Posted on 01/12/2023 4:40:24 PM PST by KingofZion
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz predicts neither former President Donald Trump nor President Joe Biden will be criminally prosecuted for having classified documents at personal locations.
"I think in the end these allegations cancel each other out. I don't think anybody's going to be prosecuted and I don't think anybody should be prosecuted," Dershowitz said Thursday during an appearance on Newsmax TV's "Spicer & Co."
"Nobody took things home in order to sell them to the Chinese, probably it was mostly inadvertent, laziness, carelessness, maybe in some instances a desire to have material that they could look to help them write their memoirs."
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of classified documents stored at Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office based in Washington, D.C.
Some of the documents were "top secret," the highest level.
Classified records are supposed to be stored in secure locations. Under the Presidential Records Act, White House records are supposed to go to the National Archives when an administration ends. ***
Dershowitz told Newsmax that changes need to be made to "reduce the amount of classification and make it clearer what presidents can and can't do.
"But one thing I guarantee you, I very rarely guarantee predictions, but this one is a 100% certain prediction – unless new evidence emerges neither of these people will be criminally prosecuted. You'll get reports from the special prosecutors, they'll criticize them, perhaps, but there won't be prosecutions."
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But seriously the Trump document case was dead in the water as soon as the Biden docs were discovered.
Not exactly a great revelation, is it?
We need to keep the eye on the ball and get on with the probe into the federal government’s censorship of the internet the federal government’s censorship of our speech.
Don’t be distracted.
No doubt. Garland will NOT prosecute Biden. As VP Biden had no business with those documents.
They’ll clear Brandon quite quickly. Their “cases” against Trump will linger on and on.
Offsetting penalties… offensive holding and defensive interference. Repeat down.
Trump’s issue was completely media driven. He did nothing wrong. In fact, I suspect the democrats made up that big pile of crap just to protect biden. Now they will say they both did it and everyone does it.
Big difference is Trump was President and had declassification authority. FBI approved his storage area.
Bide was VP...zero declassification authority. And he stored them unlocked in his garage piled in with other junk.
“Nobody took things home in order to sell them to the Chinese”
He forgetting Hunter.
Exactly. Basically focus on the corruption int he DoJ, which has those side effects.
Biden's already on life support, figuratively if not literally.
One hypothesis is that the stink that you are smelling is the deep state wrapping up these documents into never ending investigations that is meant to keep them from the GOP House investigations committees. Corruption coverup 2.0.
Hat tip to Greg Jarrett, who was heard opining to knucklehead Sean Hannity earlier today on his radio show about this coverup theory.
Hur is a scum traitor- in on the whole coup against President Trump, working clear back in 2017 under Rosenstein, obstructing Devin Nunes and other House investigators.
Now you know, why- right now... Biden is not sweating bullets and can say something so utterly stupid like the documents were secure because they were behind his locked garage door. This is the same cool Joe, unfrazzled, just like he was unfrazzled when hiding in his basement during the election, not having to campaign because he knew the deep state would be stealing the election and everything was good to go.
Call them what they are: government gangsters. Hat tip to Kash Patel.
Gangster # 1- Merrick Garland (scum traitor to the United States, the Constitution, the American people, the few honorable bureau agents & to his oath)
Gangster # 2- Chris Wray (scum traitor to the United States, the Constitution, the American people, the few honorable bureau agents & to his oath)
lol
well.. the left still has the Georgia phone call with Trump and a dozen of his lawyers have a “perfect conservation”
ROFL
Dersh has been saying Trump wouldn’t get prosecuted for a long time, nothing new. Now he adds Biden.
The burden is on the prosecution to PROVE the documents were declassified. The simple act of moving the records proves intent on classification. For Biden, you have to PROVE that Obama didn’t declassify. It’s an impossible burden for prosecution.
The don’t want to admit that what Biden did as VP is a crime. What Trump did as president was not a crime.
The classified docs issues are not nothing, however, and I would be surprised if either was on the 24 POTUS ballot.
Im not a legal expert but I could have guessed the same exact thing.
Not blind pigs.
Lawyers.
You can find a lawyer to take any side of any question, which is as it should because everyone should be able to have a lawyer that will represent them in their quest for fair treatment under the law.
And Mr.D is wrong because the authority to possess documents, in fact even to see some documents is very different for a vice president than for the president.
As most of you know, Biden is a severely demented old man.
He is not capable of reliably aiding in his criminal defense and is not fit to stand trial.
Hillary set the precedent.
Mr. T might have a document marked SECRET, but the original might have been declassified by its originating agency.
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