But…But…But! Both Sides!!!

To this day, it's not clear whether we'd even know about the Trump docs investigation if @PeterSchorschFL hadn't broken the story.

All those people assigned the Mar-a-Lago beat full time didn't tell us.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 11, 2023

It's not super fair that several major media outlets pay for a full-time Trump Court reporter and those people never got a whiff of this for 6 months?

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 11, 2023

I mean, the blogger got it.

Well, at least this will be handled considerately by government officials:

full Qanon basically https://t.co/IifHkiCFoV

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 11, 2023

Accountability? Right…

Elise Stefanik, who has served on HPSCI, confesses that she 1) has missed EVERY public detail about the Trump investigation and 2) hasn't read the EO on classification. https://t.co/efFr4jeqBS

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 11, 2023

Fake arguments are the best kind! Especially when they’re based on willful ignorance!

peak gop: fake argument from trump compared to an argument biden hasn't made because he has no need to. remember. we don't need to pretend that any of this is remotely comparable to Trump's criminal conduct https://t.co/olVexjOCdw

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 11, 2023

Also funded by communist China. Right? Besides that argument is as false as water:

I'm too tired to do it right now, but some of these assholes MUST have been making the argument in 2007 that the VP had authority to declassify -- I just can't remember who is that old right now.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 11, 2023

And back to the topic of "both sides:"

For some reason CNN decides to quotes Trump's lawyers at length, without pointing out that 3 arguments they made about TRUMP, which were not true, apply to the known fact set about Biden.

For example, Trump says POTUS (and VP) cannot be charged with 1924. https://t.co/VA8jYWQbsR

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 11, 2023

I admit I find all of this amusing. The House GOP is inevitably (and soon) gonna say “Hold mah beer,” and nobody will remember (or care) about that time Biden found documents that he quickly returned to NARA.

While Trump will still be under criminal investigation for NOT turning over documents to NARA.