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Yeah they were biased. He got handled with kid gloves because he was a former president. He deliberately took all of this stuff from the white house, even though he knew he wasn't allowed to and that it was illegal. He was given years, multiple warnings, and many opportunities to comply with the law. He chose to lie to the national archives and the fbi repeatedly, continued to hide highly classified documents he stole in his damn bathroom at a beach resort. He even conspired with his staff to try and hide them from the fbi. And when the fbi one last time told him we know you have more, literally have your staff on video moving it around, give it up, he still lied! The national archives and fbi did everything possible to avoid having to seize it all back with a search warrant.
If anyone belongs in jail for mishandling classified documents, it's Trump. We probably don't even know the worst of what he had stuffed away at Mar-a-Lago. The worst stuff doesn't get disclosed to the court because they just can't risk it leaking out even with court procedures to try and protect classified info.