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  Yeah Salon.com is garbage. Yet somehow their articles always end up on here
context: Trump broke journalism.
  Well, neoliberal capitalism broke journalism. But Trump exposed the rupture. >
  
  When ratings are the end goal, pushing false equivalencies like this is only natural. >
  
  When there’s no requirement and little consequence to the telling the truth why worry about it. >
  
  Propaganda going overtime on this story... >
  
  Biden pulled over for speeding, “well let me have the ticket and we’ll be on our way.” Trump pulled over for speeding, “they’ll never take me alive!” >
  
  "This is (D)ifferent, Biden has already handed over all the documents!" -reddit after each semi-daily new discovery by authorities >
  
  Ah, misrepresenting the facts I see. It was biden's team who is finding and returning the documents as they find them. It's almost like...they found some, and decided to do a comprehensive sweep over everything to ensure that everything gets returned. >
  
  “It’s okay to steal as long as you put it back when the media finds out you didn’t pay for it.” 
  Literally all I’m hearing. >
  
  This isn't theft, it was a few documents out of many thousands of thousands of documents that got misplaced, this kind of thing happens and they're doing their best to rectify the issue. Trump wouldn't return them even after being asked.. multiple times. Your theft analogy is dumb. >
  
  Also trump shipped them out of the White House and had means and motive to distribute them for personal gain. He also STILL has classified material. Not apples to apples even a little. >
  
  The media isn't falling into a trap, they're willing participants in the scam. >
  
  Worse than that, their knee-jerk reactions are the sole reason the Right creates these fake scandals. They know the "papers" will write it up as if they had been told to directly by Rupert Murdoch or Vladimir Putin's chef. >
  
  Bush Jr. and Obama almost certainly have docs laying around somewhere unknowingly. The issue with Trump is that he was deliberately stealing these from NARA. >
  
  The Ex-presidents get a government staff, and Archives staff and a Library staff. Likely everything that Bush or Obama had was taken to safe locations, except for a limited amount of personal stuff.
  Ex Vice Presidents are largely on their own. >
  
  That doesn't account for the classified documents he had that were dated to his senator days. >
  
  What a lousy article. The first four paragraphs are a pointless personal story just wasting space for no purpose. Then the article doesn't list a single example of a media outlet equivocating the two cases. The only evidence provided is an anecdote from one of their own columnists. Also I dislike this comment:
  
  some leading Democrats are choosing to advance the narrative about the classified documents, undermining their own president. 
  
  No, they're worried Biden's mistakes are going to hurt the party's chances in 2024. That's a rightful concern. Just because he's a Dem president doesn't mean the party has to back him all the time. An investigation is at least justified. Also it's rather strange how they link to another Salon article as an example of "leading Democrats." So Salon is just arguing with itself?