Experts believe Trump is likely to instrumentalize the discovery of classified documents in Biden's former office at the Penn Biden Center.
"There's no doubt that MAGA Republicans are going to argue that Trump is being subjected to a double standard over the handling of classified documents," Thomas Gift, associate professor of political science in the School of Public Policy at University College London, said.
While there are some parallels between the two cases,"it would be a mistake to suggest that both [Trump and Biden] hold equal culpability," said Gift."Still, Trump is going to use these new revelations to muddy the waters, and it's entirely possible that he'll be able to do so successfully. It gives Trump more ammunition to claim that he's the victim of a politically-motivated witch-hunt.
Biden's case is likely to put pressure on the Justice Department, Gift believes, saying that"there's no doubt this will ramp up the pressure against it not to pursue an indictment against Trump, lest it be accused of selective prosecution."
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