‘New Level Of Denial’: Jonathan Turley Rips Into WaPo’s Last Defense Of ‘Russian Collusion’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Virginia Kruta.

    George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley ripped into The Washington Post over a post-Durham defense of the Trump/Russia collusion narrative, accusing the author of reaching a "new level of denial."

    Turley referenced a new column from WaPo's national correspondent Philip Bump - titled "There's now even less reason to blame Clinton for the Russia probe" - and argued that it was one last attempt to spin away the conclusions laid out in Inspector General John Durham's final report on the FBI's investigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia.

    "With the release to the Durham report, the media went into total spin mode," Turley tweeted. "However, the Washington Post (which won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Russian collusion) set a new level of denial with a column by Philip Bump ..."

    "Bump not only quotes Hillary Clinton on how the allegations against her campaign is possible 'Russian disinformation,' Bump actually makes one last pitch that there might have been Russian collusion after all."

    The Durham report found a number of irregularities in the way that the FBI began the investigation into Trump - named Crossfire Hurricane - and concluded that the entire basis for the inquiry had been based on the Steele dossier, the contents of which the FBI had never independently verified.

And NOW, this Poll from 6 years ago on Beaufort County NOW!

poll#101

In regards to the Russia Election Tampering matter: Is President Trump being treated fairly by core Democrats and the Mainstream Media?

  Yes, the new president is guilty until proven innocent.

  No, President Trump's treatment is dictated by the usual Democrat double standard.

  Don't care; there are more important issues facing America.

117 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

    "The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (i) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (ii) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (iii) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (iv) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence," the report stated.

    Still, Bump's overall conclusion in his Wednesday column was that Russian collusion on the part of Trump and his allies was not only possible, but likely.

    "There's an alternative way to consider the Russia probe: that Russia hoped Trump would win, that Trump was happy to have their help and that federal counterintelligence officials saw that as problematic," he wrote. "This appears to be what actually happened."

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

583 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

583 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?