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Luke Harding and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Fri 22 Dec 17 01.00 EST
Carter Page, Donald Trumps former foreign policy adviser, accused his British examiners of anti-Russian bias after they took the highly unusual step of failing his verbose and vague PhD thesis, not once but twice.
Page was a little-known oil consultant who lived and worked in Moscow when he joined Trumps campaign in March 2016. The then-candidate named Page as one of five foreign policy advisers, calling him Carter Page PhD in a meeting with the Washington Posts editorial board.
In fact, Page took three attempts to gain his doctorate from the University of London, finally succeeding in 2011.
In emails seen by the Guardian, Page compares his decade-long struggle to get a postgraduate qualification to the ordeal suffered by Mikhail Khodorkovsy the Russian oligarch sent to a Siberian prison by Vladimir Putin.
In one unhappy note to his examiners, he writes: Your actions to date have been far more destructive than anything I have personally experienced in my 39 years on this planet. The fate of Khodorkovsky, he adds, represents the closest analogy in recent history to my trials.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/trump-carter-page-phd-thesis-trump
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)2naSalit
(86,840 posts)yardwork
(61,715 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)You basically get grilled by a panel of professors for a full hour.
I have a feeling that Carter Page would not fare well in such a situation.
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)2naSalit
(86,840 posts)Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)It's as if they gave up thinking while still toddlers.