Trump pulls another stunt of cynical distraction - Washington Post Editorial Board
By Editorial Board October 31 at 7:46 PM
DID HILLARY CLINTON sell the country’s uranium to Russia in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation? Did the Democrats collude with Russian nationals to tip the election against Donald Trump?
No, and no. Which raises a third question: Why is any of this relevant, particularly now? A fair look at the facts suggests only one option. President Trump needs a distraction, and his surrogates, some Republican members of Congress, right-wing media and even some people in mainstream outlets are helping him gin up outrage against a woman who is not, was never and will never be president. It is a measure of the power of partisanship to warp people’s judgment that this bald trickery is getting any traction.
Here are the facts. In 2010 Rosatom , the Russian nuclear authority, bought a piece of Uranium One, a Canadian company that held rights to mine a share of U.S. uranium deposits. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the deal. The State Department, then run by Ms. Clinton, was one of nine agencies represented on that committee, though the Treasury Department had the lead. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also had to approve the deal, and President Barack Obama had the final call.
The conspiracy theory is that people related to Uranium One had given money to the Clinton Foundation, mostly before the 2008 election, and therefore Ms. Clinton pressed the deal through. But given the structure of the committee, the separate NRC approval and the president’s role in the process, it was not really Ms. Clinton’s decision to make, even if the Russians had tried to influence her. In fact, a key premise of the conspiracy theory — that the United States gave up a big chunk of its uranium to the Russians — is simply wrong; none of the uranium could legally be exported, anyway.
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I'm almost certain it was on MSNBC, that the uranium from this mine was not the type used in making nuclear weapons. It was a grade solely used in nuclear power plants, and couldn't have been weaponized. I'm almost certain Russia wouldn't be using it for the purposes of making "dirty" bombs.
Of course FAUX Noise would never report that to it's super-intelligent viewers, so they think Russia is using it to make nuclear bombs with their names and addresses on them! 
We're all going to die! We're all going to die! Be afraid! 
Unpacking Uranium One: Hype and Law:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/unpacking-uranium-one-hype-and-law
