Former President Donald Trump was indicted Thursday on charges related to violations of the Espionage Act and the mishandling of classified documents taken from the White House after he lost reelection. The Republican whining has already begun.
Despite running against Trump for next year’s GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran to his defense and asked why the Department of Justice was “so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary [Clinton] or Hunter [Biden]?”
Republicans are sure to ramp up the comparisons between Trump’s indictment and similar cases involving former Secretary of State Clinton, former Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden, all of whom had some classified material in their possession as private citizens, as they rush to defend Trump.
The allegations against Trump, however, when paired with the available evidence of his state of mind, are dramatically different from the potential charges considered against Biden,…