On Thursday, President Trump tweeted (again) that the Hillary Clinton Uranium One deal with Russia is “the biggest story that Fake Media doesn’t want to follow.”

In case this didn’t seem enough like a distraction from Trump’s Russia scandal, the president told White House reporters, “that’s your real Russia story, that is one of the big stories of the decade.”

Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2017

Trump’s revival of the Uranium One deal came as a direct result of an article published by The Hill on Tuesday that claims,

Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Certain members of the ‘real’ media jumped on the story and triggered Trump’s renewed interest in the potential distraction.

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According to Business Insider, Sen. Chuck Grassley is pushing Jeff Sessions to investigate the deal further and the Senate Judiciary Committee requested more information about the deal from several agencies. While this sounds ominous, at least two independent fact-checkers found “little evidence” of impropriety on Hillary Clinton’s part,

PolitiFact found that the US produces such little uranium that the “concerns were out of proportion,” and pointed out that there was no existing evidence of “quid pro quo” between Clinton Foundation donations and the approval of the deal. In a 2016 piece, The Washington Post’s fact checker noted that although the State Department was one agency that had approval over the 2010 deal, there’s no evidence Clinton herself had significant influence over it: “There is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, and it is highly questionable that this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state. Theoretically, as Schweizer says, Clinton could have intervened. But even then, it ultimately would have been Obama’s decision whether to suspend or block the deal.”

PolitiFact’s assertion that the “US produces such little uranium that the ‘concerns were out of proportion,'” seems to fit with the data, unless Trump is planning a resurgence in coal AND uranium…

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