--- title: Carter Page: Not A 'Substantial Part' in Trump Campaign description: Carter Page said that he "was not a substantial part of the campaign" after being quizzed about his closeness to Trump canonical: https://time.com/4766402/carter-page-trump-campaign-russia/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-04T04:11:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:13.256Z article:section: Politics og:title: Carter Page: Not A 'Substantial Part' in Trump Campaign og:description: His links with Russia have come under scrutiny in recent months og:url: https://time.com/4766402/carter-page-trump-campaign-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted0fe0196b057718/6988cbf18e06010f5b46a3c0/rtx3560l.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3204 og:image:height: 1802 og:image:alt: FILE PHOTO: One-time advisor of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump Page addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carter Page: Not A 'Substantial Part' in Trump Campaign twitter:description: His links with Russia have come under scrutiny in recent months twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted0fe0196b057718/6988cbf18e06010f5b46a3c0/rtx3560l.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Former Adviser Carter Page Says He Was 'Not a Substantial Part' of Trump's Presidential Campaign > Sponsored content. 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Sergei Karpukhin—Reuters by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui May 4, 2017 4:11 AM UTC Carter Page, who briefly served as a foreign policy adviser in President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, and whose [links with Russia](http://time.com/4697851/carter-page-trump-russia/) have come into question in recent months, said Wednesday that he “was not a substantial part of the campaign.” Page made the [comments in an interview](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/859940856098369536) with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, in which he was also quizzed on the many conflicting accounts of his closeness to Trump and key operatives of the Republican presidential campaign, as well as how he represented his role within the campaign to U.S. and Russian media respectively. Trump has said that he has never met Page, while Page has stated that he had been in meetings with the future President. Page and the extent of his involvement in the Trump campaign came under scrutiny during an ongoing probe into potential connections Trump’s associates may have had with Russia, as well as any influence Moscow may have exerted. Cooper pressed the former investment banker on whether he had brought up proposals to ease economic sanctions against Moscow with others in the campaign. “I don’t talk about internal discussions or things that may have been confidential internally,” Page said, adding that there was “no specific conversation that I can recall” on the issue. Earlier [in the interview](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/859937260510347265), when asked if he had discussed the issue during a three-day visit to Moscow, Page told Cooper that such conversations “is like talking about the weather” in Russia. “But I did not talk about changing the weather, let’s just put it that way,” he added, before telling Cooper that he had “no recollection” of specific conversations. “In all instances, I told everyone that I was not there representing the Trump campaign,” he said. Last month, the Washington _Post_ reported that the FBI and the Department of Justice [had obtained a secret court authorization](http://time.com/4735678/carter-page-trump-russia-fisa-warrant/) to monitor Page’s communications, saying there was reason to believe he may have been acting as a Russian agent. \[[CNN](https://twitter.com/CNN/status/859940856098369536)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4766402/carter-page-trump-campaign-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4766402/carter-page-trump-campaign-russia/"},"headline":"Former Adviser Carter Page Says He Was 'Not a Substantial Part' of Trump's Presidential Campaign","datePublished":"2017-05-04T04:11:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:13.256Z","description":"Page's involvement in the campaign came into focus during a probe into potential links between Russia and the Trump campaign","url":"https://time.com/4766402/carter-page-trump-campaign-russia/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted0fe0196b057718/6988cbf18e06010f5b46a3c0/rtx3560l.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted0fe0196b057718/6988cbf18e06010f5b46a3c0/rtx3560l.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FILE PHOTO: One-time advisor of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump Page addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow","caption":"FILE PHOTO: One-time advisor of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump Page addresses the audience during a presentation in Moscow","creditText":"Sergei Karpukhin—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4766402/carter-page-trump-campaign-russia/","name":"Former Adviser Carter Page Says He Was 'Not a Substantial Part' of Trump's Presidential Campaign"}}]}] ```