had been told to the fisa court about the funding, it's not at all clear to me that the fisa order wouldn't have been issued anyway. after all, christopher steele wasn't employed by the dnc or hillary. he was hired by fusion gps. and what about the date of the first of those four fisa applications, october 21. the presidential campaign, the wikileaks dump had already taken place. the third and final presidential debate was two days prior. if the aim were to undermine the trump campaign and prevent his election, you would think that this deep state apparatus would have mobilized much sooner. no? and actually, the russian investigation was under way before carter page having nothing to do with him or fisa. it was in july of 2016, three months before the first fisa court application that the probe was begun. it was after trump campaign adviser george psaid they had