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The 'Ukrainegate' has exploded. What began as a complaint about the alleged coercion of Donald Trump to the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate the activities he had carried out in that country Hunter Biden - the son of the former vice president and Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 2020 , Joe Biden- is branching out.

The latest revelations no longer come from the Public Administration, the Congress or the White House, but from the media. Its effect is twofold. On the one hand they expand the scandal, which is negative for Trump. But, on the other, they confuse public opinion, which may end up lost in a tangle of names and plots that conceals possible violations of the law or the use of public office to achieve political objectives.

Now it turns out that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo witnessed the conversation in which Trump told Zelensky that "I want you to do us a favor," 'The New York Times' reported last night. If the information is true, the Secretary of State would be an alleged accomplice of what appears to be the US president's attempt to use his office to politically harass an electoral rival .

Another front is the one opened by the 'Wall Street Journal', the first media outlet that reported on the existence of an anonymous official's complaint about Trump's pressures on Ukraine. According to that newspaper, the attorney general - a charge equivalent to that of the secretary of Justice - of the United States, Bill Barr , has been trying for months to convince third countries to give him information about how the information originated, not about the 'Ukrainegate', but about the previous scandal, the 'Russiagate'. Its objective is not to investigate the 'Russiagate', but to discover why contacts between the Trump team and people close to the Kremlin were transmitted to the US state security services and the media.

This is how Donald Trump personally called Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help Barr in his inquiries. Last weekend, Barr was in Italy, on a trip that had not been reported to public opinion, seeking information about the sources of the 'Russiagate'.

The reason for Trump's call to Morrison is that the FBI's first indication that some Donald Trump employees were maintaining contacts with Russia to try to harm the campaign of his rival, Hillary Clinton, was in May 2016 , with seven months to go before the elections, through the Australian ambassador to Britain, Alexander Downer.

It's an episode that combines the best of Mortadelo and Filemón and the worst of 'The Godfather': Trump's adviser George Papadopoulos - now prosecuted - got drunk with Downer in the London pub Kensington Wine Rooms and told him that Russia had stolen the ' Clinton's emails. The meeting supported the veracity of popular wisdom that advises never to go out for drinks with an Australian or an Irishman because they are immunized to ethyl alcohol. Because while Papadopoulos slept the hangover and his indiscretion, Downer went to the US embassy and told what Trump's adviser had told him . The 'Russiagate' had begun.

That is the section taken from Mortadelo and Filemón. The part of 'The Godfather' arrived a year ago, when Papadopoulos' link with Moscow, the Maltese university professor Joseph Mifsud, disappeared without a trace. A court document three months ago suggests that "he could have died," although no one knows when, how, or where. Now, it is the fact that Downer reported the meeting, and that it was leaked to the media a year later, what Barr, with Trump's help, is investigating. The 'Russiagate' is thus passed to the 'Australiagate', in an indecipherable and endless soap opera.

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