{"id":12173,"date":"2015-12-31T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2015-12-31T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T14:58:20","slug":"benghazi-boss-reveals-his-political-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12173","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi boss reveals his political preference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Trey_Gowdy-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11336\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Trey_Gowdy-1-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Trey_Gowdy-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Trey_Gowdy-1-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Trey_Gowdy-1.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trey Gowdy has endorsed Marco Rubio for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Not a big deal, you say?<\/p>\n<p>It might be. Here&#8217;s why &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gowdy is chairman of the House Select Benghazi Committee. He keeps saying he isn&#8217;t driven by political motives, seeking to harm former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s quest to become the next president. Clinton, of course, ran the State Department when the terrorists stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>But wait. Rubio is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Gowdy&#8217;s also a Republican. Clinton is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/12\/gowdy-217238\">Is Gowdy motivated by politics?<\/a>\u00a0Democrats are asking that question in the wake of Gowdy&#8217;s endorsement of his buddy Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s fair to ask why Gowdy chose to endorse a Republican candidate so early in the nominating process.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also fair to wonder whether the chairman has developed a political tin ear to how this kind of endorsement might look to those who have been wondering all along whether the Benghazi hearings were tainted by more than just a touch with politics.<\/p>\n<p>All those congressional hearings and the many hours of testimony have failed to prove a coverup by Clinton, as has been alleged by Republicans &#8230; including, by the way, Sen. Marco Rubio, Chairman Gowdy&#8217;s preferred choice for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Politics? Nahhh &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trey Gowdy has endorsed Marco Rubio for president of the United States. Not a big deal, you say? It might be. Here&#8217;s why &#8230; Gowdy is chairman of the House Select Benghazi Committee. He keeps saying he isn&#8217;t driven by political motives, seeking to harm former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s quest to become the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benghazi boss reveals his political preference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[589,1941,2139,2892,4905],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-benghazi","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-marco-rubio","tag-trey-gowdy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12174,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions\/12174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}