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Carter page embarrasses himself answering russia questions
Carter Page (born 1971 or 1972) is an American oil industry consultant. Donald Trump named him as a foreign policy advisor to his presidential campaign, which campaign staffers later denied. Page is the founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital, a New York investment fund and consulting firm specializing in the Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business.
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- Carter page embarrasses himself answering russia questions
- Carl bernstein calls carter page interview it the most painful thing he s ever seen
- Military
- Business
- Foreign policy
- Trump 2016 presidential campaign
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Carl bernstein calls carter page interview it the most painful thing he s ever seen
Military
Page is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He served as a Marine intelligence officer in the Western Sahara.
Business
Page worked as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in London, New York and Moscow (2004-2007). In Moscow, he held the title of vice president and COO for that office's energy and power department, and worked on transactions involving Gazprom and other leading Russian energy companies. According to businesspeople interviewed by Politico in 2016, Page's work in Moscow was at a subordinate level, and he himself remained largely unknown to decision-makers.
After leaving Merrill Lynch in New York in 2008, Page founded his own investment fund, Global Energy Capital; his partner in that venture is former mid-level Gazprom executive, Sergei Yatsenko. 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.
Foreign policy
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. He has also written columns in Global Policy Journal, a publication of Durham University.
He has expressed views in support of Russian president Vladimir Putin and harshly criticised U.S. policy, and was characterized as "a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did" by a U.S. official. He is frequently quoted on Russian television as a "famous American economist".
Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Page was one of five people named as foreign policy advisors by Donald Trump in March 2016. Trump campaign staffers later said, however, that Page had never met or briefed Trump and that was put on Trump's list of advisors at a time when Republican foreign policy specialists were distancing themselves from Trump.
In September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials investigated alleged contacts between Page and Russian officials subject to U.S. sanctions, including Igor Sechin. Page rejected the accusations and said he would take a leave of absence from Trump's campaign. In January 2017, Page's name appeared repeatedly in the leaked Donald Trump–Russia dossier containing contract intelligence from the former British Intelligence operative Christopher Steele in the employ of a private American firm, which alleged a pattern of close interactions between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, reporting which has engendered controversy as of mid-January 2017. In January 2017 Page was under investigation by the FBI, CIA, NSA, ODNI, and FinCEN. Page has said that he has done nothing wrong.