Law Professor Jonathan Turley Shares Truth Bomb About Karine Jean-Pierre – Watch
Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University. He recently had some criticism for White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the promise from Biden’s administration of transparency.
Turley believes that the only thing Jean-Pierre has been “transparent” about is his “abject unwillingness to answer questions.”
The law professor shared his thoughts in a thread on Twitter after Friday’s White House briefing. He said that the White House was refusing to answer questions even when they didn’t have to refuse. The administration is claiming they are doing so to protect the investigation into classified documents found in President Biden’s possession.
“It is increasingly painful to watch Karine Jean-Pierre as she argues that they have been ‘transparent’ by being transparently unwilling to answer any questions,” Turley wrote.
He went further saying that nothing is preventing the White House from answering basic questions about the scandal. Turley said it wouldn’t undermine the Justice Department if the Biden administration confirmed the President’s position. He maintained that the silence protected the President, not the investigation.
Turley focused on the fact that the White House has already given its defense by saying that Biden removed the classified documents “inadvertently.” He doesn’t understand why Jean-Pierre can’t just confirm that position or even elaborate on how it happened in press briefings.
“I can understand the desire of a criminal defense attorney for Biden to remain silent. However, the refusal to answer basic questions is not to protect the ‘independence of the Justice Department’ or the investigation. It meant to protect the President as an individual,” Turley concluded.
The law professor also had some things to say about Biden’s “inadvertent” defense and the dangers in it. If the president used these classified documents to work on his book which dealt with some of the topics in the documents, his defense is proven to not be true. It could be proven that he attempted to deceive the American public.
…Nothing prevents the White House from answering basic questions about the scandal. It will not undermine the Justice Department for the White House to confirm the President's position and recollection. The silence protects the President not the investigation…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 13, 2023
…I can understand the desire of a criminal defense attorney for Biden to remain silent. However, the refusal to answer basic questions is not to protect the "independence of the Justice Department" or the investigation. It meant to protect the President as an individual.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 13, 2023
