Lewandowski: 'My memory has been refreshed' on Carter Page Moscow trip

Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, said Tuesday night his “memory has been refreshed” regarding his email exchange with Carter Page in which the former foreign policy adviser requested Lewandowski’s permission to travel to Moscow.

Page, who testified last week before the House Oversight Committee as a part of its ongoing probe into Russian election meddling in 2016, told congressional investigators in testimony revealed Monday that he had asked the former Trump campaign chief and Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, about his trip to Moscow in 2016 in which he met with Russian officials and discussed the presidential campaign.


During an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, Lewandowski maintained that he scarcely knew Page, whom he described as a “low-level volunteer” in the Trump campaign.

“To the best of my recollection, I don’t know Carter Page. To the best of my knowledge, Carter Page … had no formal role in the campaign,” Lewandowski said. The former Trump campaign manager had similarly told Fox News in March that he “never met Carter Page.”

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Lewandowski, who’d previously rebuffed questions about whether he knew of Page’s planned Moscow trip, was challenged on his statements during an appearance Tuesday night on Fox News and acknowledged that he had been aware of the trip and communicated with Page about it.

“My memory has been refreshed,” Lewandowski said, while noting that the exchange came just before he left the campaign and so “there were many other things on my mind.”

Lewandowski stressed that he told Page the trip was not to be done under the veil of Trump campaign business.

“All I was clear about was if you’re going to travel, please do not pretend to be a part of the campaign and say that you are part of the campaign, because you are not,” he said.

Lewandowski’s recollection aligned with what Page told lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week.

“If you’d like to go on your own, not affiliated with the campaign, you know, that’s fine,” Page recalled Lewandowski telling him about the Moscow trip.

