for russia medding in the presidential election. a sources tell cnn those refer to president obama ace concern for interference in the election not the clinton investigation. senator ron johnson made the same false connection from the texts. he is of course the same senator johnson who last month took a joking text between fbi officials and turned it into a controversy about a secret society of anti-trump agents lurking within law enforcement community. only after it was made clear to him that he missed the joke did he back off. but the damage was done. it had become a talking point already. some people still believe it. remember the uranium 1 bombshell where hillary clinton stood accused of using her role as secretary of state to approve the sale of mining rights to a russian company. president trump insin eighted she signed off on a deal that gave russia control over 20% of american uranium holdings.
officials and turned it into a controversy about a secret society of anti-trump agents lurking within law enforcement community. only after it was made clear to him that he missed the joke did he back off. but the damage was done. it had become a talking point already. some people still believe it. remember the uranium 1 bombshell where hillary clinton stood accused of using her role as secretary of state to approve the sale of mining rights to a russian company. president trump insin eighted she signed off on a deal that gave russia control over 20% of american uranium holdings. republicans claim they had a whistle blower who would expose the operation. democrats briefed by the trump justice department. they say they were told the
it appeared at the time to be sort of a strange deal. but now we know why it seemed weird. because it was weird. the guinean government now says that strange deal happened, that the awarding of half the rights to that mine happened, according to the guinean government, because of a huge bribe. paid by the company who got the mining rights. they said the company that got the rights to half of that iron ore deposit, they say that company paid mrs. dictator $8 million. in exchange for them getting those rights. now the fbi eventually got involved in investigating that bribe. and at that airport diner in jacksonville, in 2013, they set up mrs. dictator to wear a wire while she met with a representative of that mining company. and while she was meeting with that guy from the mining company, he told her in that conversation that she should destroy all the paperwork that she had that documented anything
in 2008, guinea had awarded to this company the exploration rights to half of that gigantic deposit of iron ore. it was a little bit of an unusual deal at the time because the guinean government had previously awarded all of the rights for that mine to a totally different company, but then inexplicably, a few years later they just sort of changed their mind and decided that half the rights would now go to this other country. it appeared at the time to be sort of a strange deal. but now we know why it seemed weird. because it was weird. the guinean government now says that strange deal happened, that the awarding of half the rights to that mine happened, according to the guinean government, because of a huge bribe. paid by the company who got the mining rights. they said the company that got the rights to half of that iron ore deposit, they say that company paid mrs. dictator $8 million.
paid by the company who got the mining rights. they said the company that got the rights to half of that iron ore deposit, they say that company paid mrs. dictator $8 million. in exchange for them getting those rights. now the fbi eventually got involved in investigating that bribe. and at that airport diner in jacksonville, in 2013, they set up mrs. dictator to wear a wire while she met with a representative of that mining company. and while she was meeting with that guy from the mining company, he told her in that conversation that she should destroy all the paperwork that she had that documented anything to do with the bribe. and she was wired when he told her that. she was a cooperating witness. so the fbi got all of his instructions to her about that on tape. and they nailed him. they nailed this guy from the mining company. charged. pled guilty. prison time.