{"id":11805,"date":"2019-05-02T16:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11805"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:21:03","slug":"clinton-projection-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/clinton-projection-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Projection Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s massive report. She concluded of the report\u2019s assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump\u2019s words and actions that \u201cany other person engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychologists might call her claims \u201cprojection.\u201d That is the well-known psychological malady of attributing bad behavior to others as a means of exonerating one\u2019s own similar, if not often even worse, sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 22 months of investigation and $34 million spent, the Mueller report concluded that there was no Trump-Russia collusion\u2014the main focus of the investigation\u2014even though that unfounded allegation dominated print and televised media\u2019s speculative headlines for the last two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Mueller\u2019s report addressed various allegations of Trump\u2019s other roguery, the special counsel did not recommend that the president be indicted for obstruction of justice in what Mueller had just concluded was not a crime of collusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/05\/01\/clinton-projection-syndrome\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s massive report. She concluded of the report\u2019s assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump\u2019s words and actions that \u201cany other person engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted.\u201d Psychologists might call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1150,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11809,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fright-of-james-comey\/","url_meta":{"origin":11805,"position":0},"title":"The Fright of James Comey","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In a\u00a0recent op-ed, fired FBI Director James Comey was back again preaching to the nation about the dangers of Donald Trump and his capacity to corrupt any top-ranking federal official of lower character than Comey\u2019s own. 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