Donald Trump is being tried – and massively condemned – for the fact that, as President, he acquired classified documents that he did not return after leaving office.
The fact that a President can unilaterally declassify documents, therefore Trump’s defense can begin and end by him stating that he did so with these documents – and there is no way to prove otherwise? Irrelevant ‘n’ immaterial. This is Trump. GET ‘im.
By contrast, the fact that Joe Biden had tons of classified documents in his possession – acquired while he was Vice President, thus with no ability to declassify them? Try and find a word about it in our mainstream media.
And now we are finding out that not only did Biden have classified documents he had no right to (when is that trial beginning? Ever?), he also lied about cooperating with authorities when they were discovered.
From Jonathan Turley’s latest commentary at thehill.com, we have this:
Biden made clear from the beginning that he expected the investigation to be perfunctory and brief. He publicly declared that he has “no regrets” over his own conduct and told the public that the documents investigation would soon peter out when it determined that “there is no ‘there’ there.”
Now, however, it appears that a critical claim by the White House in the scandal may not only be false, but was knowingly false at the time it was made. The White House and Biden’s counsel have long maintained that, as soon as documents were discovered in the D.C. office, they notified the national archives. Many asked why they did not call the FBI, but the White House has at least maintained that, unlike Trump, they took immediate action to notify authorities.
However, it now appears that this was not true. One of the closest aides to Biden and a close friend to Hunter Biden is Annie Tomasini. She referred to Hunter as her “brother” and signed off messages with “LY” or “love you.”
Tomasini was once a senior aide to Joe Biden and, according to the Oversight Committee, inspected the classified material on March 18, 2021, two months after Biden took office — nearly 20 months before they were said to be found by the Biden team.
The committee now alleges that the White House “omitted months of communications, planning, and coordinating among multiple White House officials, [Kathy] Chung, Penn Biden Center employees, and President Biden’s personal attorneys to retrieve the boxes containing classified materials. The timeline also omitted multiple visits from at least five White House employees, including Dana Remus, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams, Annie Tomasini, and an unknown staffer.”
If true, the evidence demolishes the timeline long maintained by the Biden team. That could have an immediate impact on both the criminal and impeachment investigations.
Mr. Turley goes on to show just how clearly untrue Biden’s claims have been. To show just how completely he and his people have lied about his possession of these classified documents.
But don’t expect almost any of our wonderful “neutral” media to demand that Biden’s holding of the documents – impossible to legally defend given that he acquired and kept them before becoming President – be handled the way Trump’s holding of documents have been. Don’t expect them to be demanding he be held to account for having them in his possession, or that they were held so haphazardly that there are literally pictures of them in his open garage.
Wrong guy. Wrong party. Therefore, wrong expectation of justice. End of story.
