Turning The Page

Why can’t Donald Trump’s former adviser, Carter Page, get his answers straight on his contacts with Russian officials? 

As Carter Page began his media tour on Thursday, it seemed his efforts to clear his name were being overrun by events in real-time. “I’m public enemy number one,” Page said as he sat down for interviews with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Thursday and CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday. If he was that before the interviews, the heat turned up after them.

44-year-old Page, you’ll remember, is the former adviser to the Trump campaign with a penchant for Moscow’s foreign strategic interests. Page also has the dubious honor of being repeatedly named in the dossier of alleged compromising intelligence on Donald Trump, collated by former British spy, Christopher Steele.

“The dodgy dossier,” Page called Christopher Steele’s findings in his interviews. The dossier does indeed contain some spectacular claims, but Steele’s record has been endorsed by the FBI and some, but definitely not all…