The Case That Proves Donald Trump Deserves Jail Time

Anybody who thinks Donald Trump was unfairly indicted for keeping classified documents should consider the case of Robert Birchum, who has been sentenced to prison for the very same crime even though he was a decorated Air Force special forces officer who retired on 100 percent psychiatric disability officially deemed “combat-related.”

Back in January 2017, investigators with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), acting on a tip, searched Lt. Col. Birchum’s home in Tampa, Florida, just as FBI agents later searched Trump’s residence in Palm Beach. The object of both searches was the same: to find unlawfully retained classified documents.

Investigators found a thumb drive and numerous classified documents stashed in Birchum’s house and in a storage pod parked in his driveway, just as the FBI would find numerous classified documents in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago. They also found a hard drive containing classified files in Birchum’s quarters in Afghanistan, where he was on his sixth and final combat deployment despite having been diagnosed with PTSD that required hospitalizations.

Read more at The Daily Beast.