This week, former President Donald Trump was hit with new criminal allegations in the case that federal prosecutor Jack Smith already brought against him related to his harboring of documents from his time as president at personal property of his. The new allegations include a new claim of willful retention of a document he should’ve returned and contentions that he was involved in attempts to delete security footage from Mar-a-Lago that federal investigators were seeking.
Trump responded to some of the most recent developments with characteristically antagonistic statements on Truth Social, his alternative social media site founded after his removal from mainstream social media platforms.
“Whatever happened to the Crooked Joe Biden Document’s case?” Trump asked his followers, though a special counsel was appointed to examine the matter he is referencing. “He had 20 times more Boxes than I did, and he wasn’t covered by the Presidential Records Act. I was! When it first came out that Biden had all of these Docs, many Classified, almost everyone, including those on the Left, said, “there goes the case against Trump.” But they waited and waited, got failed prosecutor Deranged Jack Smith, and STRUCK – but did almost nothing on the REALLY BAD Biden Documents case, many stored in Chinatown!”
Biden’s time as vice president would have seen him covered by the federal Presidential Records Act that Trump referenced. In addition, federal investigators have already undertaken examinations of files, sensitive or otherwise, found in locations associated with Biden and connected to earlier positions of public service that he held. Contrary to assertions and insinuations otherwise, for instance, boxes of such documents held at the University of Pennsylvania were made available for investigators’ examination, not hidden from view.
Trump has at times also faced refutations from even federal authorities after other misrepresentations of the factual record. Former President Barack Obama, for example, did not take caches of classified documents with him as he exited power.
