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Sue Seboda's avatar

Trump dropped the case against Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified documents. Biden’s handlers will only drop the case against Trump if they are unable to drop it against Biden. The double standard is clear for anyone to see. Would this author join the chorus of apologists for Biden while pressing for prosecution of Trump with or without jail? Would love to see that article.

On the other hand, what if the current Biden scandal over classified docs is step one in the left’s bid to take Biden out of contention in 2024? Take out two birds with one stone? Trump and Biden with or without jail?

On January 6, Trumps behavior was totally unacceptable. Was it illegal? Before passing judgement, I would like to understand the whole story including FBI implants in the groups that caused violence, not the one sided view presented by Jan 6 committee which had more to do with influencing the midterms than “saving democracy”. As is on display so clearly from the Twitter files, this group has very little interest in “democracy” and are consumed with manipulation of the public.

While I agree with the author’s premise that Presidents should not necessarily go to jail, the current level of corruption in government may require some jail time for the perpetrators to restore trust in our government. At a minimum there should be serious consequences.

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Arena's avatar

Hmmm.

Stupidity, incoherence and poor judgement are not criminal offenses. I think we can all agree a majority of Congress would be serving time alongside Trump if that were the standard.

Obviously, the First Amendment protects the right of the people to peacefully assemble and seek a redress of grievances. It is right there in the Bill of Rights. The job of a politician is to assess the risk that such peaceful assembly can go south before encouraging their followers to join the activity. Trump failed his followers in this regard because there was ample warning of bad actors of all stripes that day. For that matter Pelosi had ample warning as well, so she too failed her institution by her lack of preparation.

In Minneapolis, we had 700 buildings destroyed or damaged, a police station burnt to ground and several people killed by violence that erupted during the Floyd protests. Our mayor and governor were directly responsible for encouraging people to join these protests. They were not remotely apologetic that putting peaceful protestors into the mix with violent actors was a bad idea. And no one has discussed charging Mayor Frey and Governor Walz for the destruction of the 3rd Precinct building even though this was foreseeable.

As for the Mar Lago document fracas, I'll see your Melania's high heels and raise you Biden's Corvette. Document retention issues are certainly serious, but I think most people agree that malign intent on what people plan to do with those documents is far more important than some colorable arguments about personal v. Work materials or time periods for memoirs etc.

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