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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Australian ambassador to US deleted messages about ‘traitor’ Trump ahead of election win, report says

Kevin Rudd, the Australian ambassador to the United States, deleted tweets criticizing Donald Trump in the campaign’s final week.

Rudd, the former Australian prime minister, scrubbed his X page of past anti-Trump remarks days before the Republican clinched the 2024 election on Wednesday morning, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

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