It is ingenuous to argue that that is the only difference.If you steal a car and return it, you have still stolen a car and committed a crime. Whether or not you return the car or the cops come and take it from you. Insert classified documents in place of car and you realize how foolish many on this board sound. Only difference between Trump and biden is that Trump had the ability to declassify documents because he was president at the time and biden unfortunatly was not.
If Biden and Trump both had in their posession classified documents it doesn't matter how they are returned. They still had the documents in their possesion. If Pence has classified documents, it doesn't matter how they are returned, he still had them. Just because you like Biden doesn't mean that we can overlook the fact that he had classified documents because he returned them without a fight. He still had the documents.It is ingenuous to argue that that is the only difference.
1) There is a formal procedure to declassify documents. Even the president cannot do so after the fact just by saying so after getting caught.
2) Biden returned the documents immediately and voluntarily. Trump resisted for months and, according to his former aides, still has some.
What of Pence been caught with some?
Wrong answer, Your Honor.
President Biden’s nominee for a federal judgeship in Washington state proved unable to answer simple questions about the Constitution from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) during her confirmation hearing.
“Tell me what Article V of the Constitution does,” Kennedy asked of Spokane County Superior Court Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s proceedings Wednesday.
“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” Bjelkengren responded.
“How about Article II?” Kennedy pressed.
“Neither is Article II,” Bjelkengren blanked, leaving Kennedy scratching his head.
Biden nominated Bjelkengren to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern District of Washington...
Meanwhile, on Earth 2, Republicans are losing their minds over waiting until the Chinese balloon was over the ocean before it was shot down. Just another phony crisis. Ridiculous congressional hearings will, no doubt, follow once Hunter Biden's laptop investigation is completed. Lunatic Republicans are now balloonatics. LOL.Joe a pété la balloune des Chinois....lollll...well done....that"s what happens quand on se pense supérieur/intouchable/ inattaquable....lolllll....une bonne réplique et leçon.
Meanwhile, on Earth 2, Republicans are losing their minds over waiting until the Chinese balloon was over the ocean before it was shot down. Just another phony crisis. Ridiculous congressional hearings will, no doubt, follow once Hunter Biden's laptop investigation is completed. Lunatic Republicans are now balloonatics. LOL.
President Biden loves to take credit where it isn’t due. His latest?
“Thanks to the quick action of my administration over the last few days, Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” the prez smugged Monday morning of his administration’s extraordinary move Sunday to make whole the depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, far above FDIC-insured amounts, to head off possible systemic failures.
First, it’s been less than two days — far too soon to see if the wider danger is over.
Worse, this “Joe to the rescue” schtick is completely disingenuous. Biden’s dismal economic leadership got us here.
He dumped trillions into an economy already running hot in 2021. When inflation headed for the stratosphere, the White House first dismissed it as “transitory,” then insanely tried to pin the biggest blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin and greedy corporations for the price hikes punishing everyday Americans.
The resultant rate hikes as the Federal Reserve moved belatedly and aggressively to tame inflation cratered the value of SVB’s “safe” long-maturity investments; when withdrawals forced premature liquidations, the overextended bank (yes, SVB management shares the blame too) was finished.
Meanwhile, Biden’s Treasury secretary has been busy trying to negotiate a global deal for higher taxes worldwide, while his other financial regulators have focused on pushing social justice priorities (including his energy price-hiking “climate change” agenda) in the corporate world.
One sign of just how skewed priorities have grown: Team Biden is encouraging retirement plan managers to use woke metrics for investments, rather than seeking the best returns.
And SVB listened. The bank committed some $5 billion to back “sustainable finance and carbon neutral operations” in 2022; one of its risk-management honchos spent her time launching Pride Month celebrations as her employer rushed toward the cliff edge.
That — and the fact that many of its depositors are tech firms that overwhelmingly give to Dems — accounts for how swiftly Biden moved to aid them. Those are the “small businesses” he vows to protect.
This bailout will devour a massive piece of the FDIC’s insurance fund; the cost of replenishing it will fall on other banks. And guess who pays then? Average consumers, via hiked service fees.
Biden (before jetting off to a West Coast fundraiser) demanded that Americans look at these bank failures in the “broader context.”
Please do: The correct “context” is that this is largely the result of Biden’s preferred economic policies.