{"id":1816167,"date":"2023-01-19T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816167"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:11:35","slug":"d-c-journalist-proves-biden-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-by-assuming-he-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-journalist-proves-biden-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-by-assuming-he-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Journalist Proves Biden Did Absolutely Nothing Wrong By Assuming He Did Absolutely Nothing Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-c-journalist-proves-biden-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-by-assuming-he-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>If the entire news media, plus Biden\u2019s vindictive Justice Department, hadn\u2019t put the country through <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/16\/morning-joe-fakes-just-enough-outrage-over-bidens-illegal-dangerous-handling-of-classified-docs-before-excusing-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">months of insanity<\/a> Over the petty \u201cconfidential documents\u201d drama at Mar-a-Lago, Biden\u2019s own scandal of having illegally retained government material when he was a private citizen would be a pretty boring affair.<\/p>\n<p>But they didn\u2019t. They made it a crime to be cute. They now get the exact same treatment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wait!<\/em> They assert in unison. <em>This is something completely different! Biden did the right things, and Trump did the wrong!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, that\u2019s a totally fair and obvious point when you start with the assumption that over the six years Biden was in wrongful possession of government secrets, the material just sat there, untouched and unread (and make the concurrent assumption that the same wasn\u2019t true of the Trump documents). They sat there, silently, in their office drawers or garage boxes, for months, unread by Biden, the time and the federal bureaucracy. Then, when one fateful day Biden\u2019s lawyers happened upon the documents, they immediately dialed the National Archives for a swift transfer to the proper authorities.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the entire premise of longtime Washington, D.C., journalist Garrett Graff\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/19\/opinion\/biden-trump-classified-documents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essay<\/a> This week in The New York Times <em>Biden said he did not do anything wrong. He also immediately gave all the materials (but never seen) that he owned for six years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Biden\u2019s scandal so far feels more like an administrative error; there\u2019s no evidence he even knew the documents were misplaced or in his possession, and when discovered they were promptly and properly returned to authorities,\u201d Graff. \u201cThe government didn\u2019t know they were missing (which itself is a bit of a mystery, since classified documents are usually tightly controlled, which is how the National Archives knew Mr. Trump had missing documents in the first place), and Mr. Biden didn\u2019t try to hold onto them in the face of a legal process ordering otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>See?! Biden had no problems turning over the documents he\u2019d been sitting on, doing absolutely nothing with, for six years! Besides, the government didn\u2019t even know they were missing! No harm, no foul!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That version of events doesn\u2019t do what Graff, Washington\u2019s least interesting writer, thinks it does. He thinks it portrays Biden as an innocent hoarder who didn\u2019t realize the things in his possession were not his to have. What it does is prove what right-wingers have been saying all along: that Donald Trump (along with what he represents) is the subject of a political persecution, that the rules don\u2019t apply to everyone, and that the media are every bit a part of the corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Missing classified documents are only a problem when a president that the bureaucracy doesn\u2019t like has them. If they like you, hold onto them \u2014\u00a0for six years, even! Trump was allegedly in possession of his property, and the FBI decided to raid his private residence to retrieve it.<\/p>\n<p>As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing classified documents are only a problem when a president that the bureaucracy doesn&#8217;t like has them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1807798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5955,15653,3620,10924,6919,6794,6455,7058],"class_list":["post-1816167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-absolutely","tag-assuming","tag-biden","tag-d-c","tag-federalist","tag-journalist","tag-proves","tag-wrong"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}