A former Trump campaign adviser claims the Obama administration used false Russian propaganda underwritten by the Hillary Clinton campaign to illegally spy on him. The material, he says, was used to frame him as a Russian spy, in a scheme to derail Trump’s bid for the White House and later cripple his presidency.

The aide’s name is Carter Page, a native New Yorker and the main target of the controversial anti-Trump dossier, which is now the subject of a congressional and possibly criminal investigation. Depending on who you believe, he is either an agent for the Russian government or a victim of political espionage carried out by his own government.