Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page: Released memo is vindication
The man at the center of the storm over allegations of illegal surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department said Friday that the memo released by House Republicans vindicates him.
The memo alleged that Justice officials acted improperly when they used an unverified dossier prepared by a former British spy to renew a surveillance warrant for Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
Page, speaking from Britain, told The Post that the memo’s release would help “restore law and order in our great country.”
“The brave and assiduous oversight by congressional leaders in discovering this unprecedented abuse of process represents a giant, historic leap in the repair of America’s democracy,” Page said.
“Now that a few of the misdeeds against the Trump movement have been partially revealed, I look forward to updating my pending legal action in opposition to DOJ this weekend in preparation for Monday’s next small step on the long, potholed road toward helping to restore law and order in our great country,” he said, referring to a federal lawsuit he filed against the government.
Page has had a lucrative career doing business with Russia and its state-run gas industry and had been on the FBI’s radar since at least 2013 because of meetings he held with Kremlin-connected Russians.
He has not been charged in the special counsel’s probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election.
The memo linked ex-British spy Christopher Steele to senior Justice official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to prepare the Trump dossier.
Steele, according to the memo, admitted to Ohr that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”
Ohr’s revelations about Steele’s bias “prove sleazeball Steele’s agenda” against Trump, said Page.
“It’s all rubbish,” Page said of the dossier, “at least every word about me.”
Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks