It was inevitable that two concurrent scandals involving classified-information violations, one implicating a former president and one implicating the current president, would be endlessly compared. But the fact that the two situations are being compared does not make the comparison very edifying.
That’s because when two people violate the same criminal statute, there are always differences in details and degree of culpability. They’ve both committed crimes, but those crimes aren’t identical. One may be worse in its details or degree of culpability, but the less-bad crime is still a crime.
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