Subject: Re: Joe's Garage Sale
LurkerMom: Love how you are trying to minimize the fact Biden had classified documents strewn
haphazardly, here there everywhere while Trump did not.

False.

Biden had a half-dozen documents at the Penn Biden Center and the others were in a locked storage unit in his Delaware garage. Reportedly, though unconfirmed, one was in a room adjacent to the garage. Hardly scattered. Trump's documents were found in a locked basement storage area and in a personal office at Mar-a-Lago. At least two other classified documents were discovered in a storage unit in West Palm Beach.


LurkerMom: Trump, a sitting President had the authority to declassified documents while Biden, then a VP did not have any authority to declassify anything.

False.

President Obama signed Executive Order 13526 in 2009 granting Biden the power to declassify documents. Biden, though, unlike Trump, has not claimed to have declassified them with his mind.

https://obamawhitehouse.archiv...


LurkerMom: Trump's crime? He did not turn over the documents in the allotted time line.

C'mon now. Let's review.

-- Trump was warned in late 2021 by his former White House lawyer that it was unlawful to retain the documents, especially classified information.

-- Trump personally sorted through the documents and several of the documents had his handwritten notes on them.

-- Trump detailed on Truth Social personal knowledge and possession, access, and control of the documents.

-- Trump repeatedly told associates that the documents were his and he would not return them.

-- When informed the documents belonged to the United States, to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Trump still refused to return them.

-- When issued a subpoena for the documents, Trump refused to comply and sued the DOJ.

-- In summer 2021, Trump showed off the letters from Kim to people in his office.

-- Mar-a-Lago does not include a secure location authorized for the storage of classified information.

-- After Trump decided to return some boxes to NARA, his attorney Alex Cannon said the boxes needed to be shipped back as they were, so the professional archivists could be the ones to sift through the material, but Trump -- who no longer has a security clearance -- went through them himself.

Jeez, it just goes on and on and on. He took documents he was not entitled to have, refused to comply with a subpoena for their return, told lie after lie and obstructed the investigation.

All that said, if I was to place a bet, Biden's carelessness will allow the government to decline to prosecute Trump.