There are many mysteries surrounding the Russia investigation.
For example, what was the real reason the FBI started looking into the Trump campaign?
The awful answer to that question is yet another connection to Hillary Clinton.
The FBI claims the investigation kicked off in the summer of 2016 after an Australian diplomat named Alexander Downer had reported a drunken conversation he had months prior with low-level Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos in London.
Downer reported this conversation to the FBI shortly after WikiLeaks had released emails obtained from the Democrat National Committee.
According to Downer, Papadopoulos claimed that Russians had approached him about a meeting to discuss how they’d obtained Hillary’s emails.
But there was no meeting, and no one ever produced the emails that were deleted off Hillary Clinton’s server.
Downer has another strange aspect to his biography that’s raising big questions.
As Foreign Minister, Downer helped funnel $25 million of Australian government money into the Clinton Foundation.
The Hill reports:
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.
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.”
The FBI tipster was nothing more than a pro-Clinton hack.
And there are other parts of this story that makes it hard to believe it was the Papadopoulos meeting – and not the Steele dossier – that was the basis for the investigation.
Downer went to the FBI in the summer with his story, but Papadopoulos was not interviewed by the Bureau until January the next year.
And it was Carter Page – who was named in the dossier – and not Papadopoulos whom the FBI sought a FISA warrant against.
Critics contend that if Papadopoulos was really the reason for the investigation, he would have been the one spied on.
Either way, the story stinks and continues to unravel every day.
We will keep you up to date on any new developments.
