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Australian diplomat whose tip prompted FBI’s Russia-probe has tie to Clintons
The Hill ^ | 03/05/2018 | John Solomon and Alison Spann

Posted on 03/05/2018 4:21:11 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas

The Australian diplomat whose tip in 2016 prompted the Russia-Trump investigation previously arranged one of the largest foreign donations to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charitable efforts, documents show.

Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s role in securing $25 million in aid from his country to help the Clinton Foundation fight AIDS is chronicled in decade-old government memos archived on the Australian foreign ministry’s website.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia; US: California
KEYWORDS: alexanderdowner; aussie; australia; bloggers; braking; california; cgi; chai; charities; china; clinton; clintonfoundation; devinnunes; downer; fisa; hiv; indonesia; mueller; newguinea; omg; papadopolous; papua; rodrosenstein; russia; russiangate; trump; vietnam
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1 posted on 03/05/2018 4:21:11 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Per the reports on the donations to the Clinton Foundation, it got $2.5 million and the Clintons got the rest, $22.5 million. Not bad for a days worth of crime.


2 posted on 03/05/2018 4:32:56 PM PST by drypowder
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To: SpeedyInTexas

We all know what happened, congress knows what happened. turtle and ryno know what happened and they are all fine with it. If you want to channel your anger in the right direction, they should be the target.


3 posted on 03/05/2018 4:33:53 PM PST by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Sessions is scum.


4 posted on 03/05/2018 4:43:27 PM PST by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

5 posted on 03/05/2018 4:45:16 PM PST by dead
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To: SpeedyInTexas

How many more dots does RR need?


6 posted on 03/05/2018 4:46:35 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

This is sick. He wasn’t called Slick Willie for nothing. I’m sure the countries of China and Vietnam were truly concerned about the spread of AIDS in their countries. Yep - you betcha...I don’t know anything about Papua New Guinea so can’t speak to that. The Clintons figured we were stupid and they were right. They got away with suckering those idiots in to put their money with them and for what? When was it ever proven that any of the money went to fighting the cause of AIDS or lowering the price of the drugs other than SOMEONE reporting it was so! We didn’t need no stinkin’ proof, I guess!

The Australian taxpayers didn’t want proof of what was going to be done with such a large amount of their money going to the Clintons? Probably kept in the dark like we are 100% of the time. We send the money to DC willingly so the politicians can dole it for whatever makes them feel good.
Sure - that’s what’s on our mine every April 15 - send it in and say, “have fun you goofballs.”


7 posted on 03/05/2018 5:04:40 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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Was aussie downer same ambassador that met with pappadopolis in a London pub, when poppy told the aussie he had dirt on the russian connection to trump....which was the “real” catalyst for the fusa wire taps???


8 posted on 03/05/2018 5:09:01 PM PST by thinden
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To: Nifster

Who or what is RR????


9 posted on 03/05/2018 5:15:28 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: drypowder

Per the reports on the donations to the Clinton Foundation:

“”Their generosity makes our work possible and we thank them.””

Indeed they do. How else would they have achieved the good life without taking all those people to the cleaners? We call them idiots/jerks/grifters/stupid etc., but who are the stupid ones? This has gone on right under all our noses and those in power in DC who I’m sure are able to share in the largesse...No one deserves to be charged, convicted for their many crimes than the Clintons...multitude of crimes!


10 posted on 03/05/2018 5:25:31 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Bttt.

5.56mm


11 posted on 03/05/2018 5:34:40 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Thank You Rush

Rod Rosenstein


12 posted on 03/05/2018 5:40:59 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: thinden; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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“The money was initially allocated to the Clinton Foundation but later was routed through an affiliate of the charity known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), officials said. Australia was one of four foreign governments to donate more than $25 million to CHAI, records show...

,...n the years that followed, the project won praise for helping thousands of HIV-infected patients in Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, China and Indonesia, but also garnered criticism from auditors about “management weaknesses” and inadequate budget oversight, the memos show.....

...Downer, now Australia’s ambassador to London, provided the account of a conversation with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos at a London bar in 2016 that became the official reason the FBI opened the Russia counterintelligence probe.

But lawmakers say the FBI didn’t tell Congress about Downer’s prior connection to the Clinton Foundation. Republicans say they are concerned the new information means nearly all of the early evidence the FBI used to justify its election-year probe of Trump came from sources supportive of the Clintons, including the controversial Steele dossier.

“The Clintons’ tentacles go everywhere. So, that’s why it’s important,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chairman of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee that has been taking an increasingly visible role defending the Trump administration in the Russia probe. “We continue to get new information every week it seems that sort of underscores the fact that the FBI hasn’t been square with us.”....


13 posted on 03/05/2018 5:56:00 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Whats worse than having AIDS?
Thinking that the drugs provided by a Clinton criminal enterprise is actually going to help you
These people are surely going to burn in hell if there is one
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/clinton-foundation-distributed-useless-drugs-to-aids-patients/


14 posted on 03/05/2018 7:17:52 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: thinden
Was aussie downer same ambassador that met with pappadopolis in a London pub, when poppy told the aussie he had dirt on the russian connection to trump....which was the “real” catalyst for the fusa wire taps???

Yes.


15 posted on 03/05/2018 7:24:02 PM PST by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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***...the project won praise for helping thousands of HIV-infected patients...***

...oddly, they all had one of the same five names...

16 posted on 03/05/2018 7:30:18 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: Fred Nerks

Ping to Oz-Clinton connection....

The Mueller usurpation plot thickens around the billabong as the Clinton tentacles are revealed.


17 posted on 03/05/2018 7:30:24 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: TheCipher

That is an awesome graphic display!

Thank you for sharing this.


18 posted on 03/05/2018 8:15:08 PM PST by thinden
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To: bitt
and inadequate budget oversight

why are we not surprised to see that phrase in any sentence that refers to the Clintons? It's used so often they could copyright it.

19 posted on 03/05/2018 8:28:41 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: thinden

No problem. I made it from all the Dan Bongino podcasts on the interconnections.


20 posted on 03/05/2018 8:35:36 PM PST by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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