Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed John D. O’Connor.
Mainstream media outlets are scrambling to offer defenses to the potential criminality of President Joe Biden for unlawful possession of both classified and unclassified documents.
His possession was inadvertent, they say, while Trump bullishly fought turning his over intentionally. But let’s think about how these cases involve a study in contrasts, but not favoring Biden.
Trump did not hide that he had documents in his locked storage area. At worst, he believed, probably wrongly, that some of the classified documents were either privileged or personal papers, both categories of which are not subject to provision to the archives. But Trump, even though blundering, did not intend wrongful use. On the other hand, does it really appear inadvertent when Biden had over a year, like Obama, to collect his Vice Presidential papers? And when he then had over a year after leaving office to curate what documents went to the Penn Biden Center “for Global Engagement”?
Can we reasonably infer that the Top Secret Presidential briefings he kept were for use in “global engagement”? If so, this would amount to theft of government property, mishandling of classified information, and, yes, espionage, if a foreign power or agent of same, let’s say Hunter or James Biden, used those documents to brief their global clients like,say, China, as to which Chinese interests paid a reported $54MM to the Center? In spite of the contrasts militating against Biden, it is realistic to believe that partisan prosecutors will absolve Biden as a bumbler, and indict Trump for process crimes.
This could only occur with a brain-dead, partisan media, who will not call Biden to account for potential corruption, and will stretch truth to malign the blundering but not nefarious Trump.