Classified documents found in Joe's residence date all the way back to the time he was a U.S. senator. Joe Biden had no authority as a United States Senator to declassify the documents he took, and possessed the classified documents in violation of U.S. law. That's an open and shut case. Additionally, documents have been found at multiple locations, in boxes in an unsecured in a garage is one place. Why, when, and where are the answers Joe Biden refuses to provide.
So a few docs were from when he was a Senator. He went from Senator to VP. We do not know what the content was about. That the docs were found in the Penn Center and two places in his home is not the big deal you are making it - "multiple locations". They were in locked areas.
There has to be proof of intent and the DOJ will not charge a sitting president.
As to Trump, the National Archives boxed up documents and delivered those documents to Mar-a-lago. Then later they decided they wanted some back.
That is simply not true at all! That is a lie. White house staff packed up the Trump's belongs and the documents which were found among the personal items.
The policy is that the documents had to be returned once he was not president so the National Archives would
NOT have packed them to be sent to Mar-a-lago. And they did not want "some back" - they wanted them all and wanted them once he stopped being president.
Some reality:
Former aides recall secretively packing boxes during Trump's last days in White House because he thought he'd stay in office
According to the Times, the former Trump officials who were interviewed said they didn't recall seeing classified material going into boxes. But several of the people said that the packing had to happen in secret "to avoid being ordered to stop by Mr. Trump, who continued to assert that he had won the election."
NBC News reported in August that once Trump realized his time as commander in chief was up, he hurriedly stuffed document after document into banker boxes and shipped them to his Palm Beach estate. Politico last month
cited former aides who said the Oval Office and an adjacent private dining room only got packed up the weekend before Trump left the White House.
Since then, Trump insisted docs were his when they were not his. It is why he refused to cooperate with the National Archives and why they had to have the FBI raid Mar-a-Lago.
Trump allowed the federal government to come in an look at what he had, the FBI was there but rather than take any they asked him to put a better lock on the door. Trump, at his own expense, complied. His attorneys were in negotiations over what documents the National Archives decided they wanted back when a large contingent of armed FBI agents raided Trump's residence, pawing through his wife's clothes and his son's room. Trump maintains he declassified the documents in question, the Justice Department says he did not but so far has been unable to prove their case.
THAT's a creative view of it!
Here is a timeline:
Here's a look at the events that have transpired over the course of the government's attempts to get back the documents.
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2021;
May 6: The Archives requests that Trump turn over missing records, and continues to ask for the documents until late December.
December: A Trump representative informs the Archives they located 12 boxes of material at Mar-a-Lago and the agency arranges for them to be securely brought back to Washington.
2022:
Jan. 18: Fifteen boxes of records, some containing classified material, are retrieved from Mar-a-Lago by Archives representatives.
Jan. 31: The Archives says in a
statement that some of Trump's presidential records it received included "paper records that had been torn up by" the former president.
The Archives notes that under the Presidential Record Act, all records created by presidents must be handed over to the agency at the end of their administrations.
Feb. 9: The Archives' Office of the Inspector General
sends a referral to the Justice Department requesting it investigate Trump's handling of records. The referral notes a preliminary review of the 15 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago indicated they contained newspapers, printed news articles, photos, notes, presidential correspondence and "a lot of classified records." "Of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records, and otherwise unproperly [sic] identified," the referral stated.....
April 29: The Justice Department's National Security Division tells Corcoran that there are "important national security interests in the FBI and others in the intelligence community getting access to these materials."....
Aug. 5: The Justice Department seeks and obtains a
search warrant for Mar-a-Lago from a
federal magistrate judge in West Palm Beach.,,,,
The department says that prior to seeking the warrant, the FBI "uncovered multiple sources of evidence" indicating classified documents were still at Mar-a-Lago, despite the sworn certification made June 3.
Federal prosecutors say the FBI also "developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation."
The search warrant approved by the judge allows the FBI to search the "45 Office," which is Trump's office space at Mar-a-Lago, as well as all storage rooms and other rooms used or available to Trump and his staff where boxes could be stored.....
Aug. 8: The Justice Department executes the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago beginning around 10 a.m. At least two of Trump's lawyers, Christina Bobb and Lindsey Halligan,
are present, and Bobb signs a receipt listing the property seized by the FBI at 6:19 p.m.
It reads different from your narrative.
In Biden's case the theft of classified documents was covered up, the first documents were found before the November elections and the story was uncovered by the press in January. If not for the press the coverup might have worked forever.
The National Archives is NOT the repository for all classified documents. Intelligence agencies maintain their own classified files. There is no reason to assume the classified documents Joe stole, particularly when he was a senator, were from the National Archives.
One, there is NO indication of "theft". Your use there is totally biased. If anyone stole, it was Trump. Two, there was no request from the National Archives for the records. Had Biden's lawyers not notified the Archives, nothing would have been known about it. But they were honest and did return them. That is not the behavior of those in a cover up.
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To me the border is the worst scandal because it cost so many lives with Afghanistan not far behind. But appointing a special counsel to go after Trump at a time when the administration already knew about the classified documents at Penn and covering it up may be Joe's undoing. There are so many, the attacks on the border patrol when they knew it was not "whipping," the persecution of the non-violent people at the Capitol who were just there and the cover-up of the role of Nancy Pelosi and the FBI instigators, and gunning down Ashli Babbitt.
