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I continue to fail to understand how the full documents are simultaneously too devastating for Trump to release them but not devastating enough for Biden to have released them.
Because the Clintons are fucked
The documents were sealed for most of his term by court order. However that ended on Jan 1st of his final year, so there were 20 days he could have.
I want to believe. Can you provide a citation?
But the president is above the law so that wouldn’t apply to him.
I think there was supposedly some time based seal...
but I'd imagine also it's just simply biden's also covering clinton or other democratic donors. The fact that we weren't screaming at the top of our lungs to release them in biden's term, was more likely us stupidly falling into security that "norms are back and the wheels of justice turn slowly but always get there", and then watching trump waltz in and imidiately purge the DOJ, FBI etc... and replace everyone with loyalists, and the realization that the courts are half overtaken, half worthless as republicans dropped the illusion that their rulings had any kind of force behind them.
Clinton and Trump, high-fiving while spitroasting an 8-year-old.
Yeah; probably something along those lines, if we’re being honest 🫠
Finding out they actually were lizard people from space this whole time would honestly be more comforting at this point.
Side note: I was fucking CRUSHED when Netflix cancelled Inside Job
Because covering up this vile shit has never been a partisan thing. Hell, it's not even limited to one government.