Trump urged Australian prime minister to discredit Mueller inquiry

Under threat of impeachment, Donald Trump is trying to get by any means. According to New York Times, the US president recently asked Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help him gather information that would discredit the investigation of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

The telephone conversation, confirmed by the Australian government, took place last week, shortly before the arrival of Scott Morrison in the United States, reports The Guardian.

"Enlighten subjects under investigation"

In a statement, a spokesman for the Australian government says Canberra is "always ready to help and cooperate with efforts to enlighten the subject under investigation." The Prime Minister has again confirmed this provision in a conversation with the "American" president.

This agreement between the two countries further reinforces the suspicions of using American diplomatic power for personal political ends. This revelation comes in the midst of a Ukrainian storm. In this other case, a whistleblower accuses Donald Trump of putting pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Joe Biden, his possible opponent in the presidential election of 2020. The US Congress is currently conducting an investigation on this topic.

Stung and aware that these multiple cases could have an impact on the presidential election that will take place in 400 days, Donald Trump multiplies attacks. This weekend, he retweeted a Texas Baptist preacher, Robert Jeffress, one of his most ardent supporters.

He assures that "if the Democrats succeed in forcing the president to leave his post, it will result in a break worthy of the civil war that our country will never cure".

"Repugnant"

If, for the most part, the Republican elected officials are blocking for the time being, one of them, Adam Kinzinger, representative of Illinois, expressed his indignation. "I would not have imagined that such a sentence could be repeated by a president," he tweeted. "It's beyond the disgusting". Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake, fierce critic of Donald Trump, called the elected officials of his party to finally give voice.

"My Republican friends, the time has come to put your career in the balance in the name of your principles," he wrote in a forum published Monday in the Washington Post. "Our country will have other presidents, but the principles themselves are not interchangeable."