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After Trump’s Phone Call, John McCain Tries to Smooth Over Relations with Australia

HeadlineFeb 03, 2017

Arizona Senator John McCain called Australian Ambassador Joe Hockey Thursday in efforts to smooth over relations with Australia after President Trump insulted Australia’s prime minister and abruptly ended the phone call over the weekend. On Saturday, Trump complained to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about the terms of a refugee deal between the U.S. and Australia and told Turnbull that their conversation was the “worst call by far” that he’d had with a foreign leader that day. Under the Obama administration, the United States had pledged to accept and resettle 1,250 refugees from a detention center in Australia.

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