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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Monday January 16th,

2023. I am John Pudhord's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Abe Grudenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Christine Rosen is out today also with us as usual associate

editor Noah Rothman author of Rise of the New Puritans. Hi Noah. Hi John. We are today going to

devote most of the show to our February issues lead article by that self-same Noah Rothman entitled

the worldwide COVID revolts. But before we get to that more classified documents have been found

at Joe Biden's Wilmington House thus making what began as a whole boy what sauce for the

gander should be sauce for the goose story into something I think far more substantive in this

sense which is in theory the special prosecutor who was investigating the matter of Trump's

perloined classified documents and the obstruction of the efforts to return them to to the national

archives the special was looking into that should only be looking into that right that's his job

Mr. Smith's job is simply to look at the facts of the case in the Trump case and then recommend

prosecution or or not. But that is not Mara Garland the attorney general's job the attorney general

the United States is obliged to view the entirety of the political legal moral ramifications of the

decisions made by his department and make choices there too and the decision to indict Trump on

the mishandling of classified information and after that not to figure out some way in which Biden

can be disciplined or can be brought to some kind of legal process for the mishandling of

classified information strikes me as now being almost impossible to pull off that you really

would be creating a situation in which you had two different standards for post administration

behavior and and that the gaslighting of anybody who is inclined to think that Trump

is the recipient of mistreatment at the hands of Democrats with political power would just go

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