White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions relating to the Special Counsel John Durham report, which confirmed beyond any doubt the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was a total lie propagated by the FBI.
Durham stated the agency had no “actual evidence of collusion” and accused the FBI of violating surveillance laws.
This is not just a national scandal, it’s Watergate x1000, but the left-wing media and the White House are doing everything they can to play it down.
RealClear Politics White House correspondent Philip Wegmann wanted to know what the White House had in response to the new report.
“I’d leave it to the Department of Justice to speak to,” Jean-Pierre responded.
“The president talks often about how he wants the DOJ and FBI to remain independent and above the fray, that report seems to reflect the opposite. Does he agree with Special Counsel Durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the FBI?” he asked.
“Again, that is with the Department of Justice; that’s not something I’m going to speak to from the podium. As you just stated in your question, we believe in [an] independent Department of Justice, that’s what the president said when he was running, and that’s what the president has said the last two years,” Karine Jean-Pierre concluded on the Durham report.
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On Monday, the FBI said it had already implemented reforms.
However, the agency admitted it should have done so sooner to prevent the “missteps” mentioned in the Durham report.
“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented,” the FBI’s statement on the matter reads.
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