
<p>When we were a child, I suspect we can all remember excusing something we did by saying, “Johnny did it” – only to have mother rhetorically ask, “Would you jump in the lake if Johnny did?” ; (We probably would, but the point was not lost.)</p>



<p>Whenever the question of the White House documents in the illegal possession of President Biden, the Democrat partisans spend most of the time explaining the differences between the two cases – and there are differences, but they are irrelevant to the basic facts.</p>



<p>The fundamental transgression is the same. ; Both President Trump and President Biden possessed documents that they were not supposed to have, according to authorities. ; That is the basic fact.</p>



<p>Some note that Trump refused to return the documents – claiming he had a right to them. The Department of Justice used extreme means to get back as much as they could. ; Biden has agreed to (1) return any documents inappropriately and illegally removed from government custody and (2) eventually allow the DOJ to conduct a search of his home in Wellington. ;</p>



<p>The <em>vive la difference</em> proponents also note that Trump had a lot more government documents – including top secret documents – than Biden.  ; That, too, is irrelevant.</p>



<p>To understand why all these differences raised in defense of Biden are irrelevant, think of it this way. ; You have two guys who possess “stolen” goods that they obtained from the rightful owners. ; The fact that one of the guys gave up the ill-gotten goods voluntarily and the other did not, make no difference to the fact that they both had “stolen” goods.</p>



<p>The number of items makes no difference. ; If these guys were both bank robbers, you would not exonerate one of them because he did not get as much cash as the other guy.</p>



<p>In other words, unless they can prove that Trump helped Biden procure the documents improperly, the former President has NOTHING to do with the Biden case. ; They are two completely different cases with only one mutual fact. ; They both obtained and possessed documents that were illegally removed from the White House.</p>



<p>So, let us look at the Biden case without gratuitous politically motivated comparisons.</p>



<p>The Biden defense is that all the documents in his possession were taken “unwittingly” by some anonymous staffer – suggesting that he had no idea that he possessed such documents. ; Biden does not say that, but the implication is there.</p>



<p>I find the dog-ate-the-homework excuse impossible to believe. ; Biden had improper possession of documents since his days in the Senate (that needs of ‘splaining) and as Vice President &#8212; and he never knew of any of those documents, secret and otherwise? ; Come on, man. ; He had some of the documents for more than 10 years. ;</p>



<p>Furthermore, the media myopically focuses on the secret documents in Biden’s case. ; We are now up to 30 classified documents – but are yet to learn how many other White House documents have improperly found their way into Biden’s private world. ; Remember, it is also illegal to take non-secret documents home from the White House – even what the media calls “Biden’s personal handwritten notes.” ; I expect the next revelation drip with be the total number.</p>



<p>While Biden is being praised for “fully cooperating,” that is not entirely true. ; And there was an obvious attempt to resolve the problem without transparency. ; The initial documents were found by his lawyers in November. ; Those documents were returned to the National Archives quietly. ; Then more documents were found in December – at Biden’s private office at the University of Pennsylvania. ; And still, no effort to inform the public – until the story was leaked to CBS and spread through the media. ; ;</p>



<p>An unanswered question is why it took a month to uncover the second batch. ; And it was another month before team Biden “discovered” yet more classified documents in January. ; What took so long? ; While we do not know the specific answer, we can safely say that the search by the Biden lawyers was neither timely nor thorough.</p>



<p>Once the case was turned over to Special Counsel Robert Hur, the FBI carried out a “thorough search” of Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. ; They completed in hours what the Biden lawyers had been dragging out for months – and MORE classified documents were found that the lawyers missed. ; Yes, more were found where team-Biden had allegedly searched on several occasions over several months.</p>



<p>There may be more classified documents if the FBI carries out searches at Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home and other locations where he worked and resided. ; It would be a dereliction of duty if they do not.</p>



<p>At some point, we will see the scope of the Biden Collection – classified and not. ; That, however, is only the foundation for the serious issues to be investigated.</p>



<p>First of all, there will be efforts to see who could have removed those documents. ; Who selected the files to be put into the moving boxes? ; Did Biden select files to be packed – either by others or himself? ; If Biden is to have any defense at all, someone will have to be identified as the culprit – the scapegoat. ; Who decided which files went where?</p>



<p>As part of the Special Counsel investigation, the files will be fingerprinted to see who handled them. ; That may not be definitive proof of who packed them up, but it will limit the field of potential suspects. ; It would be more telling to see whose fingerprints were on the moving boxes.</p>



<p>Then there is the issue of the subject matter of the improperly removed files. ; Did any of them have to do with the President’s son Hunter’s highly questionable business activities in Ukraine, Russia, and China? ; Was there any information connecting the President to Hunter’s business activities? ; ;</p>



<p>Of course, if that was the purpose to remove such evidence, it is likely such files would have been destroyed by now.  ; But until a complete investigation is concluded, there remains the possibility that some of the information may prove to be embarrassing for Biden.</p>



<p>Then there is the BIG issue. ; Who else had access to the files at the various locations? ; It seems more than likely that some unauthorized people would have delved into the boxes and files – especially those at the University. ; None of the documents were adequately secured from curious eyes. ; Fingerprints may lead to folks who could only have touched the documents after they were removed from government custody.</p>



<p>The records at the home may have exposed the documents to a very limited number of people, but those at the University are potentially more problematic. ; Based on what we know, there were a significant number of people who had access to that office – some with their own keys. ; In fact, one of the pursuits is to find out how many people did have keys – from Biden to the cleaning staff.</p>



<p>What is particularly disturbing is the fact that the creation of the Biden office at the University came suspiciously close to a $50 million gift to the school from the Peoples’ Republic of China. ; The possibility of a connection cannot be ignored.</p>



<p>Despite Biden’s cryptic comment on the subject, there is a LOT of there there – and most of it is yet to be discovered. ; And none of it has anything to do with the Trump case or the Democrats and media’s attempts to deflect from the facts of the Biden case. ;</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Trump/Biden Document Cases Are Not Related … So Stop Comparing Them
