Everything is Political, So...

Does anyone think that the Republican blame game being directed toward President Biden is an attempt to cover for potential problems down the road that may uncover a link between Trump's disclosure of classified information, at all levels and in all places, including documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, and the Hamas attack on Israel, being able to penetrate border defenses and security that is among the best in the world?  

Let's be honest and up front.  It's pretty clear that the Biden Administration is not to blame.  No evidence exists to support those claims, which read like a laundry list of invented nonsense.  It's such a habitual way for Republicans to respond that it's a ho-hum yawn of boredom in response.  From my perspective, that indicates something might be wrong within their own ranks, some mistake somewhere may have led to this happening, for which they bear responsibility.  Their attempt to get ahead of it all, duly noted and responded to by the Biden Administration, could very well be an attempt to cover up either their own, or their admired potential nominee's blunder.  More than likely, it's the latter. 

If a Democrat were in the same position, there's no doubt that Republicans would be openly connecting the mishandled classified documents to the information leak leading to the attack on Israel.  The presence of Russian officials in the White House during the prior presidential term, his son-in-law's receipt of large amounts of money from the Saudis, and his own friendliness toward them, on his property, where classified documents were not properly stored, and his propensity to share classified information freely, because he could, would all be major news headlines now, on going, cycle after cycle, droning on until the words were meaningless.  

But nothing like that is happening now.  Of course, there's a lot of speculation but no real connection has been established yet, and Democrats, who tend to show a lot of integrity, aren't jumping on the blame bandwagon.  Maybe that's to their own detriment, and maybe not, though at this point, with all that Trump has done, I doubt there are very many people who haven't at least thought about this.  If a connection is made, I hope it gets its due media coverage, all day, every day, in every way.  

For the kind of attack that took place this past weekend, Hamas would need to have help from somewhere on the inside.  That's not just a breach of security after probing for weak spots, that just doesn't happen in Israel.  They had to have inside information, and help.  The fact that it happened under Netanyahu's leadership, not under the "liberal" government, is a statement in and of itself, about the whole issue.  Conservatives are rarely truthful and forthcoming, so it is not likely the source of the breach, wherever it was, will ever be known. 

I just hope Democrats aren't shy about exploring all of the possibilities and continue to emphasize the possibilities, under the circumstances of indictments of the former President in a classified documents scandal.  Don't take blame that isn't yours.  

One of the strategies of the defense in court is to open up the possibility that someone else could have committed the crime, whether there's actual evidence that they did or not.  This helps convince juries of reasonable doubt and it is not considered dishonest or deceptive.  Nor should it be in this case.  If all possibilities, including heaping blame on Democrats, are out there for consideration, then all possibilities are open for discussion.