Fox News's Shepard Smith hits Trump for 'inaccurate' claims on Uranium One deal

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http://thehill.com/homenews/media/360371-fox-news-shepard-smith-hits-trump-for-inaccurate-claims-on-uranium-one-deal

 

Fox News host Shepard Smith blasted President Trump on Tuesday for “inaccurate” claims about the Uranium One agreement following Trump’s repeated calls for the Justice Department to investigate the deal.

On his show, Smith laid out the controversy surrounding the Obama-era deal, which involved the sale of a uranium company that did some mining in the United States to a Russian company.

“Here’s the accusation: Nine people involved in the deal made donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling more than $140 million,” Smith said. “In exchange, Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton approved the sale to the Russians — a quid pro quo.”

 

 

“The accusation [was] first made by Peter Schweizer, the senior editor at large of the website Breitbart, in his 2015 book, ‘Clinton Cash,’ ” Smith continued. “The next year, candidate Donald Trump cited the accusation as an example of Clinton corruption.”

Smith then played a clip from a June 2016 speech Trump gave in New York City in which he repeated the claim.

“Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation,” Trump said in the speech.

Smith called the statement "inaccurate in a number of ways."

"The Clinton State Department had no power to approve or veto that transaction. It could do neither," the Fox News host noted.

Smith then laid out the approval process for the sale, which involves a nine-person committee made up of the heads of federal agencies, and noted that no one person could approve or veto the deal — only former President Obama could do either.

The Fox News anchor also detailed Trump’s claim that the Clinton Foundation received money after the deal was completed.

“Here, the timing is inaccurate,” Smith said, noting that the source of the majority of the donations, Frank Giustra, said he sold his stake in the uranium company before the company was sold and before Clinton became secretary of State.

“The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale,” Smith said. “She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia. That is Uranium One.”

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40 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/360371-fox-news-shepard-smith-hits-trump-for-inaccurate-claims-on-uranium-one-deal

 

Fox News host Shepard Smith blasted President Trump on Tuesday for “inaccurate” claims about the Uranium One agreement following Trump’s repeated calls for the Justice Department to investigate the deal.

On his show, Smith laid out the controversy surrounding the Obama-era deal, which involved the sale of a uranium company that did some mining in the United States to a Russian company.

“Here’s the accusation: Nine people involved in the deal made donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling more than $140 million,” Smith said. “In exchange, Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton approved the sale to the Russians — a quid pro quo.”

 

 

“The accusation [was] first made by Peter Schweizer, the senior editor at large of the website Breitbart, in his 2015 book, ‘Clinton Cash,’ ” Smith continued. “The next year, candidate Donald Trump cited the accusation as an example of Clinton corruption.”

Smith then played a clip from a June 2016 speech Trump gave in New York City in which he repeated the claim.

“Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation,” Trump said in the speech.

Smith called the statement "inaccurate in a number of ways."

"The Clinton State Department had no power to approve or veto that transaction. It could do neither," the Fox News host noted.

Smith then laid out the approval process for the sale, which involves a nine-person committee made up of the heads of federal agencies, and noted that no one person could approve or veto the deal — only former President Obama could do either.

The Fox News anchor also detailed Trump’s claim that the Clinton Foundation received money after the deal was completed.

“Here, the timing is inaccurate,” Smith said, noting that the source of the majority of the donations, Frank Giustra, said he sold his stake in the uranium company before the company was sold and before Clinton became secretary of State.

“The accusation is predicated on the charge that Secretary Clinton approved the sale,” Smith said. “She did not. A committee of nine evaluated the sale, the president approved the sale, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and others had to offer permits, and none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia. That is Uranium One.”

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Uranium One?  This is old news to everyone except the kook-right.

 

BTW, the FBI also vets any transactions that may affect national security, as they did in the Uranium One case.

 

"Clinton Cash?"  What would you expect from a Mercer-financed book?  Kook-right hokum.

 

 

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5 hours ago, Tahoma said:

Uranium One?  This is old news to everyone except the kook-right.

 

BTW, the FBI also vets any transactions that may affect national security, as they did in the Uranium One case.

 

"Clinton Cash?"  What would you expect from a Mercer-financed book?  Kook-right hokum.

 

 

Do you mean the FBI under Robert Mueller?  By the way, at that time, Obama had completely politicized the DOJ and FBI as evidenced by their actions in this case and in the run up to the election, but of course that is fine since it was the MDL doing the politicizing.

 

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7 hours ago, Tahoma said:

Uranium One?  This is old news to everyone except the kook-right.

 

BTW, the FBI also vets any transactions that may affect national security, as they did in the Uranium One case.

 

"Clinton Cash?"  What would you expect from a Mercer-financed book?  Kook-right hokum.

 

 

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You were saying?

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

Do you mean the FBI under Robert Mueller?  By the way, at that time, Obama had completely politicized the DOJ and FBI as evidenced by their actions in this case and in the run up to the election, but of course that is fine since it was the MDL doing the politicizing.

 

 

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5 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Do you mean the FBI under Robert Mueller?  By the way, at that time, Obama had completely politicized the DOJ and FBI as evidenced by their actions in this case and in the run up to the election, but of course that is fine since it was the MDL doing the politicizing.

 

You forgot the DNC political action arm of the IRS

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36 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

You forgot the DNC political action arm of the IRS

and the Deep State, don;t forget them

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6 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

Do you mean the FBI under Robert Mueller?  By the way, at that time, Obama had completely politicized the DOJ and FBI as evidenced by their actions in this case and in the run up to the election, but of course that is fine since it was the MDL doing the politicizing.

 

 

    The belief that something occurred does not constitute evidence. The MDR seems to be very selective in their approach to this concept; when someone wants to believe something it's evidence and when they don't, it's fake news.