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| Donald Trump gets pitching advice from Sean "Softball" Hannity. |
Do you know how bad it's gotten with Donald J. Trump?
Trump is under fire for his improper tone toward a military widow in the wake of a soldier's death. He also took a shot at a Democratic lawmaker who happens to be a Black woman.
So in order for him to take his mind off the controversy, he goes back to blaming Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton again.
He's taking advice from one of the world's most annoying conservative agitators. Trump's earpiece is none other then, Sean "Softball" Hannity, the most controversial figure in the junk food media.
While this Russia scandal is heating up, the softball and many of the conservative agitators in the junk food media are trying to divert attention to some issue that has nothing to do with what's happening. I've listened to this conservative agitator going on and on about the Uranium One deal and allegations of Hillary Clinton taking a quid pro quo.
It's unfortunate that they will not let go of their Obama and Clinton obsession.
According to this hack writer named Peter Schweitzer, the state department in 2010 approved the deal for uranium to help Russia. Trump mentions a kookspiracy about Clinton taking money from a Russian business.
The Politico reports the controversy.
"Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!" Trump wrote online Thursday.
The controversy, which centers around a 2010 sale that put the Russian government in control of more than 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply, made its way back into the spotlight this week when the Senate Judiciary Committee
opened a fresh investigation on the matter. That probe was triggered by a story published by
The Hill reporting that the FBI had uncovered Russian nuclear officials were engaged in an array of illegal activities in the U.S., including bribery, extortion and kickbacks.
Trump often used the uranium deal during last year’s presidential campaign in an effort to paint Clinton as corrupt, pointing to donations made to the Clinton Global Initiative as an indication that she approved the sale to appease donors.
But while the State Department was one of the agencies involved in approving the uranium deal, both the Clinton campaign and officials from the department have said that the former secretary of state was not involved in the approval process because such matters did not rise to her level within the department.
This nonsense hasn't stop the noise. You know we're getting deeper in this Russia stuff when conservatives like Softball Hannity are deflecting to this canard.
This canard was picked up by another group of hacks named John Solomon, Alison Spann and Sara Carter. These people are often fixtures on the softball's right wing carnival.
Solomon who writes for The Hill broke a story about a 2010 deal that maintained the business executive involved in the purchase of uranium donated to the Clinton Foundation.
The only outlet focused on it is Fox News. You know the channel that accused Hillary Clinton of murdering DNC staffer Seth Rich.
The Washington Post decides to cut through the noise. They look into the accusations from the hack. Solomon wrote for the Washington Examiner, a far right outlet. This guy worked for Circa News, a Sinclair Broadcasting Group outlet. Now he works at The Hill writing bullshit.
John Solomon and Alison Spann reported Tuesday that before the Obama administration approved Russia's 2010 acquisition of a majority stake in a Canadian firm that owned uranium mines in the American West, the FBI had begun investigating a Kremlin scheme to grow Russia's influence in the United States' nuclear industry through corrupt business practices.
Here's an excerpt:
Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show.
The Washington Post said that this "deal" as the right puts it, doesn't really have to do with Hillary Clinton. The post has cited a story from the New York Times saying that Clinton wouldn't go out her way to making money off of a nuclear deal knowing that she escaped many other made up controversies. Had Clinton actually known about the deal, she would have been in trouble.
It seems like she didn't have no say in what goes on.
The New York Times reported in 2015 that “as the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation.”
It is virtually impossible to view these donations as anything other than an attempt to curry favor with Clinton. Donations alone do not, however, prove that Clinton was actually influenced by money to vote in favor of the Uranium One sale — or to overlook the FBI investigation. Again, there is no evidence that she even knew about the investigation.
Similarly, it is virtually impossible to view foreign dignitaries' habit of lodging at Trump's Washington hotel as anything other than an attempt to curry favor with the president. Reservations and room service alone do not, however, prove that Trump's foreign policy is actually influenced by money.
Some people willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt are denying Clinton the same courtesy.
In other words, this is just a made-up scandal created by Trump and his acolytes.
Sean "Softball" Hannity is the chief propagandist of the Trump Administration.
Hannity is not ashamed of the crap he's spewing on television, radio and the internet. The softball has become more one of the most controversial figures and talk radio and cable news.
He is one of the most fiercest supporters of Trump.
