Fox’s Shep Smith meticulously dismantled his own network’s beloved Clinton conspiracy

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Shep Smith has developed something of a reputation as an exasperated voice of reason at Fox News.

His network has pushed a conspiratorial link between Clinton Foundation donations and a deal supposedly approved by the State Department when it was led by Hillary Clinton. The conspiracy — as alleged by President Donald Trump — is that Clinton’s State Department handed over 20 percent of the United States’s uranium holdings to “Russia” in exchange for cash sent to the Clinton Foundation.

It’s a classic classic quid pro quo conspiracy that is…not true. 

“The Clinton State Department had no power to veto or approve that transaction,” Smith says. “It could do neither.” Read more…

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