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Who could have seen this coming?

The Washington Post reports that the Biden Justice Department does not plan to pursue criminal charges against President Biden for his mishandling of classified documents.

The DoJ is reportedly preparing to release a special counsel report in coming days that will be critical of President Biden and his aides for mishandling classified documents in Biden's private home and former office and this WaPo report appears to be the mainstream media foaming the runway as this report crash-lands at the feet of a Republican Congress. WaPo writes:

The lack of charges was initially leaked in November, and prompted outrage:

And so, with the actual report's imminent release, WaPo felt the need to spend a few thousand more words to provide talking points to the base on why it's different for Biden… except they really didn't – aside from to claim that Trump 'intentionally misled or delayed' his response on the classified docs (that as president he was allowed to declassify), while they appear to claim – by explaining each of the various locations where Biden's classified documents were discovered, that is was merely a mistake by a bumbling old fart and his aides

Biden aides, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation, have said they believe the documents unintentionally ended up at Biden's home and office because of sloppy staff work.

Later in the WaPo report, the cover is provided very transparently: "the Trump investigation seems significantly different from the Biden investigation.

Finally, we are reminded of Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith's comments in his press conference announcing the criminal charges against Trump last year:

Indeed.