Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page accused academics who twice failed his PhD of bias
Andrusz said he had expected it would be “easy” to pass Page, a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas). He said it actually took “days and days” to wade through Page’s work. Page “knew next to nothing” about social science and seemed “unfamiliar with basic concepts like Marxism or state capitalism,” the professor said.
The viva, held at University College, London, went badly. “Page seemed to think that if he talked enough, people would think he was well-informed. In fact it was the reverse,” Andrusz said. He added that Page was “dumbfounded” when the examiners told him he had failed.
Their subsequent report was withering. It said Page’s thesis was “characterised by considerable repetition, verbosity and vagueness of expression”, failed to meet the criteria required for a PhD, and needed “substantial revision”. He was given 18 months to produce another draft.
On t.v., he needs 18 months to put together a coherent sentence. I still think he’s a sham. If you read his bio on Wikipedia (I know...), except for his investment banking company, it’s VERY impressive. And it is quite possible, that his first PhD. advisor, very well COULD have had anti-American bias; I doubt that’s all that uncommon.
Who knows for sure? Either way, he’s an odd-acting character.