Carter Page — a former foreign policy adviser for President Trump — appeared in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to press his defamation case against Yahoo and The Huffington Post.
Page is representing himself in the case that revolves around a 2016 story that claimed that officials were looking into whether he had private communications with Russian officials.
He declared in court that “[These are] completely false allegations that totally misrepresent who I am.”
The story, headlined “US intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin,” claimed he had talks with Igor Sachin, the CEO of Rosneft Oil, and Igor Diveykin, the former Russian security official.
It’s believed the pair is at the center of Russian interference in the last election.
Carter claims he went to Russia to give a speech and his trip to Moscow was unrelated to his volunteer position as President Donald Trump’s adviser.
Carter said he never met with the two men.
The parent company for Yahoo and the Huffington Post, Oath Inc., has filed a motion to dismiss.
Oath claims “the reporting we did was 100 percent substantially true,” attorney James Rosenfeld said.