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Prior to this Monday February 5th release of this Special Prosecutor's Report on President Biden and his mishandling of classified documents I didn't think there was any there there. I thought it was a situation where Joe had boxes from his tenure as VP in his garage where he keeps his corvette that he didn't know what was in them he didn't know they contained classified documents it was a technical violation of the law. But with this release of the Special Prosecutor's report and the public discourse over it, it is clear Joe Biden broke the law and there is a double standard being applied with Trump charged and Biden not charged. The facts brought to light now are that Biden knew he had classified documents on Afghanistan that he kept because he needed them as a reference to write his memoir because one of Biden's big foreign policy agendas was that he always thought that America's policy on the Taliban and al qaeda in Afghanistan is that America's strategy should be a counter terrorism not counter insurgency strategy , America has no business in the nation building business for Afghanistan per Biden. Biden is on tape with his ghost writer acknowledging he has classified documents on Afghanistan.
Now that it is clear that the DOJ is using a double standard in prosecuting for crimes involving classified documents, Biden should clean up this mess for America; he can do so by doing the following. Wait until Donald Trump has secured the Republican nomination for the Presidency that is once Trump has enough delegates that no way Nikki Haley can acquire enough delegates to win the nomination then President Joseph Biden should pardon Donald Trump for all crimes involving mishandling of classified and non-classified documents related to his time as President. He should base it on two reasons. One to eliminate the appearance of a double standard in enforcing the law and to eliminate the appearance of a political party using the DOJ as a political weapon; this widespread perception is very damaging to the character of our nation as seen through the eyes of many Americans. Second, our country's system for protecting classified documents utilized in the President and Vice-President Office is egregiously irresponsible, devoid of intelligence and a national embarrassment and President Joe Biden should call for Congress to fix it. The system should mandate that when a President and Vice-President leaves office every box of documents they remove from the White House is checked by staff of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for classified documents if there is no time to check it because a new Presidential administration is moving into the White House then the boxes shall be moved to a secure location like in the Pentagon until all the boxes are screened. The system should mandate that once a Presidential election occurs and the results indicate that the current Presidential Administration will be departing, the process begins to secure all classified documents. It should be mandated that the White House shall be given two weeks to turn over to NARA all classified documents they don't need to do their job until the new President is sworn in and to list and allow to be labeled for inventory purposes all classified documents they are holding on to. After this two week period NARA should pick a night and have teams of staff go through the entire White House absent the President's living quarters checking all documents in the White House insuring all remaining classified documents have an inventory label those that don't should be confiscated with the White House staff later on being permitted to claim need on that document in which case it would be given an inventory number and returned to the White House staff. In the remaining administration days all classified documents created by the White House or given to the White House and kept by the White House as needed to do the work of the White House should be labeled with an inventory number. At the end of the President's term all boxes of documents a President and Vice-President intend to remove from the White House will not be released to them until all inventoried classified documents are accounted for.
A lot of commentary has been uttered on whether President Joe Biden did the right thing making a statement and taking a few questions on the Special Prosecutor's report this past Thursday evening to counter the Reports assessment that President Biden has significant cognitive impairment due to old age. I think that Biden made a smart move with this appearance he vigorously defended himself and he referenced the contents of the report which made the case for him not to be charged. However as any good lawyer will acknowledge in any case you're stuck with the facts and the facts are bad here if Trump was charged so should have Biden both committed wilful violation of the law. This appearance by Biden underscored and high lighted a serious problem Biden has, the appearance established that Biden has the cognitive ability to be President and to make excellent decisions on policy issues; but, it showed that Biden's mental ability has been significantly diminished with age in so far as he cannot contemporaneously think things through on every point he intends to make to avoid bad effects which means that Joe Biden's ability to be effective in doing the work required by the Presidency involving thinking on one's feet is not great it is not at the level a prudent people would want in their President. A lot has been made of his flub saying that President El Sisi was from Mexico instead of Egypt, that is not a big deal ordinary people flub words all the time. The problem was President Biden's characterization of the Israel government's actions in Gaza as "over-the-top" Biden's point was legitimate here and legitimate for a U.S. President to have but use of that phrase was undiplomatic and will bring a negative reaction from Israeli leaders and the country of Israelis allies notably in America. The point was legitimate in so far that the Palestinian Gaza civilian high casualty rate was predictable and predicted, the IDF should have targeted the Hamas tunnel system that is Hamas' magic wand and used Shin Bet and Mossad to do target kills of the Hamas leaders responsible for the October 7th attack. President Biden has a legitimate viewpoint that the way the world sees it America gives billions of dollars to Israel every year has opened it arms industry to Israel for years if it doesn't sell them weapons it helps them get the know how to build them and so is responsible for Israel's enormous military power and when Israel uses its military power immorally to kill thousands and thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians and subject tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians to torturous levels of starvation, deprivation of medical care and shelter and water and sanitation the world renders the verdict America is culpable in these immoral acts; that is why it is imperative that the Israeli government stop subjecting the practically two million Palestinian civilians in Gaza to this humanitarian catastrophe and this goal is what President Biden is zealously working for!
Thursday's appearance considering it was a rushed response where Biden had to be good on his feet so to speak showed Biden lost a step or two cognitively considering his overall handling of his defense on the documents issue. Biden's approach citing the reports language that the Special Prosecutor found "no willful intent" to break the law wrong way to go isn't buyable; the media knows well and good that there is a tape out there with Biden saying to his ghost writer he has classified documents on Afghanistan in his basement. Good analysis would have called for focusing on the few number of classified documents involved that they amounted to a very small percentage of the paperwork retained from his government service and he did not know that some of the boxes of documents were in his garage he thought they were all in the basement of his home. And Biden should have focused on the fact that the Special Prosecutor did a thorough investigation and found his wrongdoing did not rise to the level where he was criminally culpable as was the finding for the like investigation for former Vice-President Mike Pence!
Now that it is clear that the DOJ is using a double standard in prosecuting for crimes involving classified documents, Biden should clean up this mess for America; he can do so by doing the following. Wait until Donald Trump has secured the Republican nomination for the Presidency that is once Trump has enough delegates that no way Nikki Haley can acquire enough delegates to win the nomination then President Joseph Biden should pardon Donald Trump for all crimes involving mishandling of classified and non-classified documents related to his time as President. He should base it on two reasons. One to eliminate the appearance of a double standard in enforcing the law and to eliminate the appearance of a political party using the DOJ as a political weapon; this widespread perception is very damaging to the character of our nation as seen through the eyes of many Americans. Second, our country's system for protecting classified documents utilized in the President and Vice-President Office is egregiously irresponsible, devoid of intelligence and a national embarrassment and President Joe Biden should call for Congress to fix it. The system should mandate that when a President and Vice-President leaves office every box of documents they remove from the White House is checked by staff of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for classified documents if there is no time to check it because a new Presidential administration is moving into the White House then the boxes shall be moved to a secure location like in the Pentagon until all the boxes are screened. The system should mandate that once a Presidential election occurs and the results indicate that the current Presidential Administration will be departing, the process begins to secure all classified documents. It should be mandated that the White House shall be given two weeks to turn over to NARA all classified documents they don't need to do their job until the new President is sworn in and to list and allow to be labeled for inventory purposes all classified documents they are holding on to. After this two week period NARA should pick a night and have teams of staff go through the entire White House absent the President's living quarters checking all documents in the White House insuring all remaining classified documents have an inventory label those that don't should be confiscated with the White House staff later on being permitted to claim need on that document in which case it would be given an inventory number and returned to the White House staff. In the remaining administration days all classified documents created by the White House or given to the White House and kept by the White House as needed to do the work of the White House should be labeled with an inventory number. At the end of the President's term all boxes of documents a President and Vice-President intend to remove from the White House will not be released to them until all inventoried classified documents are accounted for.
A lot of commentary has been uttered on whether President Joe Biden did the right thing making a statement and taking a few questions on the Special Prosecutor's report this past Thursday evening to counter the Reports assessment that President Biden has significant cognitive impairment due to old age. I think that Biden made a smart move with this appearance he vigorously defended himself and he referenced the contents of the report which made the case for him not to be charged. However as any good lawyer will acknowledge in any case you're stuck with the facts and the facts are bad here if Trump was charged so should have Biden both committed wilful violation of the law. This appearance by Biden underscored and high lighted a serious problem Biden has, the appearance established that Biden has the cognitive ability to be President and to make excellent decisions on policy issues; but, it showed that Biden's mental ability has been significantly diminished with age in so far as he cannot contemporaneously think things through on every point he intends to make to avoid bad effects which means that Joe Biden's ability to be effective in doing the work required by the Presidency involving thinking on one's feet is not great it is not at the level a prudent people would want in their President. A lot has been made of his flub saying that President El Sisi was from Mexico instead of Egypt, that is not a big deal ordinary people flub words all the time. The problem was President Biden's characterization of the Israel government's actions in Gaza as "over-the-top" Biden's point was legitimate here and legitimate for a U.S. President to have but use of that phrase was undiplomatic and will bring a negative reaction from Israeli leaders and the country of Israelis allies notably in America. The point was legitimate in so far that the Palestinian Gaza civilian high casualty rate was predictable and predicted, the IDF should have targeted the Hamas tunnel system that is Hamas' magic wand and used Shin Bet and Mossad to do target kills of the Hamas leaders responsible for the October 7th attack. President Biden has a legitimate viewpoint that the way the world sees it America gives billions of dollars to Israel every year has opened it arms industry to Israel for years if it doesn't sell them weapons it helps them get the know how to build them and so is responsible for Israel's enormous military power and when Israel uses its military power immorally to kill thousands and thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians and subject tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians to torturous levels of starvation, deprivation of medical care and shelter and water and sanitation the world renders the verdict America is culpable in these immoral acts; that is why it is imperative that the Israeli government stop subjecting the practically two million Palestinian civilians in Gaza to this humanitarian catastrophe and this goal is what President Biden is zealously working for!
Thursday's appearance considering it was a rushed response where Biden had to be good on his feet so to speak showed Biden lost a step or two cognitively considering his overall handling of his defense on the documents issue. Biden's approach citing the reports language that the Special Prosecutor found "no willful intent" to break the law wrong way to go isn't buyable; the media knows well and good that there is a tape out there with Biden saying to his ghost writer he has classified documents on Afghanistan in his basement. Good analysis would have called for focusing on the few number of classified documents involved that they amounted to a very small percentage of the paperwork retained from his government service and he did not know that some of the boxes of documents were in his garage he thought they were all in the basement of his home. And Biden should have focused on the fact that the Special Prosecutor did a thorough investigation and found his wrongdoing did not rise to the level where he was criminally culpable as was the finding for the like investigation for former Vice-President Mike Pence!
