579 █ █ █ █ █ █ Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 580 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 581 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 582 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ The Office was unable to obtain additional evidence or testimony about who Page may have met or communicated with in Moscow; thus, Page’s activities in Russia—as described in his emails with the Campaign—were not fully explained. d. Later Campaign Work and Removal from the Campaign In July 2016, after returning from Russia, Page traveled to the Republican 583 National Convention in Cleveland. While there, Page met Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak; that interaction is described in 584 Volume I, Section IV.A.6.a, infra. Page later emailed Campaign officials with feedback he said he received from ambassadors he had met at the Convention, and he wrote that Ambassador Kislyak was very worried about candidate 585 Clinton’s world views. Grand Jury█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 586 █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ . Following the Convention, Page’s trip to Moscow and his advocacy for pro- Russia foreign policy drew the media’s attention and began to generate substantial press coverage. The Campaign responded by distancing itself from Page, describing him as an “informal foreign policy advisor” who did “not speak 587 for Mr. Trump or the campaign.” On September 23, 2016, Yahoo! News reported that U.S. intelligence officials were investigating whether Page had opened private communications with senior Russian officials to discuss U.S. 588 sanctions policy under a possible Trump Administration. A Campaign spokesman told Yahoo! News that Page had “no role” in the Campaign and that 589 the Campaign was “not aware of any of his activities, past or present.” On 590 September 24, 2016, Page was formally removed from the Campaign. Although Page had been removed from the Campaign, after the election he