Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:08 pm
Rep. Xavier Becerra, who is rumored to be on Hillary Clinton’s VP short list, stormed Fox News and shredded one of the biggest lies about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi.
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Transcript via Fox News Sunday:
BREAM:, of course, all of the e-mail information, the server, the private server, came to light because of the Benghazi investigation. This week we got the report from the Benghazi committee, out of the House.
We did learn some new things we didn’t know before. There is a story about an account about military assets that were waiting in Spain. They were on a plane for three hours there, they were told four times to change in and out of their uniforms because the State Department was worried about the optics of having Americans in uniform on the streets of Libya.
In the meantime, no military assets were ever sent directly to Benghazi while the attack was unfolding. Four Americans died in the process.
Who’s to blame?
BECERRA: Actually, Shannon, that’s not new information. That was disclosed back in 2013. It was —
BREAM: About the uniform changes?
BECERRA: Yes.
BREAM: That’s not something I’ve heard before this week.
BECERRA: That was out there —
BREAM: Four times.
BECERRA: 2013. We knew that information.
The military testified to that and talked about the fact that while there was some sense of disagreement about how to make sure you send out the assets, those assets were going to be sent to Tripoli. Not to Benghazi.
BREAM: Right.
BECERRA: And the military subsequently made clear that even if they had been sent out, they wouldn’t have made it in time, because they were being directed to Tripoli not to Benghazi.
And so, the conclusions of the report that first discovered that particular fact were that there was no way that our military assets could have made it in time. And so, the conclusions can of our military were that there was no way to change what happened on the ground because it happened so quickly, was confusing information and there weren’t enough assets close enough to make a difference.
The Republicans wanted to talk about the Loretta Lynch/Bill Clinton meeting. They also wanted to talk about the Benghazi report that the right is trying to spin into something. Instead, it was another week of the Donald Trump show. First, Trump invited then denied invited convicted rapist Mike Tyson to speak his convention. Reports surfaced that Trump doesn’t understand how political conventions work, and he topped off his week by attacking Jews with a bigoted tweet that came directly from neo-Nazis.
Fox News was trying to right the GOP by pressing Rep. Becerra by lying about the Benghazi report, and the California Democrat was having none of it. The truth is that there was no new information in the Benghazi report which is why it landed with a thud and was quickly forgotten. Rep. Becerra was having none of what Fox was selling.
The Republican ship is taking on water, and not even Fox News can save the GOP from the damage that Trump is doing, but just to be safe, Democrats aren’t giving Fox an inch, because they only thing that can save the Republican Party now is a Fox News endorsed pack of lies.
Rep. Becerra did his part to make the bad Republican week even worse.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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