{"id":1943284,"date":"2023-06-02T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-claims-hes-at-least-as-innocent-as-pence-in-classified-document-scandal\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T00:46:54","slug":"trump-claims-hes-at-least-as-innocent-as-pence-in-classified-document-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-claims-hes-at-least-as-innocent-as-pence-in-classified-document-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he&#8217;s as innocent as Pence in classified document scandal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ftrump-claims-hes-at-least-as-innocent-as-pence-in-classified-document-scandal%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=1943284&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--><h2>Trump Claims Innocence After DOJ Declines to Charge Pence<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Former President Donald Trump declared that he was &#8220;at least as innocent&#8221; as his former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a>, Mike Pence, on Friday after the Department of Justice declined to bring charges against Pence for the alleged mishandling of classified documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite being the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-significance-of-georgia-senate-contests\/\" title=\"Historic Significance of Georgia Senate Contests\">special counsel investigation<\/a> related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-intel-committee-issues-bipartisan-request-for-more-info-on-mar-a-lago-raid\/\" title=\"Senate Intel Committee Issues Bipartisan Request for More Info on Mar-a-Lago Raid\">classified documents found<\/a> at his Mar-a-Lago resort last year, Trump claimed he should also be exonerated of any wrongdoing that&#8217;s tied to the documents.<\/p>\n<h3>One Question for Trump Could Determine the Race for the 2024 GOP Nomination<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Just announced that they are not going to bring charges against Mike Pence on the document hoax,&#8221; Trump posted to Truth Social. &#8220;That\u2019s great, but when am I going to be fully exonerated, I\u2019m at least as innocent as he is. And what about [President] Joe Biden, who is hiding at least 1850 boxes, and some located in Chinatown, DC? When will the witch hunt against &#8216;TRUMP&#8217; stop?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department recently concluded its investigation into a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brad-slager-did-mark-zuckerberg-prove-the-fbi-created-the-russian-disinfo-narrative-on-hunters-laptop\/\" title=\"Brad Slager: Did Mark Zuckerberg Prove the FBI Created the \u201cRussian Disinfo\u201d Narrative on Hunter\u2019s Laptop?\">classified documents discovered<\/a> at Pence&#8217;s Indiana home earlier this year. The investigation was significantly different than the FBI raid of Trump&#8217;s Florida resort last August, which revealed hundreds of top secret or classified documents that were improperly stored.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is also the focus of a special counsel investigation. Classified documents from the time he served as President Barack Obama&#8217;s vice president were discovered at an office in Washington, D.C., and his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The president reportedly alerted the proper authorities upon the discovery in November, but he did not tell the public until after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>In Trump&#8217;s case, the FBI raid came after the National Archives and Records Administration allegedly attempted to retrieve the missing documents from the former president for months. Trump has claimed that he declassified the documents when he left the Oval Office, but that has not been proven. The DOJ has not determined whether Biden or Trump will face any charges.<\/p>\n<h3>2024 Presidential Race<\/h3>\n<p>The decision to not press charges against Pence comes ahead of the former veep&#8217;s expected entrance into the 2024 presidential race next week. Pence currently polls in third or fourth place for the Republican primaries, with Trump steadily in the lead. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is in second and is considered the biggest threat to Trump.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump claims innocence after DOJ declines to charge Pence<\/li>\n<li>Trump questions when he will be fully exonerated<\/li>\n<li>Biden is also the focus of a special counsel investigation<\/li>\n<li>Decision to not press charges against Pence comes ahead of his expected entrance into the 2024 presidential race<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Will Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-claims-hes-at-least-as-innocent-as-pence-in-classified-document-scandal\/\" title=\"Trump says he's as innocent as Pence in classified document scandal.\">ongoing legal issues affect<\/a> his chances in the 2024 presidential race? Only time will tell.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump claimed innocence on Friday, stating he was &#8220;at least as innocent&#8221; as former Vice President Pence, after the Department of Justice decided not to charge Pence for mishandling classified documents. 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