Top Secret Documents with Biden Less Like Mar-a-Lago and More Like Watergate

When news broke last week that top secret documents had been discovered in an office used by Joe Biden, the cries of hypocrisy and double standards rose from the right like it was the 15th ballot and Biggs just voted "present." However, the differences between that and the Mar-a-Lago raid are so significant that even people with Lauren Boebert's level of education might understand them if the differences were drawn out for them in pictures. My hope is to inspire thought, and I accept that thinking is not something people like Boebert do often. 

Anyway, for the rest of you, here are the reasons that the top-secret documents found stored improperly in Biden's possession is not like the Mar-a-Lago raid. In fact, it is probably no more scandalous than the cover-up of the Watergate break-in by Nixon.

Biden's people discovered the documents and notified the National Archives and the DOJ. The documents in Trump's possession were requested and then demanded by the National Archives. The documents weren't returned. Many boxes of documents were seized by the DOJ via an FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. In Biden's case, a dozen or so documents were discovered and immediately returned.

Biden's people have fully cooperated with the National Archives in getting the documents returned. Trump's people ran interference. They claimed everything from the documents belonged to him and the FBI planted them, all the way to Trump was able to declassify the documents telepathically. 

Ultimately, it is clear that Biden inadvertently held onto some documents that should have been returned. It is not so clear what nefarious intentions Trump had with the documents he possessed, but it is clear that it wasn't an accident because Trump fought to retain the documents. 

Whether Trump intended to use the classified documents for blackmail or to sell to foreign governments is not publicly known. Both have been speculated as possible motives. The only unbelievable claims are that he did it for altruistic or humanitarian reasons. 

Trump only does things for Trump. Many people who have helped him pull off scams and have paid for their crimes in doing so have testified to that.

Biden, on the other hand, is not driven to the same end as is Trump. Trump only serves his own interests, whereas Biden serves the interests of his big-money donors. They don't want America to fail in order that an egotistical bastard can be installed as the king unless it is them, and, collectively, they know they can't all be kings. They want to retain the oligarchy system that is in place. They are motivated to retaining almost all the growth in the economy, which includes maintaining government payments going to the military industrial complex. 

That all proves that the top-secret documents in the possession of Biden justifiably did not raise concerns as much as the top-secret documents in the possession of Trump. At best, this scandal reaches the level of Watergate.

The complex question that ultimately ended the career of Nixon was this: "What did the president know, and when did he know it?" 

The documents in Biden's possession were discovered last November. We, the public, are just hearing about it now because the press just found out about it. The apparent transparency of the investigation by Biden, and the appointment of a special counsel by the DOJ, are reactions to the public finding out about this. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the appointment was to give the appearance of fairness in a situation that could be seen as political. However, the timing of appointing a special counsel now seems like it is giving their political decision the appearance of fairness. 

If it was about fairness, he would have appointed the special counsel when he learned about it, and not after the press and the public learned about it. Nixon was not guilty of the unnecessary break-in at the Watergate Hotel, but he knew about the break-in. Biden is not guilty of possessing top-secret documents for nefarious reasons, but he knew for a couple of months about the top-secret documents being found. 

What all this means is that while the Tea Party RINOs in the GOP were destroying the Republican party, Biden and others were trying to cover up an embarrassing incident that Trump and his flock of domestic enemies certainly would have tried exploiting for his defense. His attempts to use it as a defense would likely have failed, but Trump either has the right to use known facts to defend himself or none of us has that right. 

The question in Nixon's case was, "What did the president know, and when did he know it?" The crime that would have been drawn in impeachment papers if he didn't resign was obstruction of justice for destroying evidence by erasing tapes that proved he conspired with others to cover up the crime. 

With Biden, the question needs to be this: "What did Biden know, when did he and others know it, and why didn't they act without political bias when that excuse would have been believable?" 

I agree that Biden did not commit a crime similar to that which Trump allegedly committed. It is much more like the Watergate scandal under Nixon.