The Difference Between Biden’s Mishandling of Classified Documents vs Trump’s

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(Yaakov M / VINnews) — For months, Democrats have told us that mishandling classified documents is a really serious crime.

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So serious, the FBI raided a former president’s estate, a special counsel was appointed, Trump’s been threatened with indictment, and being barred from holding public office.

Yet now that President Biden allegedly committed the same crime, Democrats think it’s no big deal. In fact, although Biden’s alleged crime was discovered before the midterms, the White House did not bother to disclose it until this week—and likely only did so because an investigation was about to be launched by the DOJ.

The irony. All of a sudden, what was considered a capital offense (treason?) is just a simple innocent record-keeping error.

There is indeed a big difference between Trump and Biden. Since Trump was president when he took possession of the documents, he had the right to declassify them. Biden, on the other hand, as Vice President, had no authority to declassify so much as a White House dinner menu. In Trump’s case, it is arguable that merely bringing the documents home was an act of declassification.

Even more incriminating, the documents found in Biden’s possession related to, among other things, Ukraine. The same Ukraine in which son Hunter raked in millions while sitting on the board of the Burisma energy company. The same Ukraine from which Joe Biden threatened to withhold one billion dollars, until they fired the prosecutor investigating Burisma, his son’s company, over corruption allegations.

Isn’t that a strange coincidence?

In the past, when Democrats have been embroiled in scandals like Hillary’s email server, the Steele Dossier, Obama’s Fast and Furious, IRS-gate, Spygate, Benghazi, the Hunter laptop (to name a few), the media has told us that we are overreacting, and we are conspiracy theorists.

Yet now they have an impossible dilemma. For months, violating the Presidential Records Act has been akin to espionage. Trump is evil incarnate because he took home some classified documents.

Suddenly, their guy gets caught committing the same crime! Check-mate, right?

Wrong.

Never underestimate the left’s ability to convince us that up is down, left is right, and the exact crime is only a problem when committed by Trump.

Their arguments are:

  1. Biden “immediately” returned the documents upon discovery. False. Biden held onto the documents for six years before returning them. And since when is stealing classified documents okay, as long as you return them?
  2. Trump took a lot more documents than Biden. First, we don’t know that. Unlike Mar-a-lago, Biden’s properties have not been raided by the FBI. Thus far we have relied on the honor system, but for all we know, Biden may have hundreds of other documents. And since when is mishandling classified documents okay, as long as it’s a small number?
  3. Biden returned the documents willingly. Again, only after six years of possessing them, and only after seeing Trump get in major trouble. Also, returning them willingly in no way negates the years he spent mishandling them.
  4. Yes they are both guilty of the exact same crime. But we despise Trump. (This argument is factually correct.)

This is simple. For months, Democrats have told us this “crime” is a really big deal. And now their own leader, by his own admission, is guilty of the same crime.

While the hypocrisy, double standard, and disingenuousness of the left has been apparent for some time, it perhaps has never been as blatantly obvious as right now, as they try to convince us that what we are seeing with our own eyes is not really there.

Hopefully even those who get their news from the mainstream media will catch on to this breathtaking, pitiful display of irony at its best.

Yaakov M is the Charedi Sean Hannity.

He is a senior columnist for VIN and former Op-Ed columnist for Newsmax. He’s hosted a conservative podcast for 15 years, studied in Kollel 14 years, was a Bais Medrash Rebbi over a decade, and obtained smicha from a top Rosh Yeshiva. (However his opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect Daas Torah.)

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lgb
1 year ago

Democrats are repulsive. End of story

Democrats support mutilating confused children.
Democrats support mutilating confused children.
1 year ago

Well win Garland order his stasi agents to raid bidens homes?

Fear Not
Fear Not
1 year ago

Jeff Sessions was a traitor that’s the difference. The GOP are losers, they dont get the big picture and get stuck in petty fights with their own.

Joe field
Joe field
1 year ago

You’re misstating the actual fact and differences between Trump and President Biden. We all know that this so call news site, is totally immersed in the MAGA muck. And as the old saying, if you’re swinging in muck you will smell from muck.

Z E
Z E
1 year ago

If a person makes a mistake, it is possible they can still hold office.
If a person does something illegal willingly and knowingly, they cannot hold office any more.

It is quite simple.

President means defender of the American way. Someone who ignores the rules willingly, cannot hold that job.

Someone who has a different opinion – more right or more left – can hold the job. You vote for the one that you agree with. But Trump has nothing do with his opinions. He knowingly and willingly broke laws, and not just any laws but laws pertaining to the integrity of government.

The documents left behind in Biden’s old office have no connection to Trump’s misdeeds.

Phineas
Phineas
1 year ago

The big difference is that Biden self reported the same day and National Archives has certified no nuclear secrets were involved while trump hid them, then said he returned everything, turns out he didn’t, they raided in Florida and still found more afterwards in a storage locker in New jersey and they were nuclear secrets.