Australian ambassador to the UK Alexander Downer ''did not'' pass to the Australian ambassador in the US, Joe Hockey, information on a meeting Downer obtained during a drunken binge with George Papadopoulos in a London pub.<ref>https://amp.smh.com.au/world/north-america/alexander-downer-interviewed-by-fbi-hours-into-trump-russia-probe-20180517-p4zfrg.html </ref> Anonymous sources in the ''[[New York Times]]'' claimed Downer supposedly passed the information to Hockey to relay to the FBI, sparking an FBI [[counterintelligence]] probe of the [[2016 Trump campaign]]. Mainstream [[fake news]] media in the [[United States]] reported it as the official cover narrative to justify the Trump-Russia probe for six months between January and June 2018. | Australian ambassador to the UK Alexander Downer ''did not'' pass to the Australian ambassador in the US, Joe Hockey, information on a meeting Downer obtained during a drunken binge with George Papadopoulos in a London pub.<ref>https://amp.smh.com.au/world/north-america/alexander-downer-interviewed-by-fbi-hours-into-trump-russia-probe-20180517-p4zfrg.html </ref> Anonymous sources in the ''[[New York Times]]'' claimed Downer supposedly passed the information to Hockey to relay to the FBI, sparking an FBI [[counterintelligence]] probe of the [[2016 Trump campaign]]. Mainstream [[fake news]] media in the [[United States]] reported it as the official cover narrative to justify the Trump-Russia probe for six months between January and June 2018. |