{"id":6625,"date":"2019-04-02T18:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:59:31","slug":"the-indictment-score-benghazi-0-mueller-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6625","title":{"rendered":"The Indictment Score: Benghazi 0, Mueller 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from the release of the Mueller report (or should we say, Bill Barr&#8217;s Cliff&#8217;s notes of the Mueller report) continues and more and more questions have arisen. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/03\/29\/707713994\/poll-after-barr-letter-overwhelming-majority-wants-full-mueller-report-released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">majority of Americans want the entire report released<\/a>, not the redacted &#8216;yada, yada, yada&#8217; version offered by Attorney General and Republican obfuscator Bill Barr. The &#8216;journalists&#8217; at Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/no-news-outlets-do-not-owe-right-wing-media-apology-their-coverage-muellers-russia-investigation\/223268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been screaming their heads off about how other &#8216;fake news&#8217; media should be apologizing for their treatment of the president<\/a>. And of course, America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator and petulant man child Donald Trump has been his usual obnoxious self, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/3\/26\/18282593\/trump-mueller-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclaiming that everyone who said that there was collusion, especially the MSM or the &#8216;enemy of the people&#8217;<\/a>, be fired or worse. Furthermore, the fine, right wing propagandists at Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/mueller-probe-over-now-fox-news-wants-retaliatory-investigations\/223249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are clamoring for retaliatory investigations directed at Trump&#8217;s enemies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, conservative Republicans have a very short memory. Did they forget already about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the Benghazi hearings which lasted two years and produced zero indictments; the very definition of a witch hunt<\/a>. And conservative Republicans never apologized once for their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama for that matter. Like we said on our previous post,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/2\/20\/17031772\/mueller-indictments-grand-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the Mueller investigation was hardly a &#8216;witch hunt&#8217; as it produced 37 indictments<\/a>.\u00a0 Because Barr has been so secretive about the report, of course the public is wondering what it really says, especially when even in Barr&#8217;s summary &#8216;fer idjits&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;While\u00a0this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>, Trump clearly wasn&#8217;t exonerated on the charge of obstruction of justice, which was the most likely offense that would have resulted from the investigation anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, in a nutshell: Benghazi, 2 years &#8211; 0 indictments; Mueller investigation, 2 years &#8211; 37 indictments. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Republicans can STFU!!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6629\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6629\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicansbenghazidemocratsmueller.jpg\" alt=\"The indictment scoreboard: Benghazi investigation - 0; Mueller 'witch hunt' investigation - 37.\" width=\"499\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicansbenghazidemocratsmueller.jpg 499w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/republicansbenghazidemocratsmueller-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 85vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The indictment scoreboard: Benghazi investigation &#8211; 0; Mueller &#8216;witch hunt&#8217; investigation &#8211; 37.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fallout from the release of the Mueller report (or should we say, Bill Barr&#8217;s Cliff&#8217;s notes of the Mueller report) continues and more and more questions have arisen. The majority of Americans want the entire report released, not the redacted &#8216;yada, yada, yada&#8217; version offered by Attorney General and Republican obfuscator Bill Barr. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Indictment Score: Benghazi 0, Mueller 37&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,8,68,85,963,3,198],"tags":[1575,1888,947,74,73,252,69,155,22,20,389,27,107,70,4,9,1768,1370,897,199,1786,21,43,668,98,1183,596,235,296,188,19,661,47,48,694,1184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}