The Real Differences Between the Biden
and Trump Document Trove
Real Clear Politics,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
1/26/2023 8:59:34 AM
Former President Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled "classified" at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did President Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware.
Yet otherwise, the comparisons between the two cases, contrary to popular punditry, hardly favor Biden.
First, a stranger would face a far greater challenge entering a post-presidential Mar-a-Lago than a pre-presidential Biden home, office, or garage -- or who knows where?
Secret service agents and private security were stationed at Mar-a-Lago. Prior to the 2020 presidential election they were not at citizen Biden's various troves for most of 2017-2020, much less prior to 2009.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EQKimball 1/26/2023 9:38:24 AM (No. 1387623)
The biggest difference is that Biden’s son had daily physical access to state secrets while he was on the Chinese payroll. and is now receiving huge sums for “art” making him the highest paid artist per painting in America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/26/2023 9:44:58 AM (No. 1387631)
The questions that beg to be answered are who found the documents and why were they looking for them now? Apparently, they were right there in plain sight and no one questioned that until now? This whole thing stinks to high heaven as most anything does to do with the Bidens. Are the Bidens trying to out-Kennedy the Kennedys?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/26/2023 10:34:03 AM (No. 1387667)
Every major factor is different including the fact that Trump is a smart, honest man and Brandon is a dimwitted, corrupt dunce.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Miamiwarrior 1/26/2023 10:40:24 AM (No. 1387677)
Both the FBI and the media are complicit in the Biden stonewalling and kids glove handling
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/26/2023 11:01:56 AM (No. 1387714)
This article is about the weakest - - and dopiest - - thing Hanson has ever written. There is one difference - - and only one difference. Trump was president - - and Biden was not.
The Constitution specifically states that the President - - the person - - is the entire Executive Branch of the federal government. And that applies to all presidents - - whether it's Trump, 0bama, Taft, Cleveland or Van Buren. All of those departments and bureaucracies exist to provide him with the information he needs to make decisions. And ONLY the president can make executive branch decisions. He can overrule any decision made by anyone else who works in the executive branch.
Those "classified" documents exist only to inform the president. He has total ownership and control over all of them. He can classify - - or declassify - - any executive branch document at any time - - and in any way. There is no "procedure" that he has to follow. The documents are his - - and his alone.
And no one else - - not the vice president - - or any of the cabinet secretaries - - or any of the bureaucracy - - has any power at all to control the nature of executive branch documents. It is illegal for them to do so - - without explicit permission from the president.
That's all anyone needs to know. The president IS the executive branch - - and everyone else is NOT!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 1/26/2023 11:49:59 AM (No. 1387775)
Didn't the FBI/DOJ go through Melania's closet and Barron's bedroom?
Why not the Biden family?
Who knows.
There might be documents in Jilly's fishnet stockings. /s
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/26/2023 12:13:06 PM (No. 1387788)
FTA: "Did Hunter Biden ever consult or view classified documents while living in a home with them? Will there be fingerprint or DNA tests on the documents? If Hunter consulted any of these classified documents, then the Biden presidency is finished."
Hunter Biden's 1,300 word, 22 point email written to Devon Archer read like a high level briefing. Two months prior the junior Biden had been expelled from the Navy for failing a drug test with cocaine in his system. I would bet that there is a corresponding document making the same points found in the email. If that was a top secret document, both Bidens will be implicated. Joe (and Dr. Jill) will have to go, disgraced and despised.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 1/26/2023 3:15:09 PM (No. 1387900)
BTW, poster #5, that same law applies to the sainted Vice President Mike Pence. He is equally as culpable as is Brandon. Lock them both up.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/26/2023 6:07:29 PM (No. 1388011)
#6
I read, or heard, that the FBI search of the bidet residence was restricted to approved areas. They were not allowed a comprehensive search
Perhaps someone can verify that.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
homefry 1/27/2023 7:28:01 AM (No. 1388364)
Trumps records were under secret service protection at all times, were they not?
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Biden held these documents in an UNSECURE location for decades......that is the biggie
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/27/2023 8:29:12 AM (No. 1388414)
One is a crime the other isn't. Which is which depends on your political persuasion.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/27/2023 9:06:05 AM (No. 1388443)
So what if there are differences, VDH. Has biden the cheater, Hunter, or anyone close to them been indicted yet or at least referred to the doj for indictment, or even at least been investigated by congress? {crickets - in all three cases}
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/27/2023 11:12:24 AM (No. 1388586)
Excellent post #2...WHY now...after all these years?...was the upcoming investigations by the house a contributor to the suddenly searches...and where's obamas docs...I know...in an ole warehouse in Chicago on the Southside in a very marginal neighborhood..from where he came....remember when he couldn't afford a rent-a-car...he was so poor....yeah right!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/27/2023 11:13:57 AM (No. 1388588)
To me, the big difference is Trump had a right to those documents. As a Senator, and later, as a VP, Biden, did not
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/27/2023 11:15:39 AM (No. 1388590)
Okay..I'll give you that...hunter had access to the docs...but he was so wired with drugs couldn't even read them...he left his laptop at a repair shop and forgot to pick it up...and dropped a gun in a garbage can near a school...now really...does that sound like someone who's in charge?...I think not!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
joew9 1/27/2023 11:23:07 AM (No. 1388597)
Weren't Trumps documents in a safe. That had been approved by the FBI
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 1/27/2023 11:25:15 AM (No. 1388601)
I agree with everything Ida Lou Pino has said. That's my thoughts too #5.
I would only add one thing. The Left raided President Trump's home Aug. 8 for many reasons. Could one reason be to cover for Joe Biden's stolen classified documents he had in his many homes/places?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/27/2023 2:50:39 PM (No. 1388775)
FTA: "Fourth, Trump is certainly right that as president he had a far more substantial claim of declassification rights than did Biden, who took the papers out either as a senator or vice president.
Re: #5 - VDH's other nine points, contrasting differences between the cases of Trump and Biden, vis-a-vis possession of documents marked "classified," despite your denial, are valid, and as such, those points vividly highlight the current administration's disparate treatment of a former president and a sitting leftist buffoon.
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