• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      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.