Fact-checking Donald Trumps tweets about Hillary Clinton and Russia
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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s tweets about Hillary Clinton and Russia
By Lauren Carroll on Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
In two evening tweets, President Donald Trump said the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation has the wrong target.
Instead of Trump and his associates, the committee should consider the ties that Hillary and Bill Clinton have to Russia, he said.
"Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech money to Bill, the Hillary Russian ‘reset,’ praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company," he tweeted March 27, 2017. "Trump Russia story is a hoax."
In his tweets, Trump mixed legitimate allegations that Russia meddled in the election on his behalf — for which there is significant supporting evidence — with unproven speculation that Bill and Hillary Clinton engaged in some fishy activity.
We counted six things Trump said that are inaccurate, exaggerated or taken out of context. Let’s break down his claims.
"The Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia"
Trump significantly distorts the uranium deal in question by calling it "the Bill and Hillary deal."
In 2010, Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, was one of nine federal agency heads to sign off on Russia’s purchase of a controlling stake in Uranium One, an international mining company headquartered in Canada with operations in several U.S. states. It was part of a regular process ...
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False meme of HRC's "uranium deal" was part of the campaign against her last year. The fabricated conspiracies RWers so love create about Clinton's just never seem to die. They're repeatedly resurrected to deflect from Repub lies, ethical lapses, and outright crimes.
