Surprise! Big media ignores the real Russian scandal

While the mainstream media is chasing their tail about a supposed Trump-Russia collusion, the scandal involving Uranium One unfolds to expose a Clinton-Russia connection as well as a stunning cover-up by the Obama administration.

Rather than reporting real news, they continue to churn out phony news that Russia swayed the 2016 election with Facebook ads and a hodgepodge of other thus-far debunked Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theories. The Clintons’ chief political go-to guy Mark Penn recently disproved the conspiracy theory that Russia swayed the 2016 election with $100,000 in Facebook ads. Penn wrote in the Wall Street Journal that in the end, only $6,500 was spent on “actual electioneering” and most ads “did not solicit support for a candidate.” Even if $100,000 was spent on actual electioneering, compare that to the Clintons’ multi-million-dollar influence-peddling scheme going on while Russia was conspiring to grab 20-percent of U.S. uranium reserves with the acquisition of Uranium One.

As I wrote in a March column, Uranium One is a Russian-owned uranium mining company that lobbied the Obama State Department through a firm co-founded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta. Uranium One fell under the corporate control of Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom through a series of transactions approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, effectively giving Russia control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium — while a flow of cash found its way to the Clinton Foundation.

All told, Newsweek reports $145 million went to the Clinton Foundation or its initiatives from those linked to Uranium One. Former President Bill Clinton also received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank promoting Uranium One stock with ties to the Kremlin. Additionally, the chairman of Uranium One is a close friend of the Clintons and is on the board of the Clinton Foundation, according to Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.” Fast forward to now.

Enter: Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe, Robert Mueller and James Comey — the same folks investigating the so-called Trump-Russia collusion investigation were also involved in Uranium One.