{"id":34274,"date":"2017-03-27T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34274"},"modified":"2017-03-28T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:38:52","slug":"desperate-trump-tweets-threat-to-investigate-debunked-clintonrussia-uranium-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34274","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Trump Tweets Threat To Investigate Debunked Clinton\/Russia Uranium Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The walls are losing in around Donald Trump. Allegations concerning his unsavory connections to Vladimir Putin and Russia continue to accumulate. His closest associates are being investigated by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies. The 2016 election was tainted by revelations of meetings between Trump&#8217;s campaign and Russian operatives. And the Justice Department has already certified that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/fbi-agrees-cia-assessment-russia-wanted-help-trump-n697066\" target=\"_blank\">Russia interfered with the election<\/a><\/strong> in an effort to harm Hillary Clinton and Boost Trump. The FBI is currently investigating the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN16R077\" target=\"_blank\">Trump campaign&#8217;s complicity<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/trump-putin.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Vladimir Putin\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29918\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1672700059411449\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the heat of all that, Congress is under fire for failing to hold independent hearings on the mounting scandals involving Trump and Russia. GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has himself been implicated in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nunes-met-source-trump-monitoring-claim-white-house-n738906\" target=\"_blank\">shady behavior<\/a><\/strong>. He reportedly met with a secret <em>&#8220;source&#8221;<\/em> at the White House prior to holding a press conference last week. At the presser Nunes released information intended to help the President evade further scrutiny. Then Nunes returned to the White House to brief Trump without ever sharing his information with the committee.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of this, Trump has now engaged in a pitifully obvious attempt at diversion. He posted the following tweets Monday evening:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why isn&#39;t the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill &amp; Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/846533818811080704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;money to Bill, the Hillary Russian &quot;reset,&quot; praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MAGA<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/846536212362018816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Under the circumstances, asking the Intelligence Committee to investigate the Clinton&#8217;s is a transparent act of desperation. Especially since the Committee under Nunes&#8217; control has zero credibility. In addition, the matters Trump cited have all been investigated by numerous legal and congressional entities. There was no wrongdoing found by the Clinton&#8217;s or President Obama. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/statements\/2016\/sep\/30\/donald-trump\/nuclear-claim-donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-ga\/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFact summed up<\/a><\/strong> the findings in a comprehensive analysis last year after a prior accusation by Trump. They rated Trump&#8217;s accusations <em>&#8220;Mostly False&#8221;<\/em> and said in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Russia\u2019s nuclear energy agency, which also builds nuclear weapons, bought a controlling stake in Uranium One. The company has mines, mills and tracts of land in Wyoming, Utah and other U.S. states equal to about 20 percent of U.S. uranium production capacity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, to be clear, the 20 percent is capacity, not uranium that has been produced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Given that Russia doesn\u2019t have the licenses to export uranium outside the United States, it was likely more interested in Uranium One\u2019s assets in Kazakhstan, the world\u2019s largest uranium producer, our colleagues said. [&#8230;]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The State Department did approve the Uranium One deal, but it didn\u2019t act unilaterally. It was one of nine U.S. government agencies, plus independent federal and state nuclear regulators, that had to sign off on the deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And as FactCheck.org noted in a related fact check, while any of the nine agencies could have objected to the deal, only President Barack Obama had the power to veto it.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there was nothing untoward about the deal in the first place, and Clinton didn\u2019t have the power to approve or reject it anyway. Consequently, Trump&#8217;s only motivation could be to divert attention away from his potentially treasonous activities. It&#8217;s a pathetic scheme that is so clumsy it can&#8217;t possibly work. And that is the most damning proof of his desperation and fear. Stunts like this are only likely to exacerbate his situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So keep tweeting, Mr. President. Your outbursts merely serve to dig you in deeper. They certainly won&#8217;t have any effect on the law enforcement professionals examining your activities during and following the campaign. And as the evidence continues to expose your malfeasance you will lose even more support from your fellow Republicans in Congress. You know, the ones you just insulted because they didn&#8217;t buy into your phony healthcare scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The walls are losing in around Donald Trump. Allegations concerning his unsavory connections to Vladimir Putin and Russia continue to accumulate. His closest associates are being investigated by the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies. The 2016 election was tainted by revelations of meetings between Trump&#8217;s campaign and Russian operatives. And the Justice Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1201,1200,8,13],"tags":[183,1235,554,31,908,1211],"class_list":["post-34274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-justice","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-scandalous","tag-barack-obama","tag-devin-nunes","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-politifact","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-putin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8UO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52378,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52378","url_meta":{"origin":34274,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Loopy Lawsuit Against Hillary Clinton and &#8216;Her Cohorts&#8217; Reads Like Sleazy Pulp Fiction","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/25\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"What could be more predictable than Donald Trump attempting to divert attention away from whatever new self-created calamity is causing him grief? 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