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Did Hillary Clinton give Russia 20% of the United States' uranium?
This claim comes from Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash.
The Washington Post notes that the details mentioned above are correct:
The deal gave Russia control of about 20 percent of U.S. uranium
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Are these pictures of Osama Bin Laden with Obama, Rice and Hillary Clinton authentic?
Hillary Clinton: Fake
Snopes explains
A photograph of Hillary Clinton shaking hands with terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has circulated online (divorced from its original context) ever since ...
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Did Senator Hillary Clinton introduce only a single bill (an anti-flag burning bill) into the Senate?
False
Summary: She did sponsor a bill to restrict flag burning, though she technically wasn't the one who introduced it. But she also sponsored and/or introduced many other bills during her eight ...
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Did Hillary Clinton propose to punish flag burners in 2005?
The proposed law co-sponsored by Clinton in 2005 prohibits flag burning under specific circumstances. It does not attempt to make flag burning illegal in general (i.e. outside of those specific ...
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Is the four minute nuclear weapon response time classified information?
No, this is not classified information.
There have been plenty of descriptions of the timeline to launch US nuclear weapons, most much more detailed than anything Secretary Clinton said, and none of ...
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Were there depictions of Donald Trump holding Hillary Clinton's severed head?
This Twitchy article quotes a tweet from Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale denying the claim:
I inspected anti-Clinton merchandise very hard in 2016, and I didn't see any such t-shirts around the ...
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Did Donald Trump call Alicia Machado "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping"?
This is Machado's own claim, as she confirmed to the New York Times today.
Ms. Machado recalled the taunts from Mr. Trump that Mrs. Clinton invoked on Monday night, as well as another sobriquet: “...
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Did Hillary Clinton give Russia 20% of the United States' uranium?
Politifact evaluated a number of claims from Trump's press conference, including this one.
They referred back to a campaign fact check where they rated a similar claim Mostly False:
The ...
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Were there depictions of Donald Trump holding Hillary Clinton's severed head?
This is a claim where we will likely only get circumstantial evidence for either side. We already have the statement of one reporter on Twitter stating that they didn't see these shirts in the ...
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Is the Clinton Foundation currently under investigation?
The claim is a little disingenuous, because it introduces a false equivalence between
the existence of an open investigation without conclusions, and
an investigation by authorities that led to a ...
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Did Hillary Clinton pay Russian officials 30 million dollars, through her campaign to get dirt on Trump?
If we listen a couple of seconds longer, Coulter specifies that it's about the "fusion GPS story", so it's about the Trump-Russia dossier.
Cost of the dossier
There are a number of claims out there: ...
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Did Donald Trump call Alicia Machado "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping"?
Machado made the same claims in an interview with Inside Edition in May 2016:
Machado, who claims she actually gained closer to 15 pounds, told IE
she felt publicly shamed. She said he called her ...
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Did Senator Hillary Clinton introduce only a single bill (an anti-flag burning bill) into the Senate?
False
This government website can be searched to show all of the bills that include Clinton as a sponsor or co-sponsor. It lists 713 bills and amendments she introduced or cosponsored. Some bills ...
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Did Hillary Clinton destroy phones with a hammer?
There are several claims to be addressed in that tweet:
Explicit claims:
1. Hillary Clinton is crooked.
The definition of "crooked" is unclear. One particular definition would require Hillary ...
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Did Trump help Puerto Rico actively?
The relevant claim here seems to be the donation. Regarding the other issues:
Trump is president. Disaster relief is in his area of responsibility, while Clinton couldn't send FEMA to Puerto Rico if ...
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Did Google search manipulation push millions of voters towards Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential Election?
No.
The NYT has a good breakdown of why this claim is inaccurate. Epstein is quoted as saying that the numbers Trump gives are incorrect.
The white paper that is the source of the claim Trump is ...
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Did Hillary Clinton say that North Korea requires experienced diplomats rather than tweets?
She has expressed those ideas. But I could not find a reliable source for her saying those exact words together. And she certainly didn't say anything of the sort during the 2016 debates which are ...
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Did Hillary Clinton represent someone accused of rape in court?
It is correct that she represented a rapist. The characterization how she got on that case, what she did, and what she was saying on tape is completely and intentionally wrong, though.
Clinton was ...
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Is the four minute nuclear weapon response time classified information?
No.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/05/our-nuclear-procedures-are-crazier-than-trump/
The author bases his estimate on information gleaned from a 30-year old book, so it's not exactly new ...
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Did Hillary Clinton say this quote about Donald Trump and equal pay?
The first Trump-Clinton Presidential Debate on 26 September 2016 was widely watched and reported.
The Washington Post provided a transcript:
CLINTON: You know, he tried to switch from looks to ...
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Has Hillary Clinton been a Cubs and a Yankees fan for years?
Yes, Clinton has self-admittedly been a fan of both clubs for years.
We can see from her opponents' view on the issues (obviously painted with a negative slant) that Hillary Clinton has claimed to be ...
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Did Hillary Clinton support legalising such late-term abortions of fetuses as claimed by Ben Shapiro?
On the Issues has an overview over Clinton's position on abortion.
She described her position on late-term abortions during the 2016 presidential debate:
Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that ...
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Did Hillary Clinton give Russia 20% of the United States' uranium?
According to a 2015 New York Times Article,
At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian
mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable
endeavors of former ...
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Was Hillary Clinton personally involved in approving the Uranium One purchase?
No, she was not involved.. The purchase of Uranium One was approved by an interagency panel called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Here is what former Assistant Secretary of ...
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Did Hillary Clinton destroy phones with a hammer?
Yes. These FBI documents, released September 2, 2016, state that one of Clinton's aides smashed one or two blackberries with a hammer. From Document 1 page 9 of 47:
Monica Hanley, a former Clinton ...
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Did Secretary Clinton suggest killing Julian Assange with a drone strike?
Probably not
The claim has never been independently made outside of True Pundit, and it cited anonymous State Department sources.
Clinton claims not remembering saying that.
I don't recall any ...
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Did Google search manipulation push millions of voters towards Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential Election?
Politifact rated the claim "False" on 19 August 2019.
Politifact examined the claim, reaching out to both the author of the paper and other researchers.
From Robert Epstein himself -
We ...
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Did Hillary Clinton represent someone accused of rape in court?
There are additional hand written court documents uploaded by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post that corroborate the court documents in the OP.
Hillary Rodham represented Thomas Alfred Taylor ...
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Was Hillary Clinton poisoned in 2016?
Omalu later clarified to Slate that he was not saying that Clinton was poisoned by someone:
When he claimed the candidate might have been poisoned, he told me, he meant it in the sense that any ...
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Did Hillary Clinton tell a Secret Service agent to "F off" when he said "Good Morning" to her?
The link you cited says,
‘Good morning, ma’am,” a member of the uniformed Secret Service once
greeted Hillary Clinton. “F*** off,” she replied. That exchange is one
among many that active and ...
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