Donald Trump’s whistleblower scandal expands, now includes incriminating phone call with Australia

Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s whistleblower scandal expanded from being just about his incriminating phone call with Ukraine, to also being about his incriminating Oval Office meeting with the Russians. Now things have taken a surreal turn, as the scandal has expanded to include an incriminating phone call with yet another country – and we didn’t see this one coming.

It turns out Donald Trump recently called the Prime Minister of Australia and urged him to work with Attorney General Bill Barr in pushing back against the Trump-Russia scandal, according to a stunning new bombshell from the New York Times. Access to this phone call was severely limited, as it was taking place as the whistleblower scandal was unfolding. Notably, the NYT says it got the story from “two American officials with knowledge of the call.”

That means people within the Trump regime, who have current or very recent access to Donald Trump’s most locked-down phone calls with world leaders, are now leaking the contents of those phone calls. In other words, Trump can no longer trust anyone in his own White House.

Two other things also stand out. First, Donald Trump is still inexplicably taking huge risks in the name of making the Trump-Russia scandal go away, even though there’s no real political benefit from it. It’s as if he’s obsessed with delusionally “proving” to himself that he was popular enough to win the 2016 election on his own without help from Russia, no matter the cost. Second, Bill Barr really is going to prison, isn’t he?