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The unexpected discovery of classified material in one of Joe Biden's former offices has literally thrown a wrench into the machine, just in time to disrupt and delay a pending prosecution of the Ochre Menace for his deliberate purloining of classified documents from the White House and stashing them at Mar-a-Lago in violation of the Espionage Act. Serendipitous? you bet'cha! Despite the two cases being factually distinct, the political overtones are outweighing the facts. Merrick the Timid has already appointed a special prosecutor to look into the reasons for the classified material being discovered in Biden's former think tank office he occupied between serving as Vice President and his campaign for President. More classified documents were found at his home garage in Wilmington, Delaware.
What does this development mean? The House Repugnants will generate a media frenzy and create a House investigation of the matter, making it politically difficult to prosecute Trump for hiding the Mar-a-Lago papers. In US Person's opinion, classification is a huge bête noir in the Swamp. The government tends to over-classify its documents, which leads to sloppy record-keeping and improper storage. The papers found in Biden's possession were probably improperly commingled with unclassified material by his staff and stored in insecure locations.
This unfortunate mishandling hardly measures up to Trump's insistence on retaining documents he knew he had no right to possess. Recovery in his case required a search warrant based on probable cause a crime had been committed*. His lawyers lied to the DOJ about more documents in Trump's possession. Eventually hundreds of pages were found. In legal terminology, Biden had no criminal intent to obstruct the government's recovery of classified material. Once discovered by Biden's attorneys, the dozen or so documents were immediately turned over to the National Archives. Nevertheless, there will be a national security assessment at the request of the Repugnant Chair of the House Intelligence Committee. How did the papers get into his former office and garage is the sixty-four dollar question. While President Biden announced he is cooperating with his Special Prosecutor, the Ochre Menace launched a savage attack on Special Prosecutor Jack Smith and his family over the radio.
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*Concerning the crimes of Trumpillini, a Manhattan court has order the Trump Org to pay $1.6 million fine, the maximum, for its decades of tax fraud. The Fulton County, Georgia special grand jury has completed its investigation of his attempts to pressure Georgia election officials into "finding" more vote for him in the 2016 election, which he legitimately lost to Biden. A RICO prosecution is a distinct possibility The special grand jury report is in the hands of the supervising judge who must decide whether to make it public. Obviously the people have a right to know if the former president may have committed crimes. Oh my, look at all the chickens!