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BREAKING: Letter From Australian Official Emerges That Casts Doubt On Report From New York Times
DailyWire ^ | September 30, 2019 | Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 09/30/2019 5:22:31 PM PDT by bobsunshine

A letter emerged late on Monday from the Australian government that directly disputed the accuracy of a New York Times report that claimed that President Donald Trump “pushed” Australia to help Attorney General William Barr investigate the origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation in an attempt to “discredit” the investigation in what The Times claimed was an example of Trump “using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.”

The letter, reported by Nine News Australia’s Kerrie Yaxley, is dated May 28, 2019, from Australian Ambassador Joe Hockey to Barr, and states: Dear Attorney General,

I refer to President Trump’s announcement on 24 May that you will investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigations probe into Russian links to the 2016 US election.

I note that the President referred to Australia, the United Kingdom and the Ukraine as potential stakeholders. Moreover, I note that he has declassified intelligence material to support your investigation.

The Australian Government will use its best endeavors to support your efforts in this matter. While Australia’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, The Hon. Alexander Downer, is no longer employed by the government, we stand ready to provide you with all the relevant information to support your inquiries.

The Acting White House Chief of Staff, The Honorable Michael Mulvaney, has been copied on this letter.

Yours sincerely,

The Hon Joe Hockey

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2020election; australia; barr; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: bobsunshine
Too bad my fellow Dummycrats are so stupid that they will fall for all this BS.
41 posted on 09/30/2019 6:57:50 PM PDT by Chgogal (Trump: Make America Great Again. Democrat: Make America Mexico Again.)
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To: palmer

Old Joe is CIA.


42 posted on 09/30/2019 7:01:17 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: ETCM

I think you’re wrong, you’re not going to change my mind.


43 posted on 09/30/2019 7:03:49 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: bobsunshine

You could tell that story was a lie by the way it was worded.

This new information just confirms what we already knew.


44 posted on 09/30/2019 7:20:32 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I remarked to another poster on another thread that what we are seeing is unprecedented.

I go back to the Nixon-Humphrey race where I began paying attention, and I have never ever seen anything even close to what I see now, the left illegally harnessing the power of government used illegitimately and openly, with active and outright lies and deceit to unseat a legitimately elected President.

Never seen anything like this in the scope, breadth, and unification on the part of the Left. They are simply ignoring the law.

Every time they have bent and broken a law to suit their purposes, and are not called on it, that is one more support structure of a functioning Republic that is simply knocked out from under us.

Each constitutional principle ignored, each law broken, is one more principle that can be ignored with impunity and one more law that can be broken with glee.

If we don't do something this country is going to dissolve right out from under our feet, and what replaces it is going to be a dark stain on mankind. Mark my words. To quote Churchill: "...But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."

We will be the Soviet Union with unprecedented ability to surveil our population that makes them pale in comparison, real military power that will be used on innocents to subdue them, and economic power (in the short term before they eventually destroy that as well) to be used for ill.

We should be concerned, and very afraid if we allow this to happen.

45 posted on 09/30/2019 7:20:58 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Half of Hispanics and 28% of Blacks now give a positive rating to Trump.

This is a lovely thing to see hearts come around that hadn’t in the last election! Rejoice!


46 posted on 09/30/2019 7:26:14 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: fatman6502002

See post #38


47 posted on 09/30/2019 7:27:37 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: fatman6502002

There was a recent Australian election.

After an election, the “players” change.


48 posted on 09/30/2019 8:27:25 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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49 posted on 09/30/2019 8:44:02 PM PDT by bitt
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To: boycott
Here is the Drudge LARGE print headline at this moment:

TRUMP ASKS AUSTRALIAN PM TO HELP DISCREDIT MUELLER

BARR RECRUITS FOREIGN OFFICIALS

50 posted on 09/30/2019 8:53:37 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: fatman6502002

#27. Would be interesting to know if Australian law allows them to bring him before a grand jury there or in the US for official misconduct charges while he was a govt official/ambassador?

That might be a way to get him extradited to the U.S. to testify before a grand jury.


51 posted on 09/30/2019 9:25:05 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Drudge is an aggregator. He links to news articles and that is all. He doesn't write the news - he just links.

It is not meant to be an endorsement, only what is in the news.

52 posted on 10/01/2019 12:30:03 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: bobsunshine
“Barr’s personal involvement is likely to stoke further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment that he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries,” the Post reported.

What a sweet deal!

President Trump's "adversaries" scheme a hoax and a coup d'état against him, fail, and now cry that his investigations into the origins are "using executive branch powers... aimed primarily at his adversaries."

How about his "adversaries" were using their "intelligence agency powers aimed primarily at the President?"

-PJ -PJ

53 posted on 10/01/2019 1:13:58 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: jmaroneps37

The Slimes lies ......


54 posted on 10/01/2019 2:34:13 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: boycott

Just took a look at Drudge for the first time in a long, long time! Pretty disgusting! Won’t be going back for a long, long time again!


55 posted on 10/01/2019 4:29:13 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

They are emboldened by the lack of action taken against any of their crimes.


56 posted on 10/01/2019 4:35:25 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Keep hammering the NY Slimes as fake news. That’s the lefts gold standard.


57 posted on 10/01/2019 5:25:20 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: TigersEye

“The Dems are fighting like cornered Rats.”

Agree.

And as frustrated as Trump supporters are, I believe the left is even moreso.

In a senses, we’re winning (slightly).


58 posted on 10/01/2019 7:01:33 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

That is because their literal right to breathe is on the line. Treasonous laden traitors who practice sedition in order to gain power and the payments of immoral corruption.


59 posted on 10/01/2019 7:11:03 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (Imho)
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To: bobsunshine

Fake news is noticeably gearing up, notice the fake new polls showing “mounting” support for impeachment - corrupt at their core.


60 posted on 10/01/2019 7:14:45 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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