The PM’s words could mean something or nothing – but it’s clear Alexander Downer did the right thing
It’s a strange old world for Australians to have woken up in. But it would appear that Donald Trump either suspects Alexander Downer is part of a leftist-inspired deep state conspiracy to bring down his presidency or, more likely, believes that it is useful to him politically to create that impression as he embarks on the 2020 campaign trail.
Just to be clear, we have arrived in this unexpected place because Downer did the correct thing. After George Papadopoulos, then a foreign policy adviser to Trump, told him Moscow had damaging information about Hillary Clinton “during a night of heavy drinking” at the Kensington Wine Rooms in London in May 2016, Downer, then Australian high commissioner to the UK, told the authorities.
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