackalope Nov 2017 OP
So weird Not Ruth Nov 2017 #1
The man can come up with some brilliant ideas: L. Coyote Nov 2017 #6
Carter Page On Why He Withheld From The Committee L. Coyote Nov 2017 #2
Dr. Page....OMFG Not Ruth Nov 2017 #3
Priceless. You can almost hear Page gulp eleny Nov 2017 #5
Cant... quite... Geechie Nov 2017 #9
So he told Lewandowski and Hope Hicks about his invitation to go to Russia eleny Nov 2017 #4
Lewandowski: "I will testify under oath, to the best of my recollection, I have never met him. L. Coyote Nov 2017 #7
Oh he's twisting in the wind now eleny Nov 2017 #8
Page is a stark raving lunatic. His writings are that of a madman. Pepsidog Nov 2017 #10
I couldn't agree with you more, actually. WheelWalker Nov 2017 #11
He LOOKS like a madman. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2017 #14
O.M.G. peggysue2 Nov 2017 #12
Yes, he is. Duppers Nov 2017 #13
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
1. So weird
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 11:16 PM
Nov 2017

I had to Google the village idiot. He taught at Yale.

Bizarre. He must write better than he speaks.


Early life

Carter Page was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 3, 1971,[5] the son of Allan Robert Page and Rachel (Greenstein) Page.[6][7] His father was from Galway, New York, and his mother was from Minneapolis.[8] Allan Page received bachelor's and master's degrees from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and was a manager and executive with the Central Hudson Gas & Electric Company.[9] Carter Page was raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated from Poughkeepsie's Our Lady of Lourdes High School in 1989.[10]

Career

Military
Page graduated in 1993 from the United States Naval Academy; he was a Distinguished Graduate (top 10% of his class) and was chosen for the Navy's Trident Scholar program, which gives selected officers the opportunity for independent academic research and study.[11][12][13] During his senior year he worked as a researcher for the House Armed Services Committee.[14] He served in the Navy for five years, including a tour in western Morocco as an intelligence officer for a United Nations peacekeeping mission.[15] In 1994, he completed a master of arts degree in National Security Studies at Georgetown University.[15]

Business
After leaving the Navy, Page completed a fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations[16] and a master of business administration degree from New York University. In 2000, he began work as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in the firm's London office, was vice president of the company's Moscow office,[3] and later served as COO for Merrill Lynch's energy and power department in New York.[12] Page has stated that he worked on transactions involving Gazprom and other leading Russian energy companies; according to business people interviewed by Politico in 2016, Page's work in Moscow was at a subordinate level, and he himself remained largely unknown to decision-makers.[3]

After leaving Merrill Lynch in 2008, Page founded his own investment fund, Global Energy Capital with partner James Richard;[17] another partner in that venture is a former mid-level Gazprom executive, Sergei Yatsenko.[3] The fund operated out of a Manhattan co-working space. Other businesspeople working in the Russian energy sector said in 2016 that the fund had yet to actually realize a project.[3]

Page has also instructed and lectured at the college level. In 2012, he received his PhD from the University of London.[18] He ran an international affairs program at Bard College,[19] and taught a course on energy and politics at New York University.[20]

Foreign policy
In 1998, Page joined the Eurasia Group, a strategy consulting firm, but left three months later. In 2017, Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer recalled on his Twitter feed that Page's strong pro-Russian stance was "not a good fit" for the firm and that Page was its "most wackadoodle" alumnus.[21]

Page was the recipient of an International Affairs Fellowship (1998–1999) from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and has remained a consistent participant and contributor there since his fellowship, for instance with at least 9 panel appearances for CFR events between 2007 and 2009.[22][23] He has also written columns in Global Policy Journal, a publication of Durham University[3] in the UK.

He has expressed views in support of Russian president Vladimir Putin[3] and harshly criticized U.S. policy,[12] and was characterized as "a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did" by a U.S. official.[4] He is frequently quoted on Russian television as a "famous American economist".[3]

In August 2017, news accounts indicated that Page had been the subject of a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant in 2014.[24]

eleny

(46,166 posts)
4. So he told Lewandowski and Hope Hicks about his invitation to go to Russia
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 11:22 PM
Nov 2017

Mueller will have some questions for Hicks.

Oh, and btw, Lewandowski is cooked. He's was baked into all this mess from way back when.

Haven't you been waiting for this?

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
7. Lewandowski: "I will testify under oath, to the best of my recollection, I have never met him.
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 11:33 PM
Nov 2017


https://www.mediaite.com/online/corey-lewandowski-reportedly-introduced-carter-page-to-trump-campaign/

.....Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller is reporting that “multiple sources” have told him that the Trump staffer who brought suspected Russian agent Carter Page into the campaign is former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. .................

Lewandowski did not initially respond to the Daily Caller‘s requests for comment, but he did reach out after their story was published. “I would recall a meeting, most likely,” he said. “I don’t recall that meeting ever taking place, because I don’t think it ever took place. What I’m saying is I’ve never met [Page], and I will testify under oath, to the best of my recollection, I have never met him.”

Previously, Lewandowski had also denied any contact with Page during interview with Jeanine Pirro on Fox News last month. “I’ve never met or spoken to Carter Page in my life,” he said. “I was on the campaign for 18 months, I never met the guy, and for anybody to say otherwise is factually inaccurate. I don’t know who Carter Page is, I never had a conversation with Carter Page, I never met Carter Page, and anybody who says otherwise is not being truthful.”

............


Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
10. Page is a stark raving lunatic. His writings are that of a madman.
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 01:35 AM
Nov 2017

As a former state prosecutor I used to read appellate legal briefs written by pro-se individuals that went on for many pages but was nothing but gibberish. Carter Page’s letters to congress and Mueller remind me of those briefs. His citations and conspiracy rants show the mind of a madman. It’s chaos. The public cannot possibly understand all this psycho-babble. Our republic is doomed, I fear unless Mueller can excise this cancer ASAP!

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
14. He LOOKS like a madman.
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 11:46 AM
Nov 2017

He can get that big eyed look in his eyes which reminds me of Manson.
I've listened to him talk, on tv shows. Serious pressured speech and "flight of ideas". Wonder if maybe he is bi-polar.
Or just coke...who knows anymore.

Apparently, acting crazy is not a negative in Trump campaign/world.

peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
12. O.M.G.
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 02:28 AM
Nov 2017

How many times does "Dr." Page refer to the dodgy dossier?? Talk about circuitous answers. The man's all over the place.You can almost sense the committee rolling their eyes with this testimony.

Incredible!! I've read 85 pages of this testimony, staying up wa-a-ay past my bedtime. Page did not answer one frigging question without embroidering his way to Hell. This is a lesson in how to testify to ensure your guilt.

I thought Page was playing a fool on TV. No. He really is a fool.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
13. Yes, he is.
Tue Nov 7, 2017, 11:16 AM
Nov 2017

He so bad that he's almost pitiful. MSNBC's Chris Hayes showed some sympathy for the fool during his recently interview.

He must've been deprived as a child because he loves attention so much that he'll say anything for it. Excuse me, he still is a child.

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