Those infected with the Trump Derangement Syndrome orchestrated an investigation, an FBI raid on President Donald Trump’s home, and charges, for allegedly keeping presidential documents that were protected by security established by FBI standards.
At the same time, Joe Biden was confessing to committing to offenses even worse – keeping government documents, as a former vice president, in unsecured locations, talking publicly about them.
And he was given a complete pass.
It is constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, whose advice on the Constitution at times has guided actions by Congress, who raised the issue of the criminal acts to which Biden confessed in tape recordings of interviews with a hired ghostwriter, tapes that recently were made public.
“The Justice Department had already declared and defended in court the idea that such removal and retention of classified material did constitute a federal crime by a president, let alone a vice president,” he explained. “Where Trump acknowledged his retention of classified material and agreed to security measures that the FBI requested, Biden did not inform anyone of his classified materials and kept them in his garage long after the Mar-a-Lago raids. Meanwhile, in public, he expressed shock that any president would act as recklessly as Trump.”
Special counsel Robert Hur “investigated” and refused to bring charges because a jury would see Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”
“It sounds more like a cynical, shrewd politician with poor ethics. It also sounds like it would have been a strong foundation for a prosecution,” Turley explained.
He warned, “For many, the tapes will reinforce the view of a two-tier legal system, long maintained by the Justice Department, whereby key Democratic figures including Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden were given favorable treatment while others were indicted for similar conduct.”
He explained, “What is truly galling for some of us is that Biden knew all of this when he went public to attack Hur for suggesting that he had knowingly retained classified material and showed diminished mental faculties— at one point forgetting when his son Beau died. Biden savaged Hur at the time for raising this issue, famously demanding, ‘How the hell dare he raise that?’ Even that was a lie, because it was Biden who had raised Beau’s death in the interview,” Turley pointed out.
In fact, at one point Biden wildly claimed, “I’ve seen headlines since the report was released about my willful retention of documents. This assertion is not only misleading, it’s just plain wrong.”
Turley wrote that what the record now confirms is that, “Biden lacked clarity on most everything but his alleged crimes. His deception and culpability were established in both the Zwonitzer [ghostwriter] and Hur interviews. Biden gave Hur a virtual confession, and Hur gave him a pass.”
It was lawyers for Biden who fought for years to prevent the public from hearing those tapes, obtained by Hur during his investigation.
Now it’s clear why, Turley said.
“In addition to showing Biden’s mental diminution even before he was elected president, the tapes show that Biden effectively confessed to the crimes Hur would later excuse on the grounds of his mental infirmity.”
The tapes were made for ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, years before Biden was elected president, and showed he “was already having trouble remembering names and dates.”
The expert explained, “Hur was tasked with determining whether Biden had committed the same crimes that led later to charges against President Trump — retaining classified material, mishandling such material, and related crimes. It turns out that Biden had already admitted to these alleged crimes, years before the documents were found in various offices and the garage of his home.”
Biden’s explanation at the time of his possession of unsecured, classified government documents: “They’re mine.”
He openly speculated about Trump how “anyone could be that irresponsible.”
The facts are that, “We now know that Biden himself was.”
