Special counsel investigating Biden’s handling of classified material not expected to bring charges

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  1. omni

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    18 U.S. Code § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information

    That is the law Trump is being charged with. It does not say the documents have to be classified in order for a crime to have been committed. Trump's legal access to those documents on a private residence without explicit permission of ther government ended on January 20.

    If you see the law that I cited that Trump is being charged with, the differentiating factor is intent. Where was the intent from biden? Where did he obstruct access to documents for over a year? Do you believe that Trump still had a legal right to those documents?
     
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    Prove that NARA knew that Biden had them.
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    They didn’t even know what trump had. Biden gave his back, trump conspired to hide them and defy the subpoena.
     
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    Right, that law doesn't apply to the President. It does apply to Biden before he became President.

    We're getting there...
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    And it applies to trump once he’s no longer president.
     
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    “Oh, you’ve got him now…!”
     
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    It does.

    Do you think he got access to those documents after he was no longer President?
     
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    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    No and he wasn’t charged for just having access.
     
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    Is an Ex-president still the president?

    We're getting there...
     
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    No, but he has the presumption of any classified documents in his possession as being no longer classified.

    Now how did Biden get those documents as senator?
     
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    No such presumption exists. Their classification isn’t relevant to his charges.
     
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    So we're not talking about classified documents, simply documents.

    OK
     
  13. omni

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    According to the law that he is being charged with, classification status is irrelevant. So now why does the law not apply to an ex-president? That's the question.
     
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    Of course not. Dirtbag Merrick is the Biden Crime Family Fixer, but the House demanding witnesses show up and testify.
     
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    What happened to that Biden question you were supposed to answer?

    Still waiting.
     
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    Its been answered.

    I even cited the relevant circumstances in the law.
     
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    Hmm I asked that at #110 and somehow missed your answer in the 6 messages since.
     
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    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    The House's record of demanding witnesses show up and testify is not what it once was.... especially if the witness IS a House member...

    Good luck!!
     
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    Instead he tried flushing them down the toilet - what does that say about how dumb trump is?

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    Well, let’s say that if it were merely confidential ie the amount the pentagon spends on toilet paper versus say, plans to attack another country……..

    Bottom line Trump wasn’t just careless - he was stupidly careless.
     
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    Biden possessed documents that were compartmented; the highest level of classification.
     
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    Really? Still could be an accounting of pentagon toilet paper.
     
  25. Hey Now

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    And Agent Orange had over 30 boxes of the same, do you have any salient point to actually make.
     
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