Trump Says a Debunked Conspiracy Theory Is ‘One of the Big Stories of the Decade’
President Donald Trump says the stories about his administration colluding with Russia are a “hoax,” but the “real Russia story” is a long-debunked story about Hillary Clinton supposedly profiting from America’s sale of uranium to Russia.
Trump was wrapping up his remarks at a press event with the governor of Puerto Rico when he took time to answer one last question – about his tweet earlier Thursday morning attacking Hillary Clinton via a long-debunked right wing conspiracy theory.Â
“That’s your real Russia story,” the president insisted, “not a story where they talk about collusion, and there was none,” Trump said from the Oval Office. (The special counsel has yet to release any findings.)Â
“It was a hoax. Your real Russia story is uranium, and how they got all of that uranium, a vast percentage of what we have.”
“That is, to me, one of the big stories of the decade.”
“If the mainstream media would cover the uranium scandal, and that Russia has 20 percent of the uranium, for whatever reason, and a lot of people understand what those reasons may be, I think that’s your Russia story,” Trump said, harping on that conspiracy theory. Earlier Thursday the president had posted this tweet, pushing a conspiracy theory.
“The problem is that the mainstream media does not want to cover that story,” Trump insisted, falsely, “because that affects people that they protect.”
“It’s a disgrace that the fake news won’t cover it. It’s so sad,” he lamented.
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