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Give FOX a few months for their propaganda to catch up guys!
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Think of it sort of like blockbuster.
Two guys rented out movies and neither of them brought them back. One guy took 100 movies and never returned them. The other took 15 movies and did not return them.
One guy found them later and was like oh man, I need to return these and pay the late fees. Took them back, and ponied up.
The other dude not only kept them but let other people watch them. No only did he know he had them he called his Attorney and had them say they did not have them. Then when they came to get them said they did not have them. Then when they got a search warrant to come get them raised holy hell about how picked on he was. Then they asked like 10 more times to give them back he lied some more and they found more of course. He refuses to pay late fees, he refuses to take responsibility, he claims they are his, he claims they were planted, he claims they were for bragging rights, he might still have some more...he might have made copies and sold them.
But yes these are both the same. >

Scenario A: Hey, neighbor. I just realized I completely forgot to return your shovel after I borrowed it. It’s just been sitting in my garage and I only discovered it this morning when I was looking for something else. I’m really sorry. Here’s your shovel back. 
Scenario B: Shovel? What shovel? I don’t have your shovel. I gave that back. Yes I did. Fine I’ll look in my garage. I just checked - no shovel. You say you know your shovel is in there? Well, uh, okay. I’ll give your shovel back but only if you give me your rake. No? Then fuck you. It’s my shovel. No. It’s mine. What do you mean you’re just going to take it? Stop! Stop taking my shovel!! Hey, everyone! This asshole just violated the sanctity of MY GARAGE and took his shove … I mean took MY shovel!! The nerve of that guy! >

In Scenario B, he was holding the shovel when he answered the door and the neighbor is pointing at the shovel that has “Flanders” written on the handle in black sharpie marker.  “That shovel right there!” >

And we cannot prosecute a sitting president even if what they did was illegal. >

The fact that the 5 year Statute of Limitations means it is not criminal even if it could have been, should be mentioned more. >

Wouldn’t merely having them illegally mean the theoretical crime was happening constantly till they were discovered. 
I may be wrong but the issue is both taking and having the documents so while he may be safe from when he took em he still had them till recently >

He is currently the President and is allowed to have them. >

he wasn’t president 2 years ago >

And we cannot prosecute a sitting president even if what they did was illegal. Isn’t that what we decided, that the president was infallible? >

I never said he should be prosecuted just that he was arguably actively committing a crime merely by having them everyday till they were discovered >

I don’t believe that means he was actively committing a crime, maybe passively and even then he’s currently president, he can declassify them simply by thinking it >

Then so can Trump and problem solved. The question comes too can the President retroactively or proactively just allow themselves access >

Trump isn’t president nor was he during the whole scandal, key difference >

he was when he took them >

This just means the GOP will try to gaslight us about it for the next 22 months. >

I feel like they're gonna try to impeach Biden over this. Idk why, I have no evidence just a weird feeling. >

Oh for sure they will, but the Senate won't convict. And then they'll find at least 2 more things to impeach him over because they can't have Trump having the most impeachments. >

I'm still trying to rationalize this narrative against the McCarthy statement about 'expunging the impeachment' late last week and I'm to the point that if we could take the Republican brains and replace the US gymnastics team with them, we'd never lose another Olympic Gold medal. >

He ain't promulgating ideas that bring about sedition in an attempt to make a fascist nation under a false version of Christianity. He's OK with me so far. >

I'm telling you, the American electorate is getting smarter. They aren't falling for fake right wing outrage like they used to. I agree Biden fucked up but I don't think there was the intention of commiting a crime. This poll is showing most voters are having the appropriate reaction to all of this news. >

I hope to god you’re right. 
Because the BS with Obama’s birth certificate was so fantastically dumb I thought no living breathing human could truly fall for this. And yet so many did. 
And then the BS about Hillary’s emails was so amazingly ridiculous and silly I thought no one capable of dressing themselves in the morning would take that seriously and yet so many did. 
And then everything about Trump from his campaign to today has just been so over the top ridiculous, it’s like he’s not even trying to hide the fact that he’s lying every single time he opens his mouth. I’ve never seen a worse liar in my life who is more obvious about it. Surely any loving being with a pulse could tell within seconds that this guy is a con man and a fraud. And yet he got MORE votes in 2020 than in 2016. 
And after all these lies the GOP spread about the 2020 election and about vaccines and a million other things, the American people rewarded them with control over the House. 
So I hope you’re right, but I’ll believe it when the actual voting patterns bear it out. Until then, I’m skeptical. >

As more time goes on more of the older generation ages and I hope to fucking everything that the next generations have a larger pool of people who actually think before getting angry. >

The newest generations keep getting fucked by the old and honesty don’t stand a chance if we keep on this path, so I think they are seeing through the bullshit >

This should prompt internal policies to ensure this doesn’t happen again. 
It was clearly accidental, so let’s put in place new procedures so this doesn’t happen again. 
Now can we arrest the guy who fucking stole the documents now please? >

Misplaced classified files is a routine issue as per most the reporting around this issue, and logic based on how much information is considered classified.
The only reason this is even in the news is because of Trump's highly irregular handling of classified materials. >

Trump is premeditated and Biden is accidental.
Last I looked in criminal cases accidental and premeditated are seen in very different ways >

If Toilet Paper was Classified documents...
Biden = Got a piece of toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his shoe.   
Trump = Stole a whole truck of Toilet Paper and sold it on the street out of the trunk of his car, Goodfella's cigarette style. >

It barely even rises to inappropriate.  It's good faith clerical error/misfiling by some random staffer(s) that was handled through appropriate channels once discovered. >

Yup. People are still making too much of this. From what is known, it warrants an administrative review and that's about it.  If something else comes out of that review. That will be something else. >

Trump found with classified documents: THIS IS TREASON
Biden found with classified documents: Ah no biggie he's a good guy
Wow. >

Trump took boxes of docs he should not have. Refused to return them when requested. Lied about having them. It took the FBI to get them back
Biden's team found a handful of classified docs, reported them and turned them over. 
Wow, indeed >

No difference.
Prosecute BOTH of them. >

There actually is a difference given what we know. >

I find it interesting that, for Biden, his mishandling of sensitive documents is mainly a political problem for him, and not a legal problem (generally because of how it was corrected). But for Trump, despite behavior bordering on obstruction, no one really considers his actions with classified documents to present for him any political problems at all. His base simply doesn't care about what he does. >

Why is everyone forgetting who made the whole thing public in the first place?
The government keeps things discreet.  Everyone else just hands over the documents.  The twice impeached former president turned it into a thing, forcing the warrant, which was still completely discrete.  The coup plotting traitor ex-president released the warrant and made the whole thing public.
The sitting presidents legal team that followed the rules were afforded exactly zero discretion.  
And dems just happily eat their own.
Yeah, it's a problem that we seem to be completely inept at tracking classified documents.  Any sane tracking system would know who checked what out and be able to just make sure everything was checked back in properly, and at the very very least run an audit when we transition power to the new leadership.  Like me with no college could run a proper paper tracking system.  It's not difficult at all.
But anyone whining about fair treatment doesn't care that one person was afforded an insane amount of discretion over a long period of time and outed himself.  The other was shamed within two months via leaks and is given zero credit for following proper process upon personal discovery.
Is something sinister going on?  No proof whatsoever for Biden.  Time isn't done with the tale.  Mountains of evidence for the twice impeached too awful to win re-election coup plotter. >

Biden’s document trove would never have made the news if it weren’t for Trump’s egregious violations. 
For some reason the mainstream media decided to report on it as basically equivalent. 
It’s not. >

It’s all about how he turned over his own documents completely unprompted. About 30 access 2 properties.
Trump was told “give these back” obstructed, gave some, then got raided and found 300 nuclear top secrets. >

I also think that most people are happy for biden to be investigated to hell & back too and put criminal charges there if need be.
It shouldn't be a matter of what team you're on. People should be prosecuted if they maliciously and intentfully break the law. >

His legal team reported the documents. How is this malicious or "intentful". It wouldn't be known if he hadn't self-reported.
Seriously, what are you talking about? >

I think you and I are on the same team here. So far it doesn't look like it was malicious or done with intent, but if it gets investigated and it was proven that there was some intent then I wouldn't mind if he gets prosecuted. >

Gotcha. If he intentionally took those documents to use for personal use or to help malicious States, lock his ass up immediately. Okay. I misread your comment. I thought you were saying that it was obvious that this was premeditated. >

I coulda worded it better tbh >

Ok. What does the law say about it? >

Good. There was a real chance the public would either ignore it outright or go fully in the other direction. >

It does help when you self-report. His own lawyers called attention to the documents. >

This is encouraging. I am pleasantly surprised >

It's discouraging. If it was me and you, our ass would have been grass. We give politicians too much leeway to the point where it has happened before where classified info end up where they shouldn't, and they get a slap on the wrist. Laws only apply to us commons. Oh, and I'm talking all the folks from both political parties. They say we the people have the power, yet they can get away with things we can't. >

The fact that its even being polled and equated to criminality is insane. Trump would be facing no charges if he gave what he took back in the span of a whole year. >

For someone that just wants to harm Biden leading up to the election, people seeing his actions as inappropriate is good enough. >

To be fair the only ones who had this before an election hid it from the public until afterwards and it was Bidens team. >

It's Monica Lewinsky all over again, but instead of an intern Biden came on a stack of papers. >

Biden Documents were never asked to be returned. Why just now? >

They were just recently discovered. >

I think the main difference between Trump and Biden is that Biden had documents as the sitting president and Trump had documents when he was no longer president. Also Biden was like “Ope, shit, better get those back to the office” instead of crying “setup!” >

So why didn’t Biden just take them back to his office and have them file them where they belonged? Is it the documents contents? Hunter Biden’s proximity to them? The China/Penn State relationship to documents at that office? What made it that he couldn’t just bring them back himself? Maybe he didn’t intend to and he’s being removed from the game by his own party? It’s not all it appears to be…. >

Lol not everything is a conspiracy. I take work documents home to wrap them up all the time. Trump likely did the same thing as Biden, took documents home to read them when he had the chance to. He just didn’t bring them back during the transition of power phase post-election. >

Well he did have 4 years between administrations he could have returned them 🤷‍♀️ I may be wrong but I wonder if Trump kept documents so they wouldn’t disappear as things involving Clintons tend to do. Which doesn’t make it right but at least they were secured and guarded. If Biden documents really are regarding Ukraine and China and they were left unsecured in areas Hunter had access to…that sounds a little inappropriate to me. Is there anyone who actually trust Hunter Biden?