Stephanopoulos Grills Carter Page: ‘You’re an Adviser to the Kremlin, Then You’re an Adviser to Trump’

George Stephanopoulos had Carter Page on Good Morning America on Tuesday, and grilled the former Trump campaign adviser over his past claims about advising the Russian government.

Page, who is at the center of the current controversy over the alleged FBI and Justice Department FISA warrant abuses, claimed that the so-called Nunes memo put out by Republican lawmakers proves he was improperly surveilled.

Page told Stephanopoulos on GMA that he thought there was no “due process” in his surveillance by the FBI, and that the Constitution “was just shredded.”

Stephanopoulos countered that wiretapping warrants require probable cause, and that Page “had been on the FBI’s radar for working for Russia for several years.”

Page explained a number of his past run-ins with the FBI, before the ABC News anchor stepped in to remind Page that he once wrote that he served “as an informal adviser to the staff of the Kremlin.”

“So you were recruited at one point by a Russian agent, then you wrote yourself that you were an informal adviser to the Kremlin. So that does lead people to believe: ‘is this guy working with Russia?'”

“These are your words,” Stephanopoulos pressed after Page dismissed his own past comments. “You’re advising the Kremlin.”

“You can understand how that would raise questions and could lead to probable cause,” Stephanopoulos continued. “On the one hand, at one point you say you’re an adviser to the Kremlin, then you’re an adviser to Donald Trump.”

At the end of the interview, Page — who was a foreign policy adviser on the Trump campaign — claimed that he had never spoken to the now-president in his life.

Watch above, via ABC News.

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