[Principled]

Downer was tricked, instructed, or coerced to meet with Papa. That does make sense.

What doesn’t make sense is why would Papa just up and request a meeting with Downer to say “hey mate, I’ve got some dirt on a candidate of a foreign election....”

Something stinks. Both of them were likely corralled into this.

[EVO X]

Downer was a Clinton toady.

https://thehill.com/376858-australian-diplomat-whose-tip-prompted-fbis-russia-probe-has-tie-to-clintons

[naturalman1975]

What doesn’t make sense is why would Papa just up and request a meeting with Downer to say “hey mate, I’ve got some dirt on a candidate of a foreign election....”

Well, he didn't. They discussed more than just that. That may have been the only bit that anybody is interested in, but it's not all that was discussed.