Justice Dept. Considering Investigation into Clinton Foundation, Uranium One
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The Justice Department of the United States sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, in which they essentially announced that yes, they are looking into investigating the Clinton Foundation.
Conservative news outlets have incessantly attempted to implicate the Clintons in the Uranium One deal—in which a Russian nuclear agency was allowed to buy an American company that dealt in uranium—since the story broke before the 2016 election. It was a 2010, Obama-era decision, but one that was allegedly helped by Russian donations to the Clinton Foundation. Now, the Justice Department is considering an investigation into the Foundation and the Uranium One deal, per The N.Y. Times.
Fox News, which appears to be the only form of media Trump ingests, has hammered Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department for not investigating the deal. Trump, in turn, has expressed his own disappointment that his political rivals aren’t being investigated. If the investigation does begin, Sessions would be the one to appoint a special counsel to head up the inquiry.
The investigation would be a relatively obvious friendly gesture to President Donald Trump—the Justice Dept. was not considering an investigation into this issue before Trump whined to the press that he wanted it. And the investigation would have its opponents: Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff took to Twitter to decry the idea of the inquiry, saying that if they “bend to the pressure” of Trump, “it could spell the end of the DOJ as an independent institution.”