I'll admit that I'm not working from a prior base of knowledge and experience when it comes to commenting about classified documents, I'm just thinking from the perspective of what I see is common sense. Any legal expert who knows more is free to correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise, maybe this isn't as difficult or complicated as we hear that it is from our news media every day, over and over.
Last time I checked, Joe Biden was still the President of the United States. It seems to me, that being the case, that he would have ultimate control and authority over any currently classified documents that belonged to the United States government. That's certainly what his predecessor thought, including that the authority extended beyond his term in office to becoming a private citizen. That fact alone, regardless of the circumstances of how the documents got to where they are, makes this situation quite different from that of his predecessor.
What most of the Trumpie apologists don't want to use in comparison is the biggest difference between the two cases. The National Archives had been requesting, for months, the return of classified documents on a specific list which they knew were in Trump's possession. Trump refused, forcing the issuing of a warrant for search and seizure. That's quite different from the self-discovery of the Biden Administration and the immediate, voluntary return of everything they found, even though none of the documents has appeared on any requested list from the National Archives.
It almost appears intentional, on Biden's part, that documents found in his office led to a search of his private residence as well. After all of the caterwauling done by Trumpie apologists and by Trump himself over "searching the private residence of a former President," here we have a search of the private residence of a sitting President. This nullifies that complaint for sure.
The reaction of the sitting President to this discovery, to the searches and to the appointment of a special counsel, has, at least as far as I am concerned, put this in perspective. My guess is that the documents found in Biden's possession are not currently classified, or have been de-classified long ago. He wouldn't have had them otherwise. Maybe they were overlooked, but maybe those who were going through the files had an inventory list similar to what the FBI had when it came to Trump's hundreds of classified documents and they picked up everything Biden had that was on that list. And I will believe his explanation and whatever he has to say about it, because, yes, he is that trustworthy.
That's just my speculation of course. But it involves comparing the relative integrity of Joe Biden to Donald Trump, and that's no contest at all. Really, this is why all the drama in the media, the sort of "na-na-na-na-boo-boo, Biden did it too" narrative they are pushing is incredibly laughable nonsense. No matter how excellent our FBI agents may be, there's not a single one of them who could ever find Donald Trump's credibility.
It doesn't take a college degree, or even a high school diploma, to take a close look and compare these two situations to see the difference. Trump deliberately took hundreds of classified documents, many of them top secret, from the White House when he left. Have you been paying attention to this guy for all of his life, and especially the past four years? His plans for those documents involved something to enrich and benefit himself at the expense of the American people. How do I know that? Is there anything else he's ever done that didn't have those kind of motivations? This is a man who has been willing to throw his own children and family members under the bus for his own profit. It's a pattern and it takes willful ignorance to avoid coming to that conclusion. Ask anyone in his family whom he has thrown under the bus, there are plenty of them around.
Let's put the focus and pressure where it needs to go, on Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice, to stop wasting their time chasing these windmills and get on with the indictment, arrest, prosecution and imprisonment of the orange headed Criminal-in-Chief. The man incited an insurrection against the United States of America, its government and its people. It's an embarrassment to all of us as a nation, and particularly to the DOJ, for this criminal to flaunt the Constitution and the law, and conduct a re-election campaign for President when he should be in jail now. So get it done, NOW.
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