Real russian colusion

[henryp]

I'll just speak to the 'uranium sale' since I know a bit about that topic. No uranium was sold to Russia. A Russian company bought a Canadian company that mines uranium. The Russians don't get the uranium that company mines, they get some of the profits. Because the company being bought is involved in uranium mining, the acquisition of 51% of the Canadian/South African company's shares required approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (because the company owns uranium mines in the USA), and the US Secretary of State is on that committee. Clinton was just one member of that committee with no veto power, so she did not have the power to alone approve or deny the sale. The Secretary of the Treasury (Timothy Geithner) was the chairperson, not Clinton. The committee evaluates foreign investment with possible national security issues, and turns the findings over to the president, the committee itself can't approve or disapprove a deal. According to the State Dept. representative who stood for her in the committee, Clinton never interfered with committee decisions.

So the Russians didn't get any uranium and the decision wasn't Clinton's to make. I assume the rest of your information is equally accurate.

http://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-clint...ump-688592

The conflict of interest is pretty undeniable. Drich overstates it as partisan people are wont to do, which is silly, because the actual truth is pretty egregious.