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FAKE NEWS: Uranium deal story? That stemmed from oppo research backed by Bannon/Breitbart.
Bannon/Breitbart & Fox pushed the discredited Uranium story to hurt HRC. Now, they're doing it to cover for Trump.https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/24/how-steve-bannon-and-sean-hannitys-ginned-hillary-clinton-uranium-story-became-congressional/218318
So the Uranium deal story? That stemmed from oppo research backed by Bannon/Breitbart.
It was reported on as fact.
It was not fact.
It was reported on as fact.
It was not fact.
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WaPo & NY Times presented the oppo research on Clinton as objective & verified reporting. It was neither.
MORE:
https://thinkprogress.org/steve-bannon-new-york-times-washington-post-clinton-cash-d59d6492546/
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MORE:
https://thinkprogress.org/steve-bannon-new-york-times-washington-post-clinton-cash-d59d6492546/
The same oppo research book was used as the basis for an FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation. It went nowhere.
MORE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/fbi-james-comey-hillary-clinton-donald-trump.html?_r=0&mtrref=t.co&gwh=5F47220E69D356F4FF8E4663C0AEDEC2&gwt=pay
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/fbi-james-comey-hillary-clinton-donald-trump.html?_r=0&mtrref=t.co&gwh=5F47220E69D356F4FF8E4663C0AEDEC2&gwt=pay
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