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Biden will not be charged over top secret documents
- scohesc 3y agoWonderful how society can elect people to represent a country that are like an "elderly man with a poor memory" - this goes for all sides politically. I guess this says something about the political parties who help decide who gets to run too. They don't respect people enough to run someone who would actually represent their country, just a warm butt in a seat is good enough, as long as the curtains don't get pulled back.
- martin1b 3y agoThis is hypocritical. Charge one man with a felony, raid his home, put his face all over TV...THEN.. don't charge another with the same thing because he's just an "elderly man with a poor memory".
- aappleby 3y agoThis is known as the "false equivalence fallacy".
- krapp 3y agoI mean, there's also the extenuating circumstance that the Biden administration returned the documents when they were discovered, whereas Trump told the government to go fuck itself.
- apapapa 3y agoSure... he didn't make copies or let anyone look at them... Can some ONE say double standard? Maybe they are DRM protected? Or is that only for pesant's media
- wkat4242 3y agoDRM is becoming quite common now in the business world. It's baked into Microsoft office in the form of Azure Information Protection (AIP). You set classification labels and it gets encrypted at the highest levels. Office automatically obtains the key if the person opening it has access. It's pretty nice actually. Wouldn't be surprised if the government uses it or something similar.
- legitster 3y agoFalse equivalency. Trump's team obstructed the investigation and is currently arguing in court that they have a right to the piles of documents they took.
- legitster 3y ago> The special counsel's report says that it would be difficult to convict the president of improper handling of files because "at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory". By all accounts he was interrogated for 5 hours, provided lots of details about documents he had misplaced a decade ago, and only seemed to forget some dates. Am I wrong to think that these lines in a report seem pretty unprofessional given this is a pretty typical outcome of any interrogation? Was his public perception under investigation?
- krapp 3y ago>Am I wrong to think that these lines in a report seem pretty unprofessional given this is a pretty typical outcome of any interrogation? Was his public perception under investigation? The special council, Robert Hur, is a Republican. That party has been pushing the meme that Biden is "senile" with "crippling dementia" for years. I would assume that a part of the optics of this entire affair, as was the case with the Benghazi hearings (admitted by Kevin McCarthy to be entirely about damaging Hillary Clinton in the polls) and James Comey reopening the Clinton email investigation, is intended to damage the Democratic candidate's election chances in the public eye.
- jeffbee 3y agoAll Special Counsel in the last quarter century have been Republicans, as have all directors of the F.B.I. over the entire history of that bureau. No Democrat has been the Attorney General lately either. There is apparently a little-known clause of the Constitution that only Republicans can hold these offices.
- mandmandam 3y ago> only seemed to forget some dates The years he was VP, and the year his son died. That's a gigantic red flag. You could see it from orbit. He then held a press conference where he got huffy about being accused of having a poor memory, right before confusing Mexico and Egypt's leaders and wandering around like a defective roomba.