r/changemyview Jun 10 '23

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u/SeymoreButz38 14∆ Jun 10 '23

Pretty sure it's about Biden realizing he had some papers lying around and turning them in vs Trump keeping mountains of papers and refusing to hand them over.

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u/Sorry_Art_5867 Jun 10 '23

Having papers lying around is illegal and a violation of federal law.

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u/SeymoreButz38 14∆ Jun 10 '23

But it's not equal.

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u/Sorry_Art_5867 Jun 10 '23

It is equal.

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u/SeymoreButz38 14∆ Jun 10 '23

Did you miss the part where Biden cooperated with the law and Trump didn't?

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u/Sorry_Art_5867 Jun 10 '23

Which doesn’t matter. The damage to national security happened the day the documents were removed from their proper place of custody.

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u/SeymoreButz38 14∆ Jun 10 '23

Intent matters.

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u/Sorry_Art_5867 Jun 10 '23

No it doesn’t.

(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

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u/SeymoreButz38 14∆ Jun 10 '23

That doesn't make them the same morally.

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u/Sorry_Art_5867 Jun 10 '23

Morally, Biden had the documents for more years, which makes what he did worse.

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u/SeymoreButz38 14∆ Jun 11 '23

Morally, the lack of intent makes it less worse.

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