“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them,” said Vladimir Lenin. Today’s Russian leaders, in light of Hillary’s graft, could update the saying and give it an ironic twist: the socialists in America will sell us the materials with which we will bomb them.
That blatant quid pro quo — Hillary Clinton and her cronies in the Obama administration signed off on giving Russia 20 percent of America’s uranium production after her family foundation received millions from Russians in the uranium industry — cries out for a special investigation. Making the appearance of the sale even worse is that it is now known that the approval of it came at the very moment the Obama administration knew all about the Russian uranium industry’s bribery practices.
Yet when Trump brought this up during the campaign — “Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20% of America’s uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton foundation” — the media shrugged. Suddenly cooperation with Russia didn’t look so bad. Now the media is giving a similar shrug to Hillary’s secret payments to a former British spy who used Russian smear merchants to try to torpedo Trump’s candidacy.
The commentariat’s windy warnings about “foreign interference in our elections” have ended and been replaced by discourses on the propriety of “opposition research,” the value of which is determined not by its origin but by its accuracy. So say the same Democrats and liberal pundits who spent a year whining about the accurate information released by WikiLeaks on the Podesta emails. Hillary is still sore at the press for not averting its gaze from that accurate information. She actually argues in her campaign memoir that the media had a duty not to report on improperly obtained and released information, regardless of its authenticity. Instead, it should have been reporting on false charges made by a “well-respected” British spy, she writes, without informing her readers that he was on her payroll.
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