Well, to give you a Republican's viewpoint on the whole Trump Files case, I can't help but think "So What?"
He tried to keep some files, much the same as Hillary Clinton.
Clinton cooperated entirely with the investigation into the email server from the start, the biggest hiccup on that front being on the part of a third party. She didn't try to "keep some files", some classified information
was mishandled, but it was in ways that were largely casual or accidental (the emails they were in weren't themselves classified, so it was a very different beast from what trump did just from that), and as far as I'm aware entirely in conversations between people that had clearance to be seeing it. She didn't try to
keep shit, there was just information that got included in other conversations that probably shouldn't have been, particularly not through email.
Trump, on the other hand, literally stole physical copies of blatantly classified documentation, clearly labeled as such in big ol' bright letters. This wasn't poorly considered reference to information that shouldn't have been talked about in a specific venue, it was
literal theft of entire classified documents. He then repeatedly refused to cooperate with the return of the material he stole, had his lawyer affirmatively lie about returning it, and has since been spitting out a pile of contradictory statements on the subject and attempting to gum up investigation and retrieval efforts into the stolen documentation. That's without even touching the security issues, 'cause for all the problems with the email handling, what went on at MAL is an entire different level of mishandling.
They're very different beasts on more than a few different levels, from the act itself to how the people involved are responding to it. "Just an expansion" is
wildly downplaying how much worse what trump did was.
And our politicians are enabling that behavior with the inhumane laws they are backing, on both sides.
And I'm sure you actually have citation for that both sides? Because there's definitely no question that, at a minimum, the scale of inhumane laws being proposed, and even more importantly implemented, is not balanced across the political spectrum right now, even a
little.It's pretty likely there's currently more laws against transgender girls participating in K-12 sports than there are transgender girls participating in K-12 sports, just as one bloody example out of too damn many.
