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Controversial former Trump adviser touted Kremlin ties

Page speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill last year

A FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISER BRAGGED ABOUT HIS ties to the Kremlin in an August 2013 letter obtained by TIME. “Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser to the staff of the Kremlin,” Carter Page wrote to an academic press in a dispute over edits to a manuscript he had submitted for publication. The letter raises

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