Uh, no, that’s not the definition of “when is it illegal to take classified documents”.
That would be “at the point when you illegally removed them from their place of custody and when you don’t have declassification power”
Granted, nobody can prove it, but we all know that Biden knew those docs were there. Again, he had documents that were taken over 30 years ago. How is it NARA NEVER came after them?
The only reason Biden turned over those docs is because of the trump issue. Had it not been for that, those docs would still be in bidens possession.
You have to ask yourself, when the whole Trump issue came up, what prompted Bidens team to start searching for documents? If he had no idea he had them, then they wouldn’t know to go looking for them. What it was, was an “oh shit” moment, where they said “we have to get on top of this before Nara starts asking questions”
“Willfully retaining documents” is not compliance. You don’t get to knowingly do something wrong and then when you get caught go “oh ok lol, here ya go, you can have them back”, and say “I’m clean, I complied!” No, you still broke the law. Compliance isn’t an excuse to avoid accountability for breaking the law.