Trump Adviser Carter Page Traveled to Moscow Before RNC Platform was Changed to Favor Putin

[kpete]

Just days before Republicans adopted a new, more Russia-friendly plank into their party platform, one of Donald Trump’s top advisers visited Moscow in July to deliver speeches criticizing decades of U.S. foreign policy.

Global energy investor Carter Page joined Trump’s team in March. Since then, Page has criticized U.S.-Russia policy in a number of public speeches

Page also suggested the United States should ease economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its 2014 incursion into Ukraine and Crimea, which was condemned in an overwhelming vote in the United Nations. In exchange for sanctions relief, Page said, American companies might be invited to partner with Russian firms to exploit Russia’s oil and gas fields.

The week after Page’s speeches, Trump operatives persuaded Republican Party convention delegates to drop from the party’s platform a call to send arms to Ukraine to help defend the country following Russia’s 2014 occupation and subsequent annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/25/1574079/-Trump-Adviser-Carter-Page-Traveled-to-Moscow-Before-RNC-Platform-was-Changed-to-Favor-Putin

...While business transactions may seem innocuous in and of themselves, getting the full picture of Trump confidantes’ investments in Russia could provide essential information about his potential political conflicts of interest.

“In Russia, where business and the state are so closely linked, business dealings automatically imply ties to people high up in government as well,” said Kathryn Stoner, an expert in U.S.-Russia relations at Stanford University…

Howard Lorber, a friend of Trump’s and a major donor to his campaign, has significant investments in Russia, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday…

Boris Epshteyn, a Trump surrogate who frequently appears on television and describes himself as a senior adviser to the campaign. The Russia-born investment banker and attorney moderated a panel at an October 2013 conference in New York City called “Invest in Moscow!” The panel was mainly comprised of Moscow city government officials…

Trump’s inner circle’s ties to Russia are particularly concerning because the candidate appears to be getting his information from a limited set of sources, Stoner said..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-advisers-russia-ties_us_57acd474e4b007c36e4db94c
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/carter-page-trump-russia_us_57a0f329e4b0693164c2fb41

[napkinz]

1. K&R

[roamer65]

2. This guy loves SCO.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

It is the public outcropping of the Sino-Russian axis.

He's a GD Putin lover.