The attacks on US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, have been coming thick and fast. And now Australia's High Commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer is involved.

• NYT claims Mr Downer had a night of heavy drinking with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in May 2016
• Mr Papadopoulos reportedly revealed Russia was shopping dirt on Hillary Clinton
• It is alleged Australian officials passed that information to US counterparts when those emails began appearing in public

Allies of President Donald Trump have sought to disparage the Russia investigation as a product of the infamous leaked dossier paid for by political rivals and full of lurid allegations about Mr Trump's private life.

Now the New York Times claims the ball was set rolling after a tip from a trusted ally, with Australia's very own Alexander Downer front and centre.

The newspaper claims Mr Downer had a night of heavy drinking with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos at the Kensington Wine Rooms in London in May 2016.

According to the Times, it was Mr Downer who held his booze better — extracting an admission from Mr Papadopoulos that Russia was shopping dirt on Hillary Clinton to her political rivals.

When leaked Democratic Party emails began appearing in public two months later it is alleged Australian officials passed on the Downer intel to American counterparts, helping to trigger the FBI probe into Russian interference in the US election.

That probe has morphed into the special counsel investigation led by Mr Mueller and has seen Mr Papadopoulos plead guilty to lying to officials, who he is now cooperating with.

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-31/alexander-downer-allegedly-linked-...

Now, with hindsight in my tail, I could swear that I knew that Clowner was going to pop around somewhere soon, thus I posted the Toon at top, where of course Downer had to know that something was amiss with AWB... And now this gem in regard to Russiagate... Am I prescient or not? 

Of course our Clowner could not keep his mouth shut... See toon at top.

In the old toons above (published on this site about 12 years ago), one can note their current relevancy... The lies of a Downer, the worker's pay packet and their freedom to be screwed, the interference of the US in Iran, the limitation of the United Nations Organisation, the Australian States being manipulated by the Federal government, the Australian "republic"... which Malcolm has been muddling in since who knows when, etc...

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