And yet another bombshell drops on the so called “Trump-Russia” investigation. I’m sure it’s purely a coincidence (/sarc) but the Austrian diplomat Alexander Downer who secured $25 million in “aide” for the Clinton Foundation has ties to the Clinton’s. I know, that couldn’t possibly mean there was any collusion by Aussie Downer and the Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, right? As usual, Mr. Magoo Jeff Sessions is no where to be found.
| Australian diplomat whose tip prompted FBI’s Russia-probe got $25 million for Clinton Foundation |
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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.
Downer and former President Clinton jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding in February 2006 that spread out the grant money over four years for a project to provide screening and drug treatment to AIDS patients in Asia.
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.