Dope1: I think for many this looks like you ticketed the getaway driver after a bank robbery. You know, many people view the influence peddling allegation as being a very serious form of corruption with potential crime...

Turley's a smart guy but that enormously stupid... or maybe cleverly written to fool the enormously stupid.

That sentence fragment -- many people view the influence peddling allegation as being a very serious form of corruption with potential crime -- is case in point. Who cares that "many people view" something as "a very serious form of corruption"?

If it ain't a crime, it ain't a crime.

Certainly many people view a former White House advisor and relative to the president getting $2 billion from Saudi Arabia as influence peddling and a very serious form of corruption but unless there's evidence to substantiate that view, it ain't a crime.

And a "potential" crime? Even Turley knows he blowing smoke up people's behinds. They investigated for five years and there was no there there. Too bad, so sad.