Newsweek Fails Fact Check On Clinton Foundation And Russia

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Daily Caller

Newsweek managed to disprove its own fact check on Thursday when it asked if the Clintons ever received money from Russia.

The Hill reported Tuesday that the FBI had evidence of Russian energy officials giving money to the Clinton Foundation while then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in a position to reject a deal giving Russians control of Uranium One, an energy company with mines in the United States.

Meanwhile, Newsweek made the claim on Twitter that “the Clintons were not paid millions by Russia.”

Then, in its own article, Newsweek explains that Bill Clinton did receive $500,000 from a Russian bank promoting Uranium One stock. Plus, the chairman of Uranium One gave $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013. Overall, the Clinton Foundation received $145 million from people linked to the Russian uranium deal.

Newsweek finally admits, “Yes, the foundation received money and Bill Clinton was paid to give a speech,” but claims “there’s no evidence the Clintons were paid by Russians to push through the uranium deal.”

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Fact fail.

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11/21/2017

NEWSWEEK: You Know, Charles Manson Kinda Reminds Us of That Donald Trump Fella

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:30 am

When a mass murderer dies, what is the first thing Big Media does? Of course: figure out how they can write a click-baity headline that ties the news to Donald Trump. And so, we have NEWSWEEK with the following actual not-from-the-Onion headline:

That is . . . that is special, isn’t it?

Please note, the author of the piece hastens to say, that the hook of the piece is not that Trump and Manson are similar. Heavens, no! NEWSWEEK never meant to imply anything like that at all! No, what NEWSWEEK is saying, you understand, is that both Trump and Manson use psychological techniques to appeal to the marginalized in society:

According to psychoanalyst Mark Smaller, past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, part of Manson’s power lay in the type of language he used. Notably, Manson was able to speak in a way that engaged those who felt marginalized or alienated.

“A charismatic leader knows how to speak to people in a way that will emotionally engage those people,” Smaller told Newsweek.     http://patterico.com/2017/11/21/newsweek-you-know-charles-manson-kinda-reminds-us-of-that-donald-trump-fella/