US Secret Document: Both Biden-Trump accused of possessing confidential documents, but very important difference between the two – biden trump both accused of possessing confidential documents but important difference between the two

confidential documents found

Both the current president and his predecessor have received classified material that they were to turn over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It is a US law after the Presidential Records Act was passed in the year 1978, under which records obtained by the President in the discharge of his constitutional, legal or ceremonial duties are the property of the US government and the management of these documents after the said President’s term ends. slogan’ should be done. As a result, US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed special counsel to investigate the actions of Biden and Trump.

Trump may be fined

Jack Smith has been assigned to handle Trump’s case. Smith has had a career as a prosecutor credited with convicting gang members who murdered policemen in New York, prosecuting a US senator, and bringing war crimes cases to The Hague. Robert Herr, who was Maryland’s US attorney during the Trump administration and is now a legal partner at a top Washington law firm, has been appointed to investigate Biden’s case. Garland does not have the authority to impeach the sitting president and the US Congress can impeach Biden if it finds that his act “constitutes a high degree of misdemeanor or misdemeanor”.

In contrast, if Trump is found guilty of violating the Presidential Records Act after leaving office, he can be fined or sentenced to three years in prison. As expected, the US media has not been quick to compare Biden’s actions to Trump’s, but so far the two cases appear to be very different. In Biden’s case, investigators have so far found only a small number of documents from his residence and the Penn Biden Center, a thinktank founded by the president in Washington, that appears to date from the last period of his vice presidency.

Scrutiny of documents

It is yet to be ascertained how many documents were there and what is their classification category. As soon as the documents were discovered, Biden’s team handed them over to ‘Nara’ and since then his team has been cooperating in investigating Biden’s assets. Interestingly, similar documents have also been found in the Indiana residence of Vice President Mike Pence during Trump’s tenure. In contrast, Trump took thousands of classified documents with him while leaving the White House. Some of these documents were recovered by NARA nearly a year later, and National Archives activist Debra Steidel Wall described them as classified national security information that was top secret. Trump refused to return the documents when ‘NARA’ demanded them under the law and it took the FBI raids and months of court battle to get them back.