TURNBULL’S SQUARE-UP A NEW LOW

MALCOLM Turnbull proved this week how hysterically desperate he is to destroy the Liberals who last year dumped him as prime minister.

The ABC had just smeared Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, implying there was something corrupt about a lunch he had in 2016 with Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo.

The ABC said Huang was after an Australian passport and hired former Liberal MP Santo Santoro, who set up this lunch.

But Dutton and Santoro insist Huang did not mention citizenship and Dutton declared he never accepted a dollar from Huang.

He met Huang only because he was big in the Chinese community and Dutton was then Immigration Minister.

And Huang didn’t get his passport.

Yet Turnbull on Wednesday raged that Dutton could have been under “foreign influence”: “This has to be addressed at the highest level of security, priority, urgency by the prime minister.”

Turnbull’s son Alex meanwhile retweeted a defamatory and false claim that Dutton was “for sale”.

That’s the real story: how low the Turnbulls will go to destroy Liberals.

True, it’s sad that Huang’s political donations seemed to open doors, including the door of Labor leader Bill Shorten. But Huang also met Turnbull and more than Dutton’s once.

Turnbull’s attack on Dutton doesn’t appear to be about China at all. It seems to be about revenge.