Newly Discovered Letter Shows Trump Adviser Carter Page Claimed He Served As An Advisor To The Kremlin In 2013

Former Trump Adviser Carter Page

A 2013 letter obtained by TIME shows that former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page boasted that he had served as an adviser to the Kremlin.

This is the same Carter Page who has had trouble keeping his story straight regarding Russian contacts since coming into the spotlight of the ongoing probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The letter, dated Aug. 25, 2013, was sent by Page to an academic press during a dispute over edits to an unpublished manuscript he had submitted for publication, according to an editor who worked with Page.

“Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preparation for their Presidency of the G-20 Summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda,” the letter reads.

Page is at the center of a controversial memo from Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, released this week. The Nunes memo claims that in Oct. 2016 the FBI improperly received court permission to spy on Page, whom Trump had named as an adviser to his campaign in March 2016. The Nunes memo says the FBI based its request for eavesdropping permission on information provided by former British spy Christopher Steele while Steele was working for Democrats.

House Democrats, the FBI and the Justice Department have all raised questions about what they say are omissions and misleading analysis in the Nunes memo. They argue the FBI presented multiple pieces of evidence, beyond the Steele dossier, in their request for a warrant against Page from the secretive FISA court. But President Donald Trump argued after declassifying the memo that it showed that “a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves.”

“Advisor to the Kremlin” —maybe this was in the FISA application as well? https://t.co/mESDKMO2lL

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 4, 2018

This is the same Carter Page who was apparently such a critical player on the Trump team, that Trump views surveillance of Page as de facto spying on Trump. https://t.co/FOrC46Ifnw

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 4, 2018

Why Carter Page was worth watching: There’s plenty of evidence that the former Trump campaign adviser, for all his quirks, was on suspiciously good terms with Russia. https://t.co/2gPPAXlDzf

— POLITICO Magazine (@POLITICOMag) February 4, 2018

Here is collusion for you: Carter Page - if the letter he wrote in 2013 is accurate- admits to being a formal advisor to the Kremlin. Trump then hires him in March 2016. In July 2016- a month after we learn Russia hacked DNC - Page returns to Moscow to meet Russian officials! https://t.co/bAGxbn2p7x

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) February 4, 2018