A CNN op-ed (here) says:
“Classified documents were found in an office at Biden’s former think tank and a garage at his Wilmington, Delaware, home, leading Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate, just as he has for Trump.
“’Republicans will try to use this as a cudgel to beat up on Biden and distract from their own issues, but if Trump’s classified documents were in the wrong place, so were Biden’s – and, just calling balls and strikes here, they deserve the same level of accountability,’ said SE Cupp. ‘There is a huge difference between Trump and Biden, however. Remember, the FBI had to go search Mar-a-Lago for documents Trump insisted he didn’t have.’
“Bradley P. Moss, a lawyer specializing in national security issues, wrote, ‘To paraphrase Robert Frost, the roads these two men were on diverged in a wood, and Biden took the one the law requires you to travel on. Unlike Trump, who spent nearly 18 months delaying, obfuscating and arguably obstructing efforts by the federal government to recover from Mar-a-Lago all of the documents with classification markings, Biden’s team appears to have played by the book.’”
And that, kiddies, is why it’s different. But Republicans will work very, very hard to convince you it’s the same, because they play politics and don’t care about doing the right thing. And they also know the average voter won’t process the distinction.
About the cartoon: Robert Hur is investigating Biden and Jack Smith is investigating Trump, so in this cartoon “apples” represents Biden and “oranges” represents Trump.
