With a grand jury probe of the Russiagate hoax looming, Peter Schweizer, author of the best-selling expose, Clinton Cash, joined the Glenn Beck program to explore the depths of the scandal, revealing a conspiracy involving government officials, the FBI, and private actors like George Soros, to influence an American election.
Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, uncovered Hillary Clinton’s Russia ties, including her role in securing the Uranium One deal and in the Skolkovo program. The Russiagate scandal emerged as a strategy by the Clinton campaign for president in 2016 as a way to distract from her own issues, including the charges presented by Clinton Cash and those stemming from her use of a private, off-books email server for official communications while she served as Secretary of State under President Obama.
“We have to step back and remember that [Russiagate] was really creating a fictitious conspiracy involving Trump and the Russians to cover up an actual conspiracy,” Schweizer told Beck. “And that was the Clinton and the Clinton team’s dealings with Russia… Remember, the Clinton Foundation got $145 million by helping procure the sale of Uranium One, an American uranium company, to the Russian government. We also talked about the fact that when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, she executed a very corrupt program at the State Department called Skolkovo, which was designed to help the Russians develop their own version of Silicon Valley.”
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was a member of an inter-agency group called CFIUS that had to approve the sale of any strategic American company, like Uranium One, to foreigners.
“What could go wrong?” Schweizer asked. “We now know that the Russians, among other things, developed their hypersonic cruise missile as a result of Clinton’s Skolkovo program.”
“Let’s also remember that John Podesta, who was her campaign chairman and adviser while she was Secretary of State, was also on the board of directors of a small energy company called Joule Unlimited, out of Cambridge, Massachusetts,” Schweizer said. “Podesta’s company received $40 million in capital investment from an investment firm called Rusnano, which is a sovereign wealth fund of Russia run by Vladimir Putin.”
“There was an exchange of money, there was collaboration, there were favors done with political actors, but it was the Clinton campaign. And as Jeff Gerth reported in Columbia Journalism Review a couple of years ago, they saw this issue as a key. So, they decided to flip it on its head and really say that it was Donald Trump collaborating [with Russia],” he added.
