President Obama beat Mitt Romney in donations from active and former military donors this past election cycle. The new information comes from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit, money in politics watchdog that tracked donations from military members throughout the presidential campaign. Throughout the presidential campaign, Republicans claimed that the President was anti-military. Some, like Rick Santorum, even said that President Obama was “intentionally trying to degrade our military.” Despite the Republican rhetoric, the President raised nearly $950,000 in donations from former and active military members. That’s compared to $753,000 for Mitt Romney. Here’s the OpenSecrets chart on the donations throughout the campaign:

This is hardly a new trend: President Obama received more donations from military members who donated $200 or more than Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008. The President consistently garnered more donations than Romney from those in the military: last September, President Obama had bested Mitt Romney by more than $50,000 and earlier this year he had raised $100,000 more than the former Massachusetts governor. What’s more, Romney even lost the military donations battle to Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) in the GOP presidential nomination fight.

Despite successfully blocking Susan Rice from becoming the next Secretary of State, Congressional Republicans and right-wing commentators continue to develop new conspiracies about the Obama administration’s alleged cover up of the circumstances surround the September 11 attacks in Benghazi.

The conservative reaction to the tragedy in Benghazi has been to lurch from conspiracy theory to conspiracy theory for months in an effort to portray the Obama administration as mishandeling the responseto the attack. Now, while some have crowed their pleasure that Rice has withdrawn her name from consideration to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, several on the right have managed to read much more sinister motives into the timing behind the announcement.

Blending together reports that Clinton might not testify before Congress on Dec. 20 as previously thought, with Rice’s stepping aside, a new narrative has emerged where an even deeper cover-up is now taking place. Leading among those believe this new theory is Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), who on Thursday accused the Obama administration of pushing Rice out to draw attention away from a forthcoming report from the State Department on Benghazi:

CHAFFETZ: The State Department owes us a report. That’s why I think that’s why Susan Rice made the announcement today, because I think we’re on the verge of getting that report. But you’re starting to see the State Department squirm a little bit. They’re starting to say, “Well, we’ll just give you the summary, maybe Secretary Clinton might not come up.” I think the report — if it’s done accurately — is gonna be a very difficult thing for the White House, the State Department, the Department of Defense, and the CIA to explain.

The hosts of Fox & Friends jumped on the comment on Friday morning and ran with it. Host Gretchen Carlson wondered out loud, “Usually they make these announcements on Fridays, why did they do it on a Thursday? Perhaps this report will be coming out today, which will be the Friday release, or sometime soon.”

Watch it:

The State Department’s Accountability Review Board (ARB) will complete its report in the coming days, but it’s yet unknown when it will be released.

Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chief antagonists against Rice’s potential nomination, have vowed to continue their pursuit of the truth in the Benghazi attack.