Classified document messes quite different

Everyone is aware of the classified documents situation involving both prior former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden, though his situation also involves documents from when he was vice president. And, as usual, corporate media is pushing their standard “bothsideism” narrative. This is pretty weak journalism that just ignores the underlying bureaucratic factors involved that caused this all to occur.

The National Archives and Records Administration offers expert consulting and manual labor to help the outgoing president to get their classified document management done correctly. But, unfortunately, it does not offer this service to vice presidents. The vice presidents packing and moving is handled by some staffer with basically little experience in this situation and probably no clearance to even review the documents. It’s no surprise that a few random classified documents got stuffed into a box along with other papers.

On the other hand, Trump refused help from the National Archives and took a huge number of documents over a long period of time, resulting in box after box of classified documents being taken and kept at Mar-a-lago.

There is no reasonable comparison between the actions of Trump’s intentional hauling of box after box of top secret documents while refusing the assistance of the National Archives and the situation of Biden’s and Pence’s staffs accidentally packing a handful of papers. You’d never know it watching the Evening News.

Fred Smith Ballston Lake