https://wentworthreport.com/2024/11/07/kevin-rudd-deletes-x-posts-critical-of-do...7th Nov 2024
Kevin Rudd deletes X posts critical of Donald Trump,
Albanese slow to congratulate Trump.
By Geoff Chambers in The Australian.
Australia’s Ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd has removed past negative comments about Donald Trump from his private X account since the Republican candidate’s election win. …
They included a 2020 tweet from his personal account, @MrKrudd, disparaging the former president.
“The most destructive president in history,” he said at the time. “He drags America and democracy through the mud. He thrives on fomenting, not healing, division. He abuses Christianity, church and bible to justify violence. All aided and abetted by Murdoch’s FoxNews Network in America which feeds this.” …
The Australian can reveal that days out from the election, senior cabinet ministers were “very confident” Kamala Harris would beat Mr Trump and that it would be “business as usual” for Australia.
But despite the optimism in government ranks, Treasury, climate change, defence, national security and diplomatic officials were ordered in recent months to prepare scenario modelling and analysis of the impacts for Australia if Mr Trump reclaimed the White House. …
There is anxiety in Labor ranks about relations with a Trump administration after Mr Albanese and his ambassador to the US, former prime minister Kevin Rudd, made historic disparaging comments about Mr Trump. …
Mr Albanese, who described Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory over Mr Trump as a “triumph of hope over fear”, said in 2017 the billionaire “scares the sh.t out of me” and that he would deal with him “with trepidation”.
Dr Rudd … previously described Mr Trump as “nuts”, a “traitor to the West” and “the most destructive president in history”.Labor ministers have labelled Mr Trump as “barking mad”, “a sore loser” and “a big baby”.Labor now faces a drawn out campaign to convince Mr Trump to exempt Australia from his threatened 10 to 20 per cent “universal tariff” on all imports, while bracing for the impact of his promised 60 per cent tariff hike on goods from China.
And:
Anthony Albanese has refused to apologise for his previous criticism of US President-elect Donald Trump and has voiced support for ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd whose position is being questioned following Mr Trump’s win.
Led by incompetents.