by Sandy » Thu Apr 19, 2018 1:06 pm
The "treason" accusation stems from the allegations made by Sebastian Gorka regarding Hillary engineering a deal to sell 20% of the US supply of uranium to Russia in exchange for the company making the deal giving the Clinton Foundation a big donation. Hannity is the "journalist" who teamed up with Gorka to report this. Unfortunately for Gorka's credibility, he got fired from the Trump White House, and claimed it was because of the "Clinton supporters" there. So he's a bit of a nutjob himself. But there are major credibility problems with the whole story. First, the Secretary of State doesn't approve "uranium deals." Those are done by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, of which the Secretary of State is just one of nine members, and she didn't participate in the committee that made this particular deal. Second, the deal involved low-grade Uranium, and was made with Canada, not Russia. Third, it didn't involve anywhere near 20% of the US supply of Uranium. Fourth, no contribution was ever made to the Clinton Foundation by a uranium company or anyone associated with one.
But that's Hannity's M.O. Take a couple of things that can be verified as facts, and depend on your viewer's ignorance and stupidity to believe the fictional narrative you pull together. Of course, Hannity's role as Trump's chief propagandist in the Goebbels tradition has been underlined by the discovery of his client relationship with Michael Cohen. That pretty much confirms that Hannity and Trump, in their intimate conversations, sit around and decide what the fake news will be and how they will distribute it to their mindless followers.
The other accusation of "treason" was related to the email issue. Not enough proof turned up in that investigation to render a legal charge. Trump's subsequent firing of James Comey took the credibility away from anything he ever said about it.