The sniffing relates less to the name and more to what he was doing. They’ve been portraying Carter as someone who joined Trumps staff and then embarrassed him or worse. This suggests that he was a CIA spy all along. So it’s a fraud on the justice system and on the American people.
About Carter Page, something that never did make a lot of sense was why someone who was a globalist Merrill Lynch investment banker and promoter of Russian/Central Asia oil & gas would be attracted to Trump, who is an American economic nationalist and wanted to hugely ramp up US oil & gas production at the expense of OPEC and the Russians.