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Does seem like a double standard. If biden is too senile to remember, why is he still president?
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So Joe Biden was caught with illegally stolen secret documents in his garage, which were not secured. He was also caught with stolen secret docs at his Chinese funded foundation and caught with stolen secret docs at another residence. Yet the prosecutor who says Biden's memory is dangerously bad as he couldn't remember when he became vice-president or when his tenure as VP ended, choose not to prosecute a man who undeniably STOLE secret documents and failed to return them until his home was raided by the FBI. Yet the undeniable theft is not being prosecuted. Do you think this is yet another example of prejudice in the DOJ or the right decision to ignore Biden's lawbreaking?
Really people? Nobody bothered to even look into this post? Love your biased and inaccurate paragraph - mighty intelligent and mature of you. America we have a problem. I posted two articles in hopes someone would read them.
Excerpts from the article:
Why Trump was charged and Biden wasn't
While the special counsel "uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" in a way that "present[ed] serious risks to national security," the report said that "no criminal charges are warranted in this matter." Justice Department policy states that sitting presidents cannot be charged criminally, but Hur said his team would have reached the same conclusion even if it didn't.
Hur himself laid out the distinctions between Trump and Mr. Biden's cases.
"Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in other ways cooperated with the investigation," the report said.
It was that cooperation, combined with how the investigation began and the evidence of his knowledge and intent, that set the cases apart, according to Hur.
Trump, on the other hand, is accused of falsely claiming he was cooperating fully with the FBI and had turned over all documents sought by investigators, even though he continued to keep dozens of them.
"[A]fter being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it," Hur's report stated.
While Smith determined he had gathered enough evidence to bring charges against Trump, Hur wrote that "[t]he evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." The special counsel raised various potential defenses the president could raise at trial, including that Mr. Biden "did not willfully retain these documents and that they could plausibly have been brought to these locations by mistake." He also commented that Mr. Biden might come across to a jury as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
In short, Hur and Smith — both federal prosecutors with the ultimate goal of winning convictions if charges are warranted — reached different conclusions based on their views of the evidence before them.
Fredericksen, the former federal prosecutor, said, "The decision not to prosecute is the obvious right one" based on Mr. Biden's cooperation and the evidence in the report.
"It is not a close call at all. It is an easy decision to make," he added.
Prosecutors "don't bring cases like this," namely "when someone voluntarily steps forward," Fredericksen said. One of the most difficult aspects of a case for a federal prosecutor is proving and establishing the intent of a defendant, he argued. According to his view of the report, "There is no evidence that the president at any time had any significant awareness that what he was doing was wrong."
But with Trump, "The proof of obstruction, lying, as alleged in the indictment … That is what reflects the intentionality of the conduct," Fredericksen said.
Parlatore, Trump's former attorney, said he did not think charges were warranted in either case.
Instead, Parlatore argued the Trump and Biden investigations demonstrated a greater need for oversight over the handling of classified records in the federal government, which he said remains a "vulnerability."
"I don't think Trump should have been charged. I don't think Biden should have been charged," Parlatore said. "I think this is something that needs to get fixed procedurally."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-trump-classified-documents.html
Exerpts:
How are the situations similar?
The investigations involved the discovery that papers containing classified information had improperly accompanied Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden after they left office — Mr. Trump when he left the presidency in 2021, and Mr. Biden when he left the vice presidency in 2017 — and that were being stored improperly. In both cases, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate.
How did the two men’s responses differ?
In his report, Mr. Hur noted that “several material distinctions” between the two cases were clear and that the allegations against Mr. Trump, if proved, “present serious aggravating facts,” unlike the evidence involving Mr. Biden. In particular, he said, the two men had responded very differently to the situations.
“Most notably, after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite,” Mr. Hur said in the report. “According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it.”
He added: “In contrast, Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview and in other ways cooperated with the investigation.”
What was the biggest difference in evidence?
To prove a crime, it is necessary to establish whether the unauthorized retention of the sensitive files was “willful.” Because staff members packed up their belongings, prosecutors would need to show that Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump knew they possessed the materials after they were out of office, and there was a significant disparity in the available evidence.
As detailed in the indictment brought by the special counsel Jack Smith, the investigation of Mr. Trump uncovered substantial evidence indicating that he knew he still had government documents that were marked as classified and nevertheless failed to give them all back, even after being subpoenaed for them. He is accused of actively conspiring to keep them concealed.
By contrast, while Mr. Hur found some evidence that pointed toward the possibility that Mr. Biden knew he had classified documents, the special counsel concluded that the facts were not enough to actually prove it.
For example, the most important papers, which involved the Afghanistan war, were found with a jumble of unrelated material in a cardboard box in Mr. Biden’s garage. But Mr. Biden denied any knowledge of the papers or how they got there, speculating that people packing up the vice president’s mansion must have thrown them together.
“We do not know why, how or by whom the documents were placed in the box,” Mr. Hur wrote.
A separate issue involved notebooks in which Mr. Biden kept handwritten diary entries or notes on both his personal life and his official activities, including accounts of national security meetings involving classified matters.
While criticizing Mr. Biden for not storing them securely, Mr. Hur concluded that the former vice president had a good reason to believe he was authorized to keep them as personal property, citing precedents including former President Ronald Reagan.
What were the files in each case?
In Mr. Trump’s case, several hundred classified government files — along with thousands of unclassified documents and photos — ended up at his Florida club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, after he left the White House.
After a protracted effort, the National Archives and Records Administration was permitted to retrieve 15 boxes in early 2022, in which it discovered 197 classified files. In response to a subpoena for any remaining such records, Mr. Trump returned another batch. But an F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago uncovered yet another 102 classified documents.
According to court filings, the topics included intelligence briefings about various countries, including numerous ones about military matters, one about a country’s nuclear capabilities, and a contingency plan for attacking Iran.
An appendix to Mr. Hur’s report lists about 50 files from Mr. Biden’s vice presidency that were recovered, mostly involving the Afghanistan war, that were either marked as classified or that investigators later determined contained classified information, along with a few from trips abroad he took when a senator dating back to the 1970s.
Where were the files?
In Mr. Trump’s case, files were found in a locked storage room at Mar-a-Lago and in drawers in his office. The investigation also uncovered photographs showing some had been heaped in a bathroom and in a ballroom of the club
In Mr. Biden’s case, files ended up in a storage closet of an office suite at his Washington think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, that he used after he left the vice presidency and before running for president, and in his house in Delaware. The most important Afghanistan war papers were in a folder in a cardboard box in his garage.
What about the recordings?
One of the parallels between the two cases is that investigators in each obtained recordings in which Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden seemed to indicate that they knew they had classified information while out of office and talking to ghostwriters for books. But Mr. Trump’s reference was specific and investigators were able to connect it to a specific file, while Mr. Biden’s was vague and they were not able to identify what material he was talking about.
One of the charges against Mr. Trump involves a battle plan related to attacking Iran that he is accused of showing to visitors at his golf club in Bedminster. In an audio recording of that meeting, Mr. Trump can be heard rustling paper, and saying “as president I could have declassified it” but that it was still “secret.”
In an updated indictment, prosecutors said that very document was found among the 15 boxes of files that Mr. Trump returned to the National Archives and Records Administration in January 2022, months after the agency had sought to get them back. (Mr. Trump has claimed he never had the Iran battle plan at that meeting and was referring to something else.)
In Mr. Biden’s case, Mr. Hur obtained audio recordings and transcripts of the former vice president talking to a ghostwriter with whom he was working on a memoir about his deceased son, Beau, in 2017 after Mr. Biden left office and while he was living in a rented house in Virginia.
Mr. Biden read aloud passages from his notebooks to the ghostwriter, in one case showing him a word he could not read while warning the writer that material might be classified. On another occasion, Mr. Biden told the writer he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” The context was a discussion of a memo Mr. Biden had sent President Barack Obama opposing Mr. Obama’s decision to send a surge of troops into Afghanistan in 2009.
But while Mr. Hur explored the possibility that Mr. Biden’s offhand remark might have been a reference to the specific classified documents about the Afghanistan war that were later discovered in the Delaware garage — which, if true, would make the recording evidence of willful retention — he found no proof those files had been in the Virginia house.
Mr. Biden, for his part, said he had instead been referring to finding a copy of his unclassified memo to Mr. Obama, and that he had incorrectly characterized what made it sensitive and so not something he wanted the writer to talk about.
“I said ‘classified’; I should have said it should be ‘private,’ because it was a contact between a president and vice president as to what was going on,” Mr. Biden said at a news conference Thursday night, after Mr. Hur’s report came out. “That’s what he’s referring to. It was not classified information in that document. That was not classified.”
Mr. Hur also concluded that Mr. Biden’s reading from the notebooks fell short of proof that he had intentionally disclosed something that was specifically classified, and that overall the evidence in the matter was “insufficient to meet the government’s burden in a criminal prosecution.”
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Well git yer weapons ready for the civil war!
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What´s the Deep State?
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Did you read anything on this? If not, I suggest you do.
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2) There were decades of stolen documents found: "The classified documents and other materials recovered in this case spanned Mr. Biden's career in national public life."
3) Top secret materials were kept in unsecured area and illegally shared that information: " Mr. Biden kept these 2 classified notebooks in unsecured and unauthorized spaces at his Virginia and Delaware homes and used some of the notebooks as reference material for his second memoir, Promise Me, Dad, which was published in 2017. To our knowledge, no one has identified any classified information published in Promise Me, Dad, but Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those notebooks with his ghostwriter."
4) Biden admitted to his ghostwriter that he knew he had top secret documents illegally in his possession: "Mr. Biden wrote his 2007 and 2017 memoirs with the help of a ghostwriter. In a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, about a month after he left office, Mr. Biden said, while referencing his 2009 Thanksgiving memo, that he had "just found all the classified stuff downstairs." At the time, he was renting a home in Virginia, where he met his ghostwriter to work on his second memoir. Downstairs from where they met was Mr. Biden's office, where he stored his papers. He moved out of the Virginia home in 2019, consolidating his belongings in Delaware-where FBI agents later found marked classified documents about the Afghanistan troop surge in his garage."
5) Biden did not go tot he FBI- the FBI came to him. As such Biden did commit multiple felonies.
6) A rationale given for not prosecuting Biden for his crimes is his diminished mental capacity.
If Biden is too mentally deficient to be prosecuted for decades of document theft and sharing top secret information with persons not cleared, then he is to mentally deficient to serve as president.
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Hey bully boyi! Great! Now can you post the truth about Trump´s documents case? You did a great job analyzing Bidens.
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The “deep state” refers to powerful, non elected top government officials who use their entrenched power to either frustrate the decisions of the elected government, stage a coup by assassinating the President of the USA (John F. Kennedy), spy on political opponents, influence elections, and protect those in the elected government that they see as their tame dogs and protectors. One of the best examples today of a “deep state” is Pakistan’s intelligence services which are renowned for completely ignoring the wishes of the Pakistani government, and engaging in acts their own government disapproves of.
Another glaring example is the USA today, where the FBI used anti terrorism laws to spy on President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Guiliani, and then use embedded FBI agents within social media organisations to kill the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop. This meant that a US government organisation conspired to illegally interfere in a US election. Other examples are the 91 charges filed against the USA’s leading Presidential candidate by crooked DA’s like Fanni Willis, and the recent attempt by the Colorado bar association to have Donald Trump removed from the Colorado Presidential election ballot, using a spurious legal argument which hardly impressed the US Supreme Court. It would not be surprising if Colorado loses that one 9-0.
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Why Trump was charged and Biden wasn't
While the special counsel "uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" in a way that "present[ed] serious risks to national security," the report said that "no criminal charges are warranted in this matter." Justice Department policy states that sitting presidents cannot be charged criminally, but Hur said his team would have reached the same conclusion even if it didn't.
Hur himself laid out the distinctions between Trump and Mr. Biden's cases.
"Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in other ways cooperated with the investigation," the report said.
It was that cooperation, combined with how the investigation began and the evidence of his knowledge and intent, that set the cases apart, according to Hur.
Trump, on the other hand, is accused of falsely claiming he was cooperating fully with the FBI and had turned over all documents sought by investigators, even though he continued to keep dozens of them.
"[A]fter being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it," Hur's report stated.
While Smith determined he had gathered enough evidence to bring charges against Trump, Hur wrote that "[t]he evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." The special counsel raised various potential defenses the president could raise at trial, including that Mr. Biden "did not willfully retain these documents and that they could plausibly have been brought to these locations by mistake." He also commented that Mr. Biden might come across to a jury as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
In short, Hur and Smith — both federal prosecutors with the ultimate goal of winning convictions if charges are warranted — reached different conclusions based on their views of the evidence before them.
Fredericksen, the former federal prosecutor, said, "The decision not to prosecute is the obvious right one" based on Mr. Biden's cooperation and the evidence in the report.
"It is not a close call at all. It is an easy decision to make," he added.
Prosecutors "don't bring cases like this," namely "when someone voluntarily steps forward," Fredericksen said. One of the most difficult aspects of a case for a federal prosecutor is proving and establishing the intent of a defendant, he argued. According to his view of the report, "There is no evidence that the president at any time had any significant awareness that what he was doing was wrong."
But with Trump, "The proof of obstruction, lying, as alleged in the indictment … That is what reflects the intentionality of the conduct," Fredericksen said.
Parlatore, Trump's former attorney, said he did not think charges were warranted in either case.
Instead, Parlatore argued the Trump and Biden investigations demonstrated a greater need for oversight over the handling of classified records in the federal government, which he said remains a "vulnerability."
"I don't think Trump should have been charged. I don't think Biden should have been charged," Parlatore said. "I think this is something that needs to get fixed procedurally."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-trump-classified-documents.html
Exerpts:
How are the situations similar?
The investigations involved the discovery that papers containing classified information had improperly accompanied Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden after they left office — Mr. Trump when he left the presidency in 2021, and Mr. Biden when he left the vice presidency in 2017 — and that were being stored improperly. In both cases, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate.
How did the two men’s responses differ?
In his report, Mr. Hur noted that “several material distinctions” between the two cases were clear and that the allegations against Mr. Trump, if proved, “present serious aggravating facts,” unlike the evidence involving Mr. Biden. In particular, he said, the two men had responded very differently to the situations.
“Most notably, after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite,” Mr. Hur said in the report. “According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it.”
He added: “In contrast, Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview and in other ways cooperated with the investigation.”
What was the biggest difference in evidence?
To prove a crime, it is necessary to establish whether the unauthorized retention of the sensitive files was “willful.” Because staff members packed up their belongings, prosecutors would need to show that Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump knew they possessed the materials after they were out of office, and there was a significant disparity in the available evidence.
As detailed in the indictment brought by the special counsel Jack Smith, the investigation of Mr. Trump uncovered substantial evidence indicating that he knew he still had government documents that were marked as classified and nevertheless failed to give them all back, even after being subpoenaed for them. He is accused of actively conspiring to keep them concealed.
By contrast, while Mr. Hur found some evidence that pointed toward the possibility that Mr. Biden knew he had classified documents, the special counsel concluded that the facts were not enough to actually prove it.
For example, the most important papers, which involved the Afghanistan war, were found with a jumble of unrelated material in a cardboard box in Mr. Biden’s garage. But Mr. Biden denied any knowledge of the papers or how they got there, speculating that people packing up the vice president’s mansion must have thrown them together.
“We do not know why, how or by whom the documents were placed in the box,” Mr. Hur wrote.
A separate issue involved notebooks in which Mr. Biden kept handwritten diary entries or notes on both his personal life and his official activities, including accounts of national security meetings involving classified matters.
While criticizing Mr. Biden for not storing them securely, Mr. Hur concluded that the former vice president had a good reason to believe he was authorized to keep them as personal property, citing precedents including former President Ronald Reagan.
What were the files in each case?
In Mr. Trump’s case, several hundred classified government files — along with thousands of unclassified documents and photos — ended up at his Florida club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, after he left the White House.
After a protracted effort, the National Archives and Records Administration was permitted to retrieve 15 boxes in early 2022, in which it discovered 197 classified files. In response to a subpoena for any remaining such records, Mr. Trump returned another batch. But an F.B.I. search of Mar-a-Lago uncovered yet another 102 classified documents.
According to court filings, the topics included intelligence briefings about various countries, including numerous ones about military matters, one about a country’s nuclear capabilities, and a contingency plan for attacking Iran.
An appendix to Mr. Hur’s report lists about 50 files from Mr. Biden’s vice presidency that were recovered, mostly involving the Afghanistan war, that were either marked as classified or that investigators later determined contained classified information, along with a few from trips abroad he took when a senator dating back to the 1970s.
Where were the files?
In Mr. Trump’s case, files were found in a locked storage room at Mar-a-Lago and in drawers in his office. The investigation also uncovered photographs showing some had been heaped in a bathroom and in a ballroom of the club
In Mr. Biden’s case, files ended up in a storage closet of an office suite at his Washington think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, that he used after he left the vice presidency and before running for president, and in his house in Delaware. The most important Afghanistan war papers were in a folder in a cardboard box in his garage.
What about the recordings?
One of the parallels between the two cases is that investigators in each obtained recordings in which Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden seemed to indicate that they knew they had classified information while out of office and talking to ghostwriters for books. But Mr. Trump’s reference was specific and investigators were able to connect it to a specific file, while Mr. Biden’s was vague and they were not able to identify what material he was talking about.
One of the charges against Mr. Trump involves a battle plan related to attacking Iran that he is accused of showing to visitors at his golf club in Bedminster. In an audio recording of that meeting, Mr. Trump can be heard rustling paper, and saying “as president I could have declassified it” but that it was still “secret.”
In an updated indictment, prosecutors said that very document was found among the 15 boxes of files that Mr. Trump returned to the National Archives and Records Administration in January 2022, months after the agency had sought to get them back. (Mr. Trump has claimed he never had the Iran battle plan at that meeting and was referring to something else.)
In Mr. Biden’s case, Mr. Hur obtained audio recordings and transcripts of the former vice president talking to a ghostwriter with whom he was working on a memoir about his deceased son, Beau, in 2017 after Mr. Biden left office and while he was living in a rented house in Virginia.
Mr. Biden read aloud passages from his notebooks to the ghostwriter, in one case showing him a word he could not read while warning the writer that material might be classified. On another occasion, Mr. Biden told the writer he had “just found all the classified stuff downstairs.” The context was a discussion of a memo Mr. Biden had sent President Barack Obama opposing Mr. Obama’s decision to send a surge of troops into Afghanistan in 2009.
But while Mr. Hur explored the possibility that Mr. Biden’s offhand remark might have been a reference to the specific classified documents about the Afghanistan war that were later discovered in the Delaware garage — which, if true, would make the recording evidence of willful retention — he found no proof those files had been in the Virginia house.
Mr. Biden, for his part, said he had instead been referring to finding a copy of his unclassified memo to Mr. Obama, and that he had incorrectly characterized what made it sensitive and so not something he wanted the writer to talk about.
“I said ‘classified’; I should have said it should be ‘private,’ because it was a contact between a president and vice president as to what was going on,” Mr. Biden said at a news conference Thursday night, after Mr. Hur’s report came out. “That’s what he’s referring to. It was not classified information in that document. That was not classified.”
Mr. Hur also concluded that Mr. Biden’s reading from the notebooks fell short of proof that he had intentionally disclosed something that was specifically classified, and that overall the evidence in the matter was “insufficient to meet the government’s burden in a criminal prosecution.”
This "logic" would not impress anybody with triple digit IQ. As a former President, Donald Trump had a right to keep secret documents. Biden never had that privilege, and the documents had to be stolen from a "skiff". Stealing documents from a skiff is a serious criminal offence. What we have is yet another example of a two tiered justice system, where the deep state goes after it's political enemies with everything it has, while simultaneously whistling "dixie" and looking the other way at serious criminal behavior engaged on by their tame political protector. And is drug addled son.
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This "logic" would not impress anybody with triple digit IQ. As a former President, Donald Trump had a right to keep secret documents. Biden never had that privilege, and the documents had to be stolen from a "skiff". Stealing documents from a skiff is a serious criminal offence. What we have is yet another example of a two tiered justice system, where the deep state goes after it's political enemies with everything it has, while simultaneously whistling "dixie" and looking the other way at serious criminal behavior engaged on by their tame political protector. And is drug addled son.
Excerpts from the article:
Why Trump was charged and Biden wasn't
While the special counsel "uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials" in a way that "present[ed] serious risks to national security," the report said that "no criminal charges are warranted in this matter." Justice Department policy states that sitting presidents cannot be charged criminally, but Hur said his team would have reached the same conclusion even if it didn't.
Hur himself laid out the distinctions between Trump and Mr. Biden's cases.
"Mr. Biden turned in classified documents to the National Archives and the Department of Justice, consented to the search of multiple locations including his homes, sat for a voluntary interview, and in other ways cooperated with the investigation," the report said.
It was that cooperation, combined with how the investigation began and the evidence of his knowledge and intent, that set the cases apart, according to Hur.
Trump, on the other hand, is accused of falsely claiming he was cooperating fully with the FBI and had turned over all documents sought by investigators, even though he continued to keep dozens of them.
"[A]fter being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, Mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it," Hur's report stated.
HE OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE and this was determined by Hur, a Trump appointee.
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So Joe Biden was caught with illegally stolen secret documents in his garage, which were not secured. He was also caught with stolen secret docs at his Chinese funded foundation and caught with stolen secret docs at another residence. Yet the prosecutor who says Biden's memory is dangerously bad as he couldn't remember when he became vice-president or when his tenure as VP ended, choose not to prosecute a man who undeniably STOLE secret documents and failed to return them until his home was raided by the FBI. Yet the undeniable theft is not being prosecuted. Do you think this is yet another example of prejudice in the DOJ or the right decision to ignore Biden's lawbreaking?
Your OP was full of extreme lies and exaggeration. I would like for you to post proof on all that is italicized above. If you cannot, you are setting yourself up for distrust. Who wants to listen to a ? Unless of course you think trumpism is a desirable trait.
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The polls seem to indicate that most Americans think that "Trumpism" is a desirable trait. Some of them once thought that "Bidenism" was a desirable trait, but the reality that the USA is now the laughing stock of the world, with tyrants taking advantage of US weakness, with "sanctuary cities" crying "please! No more migrants!", with "Defund the Police now seen as absolute insanity, and with the "transgeneder" movement now pisssing off 51% of the US population who are females, they now realise their mistake.
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Sure Granny, happy to help. From the DOJ report:
Well that paragraph pretty much answered it all. But I'll add more
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The polls seem to indicate that most Americans think that "Trumpism" is a desirable trait. Some of them once thought that "Bidenism" was a desirable trait, but the reality that the USA is now the laughing stock of the world, with tyrants taking advantage of US weakness, with "sanctuary cities" crying "please! No more migrants!", with "Defund the Police now seen as absolute insanity, and with the "transgeneder" movement now pisssing off 51% of the US population who are females, they now realise their mistake.
Just_sayin posted an exaggeration and complete lies about Biden. You know it. He knows it. That´s trumpism. Cheat, lie, exaggerate, bully, gaslight and demonize. Trump was found guilty of obstruction of justice once again for lying to the FBI about the documents. He refused to give them up, had them hidden, and lied again. You refuse to believe anything about Captain Chaos, the little boy who never grew up. He is a sick and dangerous narcissistic with an authoritarian nature. He conned you from the get go. He bragged about his greatness and said he alone will fix it. He stoked distrust and suspicion of all government entities; the FBI, and especially the DOJ because he knew he would break the rules and the law and the DOJ would challenge him and he knew his conned supporters would be by his side when it happened. He read his crowd of supporters, and knew just what to feed them to keep them adoring him. He stoked hate and demonized the immigrants, the government, the police, the blacks, the trans - and what I take personal offense to is being called Vermin. A Hitler term. He conned his supporters into thinking all was evil except him. Bam. That´s what Hitler did. They all fell in line. They all hated on the Jews and the Marxists. You all hate on the government, the immigrants and the leftists. He told you he would build a wall and Mexico would pay for it. haha Really? He said he would drain the swamp? haha He created the swamp. Many are in jail now. He told you he would fix healthcare. Really. Nothing. He told you he would give you tax breaks - yeah, that end next year but gave the rich a HUGE tax break for life or until Congress changes it. His tax breaks for the wealthy created a huge deficit. He is the ringleader and his soldiers are in jail (the insurrectionists). He told his people to ¨fight like hell or they won´t have a country¨. He told them to ¨stop the steal¨. They fell for it and over 500 are in jail with more to come. The Mastermind is free while his foot soldiers are in prison. You fell for him. You thought you would belong to a King and he would take care of you. He CONNED you. He lies daily. He steals from his supporters and uses $ for his growing legal fees. He sells trading cards with his image as a superhero? W T F? Who does that? And you believe him. He profiteers off his supporters. And you believe him. His rallies are nothing but trash, lies and full of hate and if it wasn´t so damn sad and scary, it would be funny. And he has filled his supporters with the same. I feel sorry for you and all his supporters.
He fed you lies. He stole your brains and your hearts. May you find your brains and peace in your souls.
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From the way that the polls are going, most Americans do not agree with you. Most American remember that life under Trump was going quite well, and the USA went south almost the minute Biden and his puppeteers took over.
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Polls mean nothing yet.
Hitler was popular too. Then the holocaust happened. And then he wasn´t.
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Sweet Bejesus. You don´t even know the difference between lies and truth.
As I said, I feel sorry for Trump disciples.
Grow up. Be decent and learn how to think critically Bully Boy.
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...an exaggeration and complete lies about Biden.
Problem is there're turning out not to be complete exaggeration or lies...
The President has not been truthful about his family’s foreign business entanglements. • Weeks before the 2020 Presidential election, then-candidate Joe Biden said on national television that his family did not receive any money from China. That was a lie. Joe Biden not only knew about his family’s work with Chinese nationals, business associates have confirmed that Joe Biden met with his family’s Chinese associates—including while he was Vice President. • President Biden’s assertions that he never discussed business with his family are false. The Committees have also uncovered substantial information, including through whistleblowers, indicating that the Biden Administration has obstructed the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. This information includes evidence that Department of Justice personnel blocked avenues of inquiry that could have led to evidence incriminating President Biden and impeded efforts to prosecute Hunter Biden for tax crimes relating to foreign business arrangements that could have implicated President Biden. https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/impeachment-inquiry-scoping-memo-final.pdf
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