That headline is misleading as fuck…
Whatever the case (whether he forgot or was negligent), he played ball when it came time to return and make sure he didn’t have any of that shit left hanging around his place.
Trump was actively obstructive like the moron he is. There is no equivalency
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When the bar is at a reasonable height, sure.
But when the other guy did worse with more documents AND didn’t cooperate, and HE didn’t get charged until after he was caught obstructing the investigation, well then the bar’s in hell.
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And it’s based more on timing than anything. Like I said, the feds didn’t move to indict trump until after he obstructed an investigation, after he was subpoena’d, after months of non-cooperation with the national archives.
But all of this happened BEFORE Biden’s documents were discovered. So it sets a precedent.
It’s a really shitty precedent, sure. And it’s obvious that these are rules for thee and not for me (a normal federal employee who did as much as trump or even just biden might be in prison by now). But if Trump is gonna be allowed so much leniency for going so far, then Biden should be given at least as much leniency for doing way less.
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But it sure helps support the reasonable doubt that a prosecutor is trying to prove beyond.
Of course not, you can’t prosecute a sitting President, remember? ;)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
About a month after he left office as vice president, in a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, Biden remarked that he “just found all this classified stuff downstairs," the report said.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” it said.
“We do not believe that the report’s treatment of President Biden’s memory is accurate or appropriate,” Sauber and Bauer wrote in the letter, which was also released on Thursday.
“The report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events.”
Most notably, they wrote, “after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite.”
On the other hand, they wrote, “Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in other ways cooperated with the investigation.”
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“Special counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents, but said Biden’s practices “present serious risks to national security,” and added that Biden portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who would be sympathetic to a jury.”
What the…
Sounds like he’s pretending in order to avoid a charge. He’s as sneaky and crafty as the GOP portrays him (half the time). Wouldn’t we want someone as sharp as that in the Whitehouse?
