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In a little-noticed interview in April, former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer spoke publicly for the first time about his barroom conversation with President Donald Trump’s campaign adviser that would serve as a catalyst for the FBI’s collusion investigation. Downer, the former high commissioner to the U.K., said he asked another Australian diplomat to contact the Trump aide, George Papadopoulos, for the meeting, which occurred around May 10, 2016, at London’s Kensington Wine Room. Over drinks, Papadopoulos mentioned Russians had information on Hillary Clinton that could prove damaging, Downer told The Australian in an April 28 interview. There was no indication...

Two months before the 2016 election, George Papadopoulos received a strange request for a meeting in London, one of several the young Trump adviser would be offered — and he would accept — during the presidential campaign. The meeting request, which has not been reported until now, came from Stefan Halper, a foreign policy expert and Cambridge professor with connections to the CIA and its British counterpart, MI6. Halper’s September 2016 outreach to Papadopoulos wasn’t his only contact with Trump campaign members. The 73-year-old professor, a veteran of three Republican administrations, met with two other campaign advisers, The Daily Caller...

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George Papadopoulos appears to have been targeted by three individuals with ties to British and/or U.S. Intelligence. Joseph Mifsud Alexander Downer Stefan Halper George Papadopoulos and Joseph Mifsud reportedly both worked at the London Centre of International Law Practice. Joseph Mifsud appears to have joined LCILP around November 2015. Papadopoulos appears to have joined LCILP sometime in late February or early March 2016 after leaving Ben Carson’s campaign. Per reports, Papadopoulos and Mifsud first met on March 14, 2016. The London Centre of International Law and Practice Limited (LCILP) is an odd institution. From their website: LCILP training emphasises the...

Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer, joined ABC.net 7.30 to discuss Trump campaign worker George Papadopoulos among other issues. Alexander Downer would not deny or confirm he met with Papadopoulos in London at a bar in 2016. Downer would also not say if the Mueller special counsel or FBI had interviewed him. As reported earlier by TGP — Alexander Downer is a former Clinton associate.

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People walk past the building that houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London, March 20, 2018. Share WASHINGTON — Long before its controversial roles in the 2016 Brexit vote and U.S. presidential election, Cambridge Analytica influenced elections in Africa. The data mining company, under fire for its alleged use of 50 million Facebook accounts to shape campaign messages for then-candidate Donald Trump, also played a role in elections in Kenya and Nigeria, according to new reports. The company's first involvement in Africa dates to the general election in South Africa in 1994. That election marked the end of...

Aussie Downer: You might not know the name of Alexander Downer, but you should. The former Australian Foreign Minister and current Australian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Downer is the person who actually started the ball rolling in creating the anti-Trump dossier. And, it turns out, he's a Clintonite. Downer sat down for a pint or two in a London pub with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos back in 2016. Papadopoulos claimed to Downer that the Russians had some nasty information on Hillary Clinton. Downer subsequently told the FBI. And the FBI then began investigating not Clinton, but possible...

Alexander Downer — the Australian diplomat whose tip to the FBI about a London pub conversation led to the massive probe of allegations of collusions between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia — is himself closely tied to a Chinese firm experts say is deeply involved in espionage against America. Just last month, all six top U.S. intelligence bosses warned Americans against using digital telecommunications equipment produced by Chinese smartphone producer Huawei.

The Australian diplomat whose tip in 2016 prompted the Russia-Trump investigation previously arranged one of the largest foreign donations to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable efforts, documents show. Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25 million in aid from his country to help the Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled in decade-old government memos archived on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.

FLASH: FBI Investigating Millions Of “Mishandled” Dollars Funneled To Clinton Foundation Another day, another scandal for the Clinton Foundation. According to reports, the FBI is investigating millions of “mishandled taxpayer” dollars funneled to the dubious non-profit from Australian taxpayers. Zerohedge reports via LifeZette: The FBI has asked retired Australian policeman-turned investigative journalist, Michael Smith, to provide information he has gathered detailing multiple allegations of the Clinton Foundation receiving tens of millions of mishandled taxpayer funds, according to LifeZette. “I have been asked to provide the FBI with further and better particulars about allegations regarding improper donations to the CF funded...

There is no way to evaluate the trustworthiness of anonymous sources and unpublished documents, so why try?At this point, it’s safe to say the publicly available reports muddle the Mueller investigation so much that the only thing we “know” is all sides have more than enough circumstantial evidence to justify their pre-existing hopes and dreams. Left-wing partisans would have you believe that Mueller has the goods on Trump, and that conservative critiques of Mueller’s team or the Clinton campaign’s role in creating the so-called Steele dossier are nothing more than bad-faith attempts to discredit the investigation and undermine faith in...

Who would have thought that just as Hollywood was falling apart, its box office receipts in the toilet and its most Oscar-laden producer being revealed to have spent the better part of his life in one, a new producer would come riding in on a white horse to save the entertainment industry and that producer would be... Sean Hannity?! Well, not by himself. The popular Fox News host is flanked by three more seasoned filmmakers — director/actor Kevin Sorbo, his wife, actress/writer Sam Sorbo and longtime screenwriter Dan Gordon. Their film — Let There Be Light — opened Friday in...

It appears that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is in deeper trouble than we once thought- Wasserman Schultz’s Republican congressional opponent Karen Harrington has just doubled her up in the 7/26-9/30 fundraising period. According to the latest FEC reports that had to be filed by 10/15, Harrington raised $712,197.57, and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was only able to raise $369,033.65. These numbers come on the heels of a head-to-head poll released last week that had Harrington a mere 4.5% behind Wasserman Schultz. Wasserman Schultz faced off with Harrington in 2010 and beat her by 22% points. But this is 2012, and...

President Barack Obama's re-election team has added a campaign office in Ohio, choosing this large southwest suburb as its second outpost in Greater Cleveland. Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, was scheduled to join local Obama supporters this evening for a grand opening event. Also scheduled to speak were Parma Mayor Tim DeGeeter and U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton, a Copley Township Democrat facing a tough battle against Republican Rep. Jim Renacci in a redrawn district. The Ridge Road office joins Obama for America field offices in Shaker Heights, Columbus, Middletown, Dayton and Chillicothe.

An independent poll released today shows Jeff Landry well ahead of Hunt Downer heading into Saturday's Republican runoff for the 3rd District Congressional seat. The automated telephone survey by ElectPoll shows Landry ahead 66-34 percent. The poll was conducted Sept. 27-28. The margin of error is +/- 4.21 percent. Respondents were registered Republicans who had voted in two of the last three primary elections (not including 2010). The winner of the runoff will advance to the Nov. 2 general election to take on Democrat Ravi Sangisetty to fill the seat left vacant when Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon decided to challenge...

Karl Rove, the man widely credited with engineering President Bush's two successful White House bids, is out with a new map showing the Illinois senator will take the White House in an Electoral College landslide, winning 338 votes to John McCain's 200. That would be the largest Electoral College victory since 1996, when Bill Clinton defeated Bob Dole in a 379-159 rout.

Latest deaths illustrates 'the evil' Canadians are fighting in Afghanistan, PM says Mike Blanchfield CanWest News Service; Ottawa Citizen Tuesday, September 19, 2006 OTTAWA - The suicide bombing deaths of four Canadian soldiers Monday while trying to give candy to Afghan children illustrates the "evil" they are fighting and the nobility of their cause, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "Nothing more than this incident illustrates the evil that they are fighting and the goodwill and the nobleness of the cause that they are taking to the Afghan people," Harper told the Commons as his government confronted its toughest political...

Alexander Downer is in for a tough day. He sits down this morning for the first ministerial-level tripartite talks with the US and Japan. Top of the agenda is the complex and vital issue of the rise of China. And Downer will be in a minority of one against our major ally and our biggest trade partner. These talks are not routine diplomacy. The US Secretary of State and the Japanese Foreign Minister have gone to a lot of trouble to be here together for today's session. They have a serious purpose: to arrest what they see as Australia's drift...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - In one of his more famous moments of talking Texas, President Bush described Australian leader John Howard as his deputy sheriff in the war on terror. But as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads into East Asia security talks here, she's finding there's another sheriff in these parts. Chinese officials are working closely with Canberra to hammer out an agreement that would recognize China as an open market and bring billions of dollars of business to resource-rich Australia. And Australia is doing everything it can to accentuate China's positives. Last year, the country's former defense minister,...