Documents Reveal Australia’s Efforts to Stay Neutral as Donald Trump Claimed Electoral Fraud

A longtime US foreign policy official is frank when asked whether Australia should worry about risks to American democracy.

“I can’t, with a straight face, say there’s nothing to worry about,” says Richard Fontaine, head of the Center for a New American Security, an influential Washington thinktank.

Visiting Canberra this week, he says: “I spent seven years of my life working in the US Senate, and I never in a million years thought that I would see a mob trying to overturn the certification of a presidential election by storming the US Capitol. It’s unthinkable, but this is where we are. So there are certainly some reasons for concern.”

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