Jan 12, 2023
Every president probably stashes away classified documents. The chances of any president being successfully prosecuted for pilfering them are infinitesimal. Nevertheless, now that we've learned Joe Biden has engaged in the same behavior as Donald Trump - perhaps worse, considering vice presidents are afforded less leeway on classified documents - precedent and transparency, our very democracy, demand Attorney General Merrick Garland name a special counsel to investigate (I get results!) Right now, none of the rationalizations offered by the media for Biden's actions over the past few days are operational. When the story first broke, outlets stressed that one of the vital "distinctions" between the two incidents was that Biden was in possession of fewer documents than Trump. Biden aides, we learned, had been utterly shocked to discover only a "small number" of classified documents "locked" in the personal offices of the president's "think
