Jonathan Turley Torches Karine Jean-Pierre For Being ‘Transparently Unwilling To Answer Questions’

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley ripped into White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, claiming that the only thing President Joe Biden’s administration was actually “transparent” Their abject unwillingness was the reason. “to answer questions.”

Turley laid out his thoughts in a brief thread on Twitter after Friday’s briefing, saying that the White House was refusing to answer questions even when they didn’t have to, claiming they were doing so in order to protect the investigation into Documents classified found in 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 began.

…Nothing prevents the White House from answering basic questions about the scandal. It won’t undermine the Justice Department for President Trump to confirm his position and recollections. The silence protects the President not the investigation…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 13, 2023

…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

“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,” Turley said that stonewalling was not meant to compromise the integrity of the investigation but to protect Biden.

Turley also pointed out that the White House had already defended the case, claiming that Biden had deleted the classified documents. “inadvertently,” and argued that there was no reason Jean-Pierre could not confirm that sentiment — or elaborate on how that could have happened — in press briefings.

…I can understand the desire of a criminal defense attorney for Biden to remain silent. Refusing to answer basic questions does not protect the victim. “independence of the Justice Department” or the investigation. It was to protect the President as an individual.

— 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

“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.

Turley Questions raised earlier in the week about the classified documents and the president’s apparent defense, saying that some of the facts thus far did not line up with the accidental removal of the documents — which were found in multiple locations, from the Penn-Biden Center  in Washington, D.C., to his Wilmington, Delaware, home and garage.

“The ‘inadvertent’ 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,” Turley added that documents made it to multiple places suggested that some of them might have been moved more often than once.

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