Joe Biden may have broken the law taking classified documents

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Biden's possession of confidential documents from the Obama administration could violate the Espionage Act.

The latest news from the Biden administration has left many perplexed about the legal threats being wielded in both Biden and former PresidentAugust's bombshellraid at Mar-a-Lago had drawn widespread criticism of Trump, and now that Biden is in the hot seat, his team is making every effort to distinguish the differences between the two cases.

However, while the Espionage Act criminalizes the act of gathering, transmitting or losing national defense information, the DOJ only prosecutes"when an aggravating factor is present," Norman Eisen, attorney and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, toldPresident Joe Biden walks from Marine One toward the Oval Office on the South Lawn of the White House January 4, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Inset: Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference at the U.S.

Ultimately, it will ultimately depend on whether the records were appropriately in Biden's possession at one time and whether he even knew they were in that locked storage at his former office, former federal prosecutor and elected state attorney Michael McAuliffe toldIn order to determine such, he said the Justice Department will need to conduct a thorough review and investigation.

 

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Biden didn't insist that the documents belong to him like Trump did.

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No it cldnt. Stop with the bs bait click.

No he didn't break any laws. Look it up. The docs were locked away safely and when they were discovered they immediately called proper authorities to take them away. This article is filled with misinformation.

Iā€™m all fairness, he had no idea he took them.

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