{"id":42267,"date":"2019-07-23T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42267"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T17:43:52","slug":"so-what-fox-news-trump-fluffer-read-the-mueller-report-and-surprise-found-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42267","title":{"rendered":"SO WHAT? Fox News Trump-Fluffer Read the Mueller Report and (Surprise) Found Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42260\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">desperation of Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong> seems to be escalating with each new day and frantic tweet. This may be exacerbated by the upcoming congressional hearings featuring testimony by special counsel Robert Mueller. That has clearly been dominating what precious little comprehension capability Trump has. It has overtaken his obsession with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and <em>&#8220;The Squad,&#8221;<\/em> which he has only been exploiting as a method of distraction anyway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-foxnews-strange.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Fox News, Strange\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41568\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2860212313993545\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday Trump demonstrated just how frightened he is of the Mueller hearings. He tweeted a quote from Fox Business anchor Trish Regan that, for some bizarre reason, he thinks should settle the debate on whether Mueller found any evidence of collusion and\/or obstruction of justice:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI completely read the entire Mueller Report, and do you know what I concluded after reading both Volume 1 and Volume 2? There is no there there. NO THERE THERE! We completely wasted everybody\u2019s time and taxpayer\u2019s money.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trish_regan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@trish_regan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1153494667574632449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This may be one of the most supremely useless tweets Trump has ever posted. It is substantively vacant, providing no information whatsoever to support its premise. And it&#8217;s exactly the sort of biased propaganda that makes Fox News such a disreputable source for anything other than Trump happy talk.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/trump\/trump-quotes-fox-biz-anchor-downplaying-mueller-report-theres-no-there-there\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the segment<\/a><\/strong>, Regan summed up her perspective on the entire Mueller investigations saying that it was a <em>&#8220;lousy thing to do to the American people and the President of the United States.&#8221;<\/em> And her guests were equally as servile to Trump&#8217;s ego. Jenna Ellis Rives, a Trump 2020 campaign advisory board member, said that the 95 Democrats who voted to impeach Trump should all be impeached themselves. For casting votes? Pete Hegseth, of Fox and Friends, said that Democrats are hoping that Mueller will <em>&#8220;slip up&#8221;<\/em> during his congressional testimony. How? By letting the truth about Trump&#8217;s crimes slip out?<\/p>\n<p>It requires a massive amount of self-delusion to conclude that there is nothing in Mueller&#8217;s report that incriminates Trump. There&#8217;s plenty. Including evidence of conspiracies by Trump and his associates with unsavory Russian characters. And Mueller enumerated at least ten instances of obstruction of justice. But most damning for Regan &#8211; and by extension, Trump &#8211; is that even some at Fox News have seen the light. You have to wonder why Trump didn&#8217;t post quote-tweets about these comments:<\/p>\n<p>Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor on Fox News, offered his analysis after Mueller\u2019s public statement. Baier blasted Barr\u2019s misrepresentation of the Mueller report saying that it was more nuanced than Barr\u2019s portrayal and <em>\u201cIn fact, it was almost exactly the opposite.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor on Fox News, offered his analysis on after Mueller\u2019s statement. Baier blasted Barr\u2019s misrepresentation of the Mueller report saying that it was more nuanced than Barr\u2019s portrayal and \u201cIn fact, it was almost exactly the opposite.\u201d <strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41634\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">He elaborated saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I was struck by the tone and tenor of those remarks as he laid out his case wrapping up this report. This was not, as the president says time and time again, &#8216;no collusion, no obstruction.&#8217; It was much more nuanced than that. [\u2026] He said specifically that if they had found that the President did not commit a crime on obstruction, they would have said that.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News Senior Legal Analyst, Andrew Napolitano, has made a number of observations that provide legal confirmation of Trump&#8217;s guilt. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41726\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">For instance<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cMueller laid out at least a half-dozen crimes of obstruction committed by Trump [&#8230;] The president\u2019s job is to enforce federal law. If he had ordered its violation to save innocent life or preserve human freedom, he would have a moral defense. But ordering obstruction to save himself from the consequences of his own behavior is unlawful, defenseless and condemnable.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41726\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">there was this<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWhile there was some evidence of collaboration between Russian agents and the Trump campaign \u2013 like 127 telephone communications between them \u2013 there was not enough evidence to establish the crime of conspiracy.\u201d [&#8230;]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf the subject of a criminal investigation tells the people that work for him to lie to the FBI and falsify evidence so that the FBI will not find out whatever the subject does not want them to know \u2013 as Mueller said Trump did between ten and eleven times \u2013 that is obstruction of justice and it is for a corrupt purpose.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of the Fox News breaking news division, Shepard Smith, also weighed in with remarks that undermined Trump&#8217;s attacks on the Mueller probe. Specifically, Smith pointed out that the dossier by Christopher Steele was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38687\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not the tainted documented<\/a><\/strong> that Sean Hannity and others have tried to paint it as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;While the U.S. intelligence community has not confirmed parts of the dossier, there are elements of it that are confirmed true. No part of it, to Fox News\u2019 knowledge, has been confirmed false.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given those comments by the most senior people at Fox News, Regan&#8217;s mushy remarks seem even more absurd and obsequious. And Trump&#8217;s promotion of them is simply more proof of the narcissistic fetish that defines his warped personality. It&#8217;s a certainty that we will be seeing more of this from Fox StormTrumpers like Sean Hannity as Trump&#8217;s fortunes continue to decline. In fact, be prepared for it to get even worse as Trump&#8217;s mental state deteriorates.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The desperation of Donald Trump seems to be escalating with each new day and frantic tweet. This may be exacerbated by the upcoming congressional hearings featuring testimony by special counsel Robert Mueller. That has clearly been dominating what precious little comprehension capability Trump has. It has overtaken his obsession with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and &#8220;The Squad,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[735,479,554,33,1247,320],"class_list":["post-42267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-bret-baier","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-robert-mueller","tag-shepard-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aZJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37553,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37553","url_meta":{"origin":42267,"position":0},"title":"Trolling Trump? &#8216;Rule of Law&#8217; Republicans Run Ad Defending Mueller During Fox And Friends","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/11\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican Party has demonstrated that they have little to no courage when it comes to mitigating the harm that Donald Trump causes to their party, the nation, and the world. 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