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Former President Trump, he is really distinguishable because of the obstruction factor.

As far as we know, I get maybe something more will come out.

But right now, he's the only one who appears to have quite willfully and seemingly quite deliberately,

or at least the staff around him, although it seems like he was personally involved as well,

in deliberately trying to withhold these documents and even lying about it to the Justice Department.

Those are the things that again, really problematic, I think that people understand our problematic

and that are ultimately going to bite him and it makes it easier to focus on those

if the broader problems about classified information are much more systemic.

I'm QuintedResick, senior editor at LawFair, and this is the LawFair podcast,

January 31st, 2023.

It seems like everyone has classified documents stashed away these days.

First, it was Donald Trump, with the Justice Department investigation

and to documents stored improperly at Mar-a-Lago.

Then it was Joe Biden, with news that documents bearing classification markings

were found at Biden's Wilmington home and at the Penn-Biden Center.

And now, former President Mike Pence has also uncovered classified materials at his home.

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