On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are considering
they haven't yet decided to do it, but they are considering investigating the National
Archives for being so gosh darn mean to Donald Trump, but treating President Biden with kid
gloves. Now the issue of course, is that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee
are looking at the ongoing documents, scandals, you know, with President Biden and Donald
Trump. And they look at both of these situations and they think these things are completely
identical. He had documents. He had documents. I don't see a difference. And yet the National
Archives sent the FBI down to Trump's Mar-a-Lago, and didn't send the FBI to Biden's house,
except of course that they did send the FBI to Biden's house. They may not have shown
up unannounced because they knew the FBI was in fact coming. They agreed to it and let
'em come in and search.
Um, but technically the FBI did search both homes. Oh, and by the way, the FBI also this
past week, uh, looked in Mike Pence's home and they found one more classified document.
So that's all technically the same. I'll tell you what's not the same though Republicans
on the House Oversight Committee who think the National Archives is being exceptionally
mean to Donald Trump, is that the National Archives actually gave Donald Trump roughly
a year, a year to turn everything over. They begged and begged. They worked with the lawyers,
they did everything possible. They didn't want to send the fbi, they didn't wanna get
the DOJ involved. All they wanted were the documents back so that they can make the records
of them and keep it safe and secure. And then if you want them back, you fill out the paperwork
and then we give them back to you.
That's all you had to do. Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle. But by God, that's what the National
Archives begged him for a year to do. They were met with obstruction. They were lied
to by Donald Trump. They were lied to by his lawyers. The d OJ was lied to by his lawyers.
And after a year of fighting and obstruction and lying, that's when the F B I was sent
down there to Mar-a-Lago. Lago Biden's team found the documents and immediately alerted
authorities and said, Hey, oh my God, we've found these documents. You gotta come get
'em. This is bad. We don't want 'em. Come and get 'em. And if you need anything else,
we're more than happy to work with you. Former Vice President Mike Pence said the same thing.
So that is why Donald Trump is of course, being treated differently. And Republicans
understand all of that. By the way. They know everything that I'm saying and they understand
everything that I'm saying, and they believe everything I'm saying. The problem is their
base is very dumb. And I'm
Sorry, but there is no other way to say that. So as long as Republicans pretend that Donald
Trump is somehow being treated unfairly, their base will believe that Trump is being treated
unfairly and they're gonna react accordingly. And unfortunately, yeah, the optics of it,
as I've said a hundred times now, the optics of it are bad. You know, because Trump's embroiled
in a scandal. Biden does a similar thing, although definitely not to that extent. So
yeah, it looks bad. And honestly, those bad optics are probably enough to prevent the
DOJ from really doing anything to Donald Trump over this. And I hate to say that, but I think
that's how this ends. I think that investigation goes away. None of the, you know, presidents
or vice presidents get in trouble for having those documents. It just slowly disappears
and nobody gets charged in that particular case, Trump's got much bigger legal problems
to worry about right now. But I think because of the optics issue, because of the Republicans
making it a big issue, I say, Trump ends up walking on this. It's not fair, but it's what
I expect to happen.