President Trump asked Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help U.S. Attorney General William Barr investigate the Mueller Report, according to a report from the New York Times.
The Times based its report on two anonymous American officials who claim to have knowledge of the phone conversation between Trump and Morrison. One of these officials said that the transcript of the call was restricted to a small circle of aides, similar to the process carried out regarding the transcript of a call between Trump and Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelentsky, which is now at the center of an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
According to the officials, Trump spoke to Morrison to ask for the Australian government’s cooperation with a Justice Department review of the Mueller investigation into alleged collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russian government members during the 2016 presidential election. The investigation eventually dismissed those allegations.
One official said the conversation came at Barr’s request. Former justice department officials told the Times that Barr would need to request the cooperation of foreign governments in order to obtain documents relating Barr’s probe of the Mueller investigation.
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