Legal Scholar Takes Aim At Media, Durham Report Receiving 'Same Treatment As The Biden Corruption Report' By Corporate Press

Having just listened to a passing reference to the Durham report followed by a long segment on Martha Stewart making the cover of Sport's Illustrated, the report appears destined for the same treatment as the Biden corruption report. https://t.co/Z91QodM4Hz

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 15, 2023

This treatment by the media is denialism and shunning by the corporate press whom Professor Turley accuses of having "all the markings of a state media."

Turley summarized the series of alarming findings by the report in a lengthy tweet thread. "Just in case any reporters simply find the 300 page report daunting, here are a few take aways...There was never a foundation for the launching of the Russian collusion investigation that occupied most of the Trump presidency...Salacious reports like the Moscow hotel tape appear to be entirely invented by the Steele team funded by the Clinton campaign....the Steele dossier was not only funded and pushed by the Clinton campaign, but General Counsel Marc Elias pushed the media campaign (and later refused to cooperate voluntarily with investigators)" wrote the law professor. 

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He continued noting that other findings included that "DOJ and FBI officials violated core departmental standards, including some with a 'predisposition' to investigate Trump...the lack of support and contradictions of these allegations were clear from the outset."

"There is more but even if those five threshold points do not appear newsworthy, there is the fact that the media pushed these false claims for years with the support of politicians like Rep. Adam Schiff who insisted that they had evidence of such Russian collusion," the law professor lamented.

He further observed that "As with past false stories from the Hunter Biden 'Russian Disinformation' claim to the whipping of migrants at the border, there is just a collective shrug as reporters hold up the cover shot of Martha Stewart on Sports Illustrated."

Professor Turley also noted the vague admission by the FBI in his article that the "missteps" which had been identified by Durham's damning report and nebulous reforms have been taken since 2016 that the agency claims would have prevented the issues highlighted by Durham. For Turley, though the FBI's term of this being "missteps" would "hardly be how one would describe a false narrative promulgated by a campaign and perpetuated by the FBI or the derailing of a duly elected president for three years in a faux conspiracy. The statement is ample evidence of a lack of remorse by the FBI like a habitual offender giving a shrug in his court 'allocution' before a judge."