whole are starting to really understand what is behind the legal charges against Trump. Many of us have long understood exactly what this is, but most people don’t eat and sleep politics, and therefore have been only vaguely aware.
But now they are really being confronted with it–and they immediately understand that this is pure lawfare. And people hate unfairness.
But there already existed a public perception of a double standard, in which Biden and Hillary Clinton were let off the hook for their mishandling of classified documents while Trump is being prosecuted.
A recent I&I-TIPPn poll found that 62% believed the Justice Department was more lenient toward Biden than Trump on classified documents, including 59% of independents. A Reuters-Ipsos poll last month found that 53% believed Biden “received special treatment because he is the U.S. president.”
So Hur said Biden was guilty, but that prosecution would be difficult:
“You did not reach an idea that he had committed no wrong; you reached a conclusion that you would not prevail at trial and therefore did not take it forward?” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked Hur on Tuesday.
“Correct, congressman,” the former special counsel replied.
The general public are none too pleased about the obvious double standard! They see the deliberate blind eye given to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden on one hand, and the Javert-like hounding of Trump on the other, and the manifest politically motivated unfairness rankles more than a bit.