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  Fuck that, prosecute both of them
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. >
  
  Trump should be charged. >
  
  I don't think you read the article! This one's about Biden, haha. :) >
  
  Ok Andrew Tate defender >
  
  why's it that redditcels search through others' profiles and bring up something wholly irrelevant to the conversation as if its some sort of epic gotcha? bravo buddy! i guess that means youve won!! >
  
  See the difference? He let the DoJ in to do their job. >
  
  Doesn’t matter. It’s not as bad as Trump but this is too much. He’s clearly been mishandling documents and there should be consequences and overhaul. If we sit by and make excuses for him then it’s just as bad as the right. >
  
  Bullshit. One got their friends paid 3.5 billion and numerous intelligence officers killed with selling intelligence. 
  One has been in politics since '73 and has offered complete cooperation. >
  
  Since '73? You would have thought with such a long career, he'd have remembered the fundamentals they teach on day one. >
  
  Really? Okay Ping Pang.
  Edit: Did ping pang start the name calling AND got so upset he blocked me? How delicate. >
  
  You tankies are so easy to spot. >
  
  Prepping the masses for letting Trump off the hook. The timing of all this is fascinating. >
  
  Yes. The pro-Trump, pro-Republican DOJ has finally found its opportunity. Brilliant take! >
  
  Biden needs to announce he won’t run for a 2nd term and start setting the stage for another candidate. >
  
  Doubt it. The old guard Dems will definitely duck this one up. >
  
  No one knows how to self defeat better than the DNC. >
  
  People are not realizing we're hearing about this because President Biden's lawyers are telling us. If similar searches are occurring at Trump's properties, you can be damn sure that we won't hear about it unless it's Trump crying bloody murder about it on his twitter shitter. The FBI is not going to issue statements on either.
  What's likely happening is people are searching through TENS OF THOUSANDS of documents (decades worth of stuff), a couple dozen pages that have classified markings are found and secured. That can be from classified and secret and (though not as likely) top secret. Now, if it's SCI level material we've got real issues (that's material that can out sources of the information). Anyway, the documents need to be evaluated for level of spillage (which is likely close to zero depending how they were stored). 
  This is nothing compared to what we have with Trump. First, he knowingly broke the law in purposely retaining the documents (they needed to be sent to NARA). He broke the law by moving/hiding them when presented with a subpoena. He wasn't cleared to have the classified material (revoked by Biden for good reason). Kept and likely showed these to other people not cleared (likely one of the people that reported it to the FBI which led to the raiding subpoena). A majority of the laws broken is irrelevant to the classification of the documents. >
  
  Enough with the whataboutism. Stop kissing Biden on the mouth and take responsibility. Both should be prosecuted. >
  
  Why should Biden be prosecuted? >
  
  I think it’s reasonable to ask if this isn’t a little to convenient finding the classified documents. I suspect that Garland could be asking the same questions. Just speculating. >
  
  The Biden team found initial documents and then requested the DOJs help to find the rest.  That they found more is likely the REASON their help was enlisted, to get them all found so that at some later date more wouldn’t be. >
  
  You would think all that they were finding with Trump, the Biden team would be vigilant in the classified documents. I just find it curious the opposite occurred. The old saying, something rotten in Denmark comes to mind. I’m more interested in how the documents got there. >
  
  I mean, the REASON they found the documents in the first place was because they initiated a process of looking for documents because of the stuff with Trump.  The finding of them was done BY Biden’s staff.  
  I’m fine investigating if wrong doing was done and having consequences if something nefarious comes out of it.  Seems the Biden team is ok with that too given that they were the ones who requested the DOJ be involved. >
  
  Yep, my reasoning also! >
  
  And yet there will continue to be people in this sub and elsewhere who defend this as if it's a good thing and not a bad thing..
  I literally got suspended from this sub for saying this is a bad look for Biden. Because apparently you can't speak negatively about negative things the person you voted for does and has done >
  
  Yes not really the same as what Trump did but honestly it doesn’t have to be for this to seriously jeopardize and ruin Joe’s chances. He should have known better, which he probably did at one time or another, but then forgot because he’s TOO OLD!!! No more over 65 presidents…seriously. >
  
  Why the hell do they keep reporting to the press whenever they find more documents?  They should be silent until all the areas are searched, then provide a report.  It is like there is an agent looks in a box and finds one document then yells 'found one!' to the world.  It is stupid.  Don't say ANYTHING until the investigation is complete. >
  
  Keeping the promise of transparency. It looks bad if context is not added but that's on the current press that are looking for clicks. >
  
  There is such a thing as too much transparency.  It just gives fuel to conspiracy and 'both sides are the same' arguments.  They could say that there is an ongoing investigation and will report once it is complete.  Now we are getting details of where every piece of paper was found.  Meaningless but fodder for the right wing.  Plus, Biden could have claimed legitimate executive privilege.  He has the right to any classified documents as the current president whereas Trump does not. >
  
  Not going to disagree. However, there's a risk that there will be leaks from the FBI (or maybe those that witnessed the search) about the documents being seized. Also, while he has the right to documents it's fair that they're searching through material that was in storage while Biden was a "civilian". 
  There's going to be negatives no matter how Biden's lawyers approach this. My opinion though is that they need to make it clear that with Trump it was more than just possessing classified documents. Much, much more than that. >
  
  Lol @ the number of downvotes on this even though it should be on r/politics front page and trending right now >
  
  They are coping hard >
  
  There is a good percentage  of people who are rightly angry/disappointed  by this  and seemingly a good percentage people  who simply can't  say "For fucks sake, what a fuck up". I mean it's  not hard to acknowledge when someone  you support makes a blunder or in this cases a series of blunders over decades. 
  Biden has mishandled  these documents on it appears  multiple  occasions ... I  don't  think  he did it intentionally but not acknowledging  that puts these people  in a state of denial. >
  
  it's not so much admitting he messed up. it's that so many of these people demanded trump be strung up for this, but now that it's "their guy" who did it they have to desperately act like it didn't happen or it doesn't matter. >
  
  It looks bad. And it shows a systemic problem with the handling/ classification process and that the responsible depts don’t even know these docs are missing is even more of an issue.  It’s should be investigated fully and the outcome is what it is. >
  
  I bet all these documents were declassified by Obama well ahead of time, and they're all just memos about things like what cheese will be served at the Generals meeting or something.
  Guarantee we'll see a huge difference between the two, but I definitely will feel let down if they're problematic; nuclear secrets and giving away lists of CIA operatives are much different than memos. >
  
  And just like that kiss the chance of the Justice Department charging Trump goodbye.