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Is Donald Trump knowingly acting

as an agent of the Russian government

or is he just such a stooge

that it only looks that way by accident?

We are running out of other explanations.

And we need an explanation now

about an investment banker named Carter Page.

He did not come up in this week's debate.

Too much time was wasted

because of the defective automatic sniffling microphone

they gave the Republican nominee.

But Carter Page should have come up.

And we need him explained by you, Trump.

Because Carter Page is one of your guys.

Because Yahoo News is reporting

that US Intelligence agents are sifting through reports

that Page has met with a top aide

to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Moscow,

who is Putin's deputy chief for internal policy

and who is believed to be responsible

for the information collected

by the Russian Intelligence agencies

about the US presendential vote.

Translation, your guy reportedly met

with the Russian guy spying on our election in Moscow.

This is a problem, Trump.

This is your problem.

And before you say your people have resolved this

because KellyAnee Conway said

he's not part of

our national security or foreign policy briefings

that we do now at all,

certainly not since I have become campaign manager.

If he's doing that,

he's certainly not doing it

with the permission or knowledge of the campaign,

the activities that you described.

Or because another guy said that

relative to the campaign Carter Page has no role.

We are not aware of his activities, past or present.

what your toadies just said about Carter Page, Trump,

is different from what a different toadie

said about Page last month,

when she called him your informal adviser.

And it is also different

than what Carter Page

now tells a columnist from the Washington Post,

that he is taking a leave of absence

from his work with the Trump campaign

due to the controversy.

And that his travels to Russia this past July,

again quoting,

Page said that he made it clear

that he was acting in his personal capacity

and not as a member of the Trump campaign.

So now all four of these quotes are different

than what said, Trump, in March.

The Washington Post asked you for the names

of your foreign policy team

and the second guy you named was Carter Page,

who our spies think met with Russian operatives

in an attempt to undermine US policy,

who is on your foreign policy team,

or isn't on your foreign policy team,

or is an informal advisor,

or is acting without the campaign's knowledge

but he has to take a leave of absence

from the foreign policy team he's not on.

We all already know, Trump,

about the day you encouraged the Russians

during a live news conference,

to hack Hillary Clinton's e-mails.

To commit a kind of

electronic age international version of Watergate

that would have benefited you.

And we know how you tried to worm your way out of that

by calling it sarcasm.

And we already know about our government's reported belief

that the Russians have already hacked

into the Democratic computers,

a conclusion you mocked during the debate

suggesting the real culprit

might be a 400 pound guy sitting on a bed.

And we already know about

the day you looked like a complete moron

when you said Putin, a dictator,

was a greater leader than President Obama

because Putin, who is a dictator,

had higher approval ratings

because you're too stupid to realize

that the approval ratings in Russia for the Russian dictator

may not exactly be legit.

And we already know about your second campaign manager,

this slimy Manafort guy,

and the strings that connect him to Putin

and a pro Russian political party in the Ukraine.

We need to know about this Carter Page

and why his name was the second one on your list

when you were asked for your foreign policy advisors

because, Trump, you probably won't understand any of this.

But Carter Page may have also done something even worse

than allegedly meeting with the Russian

in charge of spying on our presendential election.

Yahoo news also reported

the government is investigating whether your man Carter Page

also met with somebody in the Russian hierarchy

who talked about possibly lifting our economic sanctions

against the Russians, if you become President.

That talk, which by itself violates Federal law.

Carter Page says of all this,

all of these accusations are complete garbage,

which would be easier to believe, Trump,

if your campaign had not put out

four separate statements

about who he is and what he is doing for you.

You have to explain this buccaneer now, Trump,

because if you don't,

if you don't explain the continuing embrace you have

of a murderous regime, of a malevolent country like Russia,

you will face far bigger questions than just

who is Carter Page?

Those questions are simply these.

Trump, do you believe our elections are sacrosanct

and must not, under any circumstances,

be influenced by any other government?

Trump, do you already have a deal in place

to reward a country

that may have already hacked the political party

of your opponent in this election?

Trump, are you loyal to the concept of democracy?

Trump, are you loyal to the United States of America?

That's The Closer.

I'm Keith Olbermann.

Watch this space.