Trump Talked To Australia About Origins Of Russia Probe. Media Tries To Frame It As A Scandal, It’s Not.

The New York Times deceptively framed a report on Monday that President Donald Trump had “pushed” Australian Prime Minister Scott Johnson during a phone call to help Attorney General Bill Barr with investigating the origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The Times stated that Trump made the push in an attempt to “discredit the Mueller investigation” in what the Times claimed was an example of Trump “using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.”