{"id":1806605,"date":"2023-01-15T19:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806605"},"modified":"2023-01-15T20:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T01:46:56","slug":"jonathan-turley-torches-karine-jean-pierre-for-being-transparently-unwilling-to-answer-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jonathan-turley-torches-karine-jean-pierre-for-being-transparently-unwilling-to-answer-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Turley Torches Karine Jean-Pierre For Being \u2018Transparently Unwilling To Answer Questions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjonathan-turley-torches-karine-jean-pierre-for-being-transparently-unwilling-to-answer-questions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806605&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>George Washington University law professor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/raging-impeachment-addiction-jonathan-turley-flames-the-left-over-calls-to-impeach-justice-clarence-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Turley<\/a> ripped into White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, claiming that the only thing President Joe Biden\u2019s administration was actually \u201ctransparent\u201d Their abject unwillingness was the reason. \u201cto answer questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turley laid out his thoughts in a brief thread on Twitter after Friday\u2019s briefing, saying that the White House was refusing to answer questions even when they didn\u2019t have to, claiming they were doing so in order to protect the investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/the-biden-classified-documents-just-keep-coming-and-john-kennedy-has-just-four-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Documents classified<\/a> found in Biden\u2019s possession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is increasingly painful to watch Karine Jean-Pierre as she argues that they have been \u2018transparent\u2019 by being transparently unwilling to answer any questions,\u201d Turley began.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2026Nothing prevents the White House from answering basic questions about the scandal. It won&#8217;t undermine the Justice Department for President Trump to confirm his position and recollections. The silence protects the President not the investigation\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1613966950140465153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;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&#39;s position and recollection. The silence protects the President not the investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1613966950140465153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing 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\u2019s position and recollection,\u201d Turley said that stonewalling was not meant to compromise the integrity of the investigation but to protect Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Turley also pointed out that the White House had already defended the case, claiming that Biden had deleted the classified documents. \u201cinadvertently,\u201d and argued that there was no reason Jean-Pierre could not confirm that sentiment \u2014 or elaborate on how that could have happened \u2014 in press briefings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2026I can understand the desire of a criminal defense attorney for Biden to remain silent. Refusing to answer basic questions does not protect the victim. &#8220;independence of the Justice Department&#8221; or the investigation. It was to protect the President as an individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1613968326257934354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;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 &quot;independence of the Justice Department&quot; or the investigation. It meant to protect the President as an individual.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1613968326257934354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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 \u2018independence of the Justice Department\u2019 or the investigation. It meant to protect the President as an individual,\u201d Turley concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Turley <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/jonathan-turley-says-corvette-excuse-wont-cut-it-bidens-claim-he-didnt-know-about-docs-could-come-back-to-bite-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questions raised<\/a> earlier in the week about the classified documents and the president\u2019s apparent defense, saying that some of the facts thus far did not line up with the accidental removal of the documents \u2014 which were found in multiple locations, from the Penn-Biden Center \u00a0in Washington, D.C., to his Wilmington, Delaware, home and garage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018inadvertent\u2019 defense has its dangers. If Biden worked off any of these documents for his book (which dealt with some of the underlying subjects), the inadvertent defense is not only shattered but could be viewed as an effort to deceive the public,\u201d Turley added that documents made it to multiple places suggested that some of them might have been moved more often than once.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley ripped into White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, claiming that the only thing President Joe Biden\u2019s administration was actually \u201ctransparent\u201d about was their abject unwillingness \u201cto answer questions.\u201d Turley laid out his thoughts in a brief thread on Twitter after Friday\u2019s briefing, saying that the White House was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1890788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Jonathan Turley Torches Karine Jean-Pierre For Being \u2018Transparently Unwilling To Answer Questions\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[14105,5973,6202,7324,7546,13255,4245,6865,7547,14998,6195],"class_list":["post-1806605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-transparently","tag-answer","tag-daily","tag-jean-pierre","tag-jonathan","tag-karine","tag-questions","tag-torches","tag-turley","tag-unwilling","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Jonathan Turley Torches Karine Jean-Pierre For Being \u2018Transparently Unwilling To Answer Questions\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}