Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has hailed Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Donald Trump a diplomatic success but says the US president’s emphatic Aukus endorsement doesn’t alter his view that its a “bad deal” for Australia that might never provide the promised US submarines .

Turnbull – who sparred with Trump in his firm presidential term – scored Albanese’s White House visit a “10/10” after Trump praised the prime minister as a “great leader”, agreed a multi-billion dollar rare earths deal and publicly backed-in the $368bn pact to equip Australia with a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.

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The former Liberal leader also dismissed Sussan Ley’s claim that Kevin Rudd’s position a US ambassador was untenable after Trump’s “tongue-in-cheek” rebuke of

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