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Well I do think they targeted him, again whether you think that targeting is good or bad is a separate question.
And part of the issue here is that by targeting him it plays into his rhetoric, jives with his constituency, that he was being targeted by some dark forces.
It's a tricky issue whether to go down this road or not.
On one side we have these kind of vague laws and prosecutorial discretion, and on the other side we have confirming Trump's whole argument that the government is out to get him.
Legally it is questionable and politically it is extra questionable because we are basically confirming the position of a guy who lives on drama.
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Those facts are contested, though.
Trump supporters make a big deal about how he did return documents, was happily working with the archives about returning more, and wasn't given time to address their additional demands.
It's another case where there are two completely separate sets of facts that different groups are working with.
I suspect reality is somewhere in the middle, but hopefully through the trial we might sort some of the conflict out.
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@volkris @Popehat @GottaLaff @TonyStark Maybe I’m getting caught up in semantics
“Targeted”, to me, implies that they were looking for a crime to “get him.” Like a cop stopping you for a busted tail light that he just busted.
In this case, he was very public about the laws he broke. They gave him ample opportunity to return the docs - when he refused they charged him.