Carter Page was not associated with the Trump campaign when the FISA warrants in question were approved. The first one was filed before Trump became a candidate..
Carter Page was linked to Trump. Hell, Democrats and their surrogate propaganda-pushing media attempted to paint the picture that Papadopoulos was a senior advisor / a key cog in the Trump campaign when they set him up and tried to claim he was proof that Trump himself was the compromised Putin agent they claimed him to be. The Democrats were trying to take down and use anyone linked to Trump so they could illegally squeeze them and force them to testify against Trump, even if that testimony was bogus and / or written for them.
You really wanna go there Easy? Well's just stroll down memory lane together shall we?
It's the old chicken and egg theory, Easy. Which came first, Trump's ties to Russia, or Russia's ties to Trump? Trump's ties to Russia started in the early 2000's. Trump has been trying to do business in Russia since he took the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow.
But when Trump announced he was running for President, he surrounded himself with a lot people who had strong financial ties to Russia. People like Carter Page, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, all of whom were already under surveillance by the FBI because of their business dealings with questionable people in both Russia and the Ukraine (in the case of Manafort and Gates), and those ties with Russia were ongoing througout their time with the campaign.
The FBI stopped surveillance of both Manafort and Carter while they worked for the campaign, but resumed it after they left.
As for George Papadopolous, I've seen his drama queen act on reality television. He is exactly the kind of person who would get drunk in a bar and brag about knowing where Hillary's missing emails were. What a tool! Now he claims he was "set up". So why did he lie to the FBI?
If all of these over 200 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian agents were all so innocent on the Trump side, why did all of the Trump staffers lie to the FBI about these contacts? Paul Manafort has confessed to giving the Republican voter data base to Konstantin Killimnik. These are things that actually happened and are contained in the court filings when Flynn, Papadapolous, Gates, Cohen, and others admitted to the Courts that they deliberately lied to the FBI.
General Flynn was the head of the NSA, who KNEW that the Russian Ambassador's phone calls were tapped, he knew that lying to the FBI was a criminal offence, and yet he lied to the FBI about what he said on that call. How dumb is that?
Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner, and other Trump staffers and advisors had to make numerous revisions to their security clearance documents because they lied on these forms about their contacts with Russia.
Then there's Trump continual promotion of Putin's propaganda, i.e. Putin's claim that Russia invade Afghanistan because of terrorist attacks on Russia. That's a lie, just as the whole Crowdstrike theory of Ukranian hacking the DNC. The "Deep State" is another Putin piece of propaganda.
As for Trump's actions, the Congress and the Senate, in a rare show of bipartisanship, both voted almost unanimously to take all authority for lifting Russian sanctions away from President Trump. That tells you everything you need to know about Trump and Russia. That and the fact that Trump has talked tough about Russia, but has yet to impose a single one of the sanctions he announced with such fanfare.
The Democrats weren't running any investigations of Donald Trump. Comey, Clapper, Brennan, McCabe, Mueller, and Rosenstein are all Republicans. It's always been the Republicans who investigated Donald Trump. And Republicans who made the decisions to investigate Donald Trump.
The American people demanded checks and restraints on this President. That is why they gave the House to Democrats. This is a criminal President who is only working to enrich himself and his cronies. The American people stayed home in 2016 and wouldn't vote for either candidate. That's how Trump won - with fewer votes than Mitt Romney received in 2012.
Americans turned out in record numbers in 2018 to take the highly gerrymandered House away from Republicans. The American people are sick of this public embarassment of a President. People are dying because of his decisions. Hundreds of people. Enough is enough.