Convicted former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos has unleashed a spray of tweets about the man who reportedly dobbed him in to the FBI and launched the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer.



Papadopoulos was the first person to plead guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. He pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications in early 2016 with a London professor who told him the Russians had "dirt" on Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.

Last week he was sentenced to 14 days in prison.



In December The New York Times reported that in May 2016 at a London bar, Papadopoulos had told Downer, who was then Australia's ambassador to the UK, that he knew Russia had information that would embarrass Hillary Clinton.

Downer reportedly passed on this information to the Australian government, which then passed it along to American authorities, resulting in the FBI kicking off an investigation into potential links between the campaign to elect Donald Trump president and Russia.