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Debunking The Russia Hack Meme

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Russia Hack: If Putin wanted Hillary to lose, we have nothing to worry about. Because that would mean he’s an idiot.

The Russia Hack meme is a steaming pile of horse manure. It doesn’t pass the smell test.

Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration were Russia’s greatest allies since the basketball referees at the 1972 Olympics. During their tenure (known as “the Hay Day” in the Kremlin), America surrendered much of its nuclear superiority, technological advantages in advanced military weapons systems, and strategic influence in the Middle East and Europe. Our allies were confused and weakened, while Russia used its newfound influence to benefit its own allies. (What a concept!) 

Consider just this episode: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama signed off on the sale of 20% of U.S. uranium assets to the official, state owned Russian atomic energy agency. The company which sold the uranium mines made a fortune, and its officers and affiliates donated $140 million to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton is a close associate of the Canadian financier who made the deal happen, and Bill was instrumental in making the foreign connections that got the ball rolling.

Hillary’s reset was really a surrender to Russian demands at the expense of her own country’s strategic interests. Russia did the ground-and-pound on Uncle Sam in the START Treaty negotiations, in the uranium deal, and in Secretary Clinton’s initiative to transfer American technological advantages to Russia’s own fledgling Silicon Valley at Skolkovo, outside Moscow.

Unless Vladimir Putin is a traitor to Mother Russia, or a moron, it is inconceivable that he would want Hillary’s party to get off the mat and hand things over to an exuberantly patriotic, military-supporting, capitalist champion of American business interests. Not to mention, one whose fossil fuel-based energy policy has the potential to devastate Putin’s economy by sending massive amounts of cheap American natural gas to Russia’s currently captive market.

The Russia Hack meme is a fraud, conceived and cultivated by a defeated party and its media zombies in the wake of a well-earned spanking. Aghast at the prospect of losing its ability to turn America into a progressive hellhole, the Democrat Party broke its 99-year romance with Lenin’s party and blamed them for the breakup.

Every accusation has been a laughable lie if you only remember how Hillary’s Democrats prostrated themselves before Russia for 8 years. You cannot think Putin would actually prefer Trump over Hillary, unless you think maybe he was intimidated by her Chairman Mao pant suits.

And what’s the scandal, anyway? One or two Trump people were among the thousand or so politicians in DC who talked to Russians last year? So what? This is not an investigation to find a criminal. This is an investigation to find a crime!

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    Hillary & Obama Gave Russia 20% of U.S. Uranium Assets

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    $140M In Clinton Foundation Donations Sealed The Deal

    Ask your local Russia Hack conspiracy theorist why Putin would want the Democrats to lose in 2016, considering the uranium bonanza they gave him. The Clintons and the Obama administration took a series of actions which gave Russia control of 20% of America’s uranium, a strategic asset used to produce nuclear energy and weapons. In exchange for $140 million in donations from Uranium One to the Clinton Foundation, Secretary Clinton approved the sale of the mining company to the official, state-owned Russian atomic agency, Rosatom.  A brief summary:

    • In September 2005, Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra sought access to uranium mines in Kazakhstan. Democrat ex-President Bill Clinton flew in Giustra’s private jet to a meeting Clinton arranged with corrupt Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev. Bill publicly praised the autocrat, and 3 days later Giustra’s company was granted what he wanted: a stake in 3 uranium mines in Kazakhstan.
    • Then, Giustra donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.
    • And then, Giustra pledged an additional $100 million to the Clinton Foundation. Bill said, “I love this guy!”
    • In 2007, Giustra’s company, Uranium One, bought uranium mines in 4 U.S. states while its chairman, Ian Telfer, donated $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation.  Giustra sold his personal holdings for $45 million.
    • In 2009, Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, and the Russian atomic agency, Rosatom, bought 17% interest in Uranium One. Chairman Telfer donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.
    • In June 2010, Rosatom announced a deal to acquire a 51% interest in Uranium One, pending the approval of Secretary of State Clinton. Uranium One and its affiliates had donated $8.6 million to the Clinton Foundation in the past 2 years.
    • On June 29, 2010, in Moscow, Bill Clinton made $500,000 for a speech to a Kremlin-affiliated Russian investment bank promoting Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One.
    • Then, in October 2010, Secretary Clinton and the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment approved Rosatom’s acquisition of a majority interest in Uranium One.
    • By January 2013, through Clinton’s term as Secretary of State, Russian atomic agency Rosatom owned 100% interest in Uranium One, along with its 20% share of American uranium assets. Its chairman, Ian Telfer, had donated $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.

    …And Putin wanted Hillary to…lose? What more could Putin ask for? In a headline worthy of The New York Times‘ Walter Duranty, Russian propaganda outlet Pravda proclaimed, “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers The World“. Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko rejoiced to Putin, “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20% of U.S. reserves!”

    Read New York Times Story on Putin’s Haul

    Excerpt:

    Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

    If Putin tried to get Hillary and the Democrats to lose the election after this spectacularly successful partnership, he’s either a traitor to Mother Russia or an idiot.

     

     

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