President Trump called Boris Johnson to ask for help in discrediting Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, The Times of London reports.
Trump is said to have called Johnson on July 26, two days after the prime minister took office, and reportedly asked Johnson for help in gathering evidence to undermine the investigation into his campaign’s links to Russia.
That call also was one day after Trump spoke to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in the phone call that sparked the impeachment proceedings against him. Trump also contacted the Australian prime minister for help with an investigation into the origins of the Mueller inquiry.
The Times reports Attorney General William Barr arrived in London days after Trump’s call with Johnson to attend a meeting of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance. Barr reportedly told British officials that he suspected the information that led to the Mueller investigation came from British agencies.
And again, this only happened two months ago, and directly after the now infamous July 25 Ukraine call that set off this landmine. That also means Trump has contacted two of the other Five Eyes intelligence allies, the other two being New Zealand and Canada.
Trump probably has a pretty dim view of Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau, who are far more liberal than the rest of the Five Eyes countries, so it's entirely possible he didn't contact either.
Still, it means he's using Bill Barr as his personal legal investigator to try to discredit an investigation by Barr's own Justice Department, and that's nowhere near kosher.
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