The real Differences Between the Biden and Trump
Document Troves
by Victor Davis Hanson
*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, con-
trary 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. Before the 2020 presidential election they were not at
citizen Biden’s various troves for most of 2017-2020, much less
prior to 2009.
Second, we seem to forget that for much of the developing
controversy, Biden’s own team was investigating Biden.
On the other hand, the Biden administration’s Justice De-
partment and the FBI were not just investigating Trump as an out-
side party, but as a former president — and possible 2024 presi-
dential candidate and opponent of Biden himself.
Remember, the narrative of the first Democratic impeach-
ment of Trump was the allegation that Trump had used his powers
of the presidency to investigate Biden and his family, a likely
2020 challenger to Trump’s re-election bid.
Third, no one in a position of government authority had
passed judgment on Biden’s alleged security violations. That was
not the case of the still-alleged violations of Trump.
Biden, as president, had weighed in, during his own Justice
Department’s ongoing investigations of Trump. Indeed, he pro-
claimed the former president to be guilty: “How could anyone be
that irresponsible?” In contrast, he also dismissed the ongoing
investigation of himself with “There is no there, there.”
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.
Fifth, the FBI was not merely asymmetrical in melodramatic-
ally raiding the Trump home while allowing Biden lawyers to in-
spect various Biden stashes. The FBI also leaked the purported
contents of the subjects of the Trump classified documents
(falsely spreading the lie of “nuclear codes” and “nuclear
secrets") in a way it has not with the Biden cache.
The FBI went so far as to scatter the documents on the floor
for a fake news photo-op as if the papers were so messily arrayed
when they arrived.
So far, the FBI has come lightly and belatedly to the Biden
case without the SWAT team get-up, and only under pressure from
the public and the Republican opposition.
Sixth, Biden did not “self-report.” Biden’s team did not call
the relevant government authorities the minute they discovered
the classified documents in Biden’s office and home and garage.
In truth, Biden, or someone close to Biden, certainly knew
that he or someone close to him had illegally removed classified
documents when he left the vice presidency in 2017 — or years
earlier as a senator.
For at least the past six years — at least — Biden has felt no
compunction to confess to authorities he illegally was in posses-
sion of classified documents.
Indeed, the only reason the current troves are coming to
light was apparent White House paranoia that the media, the Biden
Justice Department, and the special counsel were so fixated on the
Trump documents that they likely feared someone might raise the
logical question of whether a hypocritical Biden himself might be
guilty of exactly the crime for which they were pursuing Trump.
Worse, Biden and his staff knew classified documents were
in his possession before the midterms but deliberately suppressed
that information until after the elections were over.
Seventh, Trump’s documents were stored only at one place
— Mar-a-Lago — and only for about 19 months. Biden’s were
stashed at various locations for nearly seven years, or perhaps
more than a decade. There were far more opportunities of time
and space for those without security clearances to have access to
the Biden documents than to the Trump files.
Eighth, the press has exhaustively speculated, usually wrong-
ly, about how the documents reached Mar-a-Lago and what they
contained. In contrast, no one knows or even asks why Biden took
classified documents, what they concerned or who if any in his
family circle had access to them.
Ninth, Trump’s documents did not expose other liabilities of
the constantly investigated Trump. The Biden files so far have
directed attention to the mysterious tens of millions of dollars in
communist Chinese money that poured into Biden’s think tank at
the University of Pennsylvania, the proximity of members of the
quid pro quo Biden consortium to these classified papers, and the
files’ relevance, if any, to the Biden family’s overseas
businesses.
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.
Tenth, Trump possessed contested documents as a private
citizen. Biden’s files under contention involve the current be-
havior of the president of the United States. Biden ran for office,
was elected and serves as president with the full knowledge that
during all this time he unlawfully possessed classified documents.
VDH*
It is easy to see how corrupt and divisive the Left has become
and the fact that they don't even know what transparency means.
They have built their party and Administration on lies and making
sure that do everything possible to silence the Conservative point
of view. Truth and facts are the last things they want Americans
to know and they will do anything to obstruct efforts to inform
the American people of what they are doing to destroy the economy.
Between the Democrats, DOJ, Big Tech, and World Economic
Forum we are in a place from which only God can rescue us.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 