ABC News article with key parts
follow with this headline:
“Trump compares his Espionage Act case to Clinton. (Reality) Winner's case
may be more apt: ANALYSIS”
Prosecutors alleged in Trump's indictment that he took
approximately 300 documents with classified markings with him when he left the
White House and then repeatedly sought to avoid giving
them back, despite requests, a
subpoena and, eventually, an FBI search.
Trump and his lawyers have denied any wrongdoing. They claim
that, as president, “…he had every right to keep the documents under the
Presidential Records Act so the Espionage Act doesn't apply.”
(Note: Legal experts dispute that in
interviews with ABC News).
Trump and his supporters have been claiming he's the victim of a legal double
standard, pointing to classified documents found to be
improperly held by his own former VP and current Republican political
rival, Mike Pence, and his past and present Democratic foes Hillary Clinton and now President Joe Biden.
While those comparisons may serve a useful political purpose, details
in each of those cases show they
don't come close to what crimes Trump now has been charged with.
In Pence's case:
Approximately a dozen documents with classified markings are thought to have
been found in his personal possession after he left office and then turned over
to the DOJ and they investigated and declined to
prosecute him.
In Clinton’s case:
DOJ prosecutors also declined to pursue charges against Hillary Clinton for
classified information that passed through her private email server at her home
that had controversially been set up to conduct government business while she
was serving as Obama’s Secretary of State.
About 193 emails containing very few classified information references
(not
actual documents) were sent to or from Clinton's personal email.
A DOJ IG investigation of
the Clinton probe found that the prosecutors and FBI agents “...could not prove that Clinton had actual knowledge that the emails in
question were classified or that Clinton used [in the private email account]
with the purpose or intent of receiving classified information on them.”
In other words, prosecutors
could not prove Clinton willfully disobeyed the law.
In Biden’s case: Meanwhile, the investigation into classified
information found at a non-government office
previously used by Biden and at his home is ongoing and being conducted by
Special Counsel Robert K. Hur.
President Biden provided quick and full cooperation with both the NARA and DOJ as soon as the docs were discovered – which is the exact
opposite of how Trump reacted before, during, and after the searches and
discovery but only when he was forced to respond in his case after the FBI
official search at Mar-a-Lago.
MORE: Trump makes legal claims
about classified documents, experts push back: Fact check
My 2 Cents: As usual with the classic Trump deny and delay tactic as
the above article clearly points out Trump says as usual: “It’s never me – it’s
XX’s fault not mine.”
That line has been his M.O. his whole adult life.
But, sorry Donald,
this time the evidence and facts trump your lies and crimes as the last two
indictments clearly prove.
Oh, and BTW: There are possibly
2-3 more indictments forthcoming. You are going down, rightly and legally so.
I also have to wonder who will go
down with him in the other pending cases (in GA, DC, and NYS).
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