Anons,
Could it be possible that this Papadopoulos thing was a reverse sting?
Instead of Weismann and the Special Counsel entrapping Papadopoulos, he was a participant in a sting on Weismann and the Special Counsel?
President trump, with input from strategically placed personnel within the Deep State (TM) may have been onto this scheme very early (Admiral Rogers), and positioned his own people to absorb the Deep State attempts.
It might be a long shot, but things will all come out in the end.
Maybe the same reason Carter Page knew.