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Top Republican urged foreign governments to help discredit Mueller findings
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Lindsay Graham wrote to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their ‘continued cooperation’ with Barr

Australian ambassador to Washington rejects key claim by Graham

6m ago
14:15
So what’s Donald Trump up to this morning?

WELL, he’s been attacking Adam Schiff – a “lowlife” and a “lying disaster – and also having a go at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. Lovely.
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29m ago
13:53
Storm clouds are continuing to gather around Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal, but that hasn’t stopped his faithful confidante, Lindsay Graham, from reportedly urging foreign governments to work with William Barr in investigating the origins of the Mueller inquiry.

Graham is said to have written to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their “continued cooperation with attorney general Barr as the Department of Justice continues to investigate the origins and extent of foreign influence in the 2016 election”.

The investigation is an attempt to discredit Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

A GOP tactic as 2020 looms is to claim the entire investigation was flawed.

According to numerous reports, in the letter Graham wrote that US intelligence agencies used a “deeply flawed dossier filled with hearsay and written by a biased, former United Kingdom intelligence officer” as part of the Mueller inquiry.

Elsewhere this morning:

•Donald Trump has been tweeting since 6am. It’s the usual stuff: the US is being ripped off, Adam Schiff=bad, the Bidens are corrupt, etc etc.

•Joe Biden is ramping up his investment in key Super Tuesday states, Politico reports – trying to develop a firewall if the former-vice president doesn’t do so well in Iowa and New Hampshire.

•A number of foreign companies are reconsidering plans to invest in the US because of Trump’s trade war with China, according to Axios.

MUCH MORE
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/oct/03/trump-news-today-live-impeachment-updates-ukraine-bernie-sanders-latest