Posted on 09/30/2019 1:48:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The discussion was another instance of the president using American diplomacy for potential personal gain.
President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call.
The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, one of the officials said, an unusual decision that is similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president that is at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. Like that call, the discussion with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia shows the extent to which Mr. Trump sees the attorney general as a critical partner in his goal to show that the Mueller investigation had corrupt and partisan origins, and the extent that Mr. Trump sees the Justice Department inquiry as a potential way to gain leverage over America’s closest allies.
And like the call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the discussion with Mr. Morrison shows the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.
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again..this is about messaging..new polling shows support for impeachment jumped...which is expected. its still about 50/50 but heading in the wrong direction. its not bad but its not good. Everybodys wondering why more republican senators are saying much..trust me, they are watching how this plays out, polling and other wise..
Ask “Ambassador” Downer.
sad but true
It is very necessary to degrade Drudge on this because his proclivities have warped his moral reasoning.
I consider it RBG insurance. If Trump is under formal impeachment, they will argue a POTUS under impeachment can not nominate SC justice. Even if that argument is not successful it will buy them time, they can drag impeachment hearings out for months.
Drudge needs a dirt nap.
Yours is the first post to mention Downer.
PDJT will expose the role of the UK, Aussies, Italy(?) in Brennan’s plot to bring down the executive branch.
It is no worse than the jihadis on Delta Flight 93 who intended to take out Congress . . . with the exception of just more bodies.
What a BS spin to put on this. I hate the US news media.
sen burr is a p*ssy
You’re right. The latest polling shows 47% of the electorate support impeaching Trump. That’s up from 35% just 1 week ago.
As long as the media is complicit in driving the narrative, Trump will be on the defensive.
Barr had better have all his “I’s” dotted and “T’s” crossed or the Dems and the media will spin this in their favor as well.
As if they’re all getting their marching orders from... It’s starting to look like the Deep State goes all the way to Hell.
Why have Australian governments tipped money into Hillary Clinton’s Clinton Foundation helping to kill our coal industry? That it gave Julia Gillard a job and effectively a platform to continually spruik Hillary Clinton for president shows just how this very dodgy Foundation works.
JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE THAT THE LEFTARDS STICK TOGETHER. JULIA GILLARD, LABOR PRIME MINISTER, SPENDING TAX PAYERS FUNDS LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW.
Trump has got to hit the “this is what happens when an outsider wins”...
The sedition of and coup of DONALD J TRUMP is going on in the country!
And yet you sit and not a peep is heard from you! Supposedly you are the Chairman of one of the most important committees in the senate that TRUMP campaigned his ass off for in 2016! And your counterpart in the house lies and pews more lies every minute of every day and can not be trusted with secrets and no one does anything and YOU KNOW THE Secrets!
You also knew them when obama was illegally signed off on in 2008!
We the voters are tired of this kind of government! Please finally step up and do your duties SIR! We know we elected you as an honorable person and that there are pressures we do not know you have to endure - but please finally do some of the right things we elected you to do - if you do have grandchildren you owe it to them!
You have been a big disappointment in your support of TRUMP to date and your committee Chairmanship TO DATE - but this is much bigger than TRUMP! It could be the beginning of the end of our Constitutional Republic!
I’m sure he will never see it!
SENT THIS TO MY SENATORS !
The sedition of and coup of DONALD J TRUMP is going on in the country!
And yet you sit and not a peep is heard from you! Supposedly you are the Chairman of one of the most important committees in the senate that TRUMP campaigned his ass off for in 2016! And your counterpart in the house lies and pews more lies every minute of every day and can not be trusted with secrets and no one does anything and YOU KNOW THE Secrets!
You also knew them when obama was illegally signed off on in 2008!
We the voters are tired of this kind of government! Please finally step up and do your duties SIR! We know we elected you as an honorable person and that there are pressures we do not know you have to endure - but please finally do some of the right things we elected you to do - if you do have grandchildren you owe it to them!
You have been a big disappointment in your support of TRUMP to date and your committee Chairmanship TO DATE - but this is much bigger than TRUMP! It could be the beginning of the end of our Constitutional Republic!
I’m sure he will never see it!
SENT THIS TO MY SENATORS !
The sedition of and coup of DONALD J TRUMP is going on in the country!
And yet you sit and not a peep is heard from you! Supposedly you are the Chairman of one of the most important committees in the senate that TRUMP campaigned his ass off for in 2016! And your counterpart in the house lies and pews more lies every minute of every day and can not be trusted with secrets and no one does anything and YOU KNOW THE Secrets!
You also knew them when obama was illegally signed off on in 2008!
We the voters are tired of this kind of government! Please finally step up and do your duties SIR! We know we elected you as an honorable person and that there are pressures we do not know you have to endure - but please finally do some of the right things we elected you to do - if you do have grandchildren you owe it to them!
You have been a big disappointment in your support of TRUMP to date and your committee Chairmanship TO DATE - but this is much bigger than TRUMP! It could be the beginning of the end of our Constitutional Republic!
I’m sure he will never see it!
And like the call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the discussion with Mr. Morrison shows the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.
So say a couple of PMS at the NY Slimes.
Partisan Media Shills update.
Who cares what Fudge puts on his site. He exists because of traffic. Stop visiting his site and use alternatives. Fudge is no friend of conservatives. He is a swamp inhabitant. Always will be.
Your argument presupposes a failure of Drudge’s reasoning for his website articles because of his sin (according to your opinion). Isn’t your argument’s basis based upon feelings you have? Shouldn’t, we, as conservatives base our disagreements on fact and reason? Haven’t we all sinned? I think we should address each others thoughts/opinions with accompanying reason and respect. I’m not saying I agree with the direction The Drudge site appears to be drifting. I’m saying that we should oppose our peers opinions without the bigotry your comment displayed.
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