Trump's assistant told about the "amazing information" received in Moscow

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Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser at President Trump’s campaign headquarters, told his headquarters colleagues that he had received some valuable information from Russian deputies and “high-ranking members” of the Russian presidential administration Vladimir Putin when he came to Moscow at the height of the election campaign.

In July 2016, Page sent an email to Trump aides saying that Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich "has expressed strong support for Mr. Trump and a commitment to working together to find better solutions to a wide range of current international issues." This is evidenced by the transcript of Page's six-hour speech to the House of Representatives committee that is investigating Russian interference in the American elections, writes "Voice of America»

As Page explained when answering the question about this e-mail, he did not mean that he had met with officials personally, but had learned about their views from local media, from scientists in Russia, and also from Dvorkovich’s speech at the conference, where he himself spoke Paige According to Page, he "greeted him briefly" with Dvorkovich.

Page’s contacts with Russian officials came to the attention of Congress’s investigations about the campaign, which, according to the findings of American intelligence, led Russia on Putin’s orders in order to undermine American democracy and help Trump to win the election.

In addition, Special Prosecutor Robert Muller directs the criminal investigation of Russian interference in the elections and the possible obstruction of justice by Trump upon the dismissal of the former FBI director James Komi, who led the Russian investigation into Muller, who was appointed contrary to Trump's objections.

Trump's other former foreign affairs adviser, George Papadopoulos, last month pleaded guilty to giving false testimony about his contacts with Russian officials and members of Trump's campaign headquarters. Papadopoulos is currently cooperating with the investigation.

A leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, said that Page’s testimony in Congress had challenged a public statement he had previously made that he had traveled to Moscow as a private person.

“He sends out a message saying that in private conversations with the Deputy Prime Minister and other members of the presidential administration and the Duma deputies, he received important information and words of support that he wanted to share with members of the election headquarters. This is at odds with what he said in his public statements, ”Schiff noted.

According to the Democrat legislator, Papadopoulos and Page's ties with Russia are two parallel attempts by Trump's campaign headquarters to establish contacts with Russian interests.

“They both report to the campaign headquarters, and the campaign headquarters is misleading the public about its awareness of this,” he said. “It can hardly be considered a coincidence.”

On Tuesday, the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives conducts a closed interrogation of Keith Schiller, who until September was the head of the organization of the Oval Office.

Among the questions of legislators to Schiller is the question of what he knows about Trump's visit to Moscow in 2013 and the 35-page file in which a former British intelligence officer told about Trump's behavior during the Miss Universe contest. Trump himself has spoken about these materials in a dismissive tone.

The work on the dossier was funded by Trump's rival elections, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and the National Committee of the Democratic Party.

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