11/15/2017

GOP/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fox News anchor Shepard Smith discredited an unsubstantiated theory that his network and other conservative media outlets and Republican politicians have aggressively promoted as Hillary Clinton’s Uranium One ‘scandal.’
During Tuesday [11-14-17] night’s broadcast, Smith succinctly debunked Republicans’ claims that the Obama administration and the Clinton-led State Department approved a deal allowing a Russian company to buy a Canadian company with mining interests in the US in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Smith’s report came as Republican calls for a special counsel to investigate the deal are mounting. President Donald Trump has called the issue ‘Watergate, modern-age,’ and his surrogates and supporters say it amounts to the ‘real Russia scandal.’…
Smith pointed out that the Uranium One deal was unanimously approved by representatives of nine government agencies, just one of which was the Clinton-led State Department. And there is no proof that Clinton personally approved the deal, as one of her deputies officially signed off on it…
Smith’s segment was met with harsh criticism from many Fox News viewers who suggested he should leave the network for CNN or MSNBC.”

-Eliza Relman, “Fox News anchor Shep Smith annihilates his network’s favorite Hillary Clinton ‘scandal,’ the Uranium One deal,” Business Insider, Nov. 15, 2017