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Subject: Re: Judge Cannon dismisses Trump classifeid documents case
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:57:14 -0400
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On 7/15/2024 10:32 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <ev6b9jto5nsi6e65i6rk9abnrq764b52on@4ax.com>,
>   shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:38:50 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <YcCdnQjvpZTMCAj7nZ2dnZfqn_EAAAAA@giganews.com>,
>>> Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> atropos@mac.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And this was the only one of the prosecutions that had any actual
>>>>> legitimacy, too.
>>>>
>>>> No, it didn't.
>>>
>>> Yes, it did. Both Trump and Biden violated the law by absconding with
>>> classified documents. Biden even shared them with the writer who
>>> ghost-wrote his book, someone who had no clearance at all, let alone the
>>> TS-SCI clearance necessary to receive that information.
>>>
>>> They should both be held accountable, but the DOJ let Biden off the hook
>>> by declaring him an unprosecutable vegetable. So as long as Biden is
>>> going to skate, it's only fitting that Trump does so as well.
>>
>> That's not what was said but that isn't important. What is important
>> is Biden returned the documents he had of his own accord. Trump, on
>> the other hand, went out of his way to keep the documents he had to
>> the point of lying whether he had any documents when asked multiple
>> times if he had any and given the chance to return them. If he had
>> returned the documents he had when asked none of this would have
>> happened. Instead he lied and tried to hide the documents he had taken
>> to the point that the FBI had to come and get the documents.
> 
> Then they should have charged him with lying to the FBI-- that's what
> they got Martha Stewart on-- but they didn't. They charged him with
> illegally possessing the documents, something of which both Biden and
> Trump are guilty. If one gets off, the other should, too.

One cooperated and one didn't ...which I'm told makes a difference.