Thread by @LauraChin

1) Wow! On Mornings With Maria Bartiromo, Carter Page dropped information I've never heard before. MSM news outlets had inside info about a Trump Campaign Investigation months before the Yahoo hit piece in Sept 2016. @MariaBartiromo @carterwpage @POTUS

2) This stunning news indicates leaks and maybe even political hit collaboration between various MSM organizations very early on in the Trump campaign. The FBI not only wiretapped Carter Page, they also hacked him and possibly others.

3) Please hear what I’m saying. They HACKED Carter Page & they likely HACKED other campaign officials. This means they had access to all of their emails about campaign strategy & I believe they may have been passing that info on to the DNC & the press for most of 2016 & forward!

4) Additionally, Carter Page seems to indicate that members of the Senate and House Committees who interrogated him passed information along to press outlets to smear his name.

5) Even more stunning is the statement that Mueller’s Grand Jury was made up of some significant Democrat Donors. That seems very odd to me. How do SIGNIFICANT DEMOCRAT DONORS happen to be selected to serve on the Special Counsel's Grand Jury? Am I interpreting this correctly?

6) That really stuns me as a former member of a grand Jury. Not only that, but someone who is part of that Grand Jury proceeding apparently leaked information to damage the reputation of both Carter Page and the Trump campaign. Just Wow!

7) I heard rumors over a year ago that the infamous Trump Dossier had been peddled to many news outlets and they refused to touch it, knowing it was very sketchy, in the least, and completely unverifiable.

8) I also heard (again, I am stressing these are rumors) that many members of the MSM and others had access to an UNREDACTED VERSION of at least one FISA application made by the FBI. If true, that would be absolutely stunning and I’m certain quite illegal.

9) Back to the interview. Carter Page seems to indicate here that multiple MSM were coordinating with the DNC and possibly even the Mueller team in an attempt to smear both him and President Trump. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

10) Maria Bartiromo: Your name came out in the press back in September 2016 after what we believe was an article, news, fake news, really, that was leaked to Yahoo. It was Michael Isikoff, was the writer.

11) Maria continued: He obviously was the recipient of information from intel sources where it says, “U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump advisor and the Kremlin,” That’s when your name first became synonymous with all of this. Tell us what happened from there.

12) Carter Page: Look, I started, actually months before that, I start getting these calls from various contacts at Fusion GPS. First respectable news agencies like Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, all asking me about these same false allegations...

13) ...which this London-based opposition research guy is getting paid tons of money by the DNC and also by the same time he’s getting these undercover payments from the DNC but also getting money from the FBI, as Judicial Watch has been able to uncover. @JudicialWatch

14) Bartiromo: And were you colluding with the Russians? Were you colluding with the Russians to try to get Donald Trump elected?

15) Page: I have always followed the law...everywhere. It’s interesting because not one thing, I probably spent more time than any Trump supporter that’s known in Russia in 2016, not one time did anyone asked me to do anything illicit, illegal, even unethical in any way.

16) Bartiromo: But you have plenty of sources, this has been your business. You’ve worked for the FBI before, you’ve worked with intel agencies before, about surveillance, so you were a friend of the FBI.

17) Page: Not only was I a friend, I also did it as an upstanding American citizen for free. Service for my country, I was not paid one cent. But as Judicial Watch has uncovered through their court proceedings and FOIA requests 11 payments to this guy Steele in 2016.

18) At the same time he’s getting funneled money undercover from this law firm Perkins Coie to do this opposition research and basically funnel it back into the, eventually into the FISA court. (check out this link to @JudicialWatch FBI archives: judicialwatch.org/blog/category/… )

19) Bartiromo: So your name gets involved you become a target of Fusion GPS and this dossier. Your name gets into the press as a result of them leaking these stories and you start getting death threats. Your life changes completely.

20) Page: Absolutely. You really have to kind of keep & go low profile. It’s basically living an international fugitive lifestyle. The sad part about it is, Maria, is I tried telling Dir. Comey about this, sent him a letter on Sunday 9/25/16, right after that Yahoo news article.

21) Page cont: And, you know saying, calling this thing a Witch Hunt and just nothing, they did nothing in the months that followed, in October and January he sends two false affidavits to the FISA court, abuse of process in a US federal court. (Did he say FALSE AFFIDAVITS?)

22) Bartiromo: So as a way to get a warrant from the FISA court to wiretap you, and when you wiretap you, you’re not just getting your phone calls but you’re getting all the communications. Explain to the audience what wiretapping is.

23) Page: What’s interesting about is I think these fake media outlets are always trying to spin this as , "well he left the campaign." I took a leave of absence from the campaign, but all the people I was working with...said you’re definitely still part of the Trump movement.

24) Page cont: So I was a big supporter and unfortunately you know the people I stayed in touch with, all our communications, not just wiretap, I got hacked for over a year. You know, they talk about a couple of Podesta emails and DNC emails.

25) Page cont: All of my communications with members of the Trump team, Trump supporters, were all intercepted illegally based on these false affidavit people like Comey and Dana Boente and all these guys.

26) Bartiromo: Just to be clear, you were never charged with anything.

27) Page: Not only was I never charged, you know. All these Witch Hunt interrogations I went through with Muller’s Band Of Angry Democrats and these various Senate and House Committees. They never even asked me one question which even comes close to doing anything illegal...

28) Page cont: ...in terms of things I actually did. It was all things that these Democrat consultants were paying for to basically smear my name and you know get me in trouble. And actually, leading to these death threats that you correctly alluded to.

29) Bartiromo: It was very convenient because you were part of the Trump movement & they had wiretaps & hacking going on. So they saw all your emails & they saw all who you were communicating with. Maybe they got a sense of what the Trump campaign was planning against their girl,

30) Bartiromo cont: Hillary Clinton, who they were obviously protecting. So, what I want to ask you about is not just the hacking and the wiretapping. Because they used the articles that we referred to, the Yahoo article, as part of evidence to get the wiretap against you.

31) Bartiromo cont: So it was the media, and it was the dossier. That’s what they presented to the FISA court.

32) Page: Absolutely. And also in his fake Muller Report which came out, you know, all of his Band Of Angry Democrats. The majority of people that interrogated me in the Grand Jury were significant Democrat donors, right?

33) Page cont: And so, basically it’s just a clean up act right now to try to make me look as bad as possible, make President Trump look as bad as possible and his entire campaign and you know all of his supporters.

34) Bartiromo: You know what’s truly incredible here is we are learning what the FBI uses in terms of their sources and methods. And this is really a dangerous part of this, because, in addition, because of this cabal of people, these fraudsters like Peter Strzok & the others...

35) Bartiromo cont: opening up everything that the FBI does because now there’s an investigation on. We are learning that the FBI uses informants & George Papadopoulos told us about this on Sunday. I had George Papadopoulos on who had all of this outreach from intel officials...

36) Bartiromo cont: from Britain, from Australia, from Italy. And they were informants luring him in, it was entrapment.

37) There is a lot more information on this excerpt from George Papadopoulos that is fascinating. I encourage you to watch his interview in it’s entirety. Watch it more than once, because there’s a lot of information in there that doesn’t sink in the first time you hear it. /end/

@threadreaderapp please unroll

I want to emphasize here that Mueller’s team AND the various Senate/House Committees did NOT question Page about illegal activity but more about info used as a SMEAR campaign against Page, @POTUS etc.

Really?

These are our LAWMAKERS & LAW ENFORCERS!!!

#DrainTheSwamp