Australian government agreed to help Donald Trump investigate Mueller inquiry origins

[Mike 03]

Source: Guardian

Donald Trump called Scott Morrison and asked him to help in an investigation aimed at discrediting the Mueller inquiry.

The call, first reported by the New York Times but confirmed by the Australian government, happened shortly before the Australian prime minister flew to the US to visit Trump last week. White House sources also confirmed the report, the Australian ABC reported.

According to two officials with knowledge of the call, Trump asked Morrison to help the US attorney general, William Barr, find evidence for a review into the Mueller inquiry.

The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, echoing a strategy used to conceal Trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian president, the Times reported.

On Tuesday morning the Australian government confirmed the call had taken place and said Morrison had agreed to assist.

“The Australian government has always been ready to assist and cooperate with efforts that help shed further light on the matters under investigation,” it said in a statement. “The PM confirmed this readiness once again in conversation with the president.”

More at Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/01/donald-trump-urged-scott-morrison-help-discredit-mueller-inquiry

[Mike 03]

1. A little bit more:

On Tuesday, Downer happened to be a guest on ABC’s Radio National breakfast program, discussing China, when the story broke. “I had no idea until this moment you were going to talk to me about this,” he said.

“I’ve got nothing to say about it beyond what I’ve ever said. I don’t know anything at all about conversations that Scott Morrison has had with Donald Trump. These days it’s not something I am privy to.

“I had a conversation with this guy [Papadopoulos], I passed on one element of the convo to the Americans. There is nothing more to it.”

[dawg day]

7. You gotta wonder if Downer has to worry about being targeted

He is the only link, probably, between Australia and the FBI. And what did he do? Make something up? No. Spy on the US? No. He heard some drunken TRUMP AIDE bragging about Russian interference, and quite rightly shared this with his agency and then with their ally the US.

But Morrison is a paltry little fellow who would probably cravenly cave in and try to send Downer to be arrested here.
Reminds me of when Trump was so willing to send Ambassador McFaul back to Russia to "answer questions" from Putin's thug prosecutor. "Why not?" he said. "It's just to answer questions."

Jeebus.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Why would the Australian government agree to go along with this?

[Lindsay]

3. There are cooperation agreements

between the two countries.

We can only hope the Australians are reality-based, unlike Trump and his henchmen.

[MagickMuffin]

6. It is one man doing this: Australian prime minister Scott Morrison

Gotta wonder what kind of payback he is getting for digging up dirt???

[dawg day]

4. And this JUST happened--

The coverup is going on right this moment.

[NightWatcher]

5. Can we arrest him before he commits more crimes?

I know the answer but there must be some type of "timeout" that he can be put into to at least stop his current activities.

He'll break the law tomorrow and we'll find out about it later.

We must encourage the Senate to hold a private vote (if they'll give us assurances that they'll vote to remove).

[Doreen]

8. I am disappointed with Australia.

[Blue_true]

9. They have a very rich, super rightwing woman there that has corrupted

their politics. Her wealth makes Adelson look like a pauper. She is in Bezos' neighborhood.

[Doreen]

10. That is really to bad.

[canetoad]

11. Gina Reinhardt

Disgusting human being.