‘The Biggest Story That Fake Media Doesn’t Want to Follow!’ Trump Claims
Apparently no one in America was more surprised that Donald Trump won the White House than Donald Trump. 345 days after the 2016 presidential election the President of the United States is still campaigning, and still attacking his Democratic opponent.
Just three days ago Trump mocked Hillary Clinton at a press conference with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying, “Hillary, please run again!“Â
Thursday morning Trump took to Twitter to continue his assault against the former First Lady, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and Democratic presidential nominee, by dredging up an already debunked conspiracy theory from the right.
The media isn’t following the story because it’s fake news. Clinton had little to do with the uranium deal to Russia. She was one of nine cabinet members whose Department was required to advise the president, then Barack Obama, on the national security implications of the deal.Â
The Hill, which has reintroduced the story this week, reported the FBI was aware of bribery between Russia and a U.S. trucking firm.
But even that story makes clear Clinton was not involved: “Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she ‘never intervened … on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter.'”
A UK newspaper debunks the story even further.
“Some have claimed that the approval of the deal was a quid pro quo exchange for Moscow donations to the Clinton Foundation,” The Independent reports Thursday.
But Clinton, who was Secretary of State at the time of the deal, did not have the power of veto or approval over the deal with the firm. Instead, she was one of nine cabinet members and department heads collectively charged with advising the president on potential national security issues with such transactions.
The timings of the donations don’t matcheither; of the alleged $145m allegedly contributed to the foundation by investors, most came from a single donor who sold his stake three years before the Russia deal.
Trump is attempting to deflect from his disastrous handling of the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger, a story that exploded this week after the president falsely accused his predecessor of never calling the families of fallen soldiers. He then insisted a Democratic U.S. Congresswoman was lying when she said he told the grieving widow her husband “knew what he was getting into” when he joined the military. His attacks only further disrespected the family when both the wife and the mother of U.S. Army Sgt. La David Johnson confirmed to reporters Trump did, in fact, say those words.
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