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  Trump should be charged.
context: The way this news item pops up every day for over a week makes it sound like they find more and more documents every time they look under Biden's mattress. >
  
  Don't  think they've  checked  there yet. >
  
  If they both committed crimes, charge them both >
  
  Search whatever series of homes they both have. >
  
  Ban them both from political office. >
  
  That seems to be the beginning of what is happening. >
  
  A great victory for whataboutism. >
  
  So have we decided to lock up both Trump and Biden or are we saying that Biden is just as innocent as Trump and within his rights as president to stop whatever he wants with documents? >
  
  False dichotomy. Biden is not the same as Trump, but Biden gave MAGA world plenty of ammunition to muddy the waters. >
  
  Correct.  Trump's refusal, lying and obstruction make his mishandling much worse.
  But this is an unforced error by Biden and should never have happened.
  He should retire after his term. >
  
  Biden’s home is also, presumably, not a social club where people of dubious character are more or less allowed to walk around freely. >
  
  He stored classified documents in his garage and then rented the house to his son, a person of dubious character, for years. >
  
  Hunter Biden really is all ya’ll have, huh? This is like Bill Clinton’s brother all over again. >
  
  Would you like to deny that Hunter is a person of dubious moral character? >
  
  Seriously, how fucking hard is it to quarantine all documents when you're leaving the White House and allow NARA to go through them all and sign off on what they allow you to bring home? Joe really fucked up. >
  
  Yeah, no, I highly doubt that, and it doesn’t excuse something that shouldn’t have happened to begin with. There’s also a difference in precedence between state police keeping a classified doc at a home versus the sitting fucking president. >
  
  Good point. These docs could date back to 1973 with no real consequences to national security, but this just kills the Trump investigation. >
  
  
  but this just kills the Trump investigation.
  
  Why? If someone is caught stealing, and then someone else is also caught stealing, you don't let them both of the hook. You punish both of them, right? >
  
  Well, yes and no. I wouldn't consider this stealing, but I'm not an expert in how to handle these docs. I think it just opens up the door to searching all politicians' houses who had access to classified docs since now we searched 2 and found some in both. But if it is illegal, punish them. I'd just stay away from punishing one and not the other, which I can totally see the gop doing with no shame, but if it's just Trump then it feeds the "political persecution" narrative. >
  
  I think this is why DOJ has put a special councel on both cases. They will figure out if any laws were broken, in each case. Now, if the result is that laws were broken in case, but not the other, they will have to follow the law. >
  
  Republicans don't want to impeach Biden. Because Kamala Harris would be next up. >
  
  The House GOP is going to impeach the hell out of Biden, because they know it'll never go anywhere in the Senate.