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"Q" cautions not to focus on the content of that call as much as the fact it involved leak of POTUS call with Turnbull. The bigger message is that new Trump team in WH knew they were bugged and potential leakers - so this was to expose Turnbull & subject matter as well as a leak monitoring op.

But the broader context of the call is interesting with additional hindsight since it happened - basically Turnbull was insisting that the US honor Obama agreement to take 2000 people that AUS wanted to get rid of. The question that arose was who are these people and how are they getting there. Then Trump points out the hypocrisy of AUS posture:

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Trump: What is the thing with boats? Why do you discriminate against boats? No, I know, they come from certain regions. I get it.

Turnbull: No, let me explain why. The problem with the boats it that you are basically outsourcing your immigration program to people smugglers and also you get thousands of people drowning at sea. So what we say is, we will decide which people get to come to Australia who are refugees, economic migrants, businessmen, whatever. We decide. That is our decision. We are a generous multicultural immigration nation like the United States but the government decides, the people’s representatives decides. So that is the point. I am a highly transactional businessman like you and I know the deal has to work for both sides. Now Obama thought this deal worked for him and he drove a hard bargain with us – that it was agreed with Obama more than a year ago in the Oval Office, long before the election. The principles of the deal were agreed to.

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So ... what was Obama planning to do with those people?