Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Atty General 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.
More info if you can access the story because of the paywall.
“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 similar to the handling of a July call with the Ukrainian president at the heart of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump”
Mr. Barr requested that Mr. Trump speak to Mr. Morrison, one of the people said. It came only weeks after Mr. Trump seemed to make military aid to Ukraine contingent on Mr. Zelensky doing him the “favor” of helping Mr. Barr with his work.
You gotta get on that MSN news feed. I don’t know when or why, but suddenly they’re buying the rights to every breaking story and posting without paywall.
This revelation is going to pose a quandary for Trump’s supporters here. So many of them are all in on the theory that the Steele Dossier and its presentation tot he FISA Court were the origins of the Trump Administration, despite all the evidence that the investigation began when an Australian diplomat told the FBI about a campaign official’s drunken boast about all the help the Russians were giving the campaign.
It appears that Trump wanted help on fully understanding the role of the Australians in alerting the FBI.
So what are Trump’s defenders to do… acknowledge several thousand erroneous posts about the “phony” dossier and FISA to acknowledge Trump’s clear interest in the Australian origins… or do they denounce Trump for spreading fake news about the Mueller investigation?
Russia call: Trump “joked” about Russia helping him in the 2020 election
Saudi Arabia call: Trump “joked” about how pesky journalists are and you have to be tough.
Did you see that man child mbs on 60 minutes last night? I wouldn’t let that guy drive a work truck. Clearly a spoiled fat kid. Next American president should just jovially throw a baseball in his direction on camera to emasculate him in front of his cult.
Mike Pence should be tap dancing right now. It’s all happening.
Even Trump is getting nervous about squeaky mike, look at him trying to spread his stank around:
Trump thrust his relationship with the vice president back into the spotlight last week, when the embattled president nudged reporters during a United Nations news conference to “ask for VP Pence’s conversation, because he had a couple conversations also” with Ukrainian officials.