Dan Bongino Falsely Claims Roger Stone Indictment Proves No Collusion: ‘Time to Move On’

Fox & Friends covered Friday’s indictment of Roger Stone on Monday morning and brought on frequent guest Dan Bongino to provide the same exact commentary he provides on Fox & Friends every single time that he comes on. In short: liberal media bad, there was no collusion, the president is very good.

The hit today was unique, however, in that Bongino reached the conclusion that it is time for Robert Mueller to end his investigation because, after having pored over the Stone indictment three whole times, Bongino discovered that it exonerates the Trump campaign for conspiring to collude with Russian officials who interfered with the 2016 general election.

“The problem is we were all told that Mueller was investigating grand conspiracy with the Russians of which is not in dispute anymore,” Bongino said. “To this day zero evidence any of that happened and the Stone indictment, at this point, proves it.”

Wait, what?

To begin with, Bongino seems to confuse the definitions of “evidence” and “proof,” which is remarkable given his past as a former federal agent. In simple terms, “evidence” is used to form a theory, hypothesis or start an investigation. It is the suggestion that something may have occurred. “Proof” shows the theory to be a fact.

To claim that there is “zero evidence” is, at best, an enormous leap of logic. To say that the Stone indictment “proves it” is just a false claim.

What evidence exists that merits an investigation?

Well, how about that Trump Tower meeting between senior Trump campaign officials and Russian agents offering dirt on Hillary Clinton?

Or the fact that, as campaign manager, Paul Manafort shared internal polling data with Russian oligarchs tied to the Kremlin?

Or that President Trump has lifted sanctions on Russian oligarchs, the RNC changed their platform on Ukraine policies to a very pro-Putin position, the two-hour private meeting with Putin in Helsinki, of which Trump reportedly has tried to hide transcripts, the numerous Trump campaign officials that have lied about past interactions with Russians to federal authorities or the fact that then-candidate Trump repeatedly claimed there were on business dealings with Russia while he was negotiating a Trump Tower Moscow at the same time? These are just a few reports, there are literally dozens more.

Item 12 in the actual Stone indictment reads:

After the July 22, 2016 release of stolen DNC emails by Organization 1, a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information Organization 1 had regarding the Clinton Campaign. STONE thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by Organization 1.

Organization 1 is widely accepted to be WikiLeaks, a suspected proxy for Russian intelligence efforts to influence the election.

Even Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani proclaimed that he “never said there was no collusion,” clarifying (falsely) that he had always said there was no collusion between Trump and Russia.

So yeah, there is plenty of “evidence” to suggest something nefarious was afoot, but there is yet no proof or at least none that has been made public. If anything it certainly doesn’t PROVE there was no collusion as Bongino so plainly states.

It would be like looking at dark and stormy clouds gathering and determining that, because there is no precipitation, concluding that it will not rain. It may very well not rain, but it’s not reasonable to declare that yet.

And there is evidence that the storm is still gathering.

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