I’m sorry, but ever since Donald J. Trump emerged on the political stage in 2015 the world of politics has been an endless Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote caper.
Every attempt to get Trump by imposing “the rules” on him ends up failing because it is revealed that his opponents have never respected or abided by those rules either.
Every single time. Here’s Politico:
The discovery of classified documents on private property bears some resemblance to the FBI’s seizure of sensitive White House records at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, in August. However, in Biden’s case, the documents were handed over willingly, according to Sauber. They were also not discovered at Biden’s private residence.
Biden in addition has told aides that he was not aware of the presence of the classified documents at the Penn Center until they were discovered, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss internal conversations.
Aides to the president downplayed the comparisons to the Trump Mar-a-Lago matter, noting the disparity in the number of documents found as well as pointing out that the White House returned them as soon as they were discovered while Trump repeatedly rebuffed requests. They insisted that the White House would fully cooperate with the Department of Justice and expected the matter to be resolved quickly and amicably.
Biden ignored a shouted question about the documents Monday evening while in Mexico City and White House aides, at least to start, decided to allow a statement from the president’s outside counsel to be their only planned public response. But they knew Biden would almost certainly field a question about the matter while in front of reporters on Tuesday — and potentially be confronted by his own scathing comments about Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, which he labeled “irresponsible.”
And a grim realization also set in around the West Wing that the discovery complicates the politics — if not the legal case — surrounding the documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
No kidding! Among Trump’s superpowers in life and in politics is knowing that being an authentic bad boy beats being a fake good boy every time. He knows what rules aren’t observed, and he knows that if his opponents don’t observe them perfectly, he can violate them flagrantly.