Fox Hosts, Trump Rip Admin Over New Benghazi Testimony: Dems ‘Did Their Job’ Burying Story Before Election
Fox & Friends discussed the recent developments surrounding Benghazi on Monday, as witnesses are set to testify later this week. Criticizing the Obama administration’s poor handling of the situation, the hosts invited Donald Trump to weigh in on the matter. Trump took aim at Democrats, pointing out that they successfully downplayed the story in order to ensure it didn’t affect President Obama‘s reelection.
At least three whistleblowers appear to be set to testify on Benghazi on Wednesday, including Gregory Hicks — who told investigators that they knew incident was a terrorist attack from “the get-go.” The Fox report further pointed to a witness who will testify that “that Clinton and an aide tried, in essence, to keep the department’s own counterterrorism unit out of the loop in the aftermath of the attack.”
Steve Doocy noted how “damning” the testimony could be for Clinton, prompting Trump to comment on how the story is a bigger deal now than it was before the election.
“They did their job, in one sense, that’s getting somebody elected because they didn’t want to make this a big deal,” he argued. “What they have done very successfully is they’ve delayed this until after the election. So the election goes through. The president is elected. This would have been very, very embarrassing after all the help we gave, and then they kill our people. This would have been very embarrassing before the election.”
The Democrats then, he added, did their job. Following up, Brian Kilmeade shifted gears a bit, questioning how the CIA “acquiesced” and whether any other reports have been “sanitized for political gain.” More than individuals, the storyline was the “party line,” Trump argued — and the issue didn’t resonate with voters either. To that point, Trump and Gretchen Carlson revisited Mitt Romney‘s handling of the issue during the election cycle, asserting that he should have made a bigger deal out of it and gone down swinging.
Later in the segment, firing expert Trump evaded answering when asked whom he would fire among Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Obama. Speaking of Clinton though, Doocy posited that the ordeal could potentially create trouble for her potential presidential run.
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