Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Tuesday tried to distance himself from Donald Trump and said he has never emailed, spoken, or met with the man.
“I’ve never spoken with him any time in my life,” Page said on ABC.
When asked if he ever had any direct contact with Trump in any form, such as a phone call, an email or a text, Page replied, “Never.”
Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page, at the center of memo showdown, sits down one-on-one with @GStephanopoulos: https://t.co/7Ix4gLnOwM pic.twitter.com/epEtQUCHvG— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 6, 2018
Page denied reports that at various points in his life he worked with the Russian government and said many of these allegations were misrepresented by the media.
The former informal adviser said the FBI and Justice Department’s alleged decision to base a FISA warrant request off information in a Democratic-funded dossier was evidence of “obstruction of justice.”
“What I’ve seen thus far is just complete ridiculousness,” said Page, who pointed out that the New York Times originally turned down reporting on the GPS Fusion dossier.
Page said he was not on the FBI’s radar in 2013, but had been a witness in a case and supported them in their investigation.
“You gave docs to someone charged with espionage,” Stephanopoulos stated.
“See, this is sort of spin because I was teaching a course down Broadway here at NYI and I told them a couple of things about what I was talking about in my course, and I gave them a couple of my notes, from the … or documents I gave my students,” Page said. “It sounds — giving documents, to a quote unquote spy — it sounds a lot worse than reality, but that’s reality.”
Page struggled to defend his 2013 statement that he had worked as an “informal adviser to the staff of the Kremlin.”
“There were a lot of people advising. We were part of an informal group,” said Page.
