Neither guy is going to be charged with mishandling classified information. Where there might be charges is how they both handled the situation after classified information was discovered.
Biden's people immediately called the National Archives and had the stuff transferred back to them the same day.
Trump ignored requests from the Archives people for months after he left office to hand over stuff he still had. A couple of pallets of documents were taken from the White House when he moved out so the Archives people knew he had a load of stuff. In the end they issued a subpoena. Trump's people showed them a store room full of boxes at his Florida restaurant but would not let them inspect the boxes. They did hand over a small amount of documents and said that was all they had. Trump tried to get his lawyers to sign a document saying they'd searched everywhere and there was nothing else but none of his fifth rate slip and fall lawyers even would sign it which tells you everything you need to know about Trump and his truthfulness. The feds then unearthed evidence that Trump was lying and that he'd actually had multiple boxes of documents removed from the store room and placed in his office, presumably because he thought the feds would never dare go in there. The feds took this evidence to a judge who issued a search warrant. The FBI found dozens of boxes of documents in Trump's office and elsewhere.
Since then Trump has said variously he took them on purpose, they belong to him, I want them back, I magically declassified them, it's a witch hunt, etc etc.
He's bang to rights on at least obstruction of justice here. Whether he actually gets charged with anything is a different matter.
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