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Actual facts about the Russia uranium deal


No, Hillary Clinton did not "give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in the US

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Trump is misleading the public on her Russia policy because hes afraid of looking like Putins stooge.

During his chaotic 77-minute press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump was on the defensive about his relationship with Russia. One key point he made, attempting to prove that that he wasnt soft on Moscow, was to paint the previous administration as weak in handling the Kremlin by claiming again that Hillary Clinton gave Russia 20 percent of our uranium as secretary of state.

Heres what he actually said during a rambling attempt to convince reporters that his Russia strategy was sound and not the product of some covert relationship that compromises the integrity of his policies:

By the way, it would be great if we could get along with Russia. Just so you understand that. Tomorrow, you will say, "Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia; this is terrible." It is not terrible.

It is good. We had Hillary Clinton try to do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? Its this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.

But nobody talks about that. I did not do anything for Russia. I've done nothing for Russia. Hillary Clinton gave them 20 percent of our uranium. Hillary Clinton did a reset, remember, with the stupid plastic button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks?

The very first part of what Trump said, about it being desirable to get along with Russia, makes sense. It might seem counterintuitive during a time when much of the American public is enraged at Russia for allegedly engaging in election-related cyberattacks and finds the idea of cooperating with its authoritarian government to be distasteful. But powerful countries getting along as well as they can with their powerful rivals can be a good thing, as it makes it less likely that they'll end up in costly conflict with each other, even if their interests are at odds on many matters. And that is indeed why, as he points out, the Obama administration made serious attempts to try to improve US-Russian ties.

But the claim that Clinton gave 20 percent of Americas uranium to Russia is incorrect and clearly misleading. Trump is referring to Russias nuclear power agency purchasing a majority stake in a Toronto-based energy company between 2009 and 2013. The company had mines and land in a number of US states with huge uranium production capacity a move the US State Department signed off on. But PolitiFact did a thorough fact-check of the claim last year when Trump first made it on the campaign trail, and found the following faults with it:

  1. The mines, mills, and land the company holds in the US account for 20 percent of the USs uranium production capacity, not actual produced uranium.
  2. The State Department was one of nine federal agencies and a number of additional independent federal and state regulators that signed off on the deal.
  3. President Obama, not Secretary Clinton, was the only person who couldve vetoed the deal.
  4. Since Russia doesnt have the legal right to export uranium out of the US, its main goal was likely to gain access to the companys uranium assets in Kazakhstan.
  5. Crucially, the main national security concern was not about nuclear weapons proliferation, as Trump suggests, but actually ensuring the US doesnt have to depend too much on uranium sources from abroad, as the US only makes about 20 percent of the uranium it needs. An advantage in making nuclear weapons wasnt the main issue because, as PolitiFact notes, the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium.

Trump is desperate to repudiate claims that hes Putins stooge

The general inaccuracy of Trumps claim isnt surprising; at this point, it would be more shocking if he strung together five minutes worth of sentences that werent packed with falsehoods and lies.

But his misleading comments are in service of a broader goal: to push back against the notion that hes at Vladimir Putins beck and call. Trump wants to make the case that the Obama administration is the real culprit when it comes to being too easy on the Kremlin by catering to its geopolitical interests for little in exchange. And hes exaggerating points about uranium to make that case.

By contrast, Trump vows that hes done nothing for Russia. Thats not really true. Trump has constantly pushed back against the intelligence communitys claims about Russias interference with the US election, and said that even if theyre true, he doesnt understand all the fuss about it making it less likely that the GOP will investigate Russias conduct rigorously. And his open embrace of Putin in the public sphere for many years has helped boost the Russian leaders stature among the nationalist right in the US and Europe as a strong leader and a vital ally against Islamist terrorism around the world.

Theres also the possibility that Trumps team has in fact floated concrete gifts to Putin. We know that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke about sanctions with the Russian ambassador on the phone the very day that Obama slapped new sanctions on Russian intelligence agencies for their role in using cyberattacks to interfere with the presidential election. While we cant confirm the substance of the call, two government officials claimed in interviews with the Washington Post that Flynn cautioned Russia against reciprocating Obamas sanctions because Trump would be in a position to lift them when he entered office. If thats true, that might in part explain why Putin overrode his own foreign minister in declaring that hed wait for the next administration before reacting to sanctions.

Theres plenty of evidence that suggests Trump simply really likes Russia. Hell use whatever points he can to distract from it.



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The actual fact is Hillary sold Russia Uranium.. OUR Uranium.

But....But.... 9 other agencies... yadda-yadda.... Could have, would have, shouldn't have... But no mention about the robust donation Russia made to the Clinton Foundation.

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But the whole world thinks that Trump is looking like Putin's stooge, since he's been miss-leading the public about Hillary's uranium deal.

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Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: Report

Sanjana Karanth  https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-department-clinton-investigation-finds-nothing-042626189.html

 

Department of Justice inquiry into Hillary Clinton that began after conservatives demanded more investigations into the former Democratic presidential candidate is reportedly ending with no actual results.

Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed U.S. Attorney John Huber in 2018 to look into concerns raised by President Donald Trump and his Republican allies that the FBI did not properly look into Clintons involvement in a uranium deal while she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.

Huber allegedly reviewed documents and spoke with federal law enforcement officials in Arkansas who were handling an investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Though the inquiry has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to Congress, Huber has effectively finished his assignment and found nothing worth pursuing, current and former officials told The Washington Post in a report published Thursday. HuffPost has not been able to independently confirm that the inquiry has ended.

Canadian mining company Uranium One, which had major U.S. holdings, was sold in 2010 to a Russian firm while Clinton was secretary of state. The sale required approval from nine U.S. agencies, including the State Department, before it could proceed. Conservative media and critics of the 2016 Democratic nominee have falsely claimed that the sale was a quid pro quo for donations to the nonprofit Clinton Foundation.

The State Department did not have the power to unilaterally approve or reject the sale, and Clinton was not actually directly involved in the approval process. The original FBI investigation into whether Clinton had ties to the deal found no evidence of wrongdoing, but Sessions revived the inquiry in late 2017 after facing pressure from Trump. 

Hubers effective conclusion of his review is likely to anger many Republicans who hoped the top prosecutor from Utah would validate their long-held conspiracy theories about Clinton.

Attorney General William Barr, a Trump nominee who succeeded Sessions, has previously supported the presidents call to investigate Clinton and has questioned the need for Robert Muellers special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.

But Trump has largely shifted his focus away from Hubers investigation and toward U.S. Attorney John Durhams review of the origins of the Russia investigation, which concluded with a report that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election in order to help Trump win. Barr appointed Durham to the review last year, though he allegedly sees no evidence so far that the Russia probe was a setup by intelligence officials, as Trump claims.



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Yes, running out the statutes of limitations is the warm blanket that keeps most politicians feeling cozy.. 

It's an art..



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They will get her eventually. Wasn't overnight with Capone either.

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FBI: Hillary too stupid to know classified information when she fell over it!

GOWDY: [...] Clinton said I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. Was that true?
COMEY: There was classified material e-mail.
GOWDY: [...] Clinton said all work-related e-mails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?
COMEY: No. We found work-related e-mails, thousands that were not returned.

In a later exchange with Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) Comey said Clinton wasnt sophisticated enough to understand what information was classified and what wasnt.



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Much more at link...
Judicial Watch ^ | January 10, 2020 | Tom Fitton

FBI Finds News Clinton Emails Include Classified Info and Official Business in Texts
New Strzok-Page Emails Reveal DOJ Special Treatment of Clinton Lawyers
State Department Handler for Clinton Spy Steele Used Personal Email to Push Reports
Nearly All Arrested Illegal Aliens Had Criminal Convictions or Charges


case , she declared under penalty of perjury that she had directed that all my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.

Weve known for a while that this was not the case.

Now theres more proof. We have released 37 pages of new Clinton emails recently found by the FBI that show the former secretary of state using her unsecure, non-government email to transmit classified information. The new emails also show Clinton used text messages for government business. The documents, which we received after a review by the State Department, include 13 new Clinton emails.

Heres how poorly these emails were handled. The State Department did not provide information about where they were found; why they were not previously produced, or if additional records are anticipated. Last month, a Justice Department attorney could not tell a federal court judge how and where the FBI discovered the new cache of Clinton emails.

The State Department previously claimed it had produced all responsive Clinton emails, including emails recovered by the FBI that Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or withhold. The State Department initially claimed all responsive emails had been produced in 2018, but then found more emails, which were produced, for the first time, early last year. Then in November 2019, the State Department first disclosed to the court that the FBI had found this latest batch of emails..........

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If we had an unbiased press, theyd surely be asking why a woman who supposedly took yoga classes multiple times a week still looks like a sack of potatoes, and SMELLS like one that has been sitting around since 1947!



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I'm sorry, this thread isn't a catch all for every Clinton conspiracy theory, just the uranium ones please.

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OK. She sold our Uranium!!! :)

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