![Allies: Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull in New York earlier this month.](/web/20170518232755im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/y/z/1/j/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gw7aor.png/1495058271183.jpg)
Trump troubles extend to allies
Imagine if you read this news story: Malcolm Turnbull has sacked the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police for continuing investigations into past links between Mr Turnbull's office and a foreign government. The extraordinary move coincides with explosive new revelations of impromptu intelligence sharing with that same government, by the Prime Minister himself. This fictional rendering conveys the gravity of events now swirling around Donald J Trump's idiosyncratic administration by posing the question: what would happen if an Australian PM leant on the AFP to forget past links with a foreign government; free lanced on sensitiv