Former Trump Campaign Adviser Carter Page Met With Russian Spy Back in 2013

A new report out tonight reveals that Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser on the Trump campaign, had met with a Russian spy in 2013.

Victor Podobnyy was charged back in 2015, according to BuzzFeed, “alongside two others for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government.”

BuzzFeed obtained the court filing that shows Podobnyy had talked about “trying to recruit someone identified as ‘Male-1.'” They confirmed that this individual was, in fact, Carter Page:

Page confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Monday that he is “Male-1” in the court filing, and said he had been in contact with Podobnyy, who was working at the time at Moscow’s UN office in New York City under diplomatic cover, although he was really an SVR agent. Pressed on details of his contact with Podobnyy, Page said their interactions did not include anything sensitive.

According to the complaint, Page met Podobnyy in January 2013 at an energy conference in New York. It says that from January to June of that year, Page met with, emailed with and “provided documents to [Podobnyy] about the energy business.”

Page’s potential connections to Russia have been in question for months now. A month ago today Anderson Cooper grilled him for over 20 minutes on the subject.

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