Despite Australia’s historically strong alliance with the United States, President Trump specifically named Australia as a nation whose part in what he calls the “Russia hoax” must be thoroughly investigated.
Mr Trump on Friday described the Russia probe as “an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the president of the United States”. Picture: AP Photo/Andrew HarnikIn 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 at a bar in London in 2016 to purely to spy on him.
“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.” However, Mr Downer did confirm that during the meeting, Mr Papadopoulos revealed Russia had damaging material on Mr Trump’s presidential rival Hillary Clinton. In a back and forth between the pair, Papadopoulos denies telling Mr Downer about the Russian information, but he does not deny the knowledge. “I never told Downer anything about hacked emails,” Papadopoulos said. “I’m confident I never said that.
President Trump’s announcement made waves on social media, with users tweeting up a storm about the potential impact on Australia’s ties with the US.
CorruptNSW realDonaldTrump Has he experienced Australian internet speeds?
realDonaldTrump FAKENEWDS
realDonaldTrump With Trump’s finger on the button, I wouldn’t want to be in Vienna right now.
realDonaldTrump 😂😂😂 He is not taking responsibility for it and has to blame someone - can't help twats like Trump ... can only laugh at them! 😂😂😂
realDonaldTrump Ha, Ha, Ha fakenews 😂
realDonaldTrump What a load of rubbish! Australia's had nothing to do with the 'Russian hoax' but was it a hoax?
realDonaldTrump Sends australia a mass murderer for refugee exchange.
MattYoung realDonaldTrump Good! Downer is a dog.
realDonaldTrump AlexanderDowner fake news got you back buddy.. but the truth will be out soon.
realDonaldTrump Wonder if he knows we aren't in Europe... 🤔
realDonaldTrump Here's for you Mr Dunny 'From Australia with love!'😂😂😂
latingle realDonaldTrump Yeah - Putin loves a VB at the local
realDonaldTrump
realDonaldTrump Australia....Austria....same thing !!
realDonaldTrump How could the Australian media fail to pick up on this story?
realDonaldTrump Why is Russia hoax in quotations? They’ve had nearly three years of investigation & still nothing. The real crime was committed by those who attempted a soft coup to overturn the results of an election
01000011CS realDonaldTrump He’s bananas.
realDonaldTrump It's ok, trump couldn't even locate us on a map hahaha
realDonaldTrump i dont remember him saying that at all, shutupsinclaire
realDonaldTrump It is true albeit that it was a very senior LNP Australian Citizen.
realDonaldTrump I have a question ' WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THIS GUY ON' 🤠🤔🤷♂️I've got 2 words for ya Dony ' LOST IT '.
AdrienneGreen3 realDonaldTrump Downer
realDonaldTrump Yippee ky ya mother focker 💩
realDonaldTrump But Australia is not real.
realDonaldTrump I'm thinking it's OK. Trump doesn't know where we are.
realDonaldTrump It's probably true, isn't there a secret base in northern territory (pine gap) where Australian & US Hackers hack shit worldwide. They say it's for national security. Who knows anything in this world now.
realDonaldTrump Where will this leave Scummo, aka LiarFromTheShire, who is a rapid Trump fan?
realDonaldTrump Where’s a GIF for desperately scraping the bottom of a barrel!!
realDonaldTrump That “man” will be the death of us all.
realDonaldTrump So the best advice is for the allies when they hear something US related is to say nothing and just let it happen. Wasn't it his coffee boy doing the blabbing in the first place?
Intriguing fake news realpetersawyer
realDonaldTrump The king.
realDonaldTrump If he doesn't trust us, does that mean he will never come to Australia now? As I see that as a good thing.
realDonaldTrump SORRY SIR, OUR SOCIAL MEDIA RUN BY LEFTIST AND BIGOT. THEY AGAINST ANY GOOD THING THAT PEOPLE TRY TO DO.
latingle realDonaldTrump Impeachment
realDonaldTrump Does he know where we are on the map ?
realDonaldTrump Get pucked you crunt !
realDonaldTrump Time to remind them about the alliance… Turn off Pine Gap for a couple of days and see what they think. auspol
realDonaldTrump Except it isn’t a hoax is it!
realDonaldTrump 'Spying' = Alexander Downer getting georgepapadopolous pissed enough to blab 🤣🤣🤣🤣
latingle realDonaldTrump Lol that's funny.
latingle realDonaldTrump Those that spread the propaganda ...Why didn't Downer go the Trump no, instead he went to FBI
latingle realDonaldTrump
latingle realDonaldTrump Of course he has. 🤣😂😁
realDonaldTrump ping AlexanderDowner
realDonaldTrump He's unraveling before our eyes. It's glorious
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