Sen. Chuck Grassley just put the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One back under the microscope.

And this time, the paper trail is the story.

The new release centers on an FBI Washington Field Office electronic communication from January 2016 that opened a preliminary investigation into the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, along with a fresh Grassley letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel.

MJTruthUltra flagged the development on X, calling attention to the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, and Grassley’s renewed demand for answers:

The same post was also amplified on MJTruth‘s Telegram channel, where the angle was blunt: Uranium One is back in the news, and Grassley is forcing the old Clinton Foundation threads back into public view.

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The heart of the story is not just that an old controversy has resurfaced.

It is that Grassley’s latest document release says the FBI had a formal Clinton Foundation preliminary investigation open in 2016, and that the underlying records included multiple alleged foreign-influence concerns tied to speaking fees, donations, and State Department activity.

Grassley’s document lays out the timeline this way:

Grassley’s April 27 letter says he has raised Clinton-related concerns for more than a decade, including Hillary Clinton’s private email system, possible public-corruption issues, Clinton Foundation finances, and the overlap between State Department activity and Clinton-linked private interests. The new release says Grassley asked DOJ and FBI in July 2025 for records tied to the FBI’s Clinton Foundation investigation, and that the agencies produced records based on whistleblower disclosures.

According to Grassley’s summary, the FBI opened a preliminary investigation in January 2016 into whether the Clinton Foundation may have been used by foreign entities to influence matters pending before the State Department. The letter says the FBI electronic communication included numerous allegations tied to foreign influence, speaking fees, and donations to the Clinton Foundation, including allegations involving Uranium One, Polo Resources, Colombian timber interests, Haiti, Boeing, and other Clinton Foundation-related matters.

That is a serious allegation set, and Grassley is now asking what became of it.

Uranium One is the part of the story that many readers will remember.

The controversy goes back to the sale of a company with U.S. uranium assets to interests connected to Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy sector, a transaction that went through the CFIUS process while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.

Grassley’s document ties Uranium One back into the Clinton Foundation file this way:

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Grassley’s letter says the FBI material alleged Hillary Clinton was subject to a memorandum of understanding addressing foreign-influence concerns, but that Clinton allegedly failed to disclose several foreign donations connected to Ian Telfer, who was tied to Uranium One. The letter also says Grassley had raised questions years earlier about whether CFIUS was informed of criminal investigations involving Rosatom-linked entities when the Uranium One transaction was reviewed.

The document says Grassley’s office was provided an FBI PowerPoint on the Uranium One investigation, including background information and a timeline. Grassley says that packet described alleged pay-to-play schemes involving the Clinton Foundation and several countries or business interests. He also says the records showed the FBI had interview activity in late 2017 and early 2018, but that other investigative work remained unresolved years later.

Grassley is now asking DOJ and FBI for suspicious-activity reports, FBI interview reports, intelligence summaries, interview transcripts, and the outcome of the Uranium One investigation and the additional pay-to-play allegations raised in the released exhibit.

In other words, this is not just a historical fight over what happened in 2010 or 2016.

Grassley is asking the current Trump-era DOJ and FBI to produce the records and explain what happened to the investigative trail.

The Federalist framed the release as a window into the two-tier justice system:

The Federalist reported that Grassley released the Washington Field Office’s 12-page opening communication for the Clinton Foundation preliminary investigation, and argued that the document cuts against the idea that the Clinton Foundation inquiry was thinly predicated. The outlet highlighted the contrast between the FBI’s handling of Clinton Foundation material and the aggressive posture taken against Trump and Trump associates through Crossfire Hurricane.

According to The Federalist’s report, the newly public material included alleged foreign-influence concerns involving donations and speaking fees tied to the Clinton Foundation. The report pointed to Uranium One donations, a Polo Resources-related allegation involving Bangladesh, a Colombian timber matter involving Frank Giustra, a Haiti gold-permit allegation involving Tony Rodham, and a Boeing-related allegation after Hillary Clinton’s Russia trip. The outlet’s bottom line was that the Clinton Foundation file appeared to contain extensive material, yet DOJ and FBI leadership allegedly showed resistance, delay, or hostility toward parts of the investigation.

The report also emphasized that Grassley is not merely relitigating an old political dispute. He is asking whether today’s DOJ and FBI will follow the evidentiary trail and account for possible obstruction or political decision-making inside the old bureaucracy.

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That is the part that should make this story uncomfortable for the old guard.

If the FBI had opened a preliminary investigation into the Clinton Foundation before the 2016 election, and if the file contained multiple alleged foreign-influence threads, the obvious question is simple.

Who stopped it, slowed it, or buried it?

Grassley’s previous document release from December adds another layer.

In that earlier release, Grassley described whistleblower-backed records suggesting that Clinton Foundation investigators ran into resistance from DOJ Public Integrity and FBI leadership.

Grassley’s December letter gave this broader background:

Grassley’s December letter said his office had obtained records suggesting FBI Headquarters leadership, including then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, obstructed investigative activity in the Clinton Foundation matter. The letter pointed to internal communications saying agents were restricted from subpoenas, interviews, and sharing foundation bank-account information close to the 2016 election because of the sensitivities around the Clintons and the foundation.

The same letter said the FBI’s New York office sought access to the Anthony Weiner laptop or a briefing for the Clinton Foundation team, but the foundation investigators allegedly had to depend on the Midyear team for information. Grassley also said the Eastern District of Arkansas later reopened the Clinton Foundation investigation under the Trump administration, sought access to Weiner laptop materials, and raised concerns about whether prosecutors had enough support from Main Justice and the Public Integrity Section.

That background matters because the new April 27 release is not floating in isolation. It lands on top of Grassley’s earlier claim that agents and prosecutors had investigative avenues, unanswered requests, and concerns that the original Clinton Foundation inquiry had been choked off or mishandled by leadership.

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So the story now has two tracks.

First, what did the FBI actually have in the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One file?

Second, who inside DOJ or FBI decided what would, and would not, be pursued?

Grassley is asking for answers by May 11, 2026.

And with Kash Patel now leading the FBI, that deadline lands in a very different Washington than the one that handled the Clinton Foundation file in 2016.

For years, Democrats and their media allies insisted Trump was the real Russia scandal.

But Grassley just dragged the Clinton Foundation, foreign donations, Uranium One, and the FBI’s own paperwork right back into the center of the conversation.

Now the question is whether the Trump DOJ and FBI will finally show the public what was done, what was ignored, and who made those calls.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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