Article by Megan Fox in "PJMedia":
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign, who was wiretapped by the FBI, spoke on Wednesday at CPAC. After Page had been accused by Democrats of being a traitor to his country for two years, the Mueller investigation "did not establish that Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election." Page was also exonerated by the Horowitz report, which also found the allegations in the Steele dossier to be false. Even so, Page's life was turned upside down and he has not recovered his reputation or been compensated for being spied on illegally.
"That
was one of the hardest days for me and my family in March of 2017," he
said, "the day [Adam Schiff] was on television reading from this fake
dossier." Page described having his phone tapped while he was working
with the Trump transition team: "Director Comey was asked about the
wiretapping of Trump Tower and my office was right next to Trump Tower
and I was in communications with so many of [the Trump team] my phone
was being monitored. All of our communications, emails, and my phone."
Despite
being vindicated by two investigations, the myth that Carter Page is a
Russian agent still exists, pushed by fake news and state agents and
Democrats. "I'm calling on Congress to have a Civil Liberties Act of
2020 to get reparations for the lives that have been ruined," Page said
to wild applause.
Page
became a household name when Michael Isikoff and Yahoo News conspired to
put out a false story based on the fake dossier, which was paid for by
the Clinton campaign. Suddenly, Page was being called a traitor to his
country on every news network. "In terms of being a public figure I had
no Wikipedia page until a couple hours after that report came out. So
much of it has been completely false. I think the problem is that
there's so much of a continuation of the lies we need to fight back
harder now."
Typing "Carter Page vindicated" into Google brings up a Vanity Fair article entitled "RUSSIAGATE D-LISTER CARTER PAGE TAKES HIS POST-MUELLER VICTORY LAP TO CAPITOL HILL," proving his point.
Carter
has become the face of wiretapping abuse of Americans. The entire swamp
was involved in it, from the Clinton campaign to the State Department.
The root of the scandal was that the Democrats decided to hire ex-spy
Michael Steele to get dirt on Trump. Steele claimed 12 false felony
allegations in the dossier and it spread everywhere before any
responsible media person could corroborate any of it. Carter Page was
wiretapped based on a bogus document. That should never happen again. Everyone should realize that Page would never have been wiretapped if
the Clinton campaign had not purchased that fake report from a former
British spy. Talk about election interference!
Page
believes legislation is needed to repair the damage, because "things
have not been done to right the wrongs like the fake dossier [and the]
lies upon lies. Just reading through those 480 pages, having lived
through this and suffered so many death threats, it goes way beyond and
we need some important action."
Page
praised President Trump for being one of the few people to stand up for
him and speak out about the wiretapping that poisoned American politics
with outrageous charges and lies. Page announced that he has written a
book called Abuse and Power, detailing what he went through for two years at the hands of the Deep State.