Posted on 01/26/2023 5:39:48 AM PST by Heartlander
Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled classified at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware.
Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden.
First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering a post-presidential Mar-a-Lago than a pre-presidential Joe Biden’s home, office, or garage—or who knows where?
Secret service agents and private security were stationed at Mar-a-Lago. Prior to the 2020 presidential election they were not at citizen Biden’s various troves for most of 2017-2020 much less prior to 2009.
Second, we seem to forget that for much of the developing controversy, Joe Biden’s own team was investigating Joe Biden.
On the other hand, the Biden Administration’s Justice Department and the FBI were not just investigating Trump as an outside party, but as a former president—and possible 2024 presidential candidate and opponent of Biden himself.
Remember, the narrative of the first Democratic impeachment of Donald Trump was the allegation that Trump had used his powers of the presidency to investigate Joe Biden and his family, a likely 2020 challenger to Trump’s reelection bid.
Third, no one in a position of government authority had passed judgment on Joe Biden’s alleged security violations.
That was not the case of the still alleged violations of Donald Trump.
Joe Biden, as president, had weighed in, during his own Justice Department’s ongoing investigations of Trump. Indeed, he proclaimed the former president to be guilty: “How could anyone be that irresponsible?” In contrast, he also dismissed the ongoing investigation of himself with “There is no there, there.”
Fourth, Trump is certainly right that as president he had a far more substantial claim of declassification rights than...
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The documents Trump has detail the criminal enterprises of the Biden family.
The documents Trump has detail the criminal enterprises at the FBI and DOJ.
The documents Biden has detail the methods and techniques detailing their criminal enterprises in the Pay-to Play influence peddling game. It's a team game around the Beltway.
So really there isn't much difference besides who is complicit.
BTTT
Ninth, Trump’s documents did not expose other liabilities of the constantly investigated Trump. The Biden files so far have directed attention to the mysterious tens of millions of dollars in Communist Chinese money that poured into Biden’s think tank at the University of Pennsylvania, the proximity of members of the quid pro quo Biden consortium to these classified papers, and the files’ relevance, if any, to the Biden family’s overseas businesses. Did Hunter Biden ever consult or view classified documents while living in a home with them? Will there be fingerprint or DNA tests on the documents? If Hunter consulted any of these classified documents, then the Biden presidency is finished.
Tenth, former President Trump possessed contested documents as a private citizen. Biden’s files under contention involve the current behavior of the president of the United States. Biden ran for office, was elected, and serves as president with the full knowledge that during all this time he unlawfully possessed classified documents.
Excellent summation by Prof Hanson about the differences between these two stacks of documents. A quick read.
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Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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I like Professor Hanson a lot, but I’ve been dismayed about he has been a Trump-hater for so long.
He has evolved away from that rigid position a lot in the past year as he understands the depths of persecution Trump was subjected to, the incredible pro-American accomplishments of Trump against staggering odds, the collapse of our civilization under Democrats, and the depths of Biden corruption (and probably treason). It’s good to see, but I’m dismayed it took a very smart man to arrive at these conclusions.
It seems the only complaint Hanson has about Trump any more is that Trump has a loud mouth, is brash, uncouth, and has unstatesmanlike behavior. But, even there, I think Hanson fixates more on what the MSM says about Trump’s behavior rather than listening to Trump himself. He fails to hear the bigger picture that Trump lays out, that our entire civilization is at serious risk of failure.
Trump is not corrupt despite the ENTIRE establishment endless efforts to find something to pin on him.
Brandon is as corrupt as the day is long. One can almost trip over the evidence against Brandon.
And jo is a pervert.
“It seems the only complaint Hanson has about Trump any more is that Trump has a loud mouth, is brash, uncouth, and has unstatesmanlike behavior. But, even there, I think Hanson fixates more on what the MSM says about Trump’s behavior rather than listening to Trump himself. He fails to hear the bigger picture that Trump lays out, that our entire civilization is at serious risk of failure.”
Yeah. We live in a society that not only kills unborn babies but also buys and sells them through IVF and adoption schemes, and sells the body parts of babies that are murdered. We’ve allowed sexual perverts and predators to become role models and assume roles of leadership from families to communities, to cities, states, and the nation. We’ve allowed them to target children with their perversions and do horrific harm to millions of children.
And some people still want to focus on politeness, manners, and similar things. Murdering perverts deserve no such thing. They need to be removed from society by any means necessary.
I'm starting to think that only “dumb” people can reach a “Occams Razor” conclusion before they knew what it is...VDH studied that early in his schooling but got so smart he forgot it till it bit him on his ass .../s
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