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  My guess is it happens more often than we know but usually this stuff just gets reported to the right channels of communication and never becomes newsworthy. There hasn't been a situation until now where a huge idiot gets multiple chances to give things back, doesn't, warranting a search, and then makes up more lies. 
  The difference between Trump and every situation that looks similar to him is him stepping on every single rake making the problem worse.
context: Republicans: Well if Biden doesn't get charged then Trump shouldn't either for the same crime!
  Also Republicans: so when are we charging Biden? >
  
  Yeah but honestly it’s a problem that needs to be solved. Biden’s no exception here >
  
  What do you believe is the problem that needs to be solved? Because I don’t think the two parties agree on what that is. >
  
  The check in and out process.  How are you able to check out materials without a record of it being returned? >
  
  This is the correct answer. We shouldn’t be “finding” classified documents. We should know how many copies exist, where they are/who checks them out. We need the most intimidating librarians available. Like hundreds of the librarian cop from Seinfeld. Should there be consequences for Biden and Trump? While taking into account the level of infraction and the amount of cooperation with authorities, absolutely there should be consequences. >
  
  If Trump’s lawyers had found less than a dozen classified documents in a locked closet in a home office, and then contacted the National Archives to inform them, that would not have even made the news. 
  This wouldn’t have made the news either if it wasn’t a “get out of PR disaster free” card for the GOP. >
  
  so the closet was confirmed locked? and they totally called the Archives IMMEDIATELY after finding them?....like they didn't even stop to "consider the optics"?? >
  
  What we know for sure, is that they didn’t lie to NARA and willfully conceal their possession of the documents for a year. >
  
  Really BBC?
  
  Donald Trump faces a criminal investigation for allegedly mishandling classified files.
  
  No. 
  Obstruction charges. 
  He didn't return them when asked too. If he did, then it would've been a nothing burger. >
  
  Plus Mishandling government documents. It just happens that those documents were classified but he would have gotten in trouble for Mishandling non classified documents as well. >
  
  Meh, I don't generally concern my'self with bad bookkeeping. Just as long as the super highly classified shit isn't mishandled.
  When start losing the launch codes, then it's time to worry. >
  
  One of my favorite things about gotcha moments in politics is people on r/conservative will say things like "so how is this different democrats? I'll wait" knowing we aren't allowed to comment in their safe space lol. >
  
  implying conservative opinions are allowed in /r/politics? >
  
  I see conservative opinions here all the time. Also r/politics doesn't close threads to ONLY certain types of people. 
  And I've been banned many, many times from this sub, some warranted, some not. But I can always come back after a few days. I was permabanned from r/conservative on the first offense, whatever that was. >
  
  I’m conservative and I once got banned from /r/politics for a week for a comment defending FDR and his leadership abilities during his presidency as it related to polio and how strong he was during his fireside chats and how he unified people.  
  It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen. I was flabbergasted. >
  
  I've been banned a handful of times, usually I got a little heated. A couple days to a week isn't that big of a deal. A lifetime ban? On the first comment? That's silly. And it really wouldn't matter if that sub wasn't also famous for complaining endlessly about how their beliefs/speech isn't tolerated in various places on the internet. Pot meet kettle. >
  
  I don't see Biden putting up a fight and filing multiple lawsuits to protect the Jedi declassified documents.
  Here they are, take them, sorry.
  Trump - ehh not so much. >
  
  
  "Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming," James Comer, the new chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Wednesday.
  
  Ironic, considering that they just gutted the House Ethics Committee. >
  
  You know what has also been found? Republicans caring about control of special documents. >
  
  Let's not do whataboutism like them, right ? Problem is real, and must be solved. >
  
  Totally agree it should be solved. My comment was not “What about the Republicans?”
  It was specifically addressing the, at least for me, impossible to understand about-face. After months of rhetoric it changes on a dime. I cannot wrap my head around that. Except that maybe all their rhetoric is made in bad faith. >
  
  Your comment in the first 3 words said what and then mentioned the other party. The cognitive dissonance is real >
  
  Are you serious? You think you can take “what” from one sentence and add it to “Republicans” from the other and turn it into “What about the Republicans handling of special documents?” This is some weird alchemy. That is not how reading works. Read and re-read what I actually wrote. Any comment with the words “what” and “Republicans” isn’t automatically whataboutism; unless that’s your definition of whataboutism. >
  
  I hate that the climate we live in made me immediately consider a conspiracy.
  More so, I hate the false equivalency given to Trump actively stealing and refusing to return shit and Biden seemingly not knowing documents were being stored. >
  
  I mean the right faked Biden’s daughter’s diary and his son’s laptop. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that something that looks sketchier and sketchier is yet another trap. This just looks weird. >
  
  One, CBS reviewed a copy of a hard drive - one of several in circulation, some that were tampered with by Republicans. They did not review a laptop. The existence of a hard drive with data belonging to Hunter Biden does not corroborate the laptop story.
  A laptop belonging to Ashley Biden exists. What is being referred to as “fake” are the allegations made by Project Veritas, because the entire chain of custody on the diary begins with crime. >
  
  Curious timing how this is all coming out as the House GOP forms their Obstruction committees. >
  
  Yeah I'm curious about the timing as well since this stuff apparently happened a couple of months ago. How did anyone even know this happened? >
  
  No worries.  Biden already declassified them. With his mind.  Just by thinking about it - DONE. >
  
  Lol the ol’ Mar-a-Lago declassification strategy >
  
  well one teeny tiny small difference, the whole president -vs- vice president thing......but no way that's important >
  
  Waiting to hear what republicans think should happen to Biden for this remembering that Biden returned the documents that were found and Trump is STILL HIDING some of the ones that were asked for. And they had to get a search warrant signed off on before going in and getting the ones they have so far and Trump claimed that he had declassified them with his mind! >
  
  Theyre busy attempting to muddy the waters arguing that biden finding these docs and immediately returning them is the same as trump refusing to return documents, not complying with subpoenas and further obstructing the doj. They’re already calling for his impeachment. >
  
  Biden didn't do anything wrong and it's probably just a mistake. Move on. >
  
  It's kinda odd these are suddenly being found. I'm not one for conspiracy theories but this getting weird.