keeping clas- sifi ed docu- ments: • President Joe Biden (from his time as vice president and as a U.S. sena- tor);
• Former Vice President Mike Pence;
• Former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger, who physically re- moved documents relat- ing to a terror plot from the National Archives and cut some up with scissors;
• Gen. David Petraeus, who shared notebooks that contained the identi- ties of covert operatives, military strategy, and code words with a biog- rapher with whom he was romantically involved;
• Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and for- mer CIA Director John Deutch, both of whom were accused of mishan- dling classifi ed material. In Gonzales’ case, pros- ecutors decided not to prosecute, and President Bill Clinton pardoned Deutch before he fi nal- ized a plea deal. Petraeus and Berger
each pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor (a far lesser charge) and received two years’ probation. Then there is the case
of Hillary Clinton’s pri- vate email server and the classifi ed emails that also ended up on the laptop of Clinton chief of staff Huma Abedin’s then-hus- band, Anthony Weiner, who served time in prison for sexting a 15-year-old girl.
Hillary Clinton
deleted some 33,000 emails from her private server, on which she conducted government business, because she said that she had deter- mined the emails were “personal.” But she and her law-
yers made that determi- nation, not any outside reviewer — and certainly not a jury or the American people. Meanwhile, a State
Department investiga- tion ultimately found that 38 past and present em- ployees were “culpable” of improperly sending classifi ed information to Clinton’s private server — meaning they could face disciplinary action or is- sues regarding their secu- rity clearances. In the case of Biden,
his unlawful possession of classifi ed documents in multiple locations was fi rst uncovered on Nov. 2, six days before the mid- term elections. But Biden waited 69
days to reveal the breach to the American people. A special counsel is
investigating, but so far nothing has resulted. No- tice a pattern here?
Greta Van Susteren is a lawyer and host of The Record with Greta Van Susteren weekdays at 6pm ET on Newsmax TV.
Race Is Frozen on Both Sides
A
merican politics have stopped, fro- zen by the indict-
ment of Donald Trump for no good reason and the de- terioration of Joe Biden. In theory, this summer
should have been when the nominating process in each party heated up as candi- dates took to the runway to launch their campaigns. But there was zero en-
ergy for them. Trump took away all
the air Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and the others needed. Right now, in the Re-
publican Party there is room for only two view- points: that Trump is guilty or that he is innocent. DeSantis et al can’t
split the diff erence and say “Trump is the innocent vic- tim of the deep state and is being persecuted by the Democrats but I’m running against him anyway.” There is no place for
Trump’s GOP opponents to stand. And in the democratic
process, all the possible candidates: Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., Sens.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., Hillary Clinton, and current U.S. Transporta- tion Secretary Pete But- tigieg will all have to swear that they simply love the emperor’s new clothes. No one can step out and
say that he doesn’t have any.
Anyone who dares
speak these words will be cast out and doomed. It’s not so much that
the party will punish their apostasy but that they will be politically excom- municated, isolated, con- demned, and declared anathema. Each of these Demo-
crats should muster their courage and step out to challenge Biden, but none of them dare. And they all have to
ignore the one guy who actually says that the em- peror has no clothes: Rob- ert F. Kennedy Jr. So all remains frozen. Trump is en route to
winning the nomination and Biden is en route to losing the election.
Dick Morris is a Newsmax contributor and author of The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback.
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