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TRUMP ASKS USAG BARR TO LOOK INTO AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN SPYGATE
news.com.au/world/ ^ | 8/25/19 | news.com.au/world/

Posted on 08/25/2019 3:42:28 PM PDT by Liz

Despite Australia’s historically strong alliance with the US, Pres Trump specifically named Australia as a nation whose part in what he calls the “Russia hoax” must be thoroughly investigated. “I’ve declassified everything,” Mr Trump told AAP reporters. “ I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country.” Mr Trump described the Russia probe as “an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the president of the United States”.

In addition to President Trump’s allegations, his former campaign aide George Papadopoulos is also pointing the finger at Australia. Mr Papadopoulos has claimed Australia’s former high commissioner to the UK, Alexander Downer, set up a meeting and we were apparently discussing conspiracy stuff,” Papadopoulos said earlier this year. “I believe Australian and UK intelligence were involved in an active operation to target Trump and his associates,” Papadopoulos said. There has been no love lost between the two men, with Papadopolous referring to Downer as, “The Devil From Down Under” in his book Deep State Target.

In another unsubstantiated claim, Papadopoulos insists Mr Downer recorded their conversation with a phone. “The phone comes out again,” Papadopoulos writes in the book. “He must have grabbed it and held it up at least four times. “He is so aggressive, so hostile, it’s actually a bit intimidating.” Papadopoulos claims he was a victim of Australian, UK and US spy mission ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

“The Austaralian government categorically rejects any allegation that it sought somehow to interfere in the US presidential election,” said a DFAT spokesperson. However, Mr Downer did confirm that during the meeting, Mr Papadopoulos revealed Russia had damaging material on Mr Trump’s presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5eyes; alexanderdowner; australia; bommer; boom; coup; fiveeyes; spygate; trumpcampaign
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To: Tucker39

2020. Expect indictments


41 posted on 08/25/2019 9:34:14 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Candor7

Alexander Downer says:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Alexander+Downer&view=detail&mid=3745F0BFED86B1D1DD533745F0BFED86B1D1DD53&FORM=VIRE


42 posted on 08/25/2019 10:21:18 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Liz
Good it is about time. The way that the Australian High Commissioner just happened to be drinking with a Trump minion and then reported what he heard to the Obama intelligence agencies was a clear sting operation between US, UK & Commonwealth intelligence agencies and diplomatic corps.

It is time that Australia was outed.

43 posted on 08/25/2019 11:50:36 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Robert357

Hey there, take it easy. In Australia we have leftists and conservatives same as US. The leftists “own” the mass media, the public services, and especially the university/college elites. Our version of the US State Dept is called DFAT (dept foreign affairs and trade).

I can tell you you do not get an interview for a permanent position in DFAT unless you are a top 5pc of graduates. [[I have overheard this at upmarket cafes a number of times. I live in the Aussie “D.C.” designed by an American city planner, Walter Burley-Griffin.]]

Top 5pc? That means you are brainwashed as a globalist, like Ivy leaguers. So being top-of-class may get you an interview. Only a “proper” private school, high school, extra-curriculars and other social blue ticks will seal the deal. Family ties etc. Fabians? Jesuits? Could be. :)

These elites of the world of diplomacy have to be able to converse don’tcha know. No deplorables allowed. Downer is what the plebs of Australia would label “a toff”, just like the english “toffs”. Downer has the brit accent as well. Maybe just a case of too much estrogen. Maybe.

The takeaway - Australia has its Deep State just like the US ans Britain.


44 posted on 08/26/2019 1:06:20 AM PDT by rocknotsand (Rock. Not sand.)
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To: Tucker39

“Eventually push must come to shove. If POTUS Trump is serious about the guilty being held accountable and paying for their crimes. While in the opposite direction, as some on FR suspect, AG Barr, et al, are slow walking, paper shuffling, finessing it all, to run out the clock and let the entire Deep State skate. Trump won’t hold still for that. When Trump tells Barr to investigate Australia he will demand a report and an outcome at some point.”

I am getting tired of no real action coming from our side. If President Trump keeps permitting this two-tiered version of Justice where Republicans go to jail and Democrats get a wrist-slap and a promotion I will be forced to bail on the MAGA movement as a dud - a God-damned, disappointing, waste-of-everybody’s-time, dud.


45 posted on 08/26/2019 12:47:43 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Freeper formerly known as WMarshal.......)
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To: BrexitBen; grumpygresh

Agree. Yet, it is worse than establishing a two-tier system of justice that eventually will, as you say, destroy our republic.

The Obama Deep State attempt to take out candidate Trump is the equivalent of attempting to take out and replace an entire branch of government. Imagine illegally taking out an entire Congress or Supreme Court and replacing them with new members. The nation wouldn’t stand for it, yet it is so brainwashed with TDS, the plotters might get away with the coup against PDJT. Unfortunately, our nation will not.


46 posted on 08/26/2019 1:10:22 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: rocknotsand
thanks for sharing your insights. “...Hey there, take it easy. In Australia we have leftists and conservatives same as US. The leftists “own” the mass media, the public services, and especially the university/college elites. Our version of the US State Dept is called DFAT (dept foreign affairs and trade).....I can tell you you do not get an interview for a permanent position in DFAT unless you are a top 5pc of graduates. [[I have overheard this at upmarket cafes a number of times....”
47 posted on 08/26/2019 1:11:09 PM PDT by Robert357
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