Ex-Trump Aides Brush Off Reports Of Campaign Communications With Russia
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 16, 2017, 10:31 AM EDT
Two former Trump campaign aides on Wednesday brushed off allegations that they had made contact with Russian officials, including intelligence officials, during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Carter Page and Roger Stone responded to a Monday report from the New York Times in which they, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn are named. Citing four unnamed current and former officials, the Times reported that members of Trump’s campaign had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.”
Asked specifically about that charge multiple times by PBS "News Hour"'s Judy Woodruff Wednesday, Page did not directly deny contacting Russian officials. He did deny any meetings with them, but said he “might have said hello to a few people” when he gave a graduation speech at Moscow’s New Economic School in July of last year. Otherwise, he painted questions about his ties to the country as political smears.
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and admit that they were carrying out espionage? 
