CNN analyst: Let's face it -- the DoJ probably can't charge Trump now over classified documents (unless they also charge Biden)

Hotair ^ | 01/10/2023 | Ed Morrissey

[rightwingcrazy]

Who would stop them, if they did?

[StAnDeliver]

"DON LEMON: I said that last night, it puts Merrick Garland in a very odd position. Did they know this was coming? This was November? I said, well, you know, look, I’m just asking here. Maybe Merrick Garland didn’t. Everyone’s wondering why he didn’t act, did he know this was coming?"

I can tell you why, because Nanzi told them in no uncertain terms to stick to the script, because she didn't think Trump would win that Special Master fight.

That bought President Trump enough time for this to leak out ... just days after Nanzi was dethroned. NOT A COINKYDINK.

[Fido969]

So, after smearing him for months, they just drop it.

[allendale]

The Department of Justice is now a corrupt partisan political organization. Merrick Garland is a lapdog of the Left and will do whatever the marxist Biden cabal tells him. There is no equal justice under the law.

[rlmorel]

But, but...Trump had the ultra-top-secret nuclear codes sitting on the water tank of his toilet, where anyone could see them and destroy the world!

[StAnDeliver]

"Another CNN legal analyst, former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky, points out more explicitly the difference on obstruction. However, she also notes that the underlying crimes are too similar to ignore for prosecutors, and perhaps for a court as well"

They are not at all similar, Katie Chokeloogey -- Biden's offense is much worse. As 2harddrive pointed out on an earlier thread, "the VP does NOT have the power to declassify, only the POTUS!"

[Pete Dovgan]

DOJ has already proven it’s not about justice.

It can charge Trump and not charge Biden or Obama, because it’s a political based operation like the other three letter acronyms.

Government protects the Government now, because it’s fascist, so expect them to indict Trump and delay, defuse, lie, cover-up about everyone else. PS Biden was Vice president and couldn’t legally declassify anything....

[Sarah Barracuda]

What Biden did was WORSE..at least Trump being president, has the power to declassify anything..a VP does NOT have the authority to do that, so what was Biden doing with these documents..at a university that has received over 50 million dollars from the Chinese Govt, did they see the docs, are there more docs somewhere

[slapshot]

called preempting discovery issues

[struggle]

1. Biden is guiltier because he was only VP and had no declass power.
2. They discovered it in November and kept is secret until now.
3. Probably this is a feint as they knew about this all along and this is their out for actually prosecuting Trump because discovery would be a loss for them.

[TakebackGOP]

They announced this to prevent the incoming House from investigating anything. Nothing will happen with this just like nothing did with Spy Gate and the Durham Report. Classified docs isn’t the only thing they went after Trump on.

[Avalon Memories]

I was talking to people close to his legal team...

Who dat? The janitor, perhaps? Or maybe a clerk?

[jerod]

So... Conveniently enough, they’ve found a reason to not charge Trump... Hmm! I wonder why?

Oh... I just thought of the reason why... Charging Trump would give him a forum to attack his opponents and expose them for the hypocrites that they are.

Trump will never be charged with any crime... Ever! I feel for all those diehard liberals who’ve been screaming for years that he should be charged... Their disappointment is enjoyable entertainment.

[Fresh Wind]

Who would stop them, if they did?

Certainly not a single DemocRAT, and certainly not the vast majority of RINOpublicans. That leaves very few who would even try.

[bk1000]

It was indeed a different situation. Trump had docs that he was legally (as president) entitled to declassify. Biden had (for years) docs he was NOT able to declassify.

[ckilmer]

It doesn’t really matter whether they can make the charges stick.

Its about the charge.

They want to smear Trump with a legal proceeding while he’s running for president.

They expect that Biden may also be impeached.

[Sarah Barracuda]

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BREAKING: Biden kept classified docs related to Ukraine, Iran, UK from 2013-2016: report

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Gee no wonder Biden said NOTHING when innocent Iranians were being slaughtered in the streets of Tehran

[GOPJ]

Here’s what the corrupt bimbos and pretensions ‘men’ of the MSM do - they find ONE or TWO differences then base their excuses for their onw bias on that...

For instance - let’s say the exuse is: “Biden’s classified documents were 8 months older than Trump’s and he returned them in less time”. Then ‘BINGO’ MSM editors decide those meaningless “difference” are all that matters’... Remember, vile members of the press only have to convince their fellow liberal ‘journalists’ one desk over... then they run with the lie.

[Billthedrill]

To charge obstruction without an underlying criminal charge on the document retention itself would be even more awkward, however.

It's a little more than "awkward". It's the equivalent of a cop stopping you on the street and demanding to go through your pockets and then charging you with obstruction if you object even if they're empty.