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Originally Posted by finnbow
Here's a wingnut making the same ridiculous argument.
Ronny Jackson (R-TX) says he believes that the Biden docs that were found are part of a conspiracy by Democratic operatives to set Biden up and force him to resign because they don’t want him to run in 2024.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/s...35653697884160
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I will say this: the explanations, timelines, etc. that have been published about the Biden documents don't make much sense to me.
1) It's been reported that: "So far, there have been at least three distinct classified document discoveries. The first came on Nov. 2 of last year, while a Biden lawyer was clearing out a closet in the president's old office space at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement..." I've worked with a large number of lawyers, have lawyers in the family, and I can't say I've ever heard a lawyer say they've "cleaned out a closet" as part of their job duties.
2) Why were Biden's lawyers on site - and I'm sure Biden's lawyers charge a pretty hefty hourly rate - at the Penn Biden Center for office clean-up duties?
3) On Nov. 14, 2022, Garland assigned Chicago based US Attorney Robert Lausch to investigate the Mar-a-Lago documents. This was 10 days after “lawyers” found classified documents in the Penn Biden office, and reportedly alerted the Justice Dept about it. No special counsel was considered or appointed at that time, not even any mention of it, until long after the mid-terms were over.
4) If Justice was able to keep a lid on the Biden document news until well after the midterms, why is it coming to light now? The story was able to be kept under wraps until January 10, 2023, when
CBS broke the story about US attorney Lausch being appointed by Garland to check things out. (I think it was you dismissing a prior story posted in this forum sourced from CBS News, saying "CBS News isn't what it used to be", or something like that. But, I digress...)
We're supposed to believe that it took Garland over 2 months to get concerned over mishandled classified documents?
5) According to this
timeline published by ABC News, Lausch told Garland that a special counsel needed to get involved on January 5th. Garland didn't do it until January 12th, when the additional documents turned up in an additional location.
6) Mar a Lago has 24/7 Secret Service protection. The documents at Mar a Lago were stored under lock and key, as requested by the FBI. The Penn Biden think tank doesn't have 24/7 secret service protection unless Biden is there. There might be a rent-a-cop stationed in the lobby, but there's been no reporting on that as far as I know. The documents were in a closet, in a manner that I'm sure wasn't reviewed by the FBI.
This timeline, and apparent lack of aggressive desire to retrieve classified documents, is what is feeding the narrative about "unequal treatment." I don't really buy that argument, and I'm not among the folks calling for immediate raids, etc. Mostly because the raid at Mar a Lago didn't need to happen either, IMHO. As stated above, I strongly suspect classified documents have been historically mishandled, and could probably be found from sea to shining sea.
I'm more curious about "why now"? Why is this story coming out now, over 2 months after the fact? That invites speculation similar to that floated by Jackson. A conspiracy by Dems to keep him from running? Doubt it. But I'd still really like to know "why".