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Another day, another unfathomable Trump outrage. Such is the price we all pay, these days.
Who is Carter Page, ally of Trump, and staunch repeater of “blanket denials”… ?
Memos: CEO of Russia's state oil company offered Trump adviser, allies a cut of huge deal if sanctions were lifted
by Natasha Bertrand, businessinsider.com -- Jan 27, 2017
A dossier with unverified claims about President Donald Trump's ties to Russia contained allegations that Igor Sechin, the CEO of Russia's state oil company, offered former Trump ally Carter Page and his associates the brokerage of a 19% stake in the company in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on Russia.
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"Sechin's associate said that the Rosneft president was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft," the dossier said. "In return, Page had expressed interest and confirmed that were Trump elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted."
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Page was an early foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign. He took a "leave of absence" in Septemberafter news broke of his July trip to Moscow, and the campaign later denied that he had ever worked with it.
‘Denial’ is just not a river in Egypt— it’s SOP for the shadowy associates that keep promising things in Trump’s name. For a Price.
Who is “Carter Page, PhD”— once a minor satellite in Trump’s orbit? (And now under investigation.)
Politico described Mr Page like so, way back in Sept 2016 …
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Reporters quickly Googling found that Page is the founder and managing partner of an investment fund called Global Energy Capital, and that he claims to have years of experience investing in Russia and the energy sector. As for his connection to Trump, when Page was reached for comment by the New York Times the day after Trump’s big reveal, he said he had been sending policy memos to the campaign and the paper said he “will be advising Mr. Trump on energy policy and Russia.”
Those are some mighty big ambitions, for someone about to be thrown off the Trump Campaign band-wagon. It seems there was a lot of competition for that Trump advisor role —have Russian connections, they’ll hire!
Who is “Igor Sechin” again —so called CEO of Russia’s National Oil company — and enthralled contactee of Carter Page last summer?
Well gq.com described him this way ...
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The Steele Dossier
Earlier that month on December 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his right-hand man, Igor Sechin, announced that they had successfully sold a 19.5 percent stake in Russia’s largest state-owned oil company, Sechin’s Rosneft, for a whopping 10.2 billion euros (or $11 billion). Sechin bragged that it was the largest privatization in global oil and gas in 2016.
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One of Vladimir Putin’s closest deputies, Sechin is ostensibly an oil tsarwhose salary has afforded him a tremendous amount of clout. He has a hostile relationship with the press and has sued multiple outlets for publishing stories about his lifestyle. In the past, Rosneft has held extensive business ties with ExxonMobil—the very same ExxonMobil that until recently was headed up by now Secretary of State (and recipient of Putin’s Order of Friendship) Rex Tillerson. Exxon and Rosneft had arranged for a $500 billion offshore-drilling venture as recently as 2012, but Obama’s 2014 sanctions during the Ukraine crisis clamped down on business dealings with Russia, effectively kneecapping the deal and costing Exxon $1 billion in the process. [...]
It seems the constantly repeated bargain chip of the “Friends of Trump” whenever they do their back-room envoy-gigs to Russia: is the promising of the “Lifting of Sanctions” against Russia, IF and when Donald J Trump ever gets elected.
Of course, all that for a Price… there’s always a quid-pro-quo Price, in Trump’s back-room auction house.
Currently that Price is being paid by the Public at large — in the form of attacks on the Media, the demotion of common reality to “so-called” Fake-Facts, and the obliviousness to the role and the meaning of America’s First Amendment.
What a Deal!