The White House has accused former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of “collusion” with Russia, in a bid to fend off new questions in the ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.
Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during her off-camera press briefing on Wednesday that instead of Trump and his associates, the investigators should focus on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Clinton family’s ties with foreign governments.
“If we’re looking at Russia relationships with anybody, it would be directly with the Clintons,” the spokeswoman said, noting that Clinton had sold “a third of the world’s uranium” to Russia.
She was referring to a uranium deal between Russia and Canadian mining company Uranium One, which had “control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States,” according to a 2016 report by The New York…