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The Prime Minister of Australia is in deep trouble. As listers would know he did a deal with Obama to swap refugees from the Middle East for some from Latin America. He had a phone conversation with Trump who abused him and then hung up. Turnbull went on the airways and said the deal was still on, and the President did not hang up on him.. Then the Trump Show saw an opportunity. They leaked and tweeted about the "dumb deal" Obama had done. Egg all over Turnbull's face. As one media commentator put it "Trump handed him his arse". Turnbull's enemies inside his own party have been smelling blood. They have been making pro-Trump statements and all that is heavily coded for "Turnbull must go". The Right in Australia though are genuinely afraid of a world with the USA army. That Turnbull offended the POTUS will be seen as a black mark. It is impossible to predict things, of course, but Turnbull looks like Dead Man Walking, such is the nature of the Trump Effect Down Under. comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
