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10 Things You Should Know

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A new book by Republican operative and friend of the Koch brothers, Peter Schweizer, makes a number of wild accusations about Hillary Clinton — so wild that even the author admits he has no evidence to support them. Here are ten things you need know about his book, Clinton Cash.

#1: The entire premise of the book has been widely debunked.
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, FOX News' Chris Wallace, the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison, and more all agree: There's no proof of the book's central thesis. Even Schweizer — the author of the book — admits he doesn't have direct evidence to back up his claims.
NBC News First Read, 4/27/15; ABC News This Week, 4/26/15; Fox News Sunday, 4/26/15; NBC's Today, 4/24/15

#2: Hillary Clinton did not have veto power over a uranium deal.
Schweizer claims Hillary Clinton had "veto power" and "could have stopped" Russia from buying Uranium One, a uranium mining company with large operations in the U.S. That's just false: Only the president has such power.
Source: FactCheck.org, 04/28/15

#3: Schweizer's claim that a Clinton Foundation donor benefited from the sale of the uranium company is false.
Schweizer spins a tale that in 2010, then-Secretary Clinton pushed the State Department to approve the sale of Uranium One to the Russian government in order to benefit a stakeholder who had donated to the Clinton Foundation. In reality, that donor said he sold his stake in the company 18 months before Hillary Clinton ever became Secretary of State, and three years prior to the sale.
Source: CEO.ca, 04/23/15

#4 Hillary Clinton "never intervened" with CFIUS committee on the Uranium One sale.
FactCheck.org notes that there was "no evidence" that Hillary Clinton was involved in the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS) approval process on the sale of Uranium One. Jose Fernandez, a former assistant secretary of state who represented the State Department on the committee, said, "Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter."
Source: FactCheck.org, 04/28/15

#5: Bill Clinton did not receive payment for appearances for which the book claims he was paid.
BuzzFeed reports that neither Bill Clinton nor the Clinton Foundation were paid for two of three 2010 speeches for which Schweizer claims he received payment. Per BuzzFeed, the Foundation did receive a donation following one speech, but President Clinton was not paid for it.
Source: BuzzFeed, 04/28/15

#6: Schweizer deliberately butchers quotes to omit the positive work of the Clinton Foundation on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
In his book, Schweizer intentionally misrepresents a statement from Ambassador Princeton Lyman on the Clinton Foundation's work in Africa — omitting the parts of the statement that said President Clinton "deserves a lot of credit" for his work on The Foundation. The truth? Jim Yong Kim, who was also misrepresented by Schweizer, says President Clinton "has been absolutely one of the most important people in the global response to HIV/AIDS."
Source: Media Matters, 04/29/15

#7: Schweizer constructs a "conspiracy" theory on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement that is "inconsistent with the facts."
In the Daily Beast, Michael Tomasky labels Schweizer's storytelling about the Colombia Free Trade Agreement as a sheer "conspiracy." What's more: Gabriel Silva, Colombian Ambassador to the United States at the time the trade deal was signed, told CNN that "I saw no evidence that any part of the treaty was impacted by any contribution made to the Clinton Foundation or any other group in the United States."
Source: CNN, 04/27/15; Daily Beast, 4/22/15

#8: Hoax cited by Schweizer was debunked years ago.
Schweizer cites a press release that was exposed as fake in 2013 as "evidence" that TD Bank influenced a State Department review on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Source: Think Progress, 04/21/15

#9: Schweizer's statement that a company had never received USAID grants prior to Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State is false.
As part of an inaccurate theory that a telecommunications company, Digicel, received USAID grant money because of its involvement with President Clinton, Schweizer claims the company had never received USAID grant money prior to Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State. Wrong: BuzzFeed reports that "Digicel received more than $29,000 in contracts from USAID in 2007 and 2008," according to federal records.
Source: BuzzFeed, 04/28/15

#10: Hillary Clinton's stance on the Indian Nuclear Deal was consistent while the book falsely claims she voted for a measure she opposed.
As reported by Politico, a key fact in the book's characterization of Hillary Clinton's stance on the Indian nuclear deal is false. She consistently supported the deal following a bipartisan agreement in the Senate. Politico also reported that one of the author's assertions — that she had voted for a measure to cap India's fissile production — was deceptive: she actually voted against the measure.
Source: Politico, 04/29/15

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