The Clintons started the so-called Russian
collusion scandal and may be destroyed by it
By Newt Gingrich | Fox News 
The Left has been desperately working for months to find
any shred of evidence that Donald Trump had even the slightest connection to
Russia during the presidential campaign. Despite having the full support of
their friends in the media, they have consistently failed to find anything
substantive.
At first, I assumed the liberal elites were simply driven
by their inability to accept that the American people elected Donald Trump as
their 45th president. Now, I have another theory: The Trump-Russia
story is meant to serve as a pure distraction aimed at masking real corruption
by the Clinton political machine.
As The Hill reported on Sunday, while Hillary Clinton was
Secretary of State, a Kremlin-linked bank paid her husband, former President
Bill Clinton, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Also during her tenure as
top diplomat, earlier reports indicate Canadian and Russian business
executives directed many millions more to the Clinton Foundation. In fact,
citing recently unsealed Federal Bureau of Investigation reports, The Hill described
a thorough Russian campaign aimed at gaining access to the Clintons and
capitalizing on their influence, while also spying on them to advance a
pro-Russia agenda. In 2010, the FBI arrested 10 so-called “sleeper cell”
Russian spies who had reportedly become too close to Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, while serving as Secretary of State, Hillary
Clinton was also overseeing a laundry list of U.S.-Russian initiatives and
dealings.
Among other things, she served on the Committee on
Foreign Investment, where she voted in favor of President Obama’s approval of
the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian business, to a state-owned Russian nuclear
energy outfit. At the time, the Canadian company controlled 20 percent of the
U.S. uranium reserves.
Before the sale was approved, a Kremlin-linked bank that
supported the deal paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a 90-minute speech in Moscow
to promote the Uranium One’s stock. Bill then met personally
with Vladimir Putin. All the while, people linked with Uranium One – and its
previous incarnation UrAsia – reportedly paid the Clinton Foundation $145
million in donations.
You can’t make this stuff up, and while the
news media continues to acknowledge the facts, they still claim there is no foul play
on behalf of the Clintons in terms of the uranium deal. The Media Research Center found that the ABC, NBC, and CBS
evening shows have “spent only 3 minutes and 1 second on the Clinton
Foundation scandal in more than two years.”
In comparison, another Media Research Center report found that since
Inauguration Day evening shows on these three networks have aired “1,000
minutes of coverage discussing Russia’s attempt to boost Trump in 2016, and
speculation that Trump’s campaign may have colluded with the Russians in this
project.”
And remember: The so-called collusion story came out of
supposed opposition research we now know was funded by Clinton and her Democrat allies.
Thankfully, House and Senate Republicans have now launched new investigations into the Clintons’ ties to
Russia – as well as Hillary’s illegal use of a private email server as
Secretary of State. The email scandal is now even more significant given
that we know that she continued to use a private, insecure email server despite
the FBI arresting a ring of Russian agents who were specifically targeting her.
As I told Sean Hannity on Monday, I think we are on the edge of the
greatest corruption scandal in American history.
The first thing Congress should do is demand
that every single dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation and its charity
initiatives be made public to show exactly where the Clintons derived their
money. I suspect there are millions of foreign dollars hidden away in foreign
subsidiaries that were never reported in financial disclosures.
The truth about the level of foreign donation, influence
peddling, and outright corruption involved in the Clinton world could change
American politics forever.
The great irony of all this though, is that the
Clintons started the so-called Russian collusion scandal, and in the end, they
may be the ones destroyed by it.
Newt Gingrich is a Fox News contributor. A
Republican, he was speaker of the United States House of Representatives from
1995 to 1999. Follow him on Twitter @NewtGingrich. His latest book is "Understanding Trump."
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