It’s beginning to look like Republicans just hate Hillary. They have no problem working with Russia or Saudi Arabia. They just don’t like Hillary doing it, whether or not she did.
Republicans are still pushing the Hillary/uranium/Russia conspiracy.
THE HILLARY CLINTON RUSSIA URANIUM ONE CONSPIRACY THEORY DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE
According to the conspiracy theory, Clinton received money from several people affiliated with the uranium mine deal, and then pushed the CFIUS to approve it in return.
The problem is, that’s not how CFIUS works. Clinton’s vote would have been only one of nine, as the reviews are run by the Treasury Department and other Cabinet secretaries get to weigh in.
“
The secretary of state is one, and frankly not usually a very powerful, member of the committee,” said Steve Grundman, a fellow at the Atlantic Council who dealt with CFIUS reviews while serving in the Pentagon in the 1990s. “You have to remember with CFIUS, the first letter stands for the committee.”
Also, Cabinet secretaries almost never deal with the committee themselves, instead delegating to underlings. For Clinton, that delegate was the assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, Jose Fernandez.
“
Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter,” Fernandez told Time in 2015. Two former State Department officials who served under Clinton told Newsweek that Clinton would have been notified of a CFIUS decision only if there were disagreement among members of the committee, which would push a final decision to the president.
The CFIUS decision on the Uranium One deal, however, was unanimous—all nine representatives agreed to approve it.
The Hillary Clinton Uranium One conspiracy theory doesn't make any sense
Mueller's charges have Republicans freaking out over a report tying Hillary Clinton to a Russian uranium deal
In following Breitbart News editor Peter Schewizer's 2015 book "Clinton Cash."
Trump has a history of dubious claims about the deal.
On the campaign trail in October 2016, Trump said that Clinton gave uranium to Russia "for a big payment,"
a claim that The Washington Post said was inaccurate.
In a 2016 piece, The Washington Post's fact checker noted that although the State Department was one agency that had approval over the 2010 deal,
there's no evidence Clinton herself had significant influence over it:
"There is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, and it is highly questionable that this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state. Theoretically, as Schweizer says, Clinton could have intervened. But even then,
it ultimately would have been Obama's decision whether to suspend or block the deal."
Mueller's charges have Republicans freaking out over a report tying Hillary Clinton to a Russian uranium deal
-
.....
