As soon as I saw the source (NYT) I figured it to be a setup...
no story is bigger than everything else...yet it keeps getting swamped by KavanaughKavanaughKavanaugh, which is just what the Dems/FakeNewsMSM/Deep State want.
stay on the offensive:
21 Sept: GatewayPundit: Jim Hoft: Papadopoulos: British Govt. Was Spying on Trump Campaign by April 2016 – Obama Knew
TWEET: 21 Sept: George Papadopolous: The British and Australian governments’ attempt to sabotage the Trump campaign is about to backfire in a spectacular fashion…
TWEET: 21 Sept: George Papadopolous: The day that BRITISH intelligence source, Stefan Halper, lured me to London so that the British MI6 could spy on the campaign, the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited me to their offices to talk about Trump and what a threat him supporting Breexit was.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/papadopoulos-british-govt-was-spying-on-trump-campaign-by-april-2016-obama-knew/
17 Sept: Spectator Australia: Tinker, tailor, Downer, spy?
by David Long
Papadopoulos says he doesn’t remember saying anything to Downer about Russia. Downer is reported as saying now that they only had a single drink and a brief discussion. After that discussion, Downer reported back to Australia and that information was conveyed to the FBI, presumably at the insistence of prime minister Malcolm Turnbull…
And ratting to the FBI on the future President of the USA with false information might just be the reason that Malcolm Turnbull got such a swift kick in the balls from Trump during that first telephone call.
In one report, Downer, possessed of Papadopoulos’s information, passed it on to ***Elizabeth Dibble at the US London embassy. According to Fairfax, Downer passed the information back to Australian authorities who then passed it along to their American counterparts. And it is reported, that Downer told The Australian that he had sent an official cable about what was said to Canberra within a couple of days of the meeting with Papadopoulos…
It is highly probable that Downer did both” ratted to Elizabeth Dibble and sent a cable to Canberra. But Canberra is also reputed to have informed the FBI and that would not have happened, if it did, without the knowledge of Malcolm Turnbull…
The question that raises, however, is, whether Downer was authorised by the Commonwealth government to make that contact, or whether it was a freelance job?
We don’t know, do we, because no one has bothered to make him give sworn evidence or has asked the Australian government whether the contact was part of Downer’s brief. It’s moments like this that you wish our Senators interests went a little bit further than their parochial back fence. Such an enquiry would probably help to repair the relationship between the US President and Australia that Downer’s actions jeopardised.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/09/tinker-tailor-downer-spy/