Posted on 03/27/2017 6:38:11 PM PDT by SMGFan
Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech....
She left out so much and struggled to twist the facts to save the Clintons’ sorry behinds.
I had a similar impression after reading the WP “fact checking” article and others on the issue however there is an important point to note when discussing this issue with any liberal friend or relative.
It does not appear disputable that as Secretary, Clinton had any greater role in this deal than any of the other agency heads involved in the final approval. And there were 8 other agencies/departments involved.
Apparently, and again this doesn’t seem in dispute either, all 9 involved had a say yes, however final approval or denial was Obama’s responsibility.
So the sound byte “Clinton gave 20% of our uranium to Russia” is not entirely accurate. It would be more accurate to say “Obama, with Clinton’s and 8 other departments’ approval gave 20% of our uranium production capacity to Russia”. But that’s not as catchy a sound byte.
Make no mistake I don’t give her a pass on this and indeed her (charity’s) involvement with the (former) head of the company bought by a Russian company stinks to high heaven. But again, 8 other agencies were involved in the decision making process (or really recommendation process) and also again, it was Obama’s final call not Hillary’s.
I’m convinced she gave a wink and a nod to this deal, however where is there evidence that the heads of the other departments/agencies had any ties to Russia? And what of Obama?
He (Obama) at the time was promoting this Russian “reset” to ease tensions after the whole Ukrainian debacle. So that was his and obstensibly Clinton’s motivation as well. It’s hypocrisy, big time, to be now demonizing Russia when back at that time everyone in the administration was so pro-Russia, again to repair relations after Ukraine.
However this was the political climate at the time and thus can be reasonably argued that there was nothing more nefarious to the deal than that. It still shows poor leadership but not on Clinton’s part alone but on everyone involved from all 9 departments and Obama himself. Again contrary to the sound byte implication.
As usual in politics the problem with an individual or group (like the Democrats) can’t really be summed up in a sound byte. And I would say the President does himself a disservice to continue to lay all this on Clinton. She’s not the only one to blame (because the deal does suck for the US no matter who is to blame).
She’s just the only one out of that group who gave approval who was running for president. So in that sense it’s a good thing to hammer her on. But we must be careful with these facts or else the larger issue (Clinton’s incompetence and possible compromise) gets lost and twisted by the “fact checkers”.
Give Trump credit for not playing the normal Washington liberal insider game. If this was Bush or some other normal Republican, the Dems and media would set the agenda for these hearings and they would be all about Trump with nothing mentioned about Dems and their shady dealings. At least Trump knows you have to go on the offensive and throw EVERYONE’s Russia dealings into the hearings.
Sadly, it emphasizes that the RINO congress are also traitors.
They aren’t “upset” with Trump, they are simply trying to derail his presidency. He is a major threat to the status quo in Washington
The President cannot “drain the swamp” without the help of the American people.
My exact feelings. If he does not then he does NOT want to.
They are part of the ruling class and do have protection under the class system which we live in.
The President cannot “drain the swamp” without the help of the American people.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
That’s right, and the people will desert Trump in hordes , now that he has become a member of the e-GOP.
America is losing hope, and things are about to get very, very ugly.
Thanks for the link.
Manafort resigned on this report in WaPo in August 2016 ...
New revelations about Manafort's Ukraine work: Manafort's involvement in Ukraine grabbed national attention after the New York Times reported Monday his name is listed on secret ledgers in the country as being owed $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from Yanukovych's party.The handwritten ledgers were uncovered by Ukraine's newly formed anti-corruption bureau, the Times reported. ...
That report is being resurrected recently as "new news," but it is old, and likely a frameup.
The person who got the half a million bucks for a speech was Bill Clinton, not Hillary. She was still Secretary of State.
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Sessions spoke at the Spicer Press briefing, today....regarding cutting funding for sanctuary cities.
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Now you want ‘em to chew gum at the same time?! /s
Please, don’t confuse the challenged. We know they can only focus on ONE thing at a time. /squirrel
“900” of them collected by Craig Livingstone ???
When you lose at the ballot box fairly they have no other choice than create a Russian hoax ala, the great Dane, Hans Christian Andersen’s story: “The Emperor walking on without any CLOTHES, LOL !!!
LOL, well, I’m gonna guess that soon he will.
Folks, Trump’s only been in office a little over two months. It does take some time to get settled in, put your people in place, and get rolling. And more so than usual, there is much clean up to do after 8 yrs of Obama.
That said, I’m thinking by mid summer, we start a process of Roll Em, and lots of winning on our way.
The press will ignore this tweet.
“That said, I’m thinking by mid summer, we start a process of Roll Em, and lots of winning on our way”
If Trump is still there, maybe. Has Sessions recused himself from this yet?
I wonder what is being done about the travel ban issue. And I think it’s today that the Maryland judge is going to rule on Trump lowering the refugee level to 50K this year. The charities that resettle them with our money is suing the government because they will lose money with fewer refugees.
That should have been brought up to the biased media, at first attack on Trump... where have they been with this until now!!
Keep on it, every salvo they throw.. bring hillary in .. they will stop when they notice her name is linked every time they say ‘russia’.
This is not hard to figure out... where are the brains on understanding people and what works.
Thanks for the reminder.I forgot. The federal government through the President sets all immigration and entry policy into this nation at his discretion. These no borders globalists are in for a big fall very soon and then we run for the goal line with Gusto. Go TRUMP!!
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