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What this whole thing should teach us is that the system is broken and politicians are hypocritical making excuses for their team. Instead evidently we learn to continue to divide ourselves even further.
I know people think this absolves Trump. That aside, I think it makes the decision to have to raid Trump's property trying to get the documents back all the more extraordinary. If this has been a constant problem, why is this the first time the fbi raided someone's property. >


why is this the first time the fbi raided someone's property.

Because he wasn't cooperating. The National Archives (NARA) knew stuff was missing. They knew he lied when he said he returned everything.
People don't seem to realize the timeline on those events either: The raid wasn't something that just happened out of nowhere:

May 2021: NARA contacts Trump regarding missing materials
Jan 2022: NARA receives boxes
Jan/Feb 2022: Trump lawyer tells NARA attorney he's not sure if everything asked for was returned
Feb 2022: NARA sends criminal referral to DOJ
April 2022: DOJ opens investigation (which turned up more, but not all, materials)
June 2022: Trump's custodian of records gives the DOJ a signed declaration (drafted by a Trump attorney) stating that all classified materials had been returned. This was fairly quickly determined to be false.
August 2022: MAL raid

How the investigation went is also important, because it's not like Pence or Biden's. The DOJ had to issue multiple subpoenas for information, both to NARA and to the Trump Org. and Trump's legal team fought the subpoenas; They lied to investigators; Subpoenas turned up instances of boxes being moved DOJ meetings/actions. There was very little cooperation from Trump's team and if anything active steps taken to thwart the DOJ's actions (like arguing in court that the DOJ had no right to see the documents). >

Don't forgot the legal battles where Trump basically demanded it all back, insisted the DOJ couldn't look at any of it because it was personal, and also said it was all planted fakes. >

So anyone else thinking that the archives and other assorted agencies need a complete overhaul? I mean these are our countries most important documents and nobody seems to know where they are for years at a time. You would think that there was a way to keep track of them??? >

There are different levels of classification, the government pretty much marks classified on everything.  Its best to wait and see what the documents were. I could care less if its a scheduled of  His and mothers prayer times or anything else of the sort. >

Yes and they still need to do a much better job of tracking them. >

Whoah. Jimmy Carter was the villain all along. / s
What do we think the classified document situation was with Eisenhower?
I’m sure documents about aliens were laying all over his house. >

Starting to think maybe anytime anyone leaves office we have the FBI do a check over their properties for classified materials just to be safe.  Just make it a required part of being an elected official.  You don't have a right to be a senator or representative and as such doing so should come with requirements like voluntarily having classified document searches done upon leaving office.
Don't want the FBI searching your home then don't join congress.  Want to be a public servant and still not get FBI searched volunteer for a charity.
Want to score a cushy job with insane benefits, power, authority, legal insider trading and the ability to affect the lives of millions of people?  Yeah then we're gunna need a bit more than a hand on a bible promise to be good.