This is the most awesome Gaslighting Spectacle in the history of this Forum.
Irony.
These are the elements of the crime; he had prohibited documents, he took the documents, he knew he possessed the documents, he knew he should not be possessing the documents, and he willfully possessed them for decades after taking them and knowing he shouldn't have them.
Yes, Trump has been indicted for this (well OK, not the “for decades” part) among other deeds that have risen to the level of a crime.
And, unlike Trump, he had never been President; he had no ability to declassify the documents in a way only Presidents can.
“I declassified them in my mind” isn’t a thing btw.
The reference to Biden being "cooperative" is beyond laughable. It's pathetic actually. Biden only cooperated after his decision to charge Trump over documents; had he not done so, he would not have been "cooperative" and, indeed, the documents would have remained in Biden's possession. If that's "cooperation", the term has been successfully redefined.
You’re the one gaslighting the forum by a) lying re: what I bolded above and (b) acting so indignant over this issue when we all know you’re going to vote for Trump again. Really hard to take your criticism of Biden on this issue seriously.
But beyond that, "cooperation", for ordinary defendants, doesn't mean that they avoid charges. People sometimes avoid charges by being witnesses, but this isn't a "witness"; this is the Big Guy, himself. Cooperation is an argument for leniency in sentencing, but it is not a defense for the act, and it is not a reason for a prosecutor to simply drop charges. A thief or a criminal can cooperate, give back the money, etc., and even testify against accomplices; none of that is justification for dismissal of charges.
Sitting Presidents have never been prosecuted. You and other Republican voters should be thankful for that.
The bottom line to all of this is simple: Biden needs the Incompetentcy/Diminished Capacity defense to avoid conviction if he's going to be charged. Yet Biden can't be seen as being of Diminished Capacity to be re-elected. Even more so, if Biden is of Diminished Capacity to the point where he cannot be found culpable of a criminal offense, that reflects on a veritable parade of pols who made possible a man of rapidly declining cognition. The public will demand some sort of accountability of those who put forth Biden as a candidate, and who coerced the entire field to drop out. To say nothing of the forcing of Kamala Harris on Biden as the backup plan. The Secret would then be out, and no one wants the blame for that.
Literally all of this except Kamala Harris applies to Trump, and considerably more since he’s facing criminal charges in multiple jurisdictions.
