How many of my readers would like to bet that they find more classified documents stowed among Biden's things?
Doesn’t it seem rather brazen to raid a former president’s home when you are guilty of the same thing---only under worse circumstances? The fact that Biden was willing to green light Garland’s prosecutorial strategy knowing he was guilty of exactly the same thing tells us much about our benign overlords.
Imagine if Trump had raided Hillary's home to prosecute her for a crime similar to one he himself had committed: The media would be filled with cackling about what a moron Trump is. But our diaper wearing septuagenarian is not even the subject of a single disrespectful SNL sketch. We know that Biden, and Merrick Garland, do not fear accusations of hypocrisy. They can trust the media to cover for them—at least for a time.
I can tell you exactly what the media’s defense of Biden will be:
1) He didn’t mean to; it was an honest mistake.
2) He did immediately comply as soon as his lawyers found the documents while Trump resisted. While the Washington Post will never put it this way, Trump is being punished for asserting his rights—trust us, we would have been nice to him if he had just confessed. I am sure. Niceness is what the modern Democratic party is all about.
Furthermore, Biden was actually in possession of these documents for longer.
3) The classified documents Biden took were “less serious.” Of course, because we will never be allowed to see them, we are just going to have to trust our benign Democrat overlords when they swear that this is the case.
However, the media will fail to mention the following:
1) Trump is legally required to organize documents from his time as president into a presidential library: What belongs in the library and what belongs in the archives is not always clear.
2) Trump had the power to declassify any of the documents he took, and may very well have done so. All of the documents Biden took, however, he took when he was vice-president. He therefore cannot argue that they were declassified.
3) Trump secured his documents much better than Biden did. Trump has his documents under lock at Mar-a-lago: Biden was keeping his out in the open at two separate locations (if not more). (Now that more documents have been found, we can clearly say that the number of locations where documents have been found demonstrates just how careless Biden has been.)
To my mind, Biden’s actions are just as blameworthy as Trump’s—if not more-so. Yet, the media will do its best to make sure none of the above points are highlighted for you. And I am sure some half-clever and half-risible little ad hominem or rhetorical trick will be used against anyone who points out Biden’s hypocrisy.
Reports claim that these documents were found by Biden’s lawyers on Nov. 2nd, yet we are only hearing about it now after “election month(s)” has/have concluded. Supposedly, these documents were found while Biden’s lawyers were “cleaning out his old office.” Talk about swank; having your lawyers clean your old office is conspicuous consumption the likes of which would shame an absolute monarch. This is two elections in a row where the media did Biden the favour of supressing a damning scandal that broke a few days before the start of in person voting. Why is Biden willing to use this trick so often? What does it mean that he and his party are so welling to rely on it? There does seem to be more than mere good will and partisanship at play.
Biden’s presidency seems to be some exercise in humiliation—something that feels more like a sketch on Punked or Candid Camera than a political reality. That said, we can all predict that the media will cover for Biden on this—and expect us to be dumb enough to forget about it even as they continue to pursue a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.
So, it looks like Biden had classification/declassification authority. But this basically puts the scandal more on a par with Trump's---it still doesn't relieve him of accusations of hypocrisy.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAKtpCo8fPE