What's The Most Important Difference Between Biden and Trump's Handling of Classified Documents?

[TrollBuster9090]

January 19th, 2018.

That's when Donald Trump himself signed a bill, raising the mishandling of classified documents from a misdemeanour to a felony.

The right-wing propaganda machine can blather all day about a complete false equivalence between Biden's and Trumps retention of classified documents. But in the end, the consequences for Trump will be worse. Simply because he and the GOP insisted on passing a law on classified documents in January 2018, as a way of wrapping up and putting a bow on top of their years of character assassination of Hilary Clinton's handling of classified documents.

If Biden kept classified documents, it happened before 2017; which is the last time he had access to classified documents. If Trump kept classified documents, it happened in January 2021; after he signed the law increasing the penalties.

So, no matter what happens, the consequences for Trump will be worse. I can already hear the squeals of the right-wing news bubble over 'double standards of justice,' and all the other standard crap. But that won't change anything.

[Kennah]

1. Everything

[RockRaven]

2. The biggest difference is the denial, obstruction, false statements, non-cooperation of TFG.

DOJ/FBI et al would have let TFG get away with the initial taking if he had just cooperated and given it all back. But he didn't.

[underpants]

3. Excellent post.

It was another show signing taken almost as sentencing Hillary by his cult.

[Clash City Rocker]

4. There's also the matter of Biden not needing to be subpoenaed

Much less ignoring a subpoena.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Biden did not lie about not having them.

Biden did not lie about not having them.

[blm]

6. Many murdered and jailed operatives around the world

the last two years.


Newsweek: …among the 15 boxes that the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved from Trump's home in January was classified material that related to the use of "clandestine human sources" in intelligence gathering.

Douglas London, a former senior CIA officer, has warned of the dangers to those sources' lives if that information was to fall into enemy hands.

"That means that the clues that might be in the intelligence or classified pieces of information that the president took with him to Mar-a-Lago provide clues and pointers that adversaries might use to identify the means of that information getting out," London said on MSNBC. "It's serious business."

The New York Times reported last year that the CIA had seen dozens of cases of foreign informants who were either killed, arrested, or most likely compromised…