{"id":28735,"date":"2017-11-04T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T06:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28735"},"modified":"2017-11-04T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T06:12:44","slug":"trump-campaign-aide-met-russian-officials-in-2016-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28735","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign aide met Russian officials in 2016: NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON Nov 04 (TNS):<\/strong> A foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign met Russian government officials last year, the New York Times reported, citing testimony he gave this week to a US congressional committee.<\/p>\n<p>In numerous media interviews in recent months, the adviser, Carter Page, has either denied meeting Russian government officials during a July 2016 trip to Moscow or said he met \u201cmostly scholars,\u201d the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>Page sent an email to at least one Trump campaign aide describing his insights after conversations with Russian government officials and others, the Times reported, citing a person familiar with the message.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the email was read aloud during the closed-door testimony on Thursday to the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, which is investigating efforts by Russia to tip the November 2016 election in Trump\u2019s favor and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia says it did not interfere in the election and Trump has denied any collusion.<\/p>\n<p>Page played down the significance of the meetings in an interview with the Times on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a very brief hello to a couple of people. That was it,\u201d he said. Page said one of the people he met was a \u201csenior person,\u201d but would not confirm the person\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Special counsel Robert Mueller, who has impaneled a grand jury in his probe of the collusion allegations, charged Trump\u2019s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another aide, Rick Gates, with money laundering on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced the same day that another Trump adviser, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty early in October to lying to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Page was questioned by the FBI earlier this year and has also appeared before the grand jury as part of the special counsel\u2019s probe, the Times said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Nov 04 (TNS): A foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign met Russian government officials last year, the New York Times reported, citing testimony he gave this week to a US congressional committee. In numerous media interviews in recent months, the adviser, Carter Page, has either denied meeting Russian government officials during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[304,733],"class_list":["post-28735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-washington","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28737,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28735\/revisions\/28737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}