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The classified documents thing with Trump was a manufactured scandal, for example. Everyone in our government is mishandling classified documents because we have a massive over-classification problem, as seen by the lesser reported and covered subsequent finding of Biden having documents.
Only one of those events was associated with a televised raid (which the press was notified of beforehand so they could be sure to film it).
It was all theater.
It's the same with Trump's prosecution in NY, that case was ridiculous. One deed expanded into 37 misdemeanors that were escalated to a felony because they were committed in an effort to cover up an alleged felony. I say alleged because he was never convicted of the original crime but, conveniently, that's not a requirement of that escalation in NY law.
Ironically, both of those cases only increased Trump's support among non-Democrats (Republicans and, importantly, independents) because it was transparent.
Here's a quote for the NY AG that sued Trump.
> "We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well," [0]
That sounds an awful lot like she went looking for crimes of a person rather than finding who's responsible for crimes. And threatening his family as well.
[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/incoming-new-y... as well,"
It was not. Trump was asked for months to return the documents.
He purposefully had staff to move documents onto his private jet and moved them around his various properties. He stored boxes and boxes, not just a few file folders, in random bathrooms.
Yes, plenty of folks may mishandle stuff, but many folks try to fix their errors when they're pointed out. Trump ignored the requests and continued doing things consciously even when notified.
It is normal for news trucks to show up once a news event has been learned of.
And yes, the same thing happened with Biden: news broke, and footage was recorded:
* https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/fbi-search-biden-vacation-h...
Biden had the support of the media and his lawfare and misdeeds were glossed over.
One example was the Hunter Biden laptop. Nord Stream pipeline sabotage was another.
Trump's shenanigans are just getting more attention. But to be fair, his shenanigans are dialled up to 11 while Biden was at a more modest 8.
Name Biden's lawfare. What exactly did he abuse the Justice Department to do?
Read something other than NYT.
Out of genuine curiosity: what specific actions do you think were 'weaponized' investigations / prosecutions under Biden?
Like, do you truly believe Biden started this? What was the first act?
The judge threw this out, but those are pretty generous terms for what penultimately amounted to guilty charges on 6 felonies and 6 misdemeanors (before all charges were pardoned.)
Shouldn't that be fixed rather than now abused further?
If your justification for Trump doing something is that "Biden did it first", then that means Biden is no worse than Trump. It means Trump just just following along the path Biden laid for him to the same goal.
Following that thought path literally anywhere just leads to the party in question being actively worse than the thing they claim to fight against.
A competent leader would see something abusable, an opportunity for corruption, and take steps to prevent its abuse.
Weak, corrupt leadership sees an opportunity for corruption and says "$core! They did it fir$t!". And that's how we lose. All of us I mean.