HRC/CF/AUS

>The Australian diplomat who provided the FBI with information that launched the agency’s Russia probe previously helped Australia donate to the Clinton Foundation to assist in combating AIDS, according to a new report.

>Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer helped arrange a $25 million donation from Australia to the Clinton Foundation that would support screening and medication to AIDS patients in Asia in 2006, the Hill reports.

>Downer is currently Australia’s ambassador to London and was the one who notified the FBI of a conversation he had with Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos. That conversation initiated the FBI’s Russia probe. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty last year to misleading FBI agents concerning his contacts with Russians.