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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">featured in d'souza BS Hillary's Am docu</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/09/768556474/how-a-political-hit-job-backfired-and-led-to-trumps-impeachment-peril">https://www.npr.org/<b>2019/10</b>/09/768556474/how-a-political-hit-job-backfired-and-led-to-trumps-impeachment-peril</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The nation's attention is riveted on the drama unfolding in Washington, where House investigators are assembling evidence for their impeachment inquiry, and President Trump is refusing to cooperate. Our guest, Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Joshua Green, says that, ironically, Trump's impeachment peril is the unintended result of an effort to help him.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last spring, a book came out called "Secret Empires: How The American Political Class Hides Corruption And Enriches Family And Friends." Its author was Peter Schweizer, the head of the Government Accountability Institute, a think tank founded by Schweizer and Steve Bannon. The book includes information about&nbsp;<b>Hunter Biden,</b>&nbsp;the son of Joe Biden and his activities in Ukraine when his father was the vice president.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The book raises questions about possible ethical violations and corruption related to Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>The book received a lot of attention on Fox News,</b>&nbsp;where it came to the attention of President Trump and led&nbsp;<b>Trump to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine</b>&nbsp;to pressure the new government there to investigate the claims in Schweizer's book.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Joshua Green notes in a new article how this echoes the playbook that Schweizer and Bannon successfully used with their 2015 book "Clinton Cash</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">," which raised questions about the propriety of Hillary Clinton's financial dealings and those of the Clinton Foundation. It led to investigations by the mainstream media.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Joshua Green writes about politics for Bloomberg Businessweek and is the author of a book about Steve Bannon called "Devil's Bargain."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;He spoke with FRESH AIR's Dave Davies.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVE DAVIES, BYLINE: Joshua Green, welcome back to FRESH AIR. You write that the allegations of corruption involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine were first aired in a book published last year by something called the Government Accountability Institute. What is the Government Accountability Institute?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JOSHUA GREEN: Well, the</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Government Accountability Institute is registered as a&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">nonpartisan research&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">organization. It was founded in 2012 by Steve Banno</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n, Donald Trump's former chief strategist, and Peter Schweizer, who, I believe, is now the president and still works there. And it bills itself as an investigatory outfit that investigates money and politics, corruption and that sort of thing.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Right. Who funds it?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: Well, we don't know all the funders, but one of its chief funders is Rebekah&nbsp;<b>Mercer,</b>&nbsp;who is part of the Mercer family, headed by Robert Mercer, the former co-chair of Renaissance Technologies, the big hedge fund. The Mercer family was and still is a major right-wing donor to various different causes, big Trump supporters, and a family that has come into the spotlight since Trump's election - also involved in Cambridge Analytica and some of the outfits that became famous and even notorious after the 2016 election.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: The funding certainly comes from partisan sources. You know, the co-founder was Steve Bannon. What's interesting, as you write, is that the work - the research that it produced and the books that it produced weren't intended particularly to reach the conservative media or core Republican voters. What was the purpose?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: Well, the purpose of GAI originally was to, you know, investigate politicians. But given the conservative band of people like Bannon and Schweizer and their funders, the focus often tended to be Democrats. And in my book, I write about how<b>&nbsp;Schweizer and Bannon resolved to go after Hillary Clinton a couple of years before the 2016 election, knowing that she was likely to emerge as the Democratic nominee.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So through GAI and its investigators, its forensic data scientists, you know, they pored over public records, corporate filings, dark Web scrapings to compile, you know, a damning book about Bill and Hillary Clinton in their work through their nonprofit, the Clinton Foundation, that was published about a month before Hillary launched her presidential campaign. And that book, "Clinton Cash," became an instant New York Times [PARTNERSHIP?!]&nbsp; bestseller and&nbsp;<b>really tarnished Hillary Clinton's image just as she was entering the presidential fray.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: And the interesting thing is that, you know, Bannon was not interested in just generating material for the conservative media. It was important that mainstream media draw on this research and, you know, give it their imprimatur tour too.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN: That's exactly right.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">You know, Bannon's critique of how Republicans deal with the media goes back to the 1990s and Bill Clinton's impeachment, when he thought that Republicans really just wound up talking to themselves in an echo chamber and they chased wild rumors and conspiracy theories and really put off ordinary voters. The media didn't listen to them. Voters didn't listen to them.&nbsp;<b>OPPO RESEARCH</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So with "Clinton Cash," he resolved to compile factual information that he wanted the mainstream media to pick up and amplify.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;And so he explicitly was not looking to reach a conservative audience, which is already going to be predisposed to dislike the Clintons, and was aiming to affect the votes in the views of independents and Democrats and the type of people that Hillary Clinton was counting on.<b>&nbsp;It was important to Bannon that GAI's work be picked up and taken seriously by mainstream media outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: And did those mainstream media organizations publish stories based on the research?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GREEN:&nbsp;<b>Yeah, they did. I mean, famously, there was a New York Times story based on Schweizer's reporting.</b>&nbsp;And it revealed this in the story, looking at a Clinton Foundation deal in a Russian-backed company called </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Uranium One</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> that really took off and, I think, poisoned the public views of Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. And, as Bannon intended, a whiff of corruption attached itself to Hillary Clinton</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Of course, that expanded as the media focused on her missing emails and Republicans pushed these ideas.&nbsp;</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the book really succeeded in what Bannon had set out to do. And that was to&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">raise doubts&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">about the ethics and morals and fitness for the presidency of Hillary Clinton.</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Right. And we should just note that there is nothing at all unusual about credible reporters getting tips and leads and information from partisan sources. They have to, of course, independently verify the information and assess its credibility. Were the books that the Government Accountability Institute writes generally accurate?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GREEN:&nbsp;<b>Well, they were based on facts</b>. And what these investigators did was go out and turn out examples of foreign donors that hadn't been disclosed and examples of behavior by former President Bill Clinton that&nbsp;<b>seemed</b>&nbsp;to be conducted on behalf of donors to the Clinton Foundation.<b>&nbsp;You know, Schweizer's style is not to fabricate or allege illegality. Instead, he uses his reporting to lay out a suggestive timeline that leads readers to a conclusion that, hey, something is dirty here.</b>&nbsp;This reeks of influence peddling. Something is not right. And it raises doubts about the subjects.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: So the new book from Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute is called "Secret Empires: How The American Political Class Hides Corruption And Enriches Family And Friends." And it identified Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden as a target for some of the material. What did it find about Joe and Hunter Biden?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN: Well, what it found was that Hunter Biden, the vice president's son, had become&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a highly paid director at a Ukrainian natural gas company called Burisma</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a position that he didn't have any obvious qualifications for.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But he did have a very famous last name, and the owner of the company was interested, I think, in building credibility.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Schweizer also took a look at a private equity fund that Hunter Biden became involved in that drew a lot of money from Chinese investors at the same time that Hunter was flying to China on Air Force Two with his father, the vice president.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So in Schweizer's reporting, you know, this is made to look very fishy and possibly illegal and raise doubts about the ethics of Joe Biden and whether or not, you know, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination really belongs in that position or, you know, is in some way corrupt because of his son's business dealings.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: No direct evidence that Joe Biden did anything to assist his son in either of those ventures, right? But there's an association.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN<b>: No. No, there isn't. And Bloomberg News, my employer, has done a lot of reporting and has turned up no wrongdoing.&nbsp;</b>Other outlets have taken a look. I mean, what is going on and what Schweizer is good at finding are situations like this where, you know, I think any objective reader would come to the conclusion that, you know, but for Hunter's last name, he would not be in this position. You and I would not be offered a $50,000 a month board seat at a Ukrainian gas company because our father isn't vice president.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So it's the sort of - it's what, you know, Schweizer calls corruption by proxy. There's nothing explicitly illegal, but it's sort of morally corrupt and an indictment of our system in a way that populist Republicans and Democrats like to criticize.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: The Clinton book got a ton of mainstream media attention and had an impact on the Clintons themselves. This book, did it get a lot of mainstream attention? Did it hurt harm the Bidens?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN:&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">You know, it really didn't. It came out in 2018, and it kind of came and went. It - you know, it didn't attach itself to Biden. It didn't become - it didn't drive the political news cycle in the way that "Clinton Cash" drove the 2015-2016 presidential news cycle. It got a decent amount of attention in conservative media, but it never really broke out into the mainstream.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You know, and I speculated in my Businessweek piece, a couple of reasons for this - one, Joe Biden wasn't yet a candidate, and so there wasn't that kind of urgency to look into his past. There might have been had the book come out later on.&nbsp;<b>It also didn't focus only on the Biden's; it focused on John Kerry, Barack Obama, the Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.&nbsp;</b>So I think that influenced how it was received. And of course, unlike "Clinton Cash," it wasn't focused on an actual Democratic presidential candidate; it was mainly focused on his son. And so there - it was sort of one degree removed from the primary actors.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I think all these things together help explain why the book didn't really break out until, that is, Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, became infatuated with it,</b>&nbsp;started trying to investigate these things themselves and now has kicked off what has become an entire impeachment proceeding and put the book and the Bidens and Schweizer himself very much in the center of the 2020 presidential news cycle.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: So when this book was launched with these stories, what were the ambitions of Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN: Well, I think the ambition was a reprise of what they'd seen with "Clinton Cash," that the mainstream media would look into this stuff and amplify it in the way that they had with the Clinton charges</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. You know, Steve Bannon, who kind of pioneered this model, has a phrase he likes to use - anchor left, pivot right. And what that means is you want to anchor this reporting on the left and the mainstream media - what Bannon considers the left - get them writing about it and then use the right-wing media to amplify what it is the mainstream media is saying and to kind of dominate the entire mediasphere.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So I think Schweizer and GAI were hoping that "Secret Empires," the Biden reporting, would be anchored in the mainstream media, and the whole process would repeat itself, but that never really happened with the second book.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: So what did happen? Why do we know about it now?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN: Well, we know about it now - it got a decent amount of attention in the right-wing media, on</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Fox News, in the New York Post.&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And of course, some of - you know, one of the most loyal consumers of right-wing media is the president,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Donald Trump, who according to reporting watches hours and hours of Fox News every day. So he was exposed to this reporting, exposed to the charges and the insinuations that Schweizer made. He's tweeted about the book. He's tweeted about Schweizer.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, you know, based on everything we've heard from the whistleblower report, from the White House call transcript that was released at the end of September, Trump and Giuliani took it upon themselves to pick up the phone and try and advance Schweizer's reporting into the Bidens. I mean, essentially, calling the president of Ukraine and saying, hey,<b>&nbsp;I know about this Biden stuff. I want you to look into this.</b>&nbsp;I want you to investigate my political opponent. And, you know, if you don't, we're going to withhold this military aid - setting off all the alarm bells that have now led to the impeachment inquiry.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: So it really was the president and Giuliani that took this and ran with it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: It really was. I mean, the remarkable thing - a lot of people watch Fox News, watch right-wing media, get upset about the Clintons and the Bidens, but only one of them had the power to pick up the telephone, call the president of the Ukraine and put pressure on him to investigate the Bidens in hopes that they could turn up more damning information about Joe and Hunter Biden, knowing that Joe Biden was very likely to be his Democratic opponent in 2020.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And we're speaking with Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Joshua Green about the origins of the story about Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine, which drew interest from President Trump and has now led to an impeachment inquiry. Green is the author of a book about Steve Bannon called "Devil's Bargain."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So President Trump has said that Joe Biden, when he was vice president - I guess in 2016 - sought to get the Ukrainian prosecutor fired, who was, at that time, investigating the company associated with Hunter Biden, his son - in effect, kind of scotching an investigation into his son by getting the prosecutor fired. What's the truth of this?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN:&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Well, it is true what Trump says, but it is wildly misleading. Vice President Biden played a central role in overseeing U.S. policy in the Ukraine. But Biden, the Obama administration, Republicans in the Senate, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union were all putting pressure on the Ukrainian government to root out corruption and, particularly, to fire the chief prosecutor at the time, Viktor Shokin, who was not - who was essentially beholden to the oligarchs, was not doing the kind of corruption investigations they wanted.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So Biden threatened to withhold up to a billion dollars in aid from Ukraine if Shokin wasn't fired because he was so deeply corrupt.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So Biden and the Obama administration were putting pressure on the Ukraine government to do more investigating of corruption not less, as Trump and his allies are insinuating.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And it's also - I mean, just to be clear, they weren't in - Ukrainian prosecutors were never investigating Hunter Biden. They were investigating an oligarch who owned - who is the co-founder of Burisma, the gas company, on whose board Hunter Biden served.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Right. And is it clear whether, at the time that he was fired,<b>&nbsp;this prosecutor, Victor Shokin, was actually investigating the company?</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>GREEN: You know, it isn't clear.&nbsp;</b>There have been conflicting reports on this. There does seem to have been an investigation into Burisma. But, you know, they paid a fine. That went away. At no point was Hunter Biden ever implicated in any kind of corruption. And part of what, I think, Trump and Giuliani were trying to do was to reopen this investigation and steer it toward Hunter Biden in hopes that they could find or maybe create damaging material around the Bidens.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: There is a new chief prosecutor in Ukraine and was quoted as saying that he had opened an audit of a bunch of old investigations, including one into Burisma Holdings, the company that Hunter Biden was associated with. What does this portend?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: Well, it's not clear. I mean, one of the things, I think, a lot of people don't understand about the whole Ukraine situation is that Hunter Biden was never investigated by Ukrainian prosecutors.&nbsp;<b>What happened was that they were investigating an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky, who co-founded Burisma.&nbsp;</b>And so reopening investigations would be investigations into Burisma Holdings. But they - from what we know, that wouldn't affect or have anything specifically to do with Hunter Biden or his situation there.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the things that Trump and Giuliani are pushing for in these text messages and these - in these meetings and phone calls is for Ukrainian prosecutors to go further and specifically investigate the Bidens in hope that they can turn up dirt that can be used in the 2020 presidential campaign.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And as far as we know, there's no basis for investigating anything. There is no evidence that I'm aware of or that anybody has reported that would suggest that there was wrongdoing there.&nbsp;</b>And Schweizer himself, in fact, in the New York Times today, has an op-ed saying that, you know, what transpired actually wasn't illegal under U.S. law. It was unseemly. It might have been unethical - the idea of putting a politician's son on a board as a way of maybe trying to influence the political process - but there was nothing illegal here. And that's very much Schweizer's style is not to allege illegality but to insinuate that there is something corrupt going on there.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And, I think, part of the way that this entire story went sideways and went crashing into this impeachment inquiry is that Trump is very much susceptible to the insinuation that there is something, you know, perfidious going on here and took it upon himself to, you know, push and amplify and even threaten people in hopes of advancing the story.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: You mentioned that Peter Schweizer, the author of this book that was funded by the Government Accountability Institute, has an op-ed in The Times. He's arguing that there's a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it illegal for an American company operating in a foreign country to engage in, you know, bribery or nepotism to secure favor from governments in which they operate but that there's a big hole in the law in that there's nothing to prevent a foreign government from hiring the family of U.S. officials or creating relationships in order to, you know, create an appearance which helps their business. Does he have a point?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: I think he's got a perfectly good point. And that's exactly what seems to be going on with Hunter Biden. He had no traditional, professional qualification for the job that he held with Burisma, you know, and that in itself doesn't seem right. I think that is what Schweizer is pointing to.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, Trump and Republicans have taken it a lot further, twisting a lot of the facts about what was investigated, what the Obama administration and Biden were pressuring the Ukrainian government to do in 2016. But the basic fact that Hunter Biden was on this board and was probably there for political reasons, because there weren't really any other good reasons for him to be on the board - what Scheizer has pointed out here and what he says in his New York Times op-ed is that what Hunter Biden did was perfectly legal, but that, in itself, is a problem.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GROSS: Joshua Green is a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek. After a break, he'll talk with Dave Davies about how the controversy is affecting the Biden campaign and how Trump and his allies are fighting back with counter narratives that paint the president as the victim of Democratic attacks.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR's Dave Davies recorded with Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Joshua Green. In a recent column, Green argues that President Trump's impeachment worries are actually the unintended result of an effort to help him. He says Trump picked up on research about Joe Biden developed by a conservative think tank and included in a book last year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The material was intended to harm Biden's presidential campaign. But when Trump saw the story on conservative media and began urging Ukraine to investigate Biden, he created far bigger problems for himself. Trump is now the subject of an impeachment inquiry into whether he abused the authority of his office. When we left off, Green was talking about an op-ed published in The New York Times by Peter Schweizer, the author of the book with the allegations against Biden.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAVIES:&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Are you surprised that The New York Times would publish an op-ed by Peter Schweizer, you know, who got funding from, you know, the Mercers and have a very strong political point of view?</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GREEN: Yeah. You know, a little bit, given the controversy it kicked up in 2016 when&nbsp;<b>Schweizer's reporting appeared on the front page -</b>&nbsp;in other words, in the news pages. This piece today is in the opinion section, which I think is a little bit more appropriate for the author and the subject and the claims that he's making.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Right. And just going back to 2016, my understanding is that, you know, the author of the Times' reporting on the Clinton Foundations and the Uranium One story is reporting that they stand by, that they independently investigated all of this and found it credible and newsworthy. Do you disagree?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">: No. I don't disagree with that at all. I mean, part of what made the GAI project so effective is that they didn't do what some conservative authors do, which is to, you know, fabricate or publish rumors. I mean, they're - all of this is based in fact.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;They certainly put their own spin on those facts. They insinuated that there was maybe more going on than was actually going on.&nbsp;<b>But they really did turn up evidence of unreported donations, of relationships that just didn't seem right that, you know, any legitimate investigative reporter, were he or she to come across this information, would want to look into further. And that's exactly what happened.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So the fact that there is a grain of truth in a lot of what is written is one of the things that makes it so effective and that Bannon and Schweizer understood from the outset would get the mainstream media to pay attention and amplify these charges.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;I think what happened in 2016 that upsets liberals so much is that, you know, as this stuff was being published in the mainstream media, it was also being amplified and distorted in the right-wing media. And that was having a real effect on Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her reputation was unquestionably tarnished. She was dogged by these charges and allegations. You add in the amplifying voice of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate calling her crooked Hillary and corrupt and I don't think there's any question - but that - it affected voters' views of her in a way that ultimately proved disastrous for Clinton's own candidacy and for Democrats.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAVIES</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">: One of the things that I think adds to the political potency is that the facts of a lot of these stories are so complicated, that it's really hard for an average reader to sort out what it all means. Was there subsequent reporting on the Uranium One story which cast the Clintons' actions in a different light?</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Nothing knocked it down. You know, the subsequent reporting - I mean, I think what a lot of Democrats objected to was the fact that this, frankly, partisan outfit and author and right-wing money had produced this information that had made its way onto the front page of The New York Times. And I spoke to the liberal activist David Brock at the time about Schweizer and Bannon. And he shook his head. And he Said, you know, looking at it from their point of view, the&nbsp;<b>Times is the perfect host body for the virus -</b>&nbsp;meaning, you know, the intention all along from these guys was to poison the public image of Hillary Clinton</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.&nbsp;<b>And by getting these charges onto the front pages of The New York Times, they essentially accomplished that mission. I think everything that happened subsequently with Trump's attacks and Clinton's loss in the 2016 election back that up. And this time around, with Joe and Hunter Biden, they were looking to do the same thing.</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAVIES:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<b>In the op-ed, the Times doesn't mention Peter Schweizer's association with the Government Accountability Institute or its funders, you know, the Mercers.&nbsp;</b>What do you think of that?</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GREEN: You know, if I were running the op-ed page, I think that's something I would've disclosed based on, you know, his background, the political lineage and what we saw in the 2016 presidential cycle.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: So is all of this affecting the Biden campaign?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: You know, it's not clear that it is. I mean, Biden had been on a bit of a downward trajectory before Trump and the Ukraine charges really came into the news cycle. But, you know, he is - he's starting to slip now. I mean, in the latest averages of polls, Elizabeth Warren has nudged ahead of him. So, you know, it's not clear that this is a deadly development for Joe Biden's candidacy, but it certainly isn't helping.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Since the whistleblower complaint emerged, there's been a lot of information and text and the summary of the phone call between President Trump and the president of Ukraine, which has led to this impeachment inquiry, which is clearly picking up steam. I mean, we're going to see, you know, testimony from other players in this including the former ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch. The Trump administration says it is not going to cooperate with this because, you know, it's a witch hunt. Where do you see this going?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GREEN:&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Well, you know, the irony here is that Trump, by involving himself, you know, essentially made this entire project blow up in his face and committed actions that, at the very least, have launched an impeachment inquiry and I think are very likely to lead to his impeachment in the House whether or not the Senate ultimately chooses to remove him.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what the whistleblower report showed, what the subsequent text messages that have now been revealed between the U.S. ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, and Bill Taylor, a top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, that show that the U.S. apparently was withholding military aid to help a political campaign, as Taylor put it in his text. That is the quid pro quo that Democrats are alleging. And I think if there is a trial in the House, that's what it's likely to show. And the evidence we've seen so far certainly supports that.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So I think, from an impeachment standpoint, Trump is in real trouble. Whether or not he's ultimately removed from office, we'll see. I'm skeptical. But certainly this isn't the outcome that Schweizer and GAI and I think Trump and Giuliani expected to happen when they started making noise about this over the summer.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAVIES: Right. Well, the president's defenders are aggressively promoting other narratives. I mean,&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Giuliani, a couple of weeks ago, was on the ABC weekend show waiving an affidavit from Viktor Shokin,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;you know, the prosecutor that was fired in 2016, in which alleges that, in fact, he was investigating the company Hunter Biden's - was associated with. There are certainly reasons to doubt his credibility in the eyes of a lot of people. And then, you know, last week,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Senator Ron Johnson had a heated exchange with Chuck Todd on "Meet The Press" in which he was arguing that there's all this credible evidence that people in the Ukraine were trying to hurt Trump and help Hillary Clinton in 2016. [RUSSIAN DISINFO]&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's a very aggressive strategy to - you know, bringing up other stuff. What do you think the effect will be?</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: Well, I think the intention on the part of Republicans is to muddy the waters and to turn the charges of corruption against Trump that we've seen laid out in the whistleblower report and the text messages - turn them back against the Democrats.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">What is troubling to a lot of people is that a lot of these charges are based on discredited conspiracy theories. What Ron Johnson was talking about was a&nbsp;<b>conspiracy theory that Trump and Giuliani have propagated that it wasn't Russia that hacked the Democratic National Committee servers in the 2016 election but Ukraine.&nbsp;</b>That's something that's been knocked down by every intelligence official, U.S. and otherwise, who's looked into this. And yet, this is what's being propagated by Trump.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And I think a lot of Republican politicians, fearful of Trump's wrath and eager to toe the partisan line, have found themselves forced or obligated to repeat these wild charges in a way that bears no relationship to reality but is nonetheless, I think, muddying the waters and shaping public opinion in a way that is intended to mitigate the damage of the charges against Trump.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Is Steve Bannon playing a role in stoking any of these allegations?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: You know, he really isn't anymore. I mean, Bannon had a very public falling-out with Donald Trump in 2017, where Trump sort of publicly humiliated him and excommunicated him from the Republican Party. He lost his position as the head of Breitbart News, was essentially sent out into the wilderness.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>I mean, Bannon is still around on the scene. He is focused more on China these days and trying to, I think, strengthen Trump's resolve to conduct the trade war</b>. Trump did tweet favorably about him a couple of months ago. But there isn't a close relationship there in the way that there was during the presidential campaign.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DAVIES: Yeah. I asked because&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">you wrote a book about Steve Bannon and talked to him a lot. He was also going around Europe trying to kind of build a, you know, nationalist, populist movement. How did that go?</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">GREEN: Well, it basically failed. I mean, the nationalist movements in Europe weren't really interested in an American political strategist coming in and telling them what to do.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;They didn't perform nearly as well in the May European parliamentary elections as Bannon and some of the nationalist contingent were hoping for.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so he's focused mainly these days on kind of beating the war drums against China, going out and publicly defending Trump's aggression against China when it comes to tariffs and the trade war and that sort of thing, and seeking to remain relevant in that way. But so far, there has been no reproach with Trump and the White House, or the Mercer family, for that matter. And so he's off on his own.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: You know, looking at the strategy of the Government Accountability Institute with this book, you know, the idea was to kind of repeat the playbook that worked with the Clinton candidacy in 2016, where you develop information, it becomes adopted by the mainstream media and becomes a scandal. And in this case, it seems like another - kind of a different weird thing happened, which is that it turned into a scandal for the president himself when he pursued a theory and then engaged in conduct which has resulted in this impeachment inquiry.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the same time, Peter Schweizer, the author of the book funded by the Government Accountability Institute, is being quoted. I mean, the story is out there. I wonder how they view this - how it's all worked out.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN:<b>&nbsp;Well, the irony here is that the target was supposed to be the Bidens, not the president. And by the president becoming involved, you know, the original plan has kind of blown up</b>. What may wind up happening - as you say, you know, Biden and these charges are very much in the news. That was part of the intention, even if the negative attention toward Trump wasn't part of the plan. What we could see end up happening is a kind of a murder-suicide where Trump really does take out his strongest Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, only, he winds up, in the process, getting himself impeached.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DAVIES: Well, Joshua Green, thanks so much for speaking with us again.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GREEN: Thank you. It's always a pleasure.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.17647em; padding: 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.70588; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 680px; position: static; float: none; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GROSS: Joshua Green is a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of a book about Steve Bannon called "Devil's Bargain."&nbsp;</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" sf="SF" compact="Compact" display="Display" apple-system="apple-system" blinkmacsystemfont="BlinkMacSystemFont" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" roboto="Roboto" helvetica="Helvetica" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" apple="Apple" color="Color" emoji="Emoji" symbol="Symbol" font-size="font-size" em="em" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">better</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has introduced a bill to permanently ban new uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park,&nbsp;<a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNuugyAQRb-mvGm4tKgPPJie9jfMCKMlRTBc0vj3h9qEhMkCZjZLQ8Y1xEPtIWVSEsbJGsU7SYeBEqOuhvW3ntg0LRFxA-tUjgXJXmZnNWQb_PmAsp68lOHQd7yDpbstZjZUzlKjuC5SyJlSA-Q7ZYJiLHqNKnh3nH2JU6-c93QR44U_61pi8BkjJIPp3Ya4Vqa_yOdaMSGF4LJWs3Wu-YTiTDODbzx-mhLB27I1m_XWrxVBbNbKTKPBH6FeOlODa3aIb2K_2QfGueSM9UK0rP0T92543sY7Gx7j-OgvV7qtvE1lThn0u9VhI1HtkDf9ZqKerl8vJ65aprpvxdt8TOhhdmh-xvJP8WkgHzuqGjY5zPWbP1g1DpRKUueYUDt6ZTDiWtyZ95f6H7bdlHU" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNuugyAQRb-mvGm4tKgPPJie9jfMCKMlRTBc0vj3h9qEhMkCZjZLQ8Y1xEPtIWVSEsbJGsU7SYeBEqOuhvW3ntg0LRFxA-tUjgXJXmZnNWQb_PmAsp68lOHQd7yDpbstZjZUzlKjuC5SyJlSA-Q7ZYJiLHqNKnh3nH2JU6-c93QR44U_61pi8BkjJIPp3Ya4Vqa_yOdaMSGF4LJWs3Wu-YTiTDODbzx-mhLB27I1m_XWrxVBbNbKTKPBH6FeOlODa3aIb2K_2QfGueSM9UK0rP0T92543sY7Gx7j-OgvV7qtvE1lThn0u9VhI1HtkDf9ZqKerl8vJ65aprpvxdt8TOhhdmh-xvJP8WkgHzuqGjY5zPWbP1g1DpRKUueYUDt6ZTDiWtyZ95f6H7bdlHU&source=gmail&ust=1577481574079000&usg=AFQjCNHgfOW9v7XBoCQfWMzpaMvGBHkrhA" style="">reports KJZZ</a>. It’s a companion to a bill that the House of Representatives passed in October&nbsp;<a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUNuugyAQ_JrydgygRXjgwfS0v2EQVksOguFS498ftAnZ3cyGmZ3RKsMS4iG3kDIqCeJojaQ9w0JgZGRnCL9zZNM4R4BVWSdzLIC2MjmrVbbBXx8w4egt-x7YPIMwgvM70YRNAJRgxbXpOsxmdKqMqhgLXoMM3h0XL3LynfOWbu1wo6_69n1vlvDJUem_pqSK6OCXCOkcPyHD2QlhP1VY1PHNMEX2PEMQShklhLdtQ5rf9tGL1314EPEchie_dXhdaJPKlPJJrcOKotxUXvUfaet2OS1ecHU41r4Wb_MxgleTA_M1n79pXWbysYH0sCcHOUP8gjURgTFDVceEyuilgQhLcVdg_qr_mxN-2g" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUNuugyAQ_JrydgygRXjgwfS0v2EQVksOguFS498ftAnZ3cyGmZ3RKsMS4iG3kDIqCeJojaQ9w0JgZGRnCL9zZNM4R4BVWSdzLIC2MjmrVbbBXx8w4egt-x7YPIMwgvM70YRNAJRgxbXpOsxmdKqMqhgLXoMM3h0XL3LynfOWbu1wo6_69n1vlvDJUem_pqSK6OCXCOkcPyHD2QlhP1VY1PHNMEX2PEMQShklhLdtQ5rf9tGL1314EPEchie_dXhdaJPKlPJJrcOKotxUXvUfaet2OS1ecHU41r4Wb_MxgleTA_M1n79pXWbysYH0sCcHOUP8gjURgTFDVceEyuilgQhLcVdg_qr_mxN-2g&source=gmail&ust=1577481574079000&usg=AFQjCNEaxWwngoZDwIPYhO4xpAz2wlQD_A" style="">on a vote of 236 to 185</a>, per GovTrack, with nine Republicans joining the Democratic majority in favor of the ban.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>My hot take:&nbsp;</em>So far,&nbsp;<a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNGOgyAQRb-mvGFArcoDD6bb_oZBmFpSHAwOu_Hvl9pkMpNcMvcyxxqCJaZDb3EnlndIk3e67juhlGBOt04O14H5fXomgNX4oCllYFueg7eGfMRzQciBvbRrW6uM6GfrRA2DBDl3fds2rRXq-ewd-6RMJjsPaEFHDMfpy4J-EW37pRkv9aMUvWDOIQB5rGJailISVBlSlGa4TZ5KfOCzIQrA4y8knpNBn1e-evS4cI-82PClqI5bg0dEbhKYM6Fh_vNpJeu6q6UcmqaS1U9z69XjOt6kuo_jfbi0Yl3qas_zTsa-KxtXlvRmaLVv2ZTX5QPklAuPqcw1o6djAjRzAPdFRV-25-l0bKAR_vZyGkH6ioWfEqJjJcfF4ojaQYIlhxMvnv0fv16P0g" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNGOgyAQRb-mvGFArcoDD6bb_oZBmFpSHAwOu_Hvl9pkMpNcMvcyxxqCJaZDb3EnlndIk3e67juhlGBOt04O14H5fXomgNX4oCllYFueg7eGfMRzQciBvbRrW6uM6GfrRA2DBDl3fds2rRXq-ewd-6RMJjsPaEFHDMfpy4J-EW37pRkv9aMUvWDOIQB5rGJailISVBlSlGa4TZ5KfOCzIQrA4y8knpNBn1e-evS4cI-82PClqI5bg0dEbhKYM6Fh_vNpJeu6q6UcmqaS1U9z69XjOt6kuo_jfbi0Yl3qas_zTsa-KxtXlvRmaLVv2ZTX5QPklAuPqcw1o6djAjRzAPdFRV-25-l0bKAR_vZyGkH6ioWfEqJjJcfF4ojaQYIlhxMvnv0fv16P0g&source=gmail&ust=1577481574079000&usg=AFQjCNGhFXySQKNJlEmYCI-kOfZ66XXvRw" style="">as the Bulletin of the Union of Concerned Scientists notes</a>, the White House backs expanded uranium mining in the U.S. But attention on this move to protect the Grand Canyon (a feel-good-about-America issue if ever there was one) could help it break through Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ken.) blockade of nearly 300 bipartisan bills in the Senate. Why? Because support for environmental and climate action continues to rise among some important Republican voter groups already critical of the Trump administration’s rollbacks and climate denial,&nbsp;<a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwtUsuOwyAM_JpySwR5woFD1W5_I6LgTVEJiXg0yt-vSVdCMMyAB9tolWBewyG3NSaSI4TJGtmMAxWCEiM7w3jPiY3TbwBYlHUyhQxky09ntUp29ecFyjh5ScrZ0LWcj7-iByaeShmtmRZcd_04Uk6Ky6SyseA1yNW744xLnHyltMVLe700Dxz7vtcb7AEiqKBf9RpmZKM-7yFCP4ELYwX3OOUqVt83VR8Le6xWX2lnF0yvUt5U4CHMRwnePnJaprjmgJHauzJqS_Zzpgbh0gxFXcDYvKB60v-kVsum7OyRZqJirCrGfUP_bfBUeWV7F7xB7D6uHKQUsU3FqaesbByoIrBWdAMGGHQKuC_KpgrClIYU3oiILXUVrGmGhjHetjWr7-1tFI-emPi53r94ZeOLnNTx_yMSel3rdeFBLmptOg3a1GdSwYnjeWZcF2yt-mYwKunA_PtZvq2-xOOjaQHkvoICUIXxJbLCgdCPqYFSN6aSDAnN35A_w5_wF6Cr6l" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwtUsuOwyAM_JpySwR5woFD1W5_I6LgTVEJiXg0yt-vSVdCMMyAB9tolWBewyG3NSaSI4TJGtmMAxWCEiM7w3jPiY3TbwBYlHUyhQxky09ntUp29ecFyjh5ScrZ0LWcj7-iByaeShmtmRZcd_04Uk6Ky6SyseA1yNW744xLnHyltMVLe700Dxz7vtcb7AEiqKBf9RpmZKM-7yFCP4ELYwX3OOUqVt83VR8Le6xWX2lnF0yvUt5U4CHMRwnePnJaprjmgJHauzJqS_Zzpgbh0gxFXcDYvKB60v-kVsum7OyRZqJirCrGfUP_bfBUeWV7F7xB7D6uHKQUsU3FqaesbByoIrBWdAMGGHQKuC_KpgrClIYU3oiILXUVrGmGhjHetjWr7-1tFI-emPi53r94ZeOLnNTx_yMSel3rdeFBLmptOg3a1GdSwYnjeWZcF2yt-mYwKunA_PtZvq2-xOOjaQHkvoICUIXxJbLCgdCPqYFSN6aSDAnN35A_w5_wF6Cr6l&source=gmail&ust=1577481574079000&usg=AFQjCNHZrZNWy1tce9Ukjoq7eo8uSo2YOw" style="">according to an October survey by the Pew Research Center</a>, including Millennials, Generation Z, and “GOP women.”</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">As part of the review, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Magallanes also met extensively with members of Utah’s Republican congressional delegation and their staffers, as well as several other state and local officials opposed to the monuments, her </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/uploads/17-01076ca_compressed.pdf" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="40" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">schedule</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> shows. She participated in calls with numerous Republican lawmakers in other states with monuments impacted by the review. And she met with several industry representatives, including the vice president of operations at Energy Fuels Resources, a uranium company that </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uraniumco-bears-ears-carve_us_5a2ddd59e4b073789f6ae643" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="41" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">lobbied Trump to carve up Bears Ears</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"> so that it could access the area’s <b>uranium deposits</b>, as The Washington Post </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/uranium-firm-urged-trump-officials-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument/2017/12/08/2eea39b6-dc31-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.de9ec7721038" target="blank" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:33;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="42" data-v9y="1" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">first reported</span></a></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">.[whls up bears ears]</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2019/03/04/seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.rollcall.com/2019/03/04/seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review/</font></a></p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A meeting between an Interior Department official and a company tied to mineral interests in the Bears Ears National Monument area — almost a month before President Donald Trump requested a review that substantially reduced its boundaries —&nbsp;may end up in&nbsp;the crosshairs of&nbsp;House Natural Resources Chairman&nbsp;<a class="memberLink" href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?16006&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Raúl M. Grijalva</a>.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents show&nbsp;that Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of a Canadian energy firm, met with a top Interior official who would be involved with the review before Trump requested it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When President&nbsp;<a class="memberLink" href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?7612&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Barack Obama</a>&nbsp;designated the monument in December 2016, its boundaries encompassed or abutted over 350 uranium claims tied to the company. Its uranium processing mill, the only such facility in the United States, was located mere miles from the monument.&nbsp;Proximity to a national monument can&nbsp;lead to additional&nbsp;regulatory scrutiny.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In December 2017, Trump,&nbsp;following&nbsp;recommendations by Interior Secretary&nbsp;<a class="memberLink" href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?53584&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Ryan Zinke</a>&nbsp;that were developed during the review, significantly reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Natural Resources Committee&nbsp;is scheduled to hold its first oversight hearing on the monuments review on March 13,&nbsp;said Adam Sarvana, communications director for the panel’s Democrats.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The committee has invited Zinke, who resigned&nbsp;and left&nbsp;last December amid corruption charges, to attend. But he declined</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, according to Sarvana.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, plans to investigate the monuments review.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He&nbsp;said if an individual involved with the review met with Energy Fuels before the review began, “all my suspicions as to the motivation behind the shrinkage would be validated.”</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think it would make our need to get at the bottom of it. … It would make it even more significant,” he said.</font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In statements, both Interior and Energy Fuels Resources confirmed the meeting on April 5, 2017. Interior’s monument review began April 26.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Curtis Moore, Energy Fuels Resources vice president of marketing and corporate development, said in a Feb. 26 email,&nbsp;</span><b>“Our recollection</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;is that the April meeting was very brief, but we did inquire about the possibility of minor boundary adjustments to move the boundaries away from our existing operations.”</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Nonetheless, our official request was for minor boundary adjustments that would have reduced the area of the monument by a maximum of 2.6 percent. The President reduced the monument by 85 percent. We didn’t ask for that,” Moore said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Critics don’t believe Energy Fuels’ account,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;pointing to a comment letter filed during the review suggesting there could be many uranium deposits within the boundaries of the monument that could provide “valuable energy and mineral resources in the future.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They say the meeting is proof Interior’s 2017 assessment had a predetermined outcome of shrinking Bears Ears to benefit the uranium sector generally and Energy Fuels Resources specifically.</font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">“The Trump Administration’s agenda has always been sell out our public lands first and manufacture a rationale —&nbsp;predicated on false information —&nbsp;afterwards. This latest revelation shows yet again they don’t even care to hide their dangerous motives so long as they can please the corporate polluters that have directed their every move,”&nbsp;</span><b>Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement.</b></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Emails released in two different Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by the Sierra Club against Interior and the&nbsp;EPA also show Andrew Wheeler, confirmed Feb. 28 as the new EPA administrator, was integral to getting Energy Fuels Resources’ foot in the door before the review.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Citing his prior work on the Trump presidential campaign, Wheeler reached out to set up the meeting and attended it. His contacts with Interior during that period are not included in his lobbying disclosures. The firm he was working for, Faegre Baker Daniels, said it is reviewing those disclosures.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a statement, EPA spokesman Michael Abboud said the matter had nothing to do with Wheeler’s role at the agency.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“[He] has been very transparent concerning his work with Energy Fuels Resources, even discussing this during his confirmation process.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">He has consistently worked to comply with the Lobbying Disclosure Act; this particular matter involving Energy Fuels Resources and Bears Ears National Monument does not impact his work at EPA as this is not an agency-related issue,”&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abboud said.</span></font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Uranium prospects</font></h2></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Previous reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times have outlined how coal, oil and other fossil fuel interests may have factored into the decisions made during the monuments review.</b></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Zinke, when he visited Bears Ears during the review, rejected the oil and gas argument.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We … have a pretty good idea of the oil and gas potential, so Bears Ears really isn’t about oil and gas at all,” Zinke told reporters in May 2017 while touring Bears Ears. “There is some uranium. [I’m] more concerned about the present mill and the proximity to it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Energy Fuels owns that mill, known as White Mesa. Bears Ears’ original boundaries came within six miles of the site</span><b>, the only operational uranium processing mill in the United States.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">The&nbsp;monument was also 15 miles from its Daneros Mine, which is not operating but may reopen if the price of uranium rises.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A national monument, as well as any subsequent changes to federal regulations, could “significantly adversely impact” those projects and “could have a material adverse impact on the company,” Energy Fuels’ corporate filings stated.</font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the monuments review, the company raised several concerns. It noted the monument included a portion of road used for accessing the mine and encompassed air and water quality monitoring sites required under federal regulations.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Fuels Resources also complained that the Bureau of Land Management’s environmental review had stalled expansion of Daneros and could&nbsp;affect future operations at White Mesa. If the Daneros expansion could be held up, the company wrote,&nbsp; the boundaries “could have a chilling effect on future land uses not only within but also near the monument.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The company&nbsp;has at least 235 active claims on uranium deposits near both Daneros and White Mesa</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, according to a review of Bureau of Land Management data by Grand Canyon Trust, a public lands advocacy and watchdog group.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The trust’s review showed that over 100 claims within the original monument boundaries are held by Tigris Uranium Corporation, a subsidiary of enCore Energy Corporation, which it received after it sold those claims to the company in 2015. According to Energy Fuels’ annual corporate filings, it owns at least a 12.8 percent stake in enCore.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Trump shrank the monument in December 2017 from 1.35 million acres to a little over 200,000 acres, the new boundaries excluded all of those claims, according to Grand Canyon Trust.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those deposits aren’t worth much now because the price of uranium is so low. The company has said some of&nbsp;its mines, like Daneros, are on standby for this reason.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>However, the Trump administration is weighing whether it will set tariffs on cheaper foreign imports of uranium</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. That effort, spurred by a petition to the Commerce Department by the firm and another company involved in uranium mining, Ur-Energy, could result in reactivating Daneros.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In its comment letter filed during the monument review, Energy Fuels noted “many other known uranium and vanadium deposits located within the newly created BENM that could provide valuable energy and mineral resources in the future.”</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It requested “any boundary revision provide an adequate buffer between the White Mesa mill, the Daneros mine and all valid existing mineral rights such that there will be no impact to our lawful existing or future operations.”</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an email, Moore said that the company only asked for “very minor boundary adjustments” and that&nbsp;it supports a mining ban on the lands formerly within the monument that Trump removed. He provided two maps which he said were what they suggested to Interior during the review, each showing only minor reductions near the White Mesa and Daneros properties.</font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We didn’t ask for a larger reduction. All along, we were simply seeking minor boundary adjustments to create buffers between our existing operations and the monument,” Moore said. “I’m not sure how we can be more clear, we have no interest in mining inside of BENM.”</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Groups supportive of the monument’s original boundaries are not convinced.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You want to take people at their word, but the comment letter is pretty clear,” said Tim Peterson, cultural landscapes program director for Grand Canyon Trust.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.625rem 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘Preordained’ decision?</font></h2><p style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Energy Fuels first reached out to Interior, it only mentioned the mill and the mine.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">“I worked on energy and environmental policy for Mr. Trump during the campaign. I have a client that I would like to get before the Secretary, Energy Fuels,”&nbsp;</span><b>Wheeler</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;wrote in a March 27 email to Amanda Kaster, at the time one of Zinke’s aides.</span></font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">“They have two uranium facilities bordering each side of Bears Ears national monument in Utah.</span><b>They can come to DC at any time.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;What is the best way for me to request a meeting with the Secretary? I’m just not sure who I should reach out to,” Wheeler said.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">On April 5, Wheeler, Energy Fuels executive William Paul Goranson, and Darrin Munoz, another lobbyist at Faegre Baker Daniels, met with Kathleen Benedetto, at the time a senior adviser to&nbsp;Zinke, according to visitor logs and Benedetto’s schedule. Her schedule was first obtained by independent journalist Jimmy Tobias via a public records request.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Through an Interior spokeswoman, Benedetto said she alone took the meeting and Zinke did not participate. Zinke’s personal schedule has an hourlong period, 30 minutes after the meeting began, during&nbsp;which his whereabouts are unaccounted for.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">In a statement, Benedetto said&nbsp;</span><b>she didn’t recall&nbsp;</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">the meeting with the “same specificity” as the uranium firm. She did note she recalled “passing along some information that the company provided that included a map of its facilities relative to the Bears Ears boundary.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">According to an Interior spokeswoman, she likely relayed that information to Downey Magallanes, who was at the time a special assistant to Zinke and would become a point person on the eventual monuments review.&nbsp;</span><b>Magallanes and Benedetto’s schedules both show they had a one-on-one meeting later that day.</b></font></p></div></div><div class="stylesAscendeumWrapper-sc-14jcieo-0 iCbbsB" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; clear: both; display: flex; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center; position: relative; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rollcall-story" data-aaad="true" data-aa-adunit="/4218/rollcall/story" data-aa-targeting="{" tags="tags" arizona="Arizona" barack="Barack" obama="Obama" campaigns="Campaigns" democrats="Democrats" donald="Donald" j="J" trump="Trump" energy="Energy" epa="EPA" executive="Executive" branch="Branch" house="House" independents="Independents" lobbying="Lobbying" new="New" york="York" orrin="Orrin" g="G" hatch="Hatch" raul="Raul" m="M" grijalva="Grijalva" republicans="Republicans" ryan="Ryan" zinke="Zinke" utah="Utah" washington="Washington" categories="categories" environment="environment" section="section" congress="Congress" subject="subject" author="author" jacob="Jacob" holzman="Holzman" keyword="keyword" www.rollcall.com="www.rollcall.com" urlpath="UrlPath" seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review="seeking-to-shrink-bears-ears-uranium-firm-met-with-interior-before-review" index="index" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div theme="[object Object]" class="" provider="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Fuels Resources was not the only party to lobby for reducing Bears Ears. Its designation was staunchly opposed by the Utah congressional delegation, most prominently former GOP Sen.&nbsp;<a class="memberLink" href="https://www.rollcall.com/members?493&utm_source=memberLink?utm_source=memberLink" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;">Orrin G. Hatch</a>, and state politicians. They said oil and gas deposits within&nbsp;the monument’s boundaries could have been used for raising money for public schools and feared losing such a revenue source.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">However, Aaron Weiss, deputy director for the&nbsp;</span><b>Center for Western Priorities,</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;said Interior confirming it held a meeting to discuss cuts to Bears Ears before the review began in earnest is “admitting that they were already going after monument boundaries even before the president ordered the review.”</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This monument review was a sham, and the outcome was preordained,” said Weiss, whose public lands advocacy group is a frequent critic of the Trump administration’s policies.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.875rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked about suggestions the monument’s review was predetermined, the Interior Department declined to comment.</font></p></div></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.75rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10/19</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">..T<strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">his push to open up the monument is right in line with the Trump administration's devastating management plans which would gut the remaining 15% of the monument — more than 80,000 acres of spectacular landscape filled with historic and cultural sites — ignoring the will of tribal communities in the region and handing over huge tracts of land to Big Polluters to mine and drill.</strong></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Allowing uranium, oil, and gas production on these lands could open sacred sites to desecration, and irreparably damage pristine natural and cultural landscapes.</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here's how we fight back:&nbsp;</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. 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</div><div style="">The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine</div><div style="">How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">By Jane MayerOctober 4, 2019</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">No journalist played a bigger part in fuelling the Biden corruption narrative than John Solomon, and documents reportedly show that his columns were part of the Trump team’s strategy.Photograph by Nick Wass / Invision / AP / Shutterstock</div><div style="">For nearly two years, conservative operatives have been trying to weaponize the Ukraine-based story that has led Trump to the brink of impeachment. A look back over the coverage of the story—a repeatedly discredited conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s work in Ukraine—suggests that America’s news organizations continue to be just as susceptible to manipulation by political partisans pushing complicated and hard-to-check foreign narratives as they were in 2016. In fact, several of the same players are involved. “There’s no effective mechanism in this country for weeding disinformation out,” Paul Barrett, the deputy director of N.Y.U.’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, and the author of the recent study “Disinformation and the 2020 Election,” said. “We’re not doing anything about it at all.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Anyone trying to track the Ukrainian conspiracy stories that were eventually embraced by President Trump is likely to get mired in the same echo chamber of right-wing news purveyors that misinformed voters in 2016. A pivotal source of the allegations against the Bidens, for instance, is the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based opposition-research operation that was founded by the former Trump political adviser Stephen Bannon—the same conservative nonprofit that ginned up questionable stories about the Clintons during the last Presidential campaign. In both instances, much of the coverage of the scandal was kicked off by Peter Schweizer, a longtime conservative political writer who is an editor-at-large at Breitbart News and the president of the Government Accountability Institute. Since its founding, in 2012, the group has largely been funded with millions of dollars in tax-exempt donations from the family foundation of the New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Mercer, who was a major donor to Trump’s 2016 campaign. In the organization’s most recently available I.R.S. tax filings, for 2017, Mercer’s daughter Rebekah is listed as the board chairman.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Asked about the Government Accountability Institute’s role in this year’s Biden scandal coverage, Bannon e-mailed to say, “It’s key. It was the predicate,” as it had been for much of the previous Clinton scandal coverage. As Joshua Green describes in “Devil’s Bargain,” his book, from 2017, about Bannon’s role in the Trump campaign, Bannon designed the organization as a means of transmitting partisan dirt-digging to the mainstream media. He realized that, though mainstream reporters were suspicious of partisan opinion, they were open to damning facts about public figures, regardless of the sourcing. He set out, with Schweizer, to produce material that would generate mainstream coverage, and right-wing outrage.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Thus, during the last Presidential campaign, under the auspices of the Government Accountability Institute, Schweizer published the best-selling book “Clinton Cash.” In a novel arrangement, he doled out negative scoops about the Clintons from it in advance to a variety of mainstream news outlets, including the Times. The paper disclosed its exclusive deal with the book’s author to its readers, and maintained that it independently verified and expanded on the information. But when it ran a front-page story derived from the book on April 24, 2015, the Times stirred controversy and criticism, including from its own public editor.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">The story insinuated that, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had risked national security by facilitating the sale of American uranium mines to Russia in exchange for more than two million dollars in contributions to the Clinton Foundation from the businessmen behind the deal, who worked for a company called Uranium One. The story enabled Clinton’s opponents to frame her as greedy and corrupt. Even a year after she had lost the race, the Fox News host Sean Hannity was still invoking it on air, calling it “the biggest scandal ever involving Russia.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Yet later reporting poked holes in the story’s insinuation of corruption, revealing that multiple government agencies—not just Clinton’s State Department—had approved the deal, and that the amount of uranium involved was negligible. (Schweizer didn’t respond to phone calls from The New Yorker.) On Thursday, the Daily Beast identified what it said were over a dozen passages in his book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” that were lifted from other sources, such as Wikipedia—a charge that his publisher, HarperCollins, denied amounted to a violation of fair use.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">For those who recall the “Clinton Cash” controversy, the baseless tales claiming that Biden corruptly intervened on behalf of his son’s Ukrainian business interests feel a lot like the movie “Groundhog Day.” In March of 2018, Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute once again produced a book that was perfectly timed for the Presidential campaign. “Secret Empires” devoted a chapter to the subject of “Bidens in Ukraine,” which laid out the conflicts of interest posed by the wheeling and dealing of Biden’s son Hunter. (An additional chapter laid out Hunter Biden’s business deals in China.) As the book recounted, in 2014, Hunter Biden, a Washington lobbyist, took a profitable post on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company run by a shady oligarch, while his father, who was then the Vice-President, handled a drive to rid Ukraine of corruption. Other news organizations, including the Times and the Wall Street Journal, had already run stories on the same unethical-seeming morass. (In July, The New Yorker published a piece about the relationship between Joe and Hunter Biden that dismissed allegations of any illegality in the Ukraine matter but included some concerns from Obama Administration officials that Hunter could potentially undermine his father’s work.)</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">But Schweizer went a step further. His chapter implied not just that Burisma was a crooked company but that the end of a Ukrainian criminal investigation into it on January 12, 2017, was in some unstated way connected to Joe Biden’s visit to the country four days later. In this way, Schweizer floated the possibility that, as Vice-President, Biden had abused his power to protect the company or his son from prosecution. Yet Schweizer provided no proof of causation nor evidence of illegality.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">As he rolled out his new book, Schweizer promoted it in all the usual conservative news outlets, including “Hannity” and “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” on Fox News. But the turning point in the Biden coverage, it appears, was in late 2018, when Trump’s private lawyer and political advocate, the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, got involved. That winter, Giuliani began speaking to current and former Ukrainian officials about the Biden conspiracy theory, and meeting with them repeatedly in New York and Europe. Among those officials was Viktor Shokin, a former top Ukrainian prosecutor who was sacked in March, 2016, after European and U.S. officials, including Joe Biden, complained that he was lax in curbing corruption. Shokin claimed that he had lost his powerful post not because of his poor performance but rather because Biden wanted to stop his investigation of Burisma, in order to protect his son. The facts didn’t back this up. The Burisma investigation had been dormant under Shokin. But in March, according to NBC News, Giuliani gave the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, a packet of Trump Hotel folders containing the purported evidence against Biden, including Giuliani’s interview with Shokin and his strategy to spread the Biden story, “including segments being placed on Fox News.” Before long, this explosive, politically useful legend took on a life of its own in America’s conservative media.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">As an anonymous whistle-blower’s complaint to Congress revealed, and as the Washington Post has reported, no journalist played a bigger part in fuelling the Biden corruption narrative than John Solomon, who until last week was an opinion columnist and executive vice-president of The Hill, in Washington. Solomon had been a respected investigative reporter for the Washington Post, but in recent years he worked for overtly conservative outlets, including a stint as the editor of the Washington Times. As Giuliani conspired this past spring with questionable Ukrainian sources, Solomon pumped out a string of eye-catching stories echoing those sources’ claims about the Bidens. This appears to have been no coincidence. According to NBC, the Giuliani documents show that Solomon’s columns were part of the Trump team’s strategy. (The New Yorker was unable to reach John Solomon, and a question e-mailed to the editor of The Hill, about whether the publication stood by Solomon’s stories, went unanswered.)</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">This spring, Solomon wrote a series of columns, based on an interview with Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko. On March 26th, Solomon wrote a column about Lutsenko’s claim that the then U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, an Obama holdover named Marie Yovanovitch, had given him a list of politically protected figures that he was forbidden from prosecuting—a charge the State Department dismissed as “an outright fabrication.” That same day, Solomon wrote another column suggesting a new investigation into Clinton, which he shared in a tweet, writing, “Did Ukraine try to secretly help Hillary Clinton win the 2016 election? Chief prosecutor says there’s enough evidence to start investigating.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">On April 1st, Solomon turned his focus to Biden, writing a column for The Hill called “Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian Nightmare,” which claimed that Ukraine was reopening its criminal probe into Burisma. It also repeated the unsubstantiated claim that Shokin’s investigation into the company had been cut short at the behest of Biden.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">In Solomon’s April 1st column, he cited Schweizer’s book. Two days later, Schweizer sent “kudos” to Solomon during an interview on Breitbart News, and added, “We’re talking about potentially legal jeopardy involving the Vice-President’s family.” Schweizer opined that it was “all the sort of thing that needs to be investigated and looked into by a grand jury,” and added, “it’s pretty clear that you have a pattern that the for-sale sign was open with the Biden family . . . and that in itself demands investigation in the United States.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">Soon, both Schweizer and Solomon were appearing repeatedly on Fox News, spreading the anti-Biden narrative further. According to the liberal watchdog group Media Matters, during the month of April, Fox ran at least twelve segments about Solomon’s reporting on Biden. After one of seven episodes in which Sean Hannity discussed it on his show, President Trump tweeted a reference to Solomon’s reporting. His son Donald Trump, Jr., took up the narrative, too, and tweeted a link to a story in the Daily Wire, a conservative outlet, which echoed Solomon’s claims.</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">On April 7th, Giuliani appeared on Fox and demanded that the Justice Department investigate the Democrats’ Ukraine dealings. On April 25th, the same day that Joe Biden officially declared that he was running for President, Trump himself called in to Hannity’s show on Fox, saying that he wanted the Attorney General, Bill Barr, to be involved. By raising the spectre of a criminal investigation, Trump, a President dogged by allegations of corruption had, with the help of the conservative echo chamber, managed to cast his chief political rival in a parallel story, leaving the public in a fog of suspicion and confusion. As Barrett, of N.Y.U., explained it, “The consequence is that we begin to inch our way towards the mire that Russians are in where ordinary people lose their ability to tell truth from untruth, and even cease caring about it.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">By May, the mainstream media, including the Times, had picked up on the story about Biden and Ukraine. Although the Times’ piece ran under a headline pointing out that that the scandal was being “promoted by Trump and Allies,” and, midway, noted that there was no evidence of criminality, critics attacked the paper for reprising the Uranium One playbook. “It’s precisely what we saw in the last election,” Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School and the co-author of the recent book “Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics,” told me. Benkler argues that when a publication with the Times’ credibility pays any attention to a fringe conspiracy theory, it “provides enormous validation” just by covering the story. “I don’t fault the Times for doing a story,” he said. “But it’s not like the nineteen-sixties anymore, when there were just three TV networks. You live in a country where a large part of the population is susceptible to propaganda. There’s a new editorial responsibility to be much more careful and not bury the denial.”</div><div style="">
</div><div style="">By mid-summer, the Times and other mainstream outlets, most notably Bloomberg News, had more or less knocked down the conspiracy theories. By then, Trump was so invested in the counterfactual narrative that he was demanding that Ukraine’s new President provide confirmation of it, as the whistle-blower’s complaint relates. Or, as documents released by Congress earlier this week revealing discussions between his emissaries to Ukraine put it, “Potus really wants the deliverable.” With Trump facing the prospect of impeachment in the House of Representatives, it appears that he is a casualty of his side’s own disinformation. “Whether Trump and Giuliani are dupes of their own propaganda I can’t say. But the timeline is completely consistent with that,” Benkler said. “Either way, it proves that running an Administration based on Hannity is dangerous.”</div><div style="">
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</div><div style="">Jane Mayer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995.Read more »</div><div style="">More:Hunter BidenJoe BidenDonald TrumpImpeachment</div></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/trump-is-about-to-become-the-right-wing-smear-machines-greatest-unintended-casualty/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/trump-is-about-to-become-the-right-wing-smear-machines-greatest-unintended-casualty/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Daily Kos October 6, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s commonly said that the “wheels of justice turn slowly,” and that’s usually true. But once in a while those wheels suddenly pop into reverse, jolting the car backwards and crushing whoever happens to be standing behind the truck.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In what is truly the richest of ironies, Donald Trump is now poised to become just another piece of right-wing roadkill, an unintended casualty of his own disinformation machine, the exact same machine that cemented his electoral victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. By extorting foreign leaders to manufacture dirt involving Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Trump stupidly fell into the trap of believing his own team’s propaganda, a result that those who created the Biden/Ukraine fairy tale in the first place completely failed to foresee. And now he’s looking at impeachment for believing their lies and taking them to their logical conclusion.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The warning signs for Team Trump were there from the start, but they went unheeded. It’s well-documented that Trump the politician (as opposed to Trump the phony media creation) is at his core a deeply stupid, credulous man whose ”agenda” and worldview are shaped entirely by what he sees on Fox News. Couple that with a tendency to surround himself with sycophantic “yes-men” who assure him that all his actions are examples of some titanic genius, and it should have been predictable that this president, watching dumbly as his Hannity-fed heroes droned on and on about supposedly nefarious dealings by the one political opponent he feared the most, would do something extraordinarily idiotic with that information at some point.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jane Mayer of the New Yorker explains how the “Biden/Ukraine” hoax was invented and spread by the same people who invented the “Uranium One” fiction which Fox News and other Republican sludge generators spawned in order to smear Hillary Clinton in the 2016. The cast of characters for both smears is remarkably similar.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anyone trying to track the Ukrainian conspiracy stories that were eventually embraced by President Trump is likely to get mired in the same echo chamber of right-wing news purveyors that misinformed voters in 2016. A pivotal source of the allegations against the Bidens, for instance, is the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based opposition-research operation that was founded by the former Trump political adviser Stephen Bannon—the same conservative nonprofit that ginned up questionable stories about the Clintons during the last Presidential campaign. In both instances, much of the coverage of the scandal was kicked off by Peter Schweizer, a longtime conservative political writer who is an editor-at-large at Breitbart News and the president of the Government Accountability Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The “Government Accountability Institute” or GAI is funded by a “libertarian” (i.e., I’ve got mine so fuck you)&nbsp; billionaire named Robert Mercer,</b>&nbsp;a major donor to Trump’s campaign, whose interests apparently lie in shaping American society in tandem with his grotesque social whims.&nbsp; As Stephen Bannon himself acknowledged in an email to Mayer, the GAI acted as the primary source for the Biden/Ukraine “story.” Mayer’s article describes the purpose of the GAI as intended to generate baseless smears and worm them surreptitiously into the “mainstream” media where they can be repeated by more “credible” sources, even if those sources are simply busy debunking them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bannon designed the organization as a means of transmitting partisan dirt-digging to the mainstream media. He realized that, though mainstream reporters were suspicious of partisan opinion, they were open to damning facts about public figures, regardless of the sourcing. He set out, with Schweizer, to produce material that would generate mainstream coverage, and right-wing outrage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016 Schweizer published the book “Clinton Cash” which made the baseless accusation that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, had essentially traded away American national security by selling uranium mines to Russia in exchange for contributions to the Clinton foundation. By hawking this over and over through their mouthpieces on Fox News, Mercer, Bannon and Schweitzer had no trouble convincing susceptible viewers eager to believe any right-wing drivel spoon-fed to them that the Clintons were wholly, unimaginably&nbsp; corrupt. The fact that these insinuations were totally false was beside the point. As it turned out, several government agencies having nothing to do with Hillary Clinton approved the deal, which ultimately involved a “negligible” amount of uranium.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just as with the “Clinton Cash” fable constructed to inflame a drooling base of Fox News knuckledraggers, we now have practically the exact same cast of characters behind the latest baseless smear against Joe Biden—that he somehow intervened with Ukraine to protect his son’s profits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March of 2018, Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute once again produced a book that was perfectly timed for the Presidential campaign. “Secret Empires” devoted a chapter to the subject of “Bidens in Ukraine,” which laid out the conflicts of interest posed by the wheeling and dealing of Biden’s son Hunter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even though Schweizer conveniently omitted the fact that there was no prove to his insinuations about Ukraine and Joe Biden, that didn’t stop the conservative media from jumping on the bandwagon like flies on the proverbial shit. And, just as before, again we had the same hawking on Fox News of a shabbily-source tome of lies that every credible media source has shot down. But this time an attention-whoring sleazebag named Rudy Giuliani became involved, traveling to Ukraine under the guise of being Donald Trump’s “private attorney,” and attempting to solicit Ukrainian acquiescence and participation in the scam. And as Mayer points out, a couple new characters were now recruited by the Trump campaign itself to stoke the phony story.&nbsp;<b>In particular, John Solomon, formerly a respectable reporter for the Hill but now entrenched in the more lucrative occupation of churning out right-wing trash for profit, was tapped to spread the manure around.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Giuliani conspired this past spring with questionable Ukrainian sources, Solomon pumped out a string of eye-catching stories echoing those sources’ claims about the Bidens. This appears to have been no coincidence. According to NBC, the Giuliani documents show that Solomon’s columns were part of the Trump team’s strategy. (The New Yorker was unable to reach John Solomon, and a question e-mailed to the editor of The Hill, about whether the publication stood by Solomon’s stories, went unanswered.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(As you may have noticed, Mayer’s article notes several people whom the New Yorker contacted for comment, but refused to respond)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She explains how the story was churned by Solomon and Schweizer, with lots of mutual dick-sucking apparent on both sides:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Solomon’s April 1st column, he cited Schweizer’s book. Two days later, Schweizer sent “kudos” to Solomon during an interview on Breitbart News, and added, “We’re talking about potentially legal jeopardy involving the Vice-President’s family.” Schweizer opined that it was “all the sort of thing that needs to be investigated and looked into by a grand jury,” and added, “it’s pretty clear that you have a pattern that the for-sale sign was open with the Biden family . . . and that in itself demands investigation in the United States.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican state television (also known as Fox News) then proceeded to run twelve or more segments hyping this wholly&nbsp; in a single month, seeding it into the right-wing swamp. Of course, dumb Donald was watching like any other addled fool, slurping up every word. Sean Hannity mentioned it on seven separate shows, prompting Trump to respond personally to his hero with this Tweet, praising Solomon’s reporting:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“John Solomon: As Russia Collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges.” @seanhannity @FoxNews</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 21, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If Trump was capable of generating a hard-on, it must have happened during April of this year, as measured by the rapid, subsequent merging of the White House and Fox News,&nbsp; first by Giuliani, then of Trump himself, who called the network to declare that further action was needed, and in particular, that he wanted to involve his stooge William Barr in the investigation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By this time, the stodgy New York Times had become involved in “covering” the “controversy,” and even though the Times threw in a casual disclaimer–nineteen paragraphs into their own story– confirming that the entire farce was bullshit (”No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”), as far as Bannon, Schweizer and Mercer were concerned, they had already won the battle. Nevermind that several credible news sources spent the next few months confirming that it was all an invented hoax—the damage was done, and high-fives and clinking shot glasses were doubtlessly being exchanged all around.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Except no one stopped to consider what an irrational, power-mad sociopath like Trump would do with this information, swirling around busily in his brain. As it turns out, he went with his instincts, which, unlike the arc of history, do not bend towards justice but towards extortion. And his attempt to extort Ukraine by withholding Congressional aid until they manufactured some non-existent dirt about Joe Biden has ended up biting him squarely in the ass. He’s going to be impeached, something he existentially has dreaded since he assumed office, because it will forever leave a stain on his presidency that people will use to compare his tenure to that of an untarnished,&nbsp; impeccable, Barack Obama.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thanks to his slavish devotion to the right-wing propaganda machine, Donald Trump is about to become just another piece of collateral damage.&nbsp; And he has no one but himself to blame.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Publication</font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The New York Times</a></i>,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Washington Post</a></i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Fox News</a>&nbsp;were granted exclusive agreements</b>&nbsp;with the book's author to pursue the story lines found in the book.<sup id="cite_ref-public_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-public-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<i>Times</i>&nbsp;faced considerable criticism for this arrangement from both its readers and from other media outlets.<sup id="cite_ref-public_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-public-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;The paper's own public editor,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sullivan(journalist)" title="Margaret Sullivan (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Margaret Sullivan</a>, said the arrangement was "troubling" and lacked transparency.<sup id="cite_ref-public_6-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-public-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon(website)" title="Salon (website)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Salon</a></i>&nbsp;wrote that Schweizer was not a responsible journalist and that the arrangement showed that right-wing forces were luring the mainstream press into giving attention to gossip and innuendo much as they had during various supposed Clinton controversies of the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;In addition,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters" class="mw-redirect" title="Media Matters" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Media Matters</a>&nbsp;criticized these two newspapers for failing to report in a timely fashion on inaccuracies that had been discovered in the book</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></font></p><h3 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clinton campaign reaction</font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The day the book was published, Hillary Clinton's campaign set up a portal called "The Briefing" on its official website. The Briefing is designed to rebut the allegations made in Schweizer's book.&nbsp;</span>Clinton's campaign manager,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podesta" title="John Podesta" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">John Podesta</a>, wrote: "The book has zero evidence to back up its outlandish claims... While we will not be consumed by these kinds of attacks, we will also not let them go unchallenged."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;Various spokespeople for Hillary and Bill Clinton disputed the book's allegations,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;e.g. concerning the charges that Clinton was paid for speeches by Irish billionaire&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O%27Brien" title="Denis O'Brien" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Denis O'Brien</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digicel" title="Digicel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Digicel</a>&nbsp;in exchange for help in securing telecommunications contracts in Haiti in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></font></p><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Commercial reception</font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><i>Clinton Cash</i>&nbsp;debuted at number two on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><i>New York Times</i>&nbsp;Best Seller list</a>. In its first week it sold 31,000 copies&nbsp;</span>and was also second on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_BookScan" title="Nielsen BookScan" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Nielsen BookScan</a>&nbsp;ranking for adult nonfiction.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;book stayed on the&nbsp;<i>New York Times</i>&nbsp;Best Seller list for hardcover non-fiction for five weeks.</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A paperback edition of the book released in 2016 made the relevant&nbsp;<i>Times</i>&nbsp;best seller list as well.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup>&nbsp;According to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Barnes(journalist)" title="Fred Barnes (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Fred Barnes</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">The Weekly Standard</a></i>, the book sold approximately 200,000 copies, in hardcover and paperback as of July 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></font></p><h2 style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critical reaction and actions taken</font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Writing for&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Washington Post</a></i>, academic and political activist (and briefLY 2016 U.S. Democratic presidential primary opponent of Hillary Clinton)&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig" title="Lawrence Lessig" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b>Lawrence Lessig</b></a>&nbsp;wrote "On any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that Schweizer has charged is corruption."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup>&nbsp;James Freeman reviewed the book for&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>, writing that "Almost every page of the fascinating&nbsp;<i>Clinton Cash</i>... will be excruciating reading for partisans on both sides of the aisle</span>".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Ed Pilkington, writing for&nbsp;<i>The Guardian</i>,&nbsp;</b>reported that it was factually correct that "large donations to the foundation from the chairman of U<b>ranium One,&nbsp;</b>Ian Telfer, at around the time of the Russian purchase of the company and while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, were never disclosed to the public. The multimillion dollar sums were channeled through a subsidiary of the Clinton Foundation, CGSCI, which did not reveal its individual donors."<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-guardian-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;Following publication and in reaction to areas where it said improvements were warranted, the Clinton Foundation said it would put into place some new procedures for better financial reporting and that it would limit some kinds of foreign donations. Pilkington assessed those claims made by the Clinton Foundation as unlikely to put the matter to rest: "But with Bill refusing doggedly to give up his speaker engagements – “I gotta pay our bills” – and foreign corporations and super-rich individuals still able to donate to the family charity, it looks like this controversy may run and run."<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_18-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash#cite_note-guardian-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><span style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://ecowatch.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=214ab5fbb3f6015d74ffab4ec&id=2c0c56a06f&e=c2e8fdabfa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grand Canyon Visitors Were Exposed to Unsafe Radiation From Buckets of Uranium for Nearly Two Decades</font></a></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ne of the most Orwellian mottos in the history of cable news is undoubtedly “fair and balanced,” which was Fox News’ motto until 2017 (when it was replaced with “</span><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/06/why-fox-news-is-finally-dropping-its-ridiculous-fair-balanced-slogan.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">most watched, most trusted</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">”). Clearly slanted to the far right, Fox News was never known for its fairness or its balance. A more honest motto for Fox News would be “all conservative all the time.” But in one sense, Fox News has been as unfair to conservatives as it has been to liberals and progressives: it tends to dictate how they should think.</span></font></div><div class="p1_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Realistically, no one expects Fox News to treat liberals and progressives—or even centrists—fairly. That isn’t their market or their audience. But the most frustrating thing of all is Fox News’ expectation that conservatives think a certain way. During the George W. Bush years, right-wingers who were critical of the Bush administration were routinely demonized at Fox News (former Rep. Ron Paul, for example). And in the Donald Trump era, the vast majority of coverage at Fox News is overtly pro-Trump.</font></p><div class="p2_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nonetheless, Fox News will, on occasion, feature some people on the right who are genuinely analytical and don’t simply recite official Republican Party talking points. Here are some of the less dogmatic right-wing voices at the cable news outlet.</font></p><div class="p3_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. Chris Wallace</font></strong></p><div class="p4_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republicans who appear on Fox News typically receive softball questions from most of the employees, but a major exception is&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Chris Wallace (the 71-year-old son of the late Mike Wallace)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Wallace can be a combative interviewer, and Stephen Miller (a Trump senior advisor) got a first-hand demonstration of that this month when Wallace&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/unhinged-stephen-miller-gets-pummeled-by-fox-news-chris-wallace-in-combative-interview-you-dont-get-to-ask-me-questions/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">grilled him unmercifully</a>&nbsp;about Trump’s emergency declaration on the U.S./Mexico border. And Wallace was no less combative with AM talk radio host Rush Limbaugh,&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/430417-chris-wallace-calls-out-rush-limbaugh-for-being-outraged-when-obama-took" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">calling him out</a>&nbsp;on Feb. 17 for giving Trump a pass on executive orders despite having repeatedly lambasted President Barack Obama for executive overreach</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><div class="p5_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wallace told Limbaugh, “I understand that you like what President Trump is doing, and you didn’t like what President Obama was doing. And that’s the concern here, is that to the degree you give the president more and more powers—yes, you’re going to get things from one president you like, but you’re going to get executive powers from another president that you don’t like.”</font></p><div class="p6_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. Judge Andrew Napolitano</font></strong></p><div class="p7_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During George W. Bush’s years as president, Fox News’ coverage was overtly favorable to the Patriot Act and other post-9/11 legislation. But unlike Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Judge Andrew Napolitano was never a robotic mouthpiece for the Bush Administration. Napolitano, a<b>&nbsp;libertarian,</b>&nbsp;considered the Patriot Act unconstitutional, and philosophically, he had a lot more in common with Ron Paul or 2012/2016 Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson than he did with former Vice President Dick Cheney.</font></p><div class="p8_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the Trump era, Napolitano has continued to serve as a legal analyst for Fox News, and the contrast between Hannity and Napolitano can be shocking</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Hannity, a Trump sycophant, has jumped through hoops to defend Trump’s decision to make an emergency declaration to force funding of a U.S./Mexico border wall. But Napolitano, in contrast, considers the move unconstitutional.</span></font></p><div class="p9_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the judge appeared on “Fox and Friends” on January 8, he explained that an “<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/fox-news-legal-expert-forcing-border-wall-through-state-of-emergency-would-be-unconstitutional/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">emergency declaration</a>&nbsp;allows him to mobilize assets, but it doesn’t allow him to take or occupy property. And it doesn’t allow him to spend money that Congress hasn’t authorized.” Napolitano has also asserted that bypassing Congress to fund a border wall is not the action of a president, but a “<a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/424261-napolitano-if-trump-bypasses-congress-on-border-hes-not-a-president" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">prince</a>.”</font></p><div class="p10_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Lisa Kennedy Montgomery</font></strong></p><div class="p11_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gen-Xers still think of Lisa Kennedy Montgomery as “Kennedy from MTV”: back in the 1990s, she was an MTV veejay. But these days, the 46-year-old Montgomery is primarily focused on politics—and she is more likely to comment on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe or GOP tax policy than on Pearl Jam, Courtney Love or the Stone Temple Pilots. Politically, Montgomery is definitely right of center. But despite being a registered Republican, Montgomery has a lot more in common with the Libertarian Party than she does with Hannity. Montgomery is pro-choice on the abortion issue, supports same-sex marriage, dislikes the Christian Right and opposes the War on Drugs. Bu</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">t Montgomery (who hosts “Kennedy Nation” on the Fox Business Channel and often appears on Fox News’ “Outnumbered”) is also a&nbsp;<a href="https://marriedbiography.com/gonna-die-fox-news-host-lisa-kennedy-montgomery-slams-democrats-opposition-obamacare-rollback-strong-political-opinions-career/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">hardcore fiscal conservative</a>&nbsp;who opposes universal health care, calls Seattle a “socialist hellhole” and favors privatizing Social Security and Medicare—or, as liberals and progressives accurately call it, letting banksters bleed those programs dry.</span></font></p><div class="p12_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. Shepard Smith</font></strong></p><div class="p13_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shepard Smith infuriated his most buffoonish colleague at Fox News, Sean Hannity, when, in 2017, he debunked the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/15/fox-news-shepherd-smith-debunks-his-networks-hillary-clinton-scandal-story-infuriates-viewers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.54c7e4d2d486" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Uranium One/Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory</a>&nbsp;that Hannity and President Trump were happy to promote.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the theory, Clinton was bribed to approve the merger of the mining company, Uranium One, and the Russian nuclear energy organization Rosatom when she was secretary of state under President Barack Obama. The bribes, conspiracy theorists claimed, included&nbsp;</span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/360371-fox-news-shepard-smith-hits-trump-for-inaccurate-claims-on-uranium-one-deal" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">$145 million</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to the Clinton Foundation. But&nbsp; Smith totally tore apart this conspiracizing — noting that the FBI, after an extensive investigation, found that there was no evidence of bribery. Further, Smith noted, Clinton didn’t personally approve the merger herself.</span></font></p><div class="p14_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Clinton State Department had no power to approve or veto that transaction,” Smith noted. “It could do neither.”</font></p><div class="p15_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The backlash against Smith was swift, with some Fox News viewers asserting that he belonged at MSNBC or CNN instead. And in an interview with Time Magazine’s Daniel D’Addario, Smith distanced himself from Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and other “opinion programming” at Fox News.</font></p><div class="p16_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Smith told D’Addario, “I get it that some of our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/shepard-smith-calls-out-fox-news-opinion-programming-those-shows-exist-strictly-to-be-entertaining/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">opinion programming</a>&nbsp;is there strictly to be entertaining. I get that. I don’t work there.” And Hannity was furious, describing Smith as “<a href="https://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/television/shepard-smith-fox-news-trump-sean-hannity-20180316.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">clueless</a>” and “anti-Trump.”</font></p><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/trumps-ag-nominee-helped-perpetrate-steve-bannons-uranium-one-hoax/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/trumps-ag-nominee-helped-perpetrate-steve-bannons-uranium-one-hoax/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">C<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ertain figures in Washington develop a gold-plated image over the years, praised so often in reputable media outlets as men (almost always men) of integrity that their reputations become unassailable. Nobody criticizes them, because they are defined above criticism. Often enough, these figures prove less perfect than advertised — think Clark Clifford or Kenneth Starr.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such a fellow is <b>William Barr, whose nomination by President Trump for United States attorney general</b> will come before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. His name is almost invariably adorned with adjectives like “prominent” and “respected.” These days, it is also usually noted that he is one of the youngest lawyers who ever served in the office to which he again aspires, named by the late former President George H.W. Bush, of blessed memory, et cetera.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Given this uplifting consensus, it may seem churlish to mention some basic facts about Barr. Contrary to the sugar coating routinely applied by pundits to the Ronald Reagan-George H.W. Bush era, the Justice Department that Barr once headed was rife with political intrigue. (An attorney general predecessor of his — one Edwin Meese, still at large — barely escaped prison.)</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The most blatant episode occurred one month before the 1992 presidential election, when Barr suddenly seized control of a minor matter in Little Rock, Arkansas. He ordered FBI agents in the Little Rock office to open an investigation of tiny Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan — no later than Oct. 16! — a move that was clearly designed to set up Bill and Hillary Clinton for embarrassment. Barr issued this order despite the fact that Charles Banks, the U.S. Attorney in eastern Arkansas, had determined there was no plausible evidence of any wrongdoing by the Clintons.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barr’s partisan directive plainly violated Justice Department strictures against any legal action that might influence a federal election. His intrusion enraged Banks — a Republican appointee — who dictated a sharply worded letter that left no doubt about his suspicions.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Banks declared that he would not participate in this “intentional or unintentional attempt to intervene into the political process of the upcoming presidential election” and warned that this “amounts to prosecutorial misconduct and violates the most basic fundamental rule of Justice Department policy.” He closed by promising to direct “any press inquiry from any source whatsoever” to Barr.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Almost a quarter century later, Barr is the same partisan hack indulging in the same political mischief. And he is still targeting the Clintons.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before he was nominated by Trump, he auditioned for the job by suggesting publicly that special counsel Robert Mueller has no legal basis to investigate the president for obstruction of justice. This worrisome opinion will no doubt be explored by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who fear that Barr will interfere with the Russia investigation.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They should also ask Barr why he believes that the Uranium One conspiracy theory — which claims that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved a Russian takeover of U.S. uranium reserves in exchange for donations to The Clinton Foundation — merits investigation by the Justice Department. “To the extent it is not pursuing these matters,” he said last year, “the department is abdicating its responsibility.”</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Uranium One is a political hoax, albeit a hoax that Steve Bannon once contrived to place on the front page of The New York Times. </b>It is false in every aspect, from the motives of the Clintons, to the process for approving the uranium asset sale by federal officials — which Hillary Clinton could not have controlled as secretary of state, and which continued after she left office. So for Barr to promote this fraud means either that he is very stupid or that he is willing to misuse the Justice Department’s investigative authority. And nobody thinks Barr is stupid.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So senators on the judiciary committee should ask why he uttered that remark. What evidence does he possess about Uranium One? What sources have informed his strange opinion? And will he pursue investigations to vindicate a political agenda?</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It wouldn’t be the first time.</font></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gmail_quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To find out more about Joe Conason and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.creators.com/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=//www.creators.com&source=gmail&ust=1547298447208000&usg=AFQjCNEskL7i_7UrYNtMfTKg4n0JQNUBlw" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">www.creators.com</a>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">U<b style="">ranium One</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is a Russian-Canadian</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium" title="Uranium" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">uranium</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">mining company with headquarters in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto,Ontario" class="mw-redirect" title="Toronto, Ontario" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Toronto, Ontario</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It has operations in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Australia</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Canada</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Kazakhstan</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">South Africa</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In 2010,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom" title="Rosatom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Rosatom</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the Russian</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enterprise" title="State-owned enterprise" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">state-owned</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">uranium</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">monopoly</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, through its subsidiary</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMZ_Uranium_Holding" title="ARMZ Uranium Holding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">ARMZ</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, bought a 51.4% controlling interest in the Canadian company. In January 2013</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom" title="Rosatom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Rosatom</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">purchased the remaining 48.6% of the company, at a value of $1.3 billion.</span><sup id="cite_ref-fpjan13_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-fpjan13-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a></sup></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since 2015 the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom had been characterized by conservative media in the United States as a bribery scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation; no evidence of wrongdoing has been found after three years of allegations, an FBI investigation, and the 2017 appointment of a Federal Attorney to evaluate the investigation.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#Allegations_of_scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Allegations of scandal</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#Schweizer_allegations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Schweizer allegations</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#New_York_Times_article" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">New York Times article</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#Giustra_and_Bill_Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Giustra and Bill Clinton</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#FBI_investigation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">FBI investigation</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#Senate_and_House_investigations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Senate and House investigations</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#Fact-checking_of_allegations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Fact-checking of allegations</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#2018_developments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2018 developments</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2005 two companies, Canadian Southern Cross Resources Inc.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;and South African Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources Ltd.,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;merged under the name SXR Uranium One Inc., a Canadian public company headquartered in Toronto.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2007, SXR Uranium One Inc. acquired&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Giustra#UrAsia_Energy_Ltd.(2004%E2%80%932007)" title="Frank Giustra" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">UrAsia Energy</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;a Canadian firm headquartered in Vancouver which owned stakes in Kazakhy uranium mines,<sup id="cite_ref-ur1_2009_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-ur1_2009-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Giustra" title="Frank Giustra" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank Giustra</a>, and dropped SXR from its name.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2009, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom" title="Rosatom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rosatom</a>&nbsp;subsidiary&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMZ_Uranium_Holding_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="ARMZ Uranium Holding Co." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ARMZ</a>&nbsp;acquired 16.6% of shares in Uranium One in exchange for a 50% interest in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatau_mine" title="Karatau mine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Karatau</a>&nbsp;uranium mining project, a joint venture with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazatomprom" title="Kazatomprom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kazatomprom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wnn150609_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-wnn150609-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;In June 2010, Uranium One acquired 50% and 49% respective interests in southern Kazakhstan-based&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbastau_mine" title="Akbastau mine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Akbastau</a>&nbsp;and Zarechnoye uranium mines from ARMZ. In exchange, ARMZ increased its stake in Uranium One to 51%. The acquisition was expected to result in a 60% annual production increase at Uranium One, from approximately 10 million to 16 million pounds.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wnn090610_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-wnn090610-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;The deal was subject to anti-trust and other conditions and was not finalized until the end of 2010, after the companies had obtained Kazakh regulatory approvals, approval under Canadian investment law, clearance by the US Committee on Foreign Investments, and approvals from both the Toronto and Johannesburg stock exchanges.<sup id="cite_ref-wnn090610_15-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-wnn090610-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>&nbsp;At the time of the 2010 sale, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimated that Uranium One held the extraction rights to about 20 percent of U.S. uranium in the ground;<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup>&nbsp;they amounted to 0.2% of the world’s uranium production.<sup id="cite_ref-Ritch_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-Ritch-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ARMZ took complete control of Uranium One in January 2013 by buying all shares it did not already own.<sup id="cite_ref-fpjan13_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-fpjan13-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;In October 2013, Uranium One Inc. became a private company and a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Rosatom.<sup id="cite_ref-WISE_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-WISE-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup>&nbsp;From 2012 to 2014, an unspecified amount of Uranium was reportedly exported to Canada via a Kentucky-based trucking firm with an existing export license; most of the processed uranium was returned to the U.S., with approximately 25% going to Western Europe and Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="mw-headline" id="Allegations_of_scandal" style="">Allegations of scandal</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since the 2015 publication of the book&nbsp;<i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash" title="Clinton Cash" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Clinton Cash</a></i>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News" title="Breitbart News" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Breitbart News</a>&nbsp;editor and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon" title="Steve Bannon" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Bannon</a>&nbsp;collaborator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schweizer" title="Peter Schweizer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Schweizer</a>, as well as a 2015&nbsp;<i style="">New York Times</i>&nbsp;article based in part of Schweizer's book,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;allegations of a bribery scheme involving Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and the 2010 sale of Uranium One have persisted, primarily in conservative media</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Despite nearly three years of discussion and analysis of the matter — as well as an FBI investigation<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-auto1-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;— no evidence of any&nbsp;<i style="">quid pro quo</i>&nbsp;has surfaced.<b> Numerous Republican politicians and pundits, including President Donald Trump, have insisted that the Clinton-Uranium One story is the "real" Russian scandal, rather than the matters for which Trump is being investigated</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>.</b></span></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Schweizer_allegations">Schweizer allegations</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The circumstances surrounding the 2010 sale of the company to Rosatom have since 2015 been characterized by&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media(U.S.political_right)" title="Alternative media (U.S. political right)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">conservative media</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in the United States as a bribery scandal involving&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation" title="Clinton Foundation" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Clinton Foundation</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, although after nearly three years of discussion — as well as an FBI investigation</span><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_23-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-auto1-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;— no evidence of any&nbsp;</span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">quid pro quo</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;has been found. This characterization largely began with the publication of Schweizer's book which contained several factual errors, including that then-Secretary of State Clinton had veto power to stop the Uranium One sale.</span><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Several journalists have criticized the book, saying it contains "leaps of logic,"</span><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;"draws some conclusions that go beyond the available evidence,"</span><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;"parts of Schweitzer’s reporting fell apart under scrutiny,"</span><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and "Schweizer is trafficking in speculation."</span><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;A</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">s a presidential candidate, Donald Trump cited the book, which he claimed “documents how Bill and Hillary used the State Department to enrich their family at America’s expense.”<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;This scandal narrative has been repeated across conservative media, particularly by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sean Hannity</a>, who has stated, "On this program, I have been telling you Uranium One will be one of the biggest scandals this country has ever seen."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[31]</a></sup>&nbsp;As of March 2018, the matter was under investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence, House Oversight and Senate Judiciary committees.</span><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-auto-32" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-auto-32" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">32]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the book Schweizer alleged that the Clinton Foundation received $145 million in pledges and donations in exchange for Hillary Clinton's support of the Uranium One deal. This allegation has been repeated numerous times across conservative media, particularly by Sean Hannity, as evidence of a bribery scheme. However, $31 million of this amount was donated by Frank Giustra in 2005, and another $100 million pledged by him in 2007, the latter amount after he had severed ties with Uranium One. Both cases occurred years before any prospective Uranium One sale to Russian interests was known, and well before anyone knew Hillary Clinton would join the Obama administration in 2009 and might have any role in approving such a deal.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact" title="PolitiFact" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PolitiFact</a>&nbsp;identified about $4 million in donations from various Uranium One investors in the years before and after the Russian deal, but these amounts do not appear to be unusual compared to amounts that countless other donors have made to the Clinton Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="New_York_Times_article">New York Times article</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On April 23, 2015&nbsp;<i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The New York Times</a></i>&nbsp;wrote that, during the acquisition, the family foundation of Uranium One's chairman made $2.35 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation. The donations were legal but not publicly disclosed by the Clinton Foundation, despite an agreement with the White House to disclose all contributors.<sup id="cite_ref-Kiely_36-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-Kiely-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[36]</a></sup>&nbsp;In a follow-up story six days later,&nbsp;<i style="">The Times</i>&nbsp;clarified that the donations went to "the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada), [which] operates in parallel to a Clinton Foundation project called the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, which is expressly covered by an agreement Mrs. Clinton signed to make all donors public while she led the State Department. However, the foundation maintains that the Canadian partnership is not bound by that agreement and that under Canadian law contributors’ names cannot be made public</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Capital(Russian_company)" title="Renaissance Capital (Russian company)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Renaissance Capital</a>, a Russian investment bank with ties to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Kremlin" title="Moscow Kremlin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Kremlin</a>&nbsp;and which was promoting Uranium One stock, paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech in Moscow shortly after the Rosatom acquisition of Uranium One was announced</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-nyt042315_38-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-nyt042315-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yf042315_39-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-yf042315-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Giustra_and_Bill_Clinton">Giustra and Bill Clinton</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium_One&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Giustra and Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On April 20, 2007 Uranium One acquired UrAsia Energy, a Canadian firm with headquarters in Vancouver, from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Giustra" title="Frank Giustra" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frank Giustra</a>, who then resigned from the UrAsia Energy Board of Directors.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt20080131_40-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-nyt20080131-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup>&nbsp;Having severed ties with UrAsia Energy and Uranium One in 2007, Giustra had no evident beneficial interest in the firm's subsequent sale to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosatom" title="Rosatom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rosatom</a>&nbsp;in 2010. UrAsia has interests in rich uranium operations in Kazakhstan,<sup id="cite_ref-WISEUrAsia_42-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-WISEUrAsia-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup>&nbsp;and UrAsia Energy's acquisition of its Kazakhstan uranium interests from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazatomprom" title="Kazatomprom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kazatomprom</a>&nbsp;followed a trip to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaty" title="Almaty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Almaty</a>&nbsp;in 2005 by Giustra and former U.S. President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a>&nbsp;where they met with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev" title="Nursultan Nazarbayev" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a>, the leader of Kazakhstan. Giustra denies reporting by&nbsp;<i>The New York Times</i>&nbsp;that he and Clinton traveled together to Almaty.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup>&nbsp;Substantial contributions to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation" title="Clinton Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clinton Foundation</a>&nbsp;by Giustra followed,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt20080131_40-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-nyt20080131-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT42115_44-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-NYT42115-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup>&nbsp;with Clinton, Giustra, and Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim in 2007 establishing the Clinton Foundation's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation#Clinton_Giustra_Sustainable_Growth_Initiative" title="Clinton Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative</a>&nbsp;to combat poverty in the developing world.<sup id="cite_ref-SusGrowth_45-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-SusGrowth-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;In addition to his initial pledge of $100 million, Giustra pledged to contribute half of his future earnings from mining to the initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-SusGrowth_45-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-SusGrowth-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;There is no indication that Giustra was contemplating any transaction with Russian interests at the time he began donating to the Clinton Foundation in 2005; rather, he sold UrAsia Energy to Uranium One, a Canadian company, in 2007. That sale was completed two months before he made his pledges to the Clinton Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since uranium is considered a strategic asset with national security implications, the acquisition of Uranium One by Rosatom was reviewed by the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign_Investment_in_the_United_States" title="Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States</a>&nbsp;(CFIUS), a committee of nine government cabinet departments and agencies including the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Department of State</a>, which was then headed by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a>. Clinton herself did not sit on CFIUS, but rather the State Department was represented by Jose Fernandez, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, who stated that Clinton was not involved in the Uranium One matter.&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt042315_38-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-nyt042315-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-yf042315_39-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-yf042315-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup>&nbsp;Although CFIUS members can object to such a foreign transaction, none did<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup>, and no member can veto a decision; veto power rests solely with the president.<sup id="cite_ref-:30_49-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-:30-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup>&nbsp;CFIUS unanimously approved the Uranium One sale.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Utah Division of Radiation Control and Canada’s foreign investment review agency also approved the transaction.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="FBI_investigation">FBI investigation</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By August 2016, the FBI had begun to confidentially investigate the Clinton Foundation, based largely on Schweizer's book and reporting by&nbsp;<i style="">The New York Times</i>, but they failed to find much evidence to support corruption allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-auto1_23-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-auto1-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[23]</a></sup>&nbsp;As the investigation lay dormant,<b>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Sessions</a>&nbsp;in December 2017 ordered Justice Department prosecutors to ask FBI investigators about the evidence they had gathered. </b>Sessions was responding to demands of Republican members of Congress for a special counsel to be appointed to investigate Uranium One and other matters relating to Hillary Clinton and the FBI.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[54]</a></sup>&nbsp;CNN reported on March 29, 2018 that Sessions had appointed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W.Huber" title="John W. Huber" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John W. Huber</a>, the United States Attorney for the District of Utah, to investigate "a cluster of Republican-driven accusations against the FBI," which includes allegations that the FBI acted inappropriately in two matters involving Hillary Clinton, including her emails and the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom. In a letter to three Republican Congressional committee chairmen, Sessions said he would rely on Huber's findings to decide if a special counsel needed to be appointed. Huber had been investigating the matters for a time, but his involvement had not previously been disclosed.</span><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Several members of Clinton's State Department staff and officials from the Obama-era Department of Justice have said that CFIUS reviews are handled by civil servants and that it would be unlikely that Clinton would have had more than nominal involvement in her department's signing off on the acquisition.<sup id="cite_ref-SchneiderMallonee_56-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-SchneiderMallonee-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup>&nbsp;According to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes" class="mw-redirect" title="Snopes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Snopes</a>, the timing of donations might have been questionable if Hillary Clinton had played a key role in approving the deal, but all evidence suggests that she did not and may in fact have had no role in approving the deal at all.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Senate_and_House_investigations">Senate and House investigations</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium_One&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Senate and House investigations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In October 2017, following a report by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Solomon" title="John F. Solomon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John F. Solomon</a>&nbsp;and Alison Spann published in&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hill</a></i>&nbsp;and citing anonymous sources,<sup id="cite_ref-SolomonSpann2017_58-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-SolomonSpann2017-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-conca_59-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-conca-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence" title="United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">House Intelligence Committee</a>&nbsp;opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sale of Uranium One.<sup id="cite_ref-SchneiderMallonee_56-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-SchneiderMallonee-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup>&nbsp;<i>The Hill</i>&nbsp;reported, "There is no evidence in any of the public records that the FBI believed that the Clintons or anyone close to them did anything illegal. But there’s definitive evidence the Russians were seeking their influence with a specific eye on the State Department."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2017, President Trump directed the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Justice</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;(DOJ) to lift a "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_order" title="Gag order" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">gag order</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" it had placed on a former FBI informant involved the investigation. The DOJ released the informant from his&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondisclosure_agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Nondisclosure agreement" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">nondisclosure agreement</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;on October 25, 2017,</span><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-the-hill-informant_61-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-the-hill-informant-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;authorizing him to provide the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence "any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market" involving Rosatom, its subsidiaries Tenex and Uranium One, and the Clinton Foundation.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Fox_lift_gag_63-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-Fox_lift_gag-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The informant's lawyer said that the informant "can tell what all the Russians were talking about during the time that all these bribery payments were made."</span><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;During a C-SPAN interview, Hillary Clinton said that any allegations that she was bribed to approve the Uranium One deal were "baloney."</span><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;On November 16, 2017, William Douglas </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Campbell identified himself as the FBI informant. He is a former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">lobbyist</a>&nbsp;for Tenex, the US-based arm of Russia's Rosatom.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[66]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-67" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[67]</a></sup>&nbsp;On March 8, 2018&nbsp;<i style="">The Hill</i>&nbsp;reported, "A confidential informant [Campbell] billed by House Republicans as having “explosive” information about the 2010 Uranium One deal approved during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of State provided “no evidence of a quid pro quo” involving Clinton, Democratic staff said in a summary of the informant’s closed-door testimony obtained by The Hill on Thursday."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[68]</a></sup>&nbsp;CNN reported that the summary document also stated that the Justice Department had expressed concerns about Campbell's credibility due to "inconsistencies between Campbell's statements and documents" in a separate investigation in 2015</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-auto-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Fact-checking_of_allegations">Fact-checking of allegations</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FactCheck.org" title="FactCheck.org" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FactCheck.org</a>&nbsp;reported that there was "no evidence" connecting the Uranium One–Rosatom merger deal with a money laundering and bribery case involving a different Rosatom subsidiary which resulted in the conviction of a Russian individual in 2015, contrary to what is implied in the Solomon-Spann story.<sup id="cite_ref-Kiely_36-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-Kiely-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wemple_69-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-wemple-69" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[69]</a></sup>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Kessler(journalist)" title="Glenn Kessler (journalist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Glenn Kessler</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a></i>&nbsp;wrote that the problem with some of the accusations that Republican commentators levied against Clinton is that she "by all accounts, did not participate in any discussions regarding the Uranium One sale."<sup id="cite_ref-Kessler_70-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-Kessler-70" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[70]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In November 2017,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Smith" title="Shepard Smith" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Shepard Smith</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Fox News</a>&nbsp;described President Trump's accusations against Clinton regarding Uranium One "inaccurate in a number of ways</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">." Smith said that the sale of Uranium One was "not a Hillary Clinton approval" but instead a unanimous decision by the nine cabinet-level department heads of CFIUS, approved by the president and with permits issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Smith added that "most of the Clinton Foundation donations" came from Frank Giustra, who said he "sold his stake in the company" three years before it was sold to Russia. Lastly, Smith noted that "none of the uranium was exported for use by the U.S. to Russia."</span><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-71" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[71]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-72" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[72]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[73]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In January 2018,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Post" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">The New York Post</a>, apparently following a story from a questionable conservative news site, reported "There’s an indictment in the FBI probe of the Uranium One scandal...,"<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[74]</a></sup>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hill(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">The Hill</a>&nbsp;cited the Post's story the next day with "A grand jury reportedly brought charges in the Uranium One investigation..."<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[75]</a></sup>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact" title="PolitiFact" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">PolitiFact</a>&nbsp;determined that the three stories were false</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[76]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2018_developments">2018 developments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium_One&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2018 developments" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In March 2018,&nbsp;<i>Attorney General Jeff Sessions</i>&nbsp;revealed that in 2017 he had declined to appoint a special counsel to investigate, among other matters, the alleged connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation and, instead, had appointed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W.Huber" title="John W. Huber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John W. Huber</a>, U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, to look into whether further investigation is warranted.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[77]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[78]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[79]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); 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</font></div><div><div id="r1-0" class="result results_links_deep highlight_d" data-domain="factcheck.org" data-hostname="www.factcheck.org" data-nir="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="resultbody links_main links_deep" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="resulttitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.15em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.15; vertical-align: middle; position: static; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;"><a class="resulta" rel="noopener" href="https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/" style="margin: 0px 0px -0.05em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.22; vertical-align: middle; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Facts on&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Uranium</span>&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">One</span>&nbsp;- FactCheck.org</font></a></h2><div class="resultsnippet" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.45; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two House committees have said that they will investigate the Obama administration's approval of a deal that gave Russia a financial interest in U.S.&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">uranium</span>&nbsp;production. 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</font></div><div><h1 class="Title" style="margin: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 45px; padding: 0px 60px 0px 95px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s Lawyers Sharing Space With Anti-‘Deep-State’ Group</font></h1><h2 class="Dek" style="margin: 10px 0px 20px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 60px 0px 95px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The powerful conservative non-profit happens to be suing the administration over, among other matters, Uranium One.</font></h2><div class="ArticleBodybyline" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row wrap; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; margin: 15px 0px 15px 95px; padding: 0px;"><div class="ArticleBodyauthors" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-flow: row wrap;"><div class="ArticleAuthor" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><a class="ArticleAuthorname" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/betsy-woodruff" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-right: 5px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">BETSY WOODRUFF</font></a></div><div class="ArticleAuthor" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: row; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;"><a class="ArticleAuthorname" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/lachlan-markay" style="text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-right: 5px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">LACHLAN MARKAY</font></a></div></div><h4 class="ArticleBodydate-time" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-weight: normal;">03.22.18 2:44 PM ET</font></h4></div><div class="ArticleBodysponsored-logo-wraper" style="display: flex; -webkit-box-pack: start; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px 0px 10px 95px;"><article class="Body" style="padding: 0px 60px 0px 95px; position: relative;"><div class="Mobiledoc"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump’s legal team has done work out of the Capitol Hill offices of a conservative nonprofit group run by one of the president’s lawyers.</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two sources familiar with the situation say attorneys representing the president in the probe into Russian election meddling have met at and worked out of the headquarters of the<b>&nbsp;American Center for Law and Justice, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a 501(c)(3)</span> legal advocacy nonprofit run by Jay Sekulow, a member of the president’s legal team.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokesperson for the ACLJ did not dispute this report.</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The American Center for Law and Justice has maintained a Washington D.C. office for many years,” said Gene Kapp, a spokesperson for the organization. “The work done by the ACLJ is separate and distinct from the work performed by those who serve as Counsel to the President. Any non-ACLJ related work that occurs at the ACLJ offices is reimbursed in compliance with all applicable tax laws.”</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From a strictly legal perspective, the arrangement appears above board, so long as ACLJ is charging market rates to rent the space, according to Brendan Fischer, the director of federal reform programs at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit watchdog.</font></p><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The only way this would be an issue is if ACLJ was offering its services at less than fair market value, or using ACLJ resources without being compensated” by the president, the White House, or the Trump campaign, Fischer said in an email.</font></p><div class="TeadsWrapper"><div class="TeadsWrapperbefore"><aside class="SimpleAd SimpleAd--no-padding" id="gpt-ad-600269" data-google-query-id="CKOso_CEg9oCFYrcwAodJrsMaA" style="padding: 0px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe/68287174/iac.tdb-tdb.us.dw/politics/trumpland/content_0container" style="border: 0pt none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></aside></div><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Sekulow represents the president in matters related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, ACLJ has also pursued litigation that, while not directly related to that investigation, aligns with efforts by the president and his allies to deflect from allegations that the Russian government worked to elect Trump in 2016.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p></div></div></article></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></font></font></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Koch Brothers Are Behind a Plot to Open Up the Grand Canyon Watershed to Toxic Uranium Mining</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Last year, Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva introduced a bill to protect the greater Grand Canyon as a national monument. But it has stalled.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By Marcia G. Yerman / Huffington Post August 3, 2016</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/koch-brothers-are-behind-plot-open-grand-canyon-watershed-toxic-uranium-mining" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">http://www.alternet.org/environment/koch-brothers-are-behind-plot-open-grand-canyon-watershed-toxic-uranium-mining</a></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Grand Canyon National Park is the United States 15th oldest national park. Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, the park is located in northwestern Arizona</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This summer, like all summers, one of the top spots for travel consideration is the majestic Grand Canyon.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">President Teddy Roosevelt, considered the “conservationist” president, declared the Grand Canyon a monument in 1908. It was made a national park in 1919 by the National Park Service, which was established in 1916.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roosevelt had a clear understanding of the importance of preserving America’s resources—and the actions of those who would despoil them for monetary gain. He signed the Antiquities Act of 1906. The goal was to create a tool that would allow future presidents to protect the country’s historical and natural sites.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now, calls are out to President Obama to make the “greater” Grand Canyon a national monument. This would encompass approximately 1.7 million acres of public lands surrounding the park.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Why? It is a response to potential encroachment on the gateway to the Grand Canyon.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unsurprisingly, the issue at hand involves revenue, big power brokers, ramifications of Citizens United, and a familiar actor in the anti-environmental space—the Koch brothers.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The debate is about mining, which has been a source of contention for over a century, when land claims were first staked. Older mines that were “validated” went forth. One of those,&nbsp;<b>Canyon Mine, is located six miles south of the Grand Canyon.</b></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Many of the original owners of mining claims shifted their land over to tourist properties. However, there are approximately 3,000 “unvalidated” claims currently on hold under a temporary 20-year ban issued by the Secretary of the Interior in 2012. The impetus was to protect lands from “imminent threat.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now, with Obama leaving office, the struggle to get permanent protection has intensified.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lands of the Havasupai Tribe lands border the Grand Canyon. They are specifically concerned about water radiation and contamination. Environmentalists and Indigenous groups are pitted against various politicians, the National Mining Association, and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The latter all have ties to Koch brothers funding.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As a precursor of what could possibly be in store, it must be noted that there was a superfund site on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mining not only scars the earth, it disturbs the ecosystem of the canyon. It threatens the tourism industry ($700 million), releases toxic chemicals into the air (uranium dust can cause lung cancer), and puts water supplies in danger.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Those who are against a permanent ban on uranium mining at the Grand Canyon gateway make up an unsavory stew. At the state level, the same players who support suing the EPA over the Clean Power Plan, are part of the mix. The groups supporting uranium mining—and against giving the Grand Canyon and its environs full protection—use the Kochian Newspeak of “limited government” and “federal overreach.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Greg Zimmerman, policy director at the Center for Western Priorities, co-authored an article with a very succinct drill-down on the money trail.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I asked Zimmerman for his thoughts. He wrote via e-mail:</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“These efforts are being driven by wealthy, ultra-conservative industrialists who are committed to rolling back over a century of land protections across the American West, including at the Grand Canyon. Mining at the gateway of the Grand Canyon remains incredibly unpopular among Arizonans and Americans alike, but it’s not stopping these individuals from undermining our outdoor legacy.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A poll of Arizona residents who expect to vote in November 2016 confirmed Zimmerman’s assertion of support for monument status. The numbers showed that statewide,&nbsp;<b>80 percent favored the establishment of the Greater Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument</b>. When asked if a candidate’s stance on the issue would impact their choice, they answered in the affirmative by a “three times as likely” ratio.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">David Metz, who worked on the project told me:</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Data doesn’t get much clearer than this. &nbsp;Survey after survey shows overwhelming support among Arizona voters for a national monument near the Grand Canyon. Arizonans understand it, want it, and they are ready to back members of Congress who will work to make it a reality.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Rep. Raúl Grijalva, of Arizona’s 3rd District,</b>&nbsp;has been on the case since 2008. In November 2015, Grijalva introduced the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument Act (H.R.3882). It is currently languishing in the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Roger Clark, program director of the Grand Canyon Trust, speaks with passion about how the Grand Canyon’s future hangs in the balance. On the phone he underscored the point, “The Grand Canyon has always been sought after for monetary gain. Yet, it’s inconceivable that profiteers would spend so much money to undermine one of our nation’s greatest treasures.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The conversation ended with Clark’s observation, “Citizens everywhere must rally! The barbarians are at the gate.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As the Koch brothers undermine protections at the Grand Canyon, let’s remember what our children are at risk of losing.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The Grand Canyon fills me with awe. It is beyond comparison...Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is...You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is to keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.” ~ President Theodore Roosevelt</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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