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Trump Pressed Australian Leader to Help Barr Investigate Mueller Inquiry’s Origins

insinceredawg
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/us/politics/trump-australia-barr-mueller.html

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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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

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  • DoogieMcDoogerson
    DoogieMcDoogerson Member Posts: 2,527
    And this is news? All it is is CNN trying to frame this headline in the same context as the Ukraine story to show a pattern. In this case, what he was doing is absolutely, entirely appropriate.
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  • insinceredawg
    insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
    SFGbob said:

    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

    Another item to add to the list of fake news that Gay Bob has peddled on this board.

    This clown fell for Pizzagate. HAHAHAHA
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    SFGbob said:

    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

    Bob resorts to his only defense of his hero. But but but Obama!!!
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    For those the were around Bob during Obama. How much did he bitch about Obama talking about the economy when he took over? Or pointing the finger at Bush?
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  • Rubberfist
    Rubberfist Member Posts: 1,373
    insinceredawg said:

    SFGbob said:

    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

    Another item to add to the list of fake news that Gay Bob has peddled on this board.

    This clown fell for Pizzagate. HAHAHAHA
    Wait, did Bob really fall for pizzagate? This can’t be true.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    edited September 2019
    insinceredawg said:

    SFGbob said:

    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

    Another item to add to the list of fake news that Gay Bob has peddled on this board.

    This clown fell for Pizzagate. HAHAHAHA
    Always love when dipshits like IC use their own ignorance to claim that someone else swallowed fake news.

    https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/mueller-report-donald-trump-thought-he-was-fed-over-russia-probe/news-story/5d9668b82905b4af2ff3703000450941

    And remember according to IC there's nothing that's been discredited in the Steele Dossier and the FBI didn't lie to secure a FISA warrant and even if they did it's a lie to say they spied on Trump.

    Keep it nice and stupid Kunts.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    2001400ex said:

    SFGbob said:

    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

    Bob resorts to his only defense of his hero. But but but Obama!!!
    Yeah, how dare you mention Obama when you talk about Australia's 2016 role in the investigation on the Trump campaign. What a fucking moron. This is just like when you cried like a bitch about people talking about Biden in connection with the phone call with Ukraine.
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  • insinceredawg
    insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
    2001400ex said:

    For those the were around Bob during Obama. How much did he bitch about Obama talking about the economy when he took over? Or pointing the finger at Bush?

    I feel sorry for anyone who actually knows Bob in real life. What a miserable, insufferable, and unlikable Kunt he is. At least most of the other Trumptards have a sense of humor and will post a gem here and there. With Gay Bob it's either fake news, whining about liars, or pedophile homoerotic fantasies. Nothing in between.
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  • insinceredawg
    insinceredawg Member Posts: 5,117
    Rubberfist said:

    insinceredawg said:

    SFGbob said:

    Gosh, I thought you leftists were all about finding out everything you could about the Mueller report.

    So let me get this straight, it was okay for Obama to use the FBI and the CIA to ask Australia to assist in spying on Trump but it's wrong for Trump to ask Australia to help looking into the origins of the Mueller investigation.

    Another item to add to the list of fake news that Gay Bob has peddled on this board.

    This clown fell for Pizzagate. HAHAHAHA
    Wait, did Bob really fall for pizzagate? This can’t be true.
    Hooked, lined, and sinkered.
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