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I'd be remiss this morning if I didn't put down some of my quick thoughts from watching Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony in front of Congress yesterday.

For those who missed it, Hur provided testimony yesterday on his inquiry into President Joe Biden's improper handling of confidential documents. Serving as the special counsel, he addressed the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, he clearly stated that his investigation "did not exonerate" the president.

For the record, I'm mostly in the same camp as Representative Matt Gaetz, who said yesterday during the hearing that he wasn't interested in seeing President Biden nor President Trump charged for mishandling classified documents.

The left's justification for the August 8, 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago and the recovery of classified documents from President Trump's estate hasn't so much revolved around the idea that Trump committed a crime by taking them, but rather that he lied when he was asked about them and refused when he was given several opportunities to turn the documents over.

FBI Raid on Mar-A-Lago / Getty Images

Not unlike the numerous other court proceedings against Mr. Trump, which to be honest, seem mostly frivolous, the left has sworn up and down that Trump's mishandling of these documents is part of a larger pattern of general incompetence and wrongdoing.

In fact, Congressman Adam Schiff, who now continues to perpetuate the Russian collusion hoax despite the fact that nearly all evidence to date proves that he's the one peddling a conspiracy theory, even took to the airwaves this week to say that if Trump was elected president, he thinks that he shouldn't have access to certain confidential information.

To be frank, I'm not here to argue whether or not Trump's handling of these documents constituted incompetence. Rather, I'm writing about what was revealed to be an absolutely devastating double standard made clear by Special Counsel Robert Hur’s testimony with regard to President Biden's handling of classified documents yesterday.

You can watch the full testimony for yourself here. But what you need to know is that the revelations put forth during the hearing all but confirmed that President Biden was guilty of far more egregious mishandling of classified documents than President Trump ever was. And the resulting lack of motivation to handle Biden's case in the same way that Trump’s case was handled once again raises questions, to even those in the center-left of the aisle, if we are administering a two-tiered system of justice.

Yesterday's hearing revealed that President Biden kept classified documents at at least six different locations (Penn Biden Center, Biden’s garage, Biden’s basement den, his main floor office, his third floor den, at the University of Delaware and at the Biden Institute) . The hearing also revealed that Biden lied, not only when he was asked about it by the special counsel, but also to the American public.

Additionally, Biden admitted on tape that the documents he had were classified, and it was made clear that his motive for retaining the documents was so that his ghostwriter could prepare a book that he was getting paid $8 million for.

And throughout the testimony, Democrats tried to do damage control but came up short.

Now, in any type of semi-objective world, how do these actions not at least rise to the seriousness of the actions of President Trump? For me, it seems like they are far more egregious than what President Trump was being accused of.

I also know that there's going to be a constituency of people that try to make this a wash and write off the facts that came to light yesterday.

"They all do it, all politicians are corrupt," people will say.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that statement, except for the fact that it would normally be a wash, but only one presidential candidate appears to be facing criminal charges while the other is being let out the back door for what could be argued to be far worse conduct.

As I said on my last podcast about the state of the union, the bolder the double standard becomes, the further towards the center go the votes that Democrats see eroded from their base. As I said on my podcast, the Democrats simply don't have any finesse.

Political dirty tricks, October surprises and the like come with the territory in the world of politics in the United States. But there's always been some element of finesse to them. If you're going to try and paint one person to be far more evil than the other, you have to do it in a way that doesn't overdo it and become obvious. You have to let people think they're figuring it out for themselves.

There's no finesse involved in throwing 100 different charges against the wall and then having corrupt prosecutors try to pursue them with their work-boyfriend. There's no finesse involved in telling the public Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation when everybody could see the photos for themselves. There's no finesse involved in faking the entire Russian collusion hoax, and finally, there's no finesse involved when pursuing a candidate publicly for actions that arguably pale in comparison to those of the president ostensibly going after him.

This lack of finesse can also be called sloppiness. How many times in a movie have you seen somebody pulling off a scheme, then getting too confident and "sloppy" before blowing their cover? This is exactly what the Democrats are doing and it is costing them the crucial undecided votes that don't simply pledge allegiance to one party or the other. Yesterday's hearing was proof that they have become swollen with hubris and drunk on their own power — and in November, the American public might call them out on it.

“Sir, you can’t take those documents with you!”

“It’s OK! I’m a Democrat!”

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