Chapter 1: What led to the indictment of James Comey?
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Chapter 2: How is Trump allegedly weaponizing the Justice Department?
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We'll also talk about the return of Jimmy Kimmel, the government shutdown that's almost here, MAGA's war against escalators, what gets Stephen Miller's wife going in the morning, and Tommy's interview with Georgia Senator John Ossoff. Look, those are her words, not mine. I know. I know.
Chapter 3: What was the significance of Jimmy Kimmel's monologue?
But first, the people demanding we stop calling them authoritarian are now ordering law enforcement to charge the president's political enemies with crimes they didn't commit. The new loyalist Trump installed as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is reportedly planning to seek an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey.
even though the trump appointee she replaced and the rest of the prosecutors in the office have told her that the investigation that they did didn't uncover sufficient evidence of any crimes what's stopping you though you know just because just because you can't find any crimes doesn't mean you can't try to bring an indictment comey is far from the only target here the fabricated case against new york attorney general tish james appears to be coming back from the dead as well ed martin
formerly the lawyer for the violent January 6th rioters, is reportedly advancing that investigation, which had also stalled due to a lack of evidence. Trump is pressuring the Department of Justice to indict ex-CIA director John Brennan, though prosecutors are also struggling to find a crime that he committed.
And on Thursday morning, the New York Times reported that an official at DOJ sent a memo to federal prosecutors around the country asking someone, anyone, to please start investigating George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. The story says that the memo, quote, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism.
The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation. Just putting it all out there right in the memo. Here's Trump's response when asked about the potential Comey indictment on Thursday.
I'm not making that determination. I think I'd be allowed to get involved if I want, but I don't really choose to do so. I can only say that Comey's a bad person.
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Chapter 4: Why is a government shutdown now a pressing concern?
He's a sick person. I think he's a sick guy, actually. He did terrible things at the FBI. But I don't know. I have no idea what's going to happen.
He's got no idea, Dan. He has no idea what's going to happen. He's following these stories just like we are.
Yeah, he seems like a guy who really values the independence of the Department of Justice and the idea that the president should not get involved in investigations. He could get involved. He could. He could get involved. Don't dare suggest he might be impotent in any way. So he could get involved, but he's not. We are laughing here.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of Vice President JD Vance's comments?
But this is a five alarm fire for democracy and the rule of law.
Here you have the president who has removed prosecutors who were unwilling to charge crimes to people for which there was insufficient evidence, replaced them with a political crony who has no prosecutorial experience and is now going to try to get indictment on Jim Comey, going to charge crimes against Letitia James, looking at John Brennan, looking at George Soros' foundation.
We know just from reading Trump's truths, which apparently operate as rule of law these days because they provide instructions to people across the government that Adam Schiff could be next. Who comes after that? It doesn't stop there. It could be Jimmy Kimmel. It could be people who worked in the January 6th Commission. It could be all kinds of people.
Anyone who ever crossed Trump before or now who does not have blanket immunity from Joe Biden is at risk here, and it is quite dangerous. We have been through this cycle ā for so long now with Trump of outrage to normalcy, which is we're all outrageous. This is happening. And then it's the new normal, right? That was the way it was with Doge. That's the way it was with the free speech stuff.
Chapter 6: How is Senator Jon Ossoff addressing ICE investigations?
And so here we are, the new normal is, and everyone's going to treat it just as, as normal that the president of the United States gets to pick who law enforcement goes after, regardless of the evidence you've picked, you pick the, uh, The opponent first, the crime second, and the evidence follows, which is the exact opposite of the way it's supposed to go.
And as we've said before, there's a very good chance that if any of these indictments get to court, you know, a judge throws them out before a trial even commences. There's even a chance, as we've seen from some of these Jeanine Pirro grand juries in D.C., that the grand jury doesn't even indict them, even if the prosecutors bring the charges. That does not mean that, like...
the rule of law has won the day and everything is safe because Jim Comey, John Brennan, all these people, they've had to lawyer up. They've probably had to talk to the FBI. There have been investigations. And what if it starts targeting, you know, he's going to start going after people who can't afford lawyers.
He's going to have to start going after people who, you know, maybe you've committed some minor, you know, offense 30 years ago that they're going to find. I mean, this is just, Really, really dangerous stuff.
Because once the rule of law starts coming apart, once you start just completely politicizing, not just having a lackey as attorney general like Pam Bondi, but now you're reaching into these offices, these U.S. attorney offices, and you're only putting in prosecutors who, even if they don't find a crime and they don't find evidence,
They're going to go try to bring an indictment and criminally charge someone, potentially go arrest someone, bring them.
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Chapter 7: What are the potential consequences of Trump's actions on democracy?
It's crazy. It's fucking crazy.
Somebody just had to step back. If this was happening in any other country, we would call it for what it is, which is the end of democracy. And it's happening here and it's happening right now.
On the source thing, the memo that the Times got accused the Open Society's foundations of, quote, pouring over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence. Have you looked into this memo and what they're planning here for Soros, how to loop him into this?
I have. So we should stipulate that there is, despite plenty of accusations from many on the far right, including the president of the United States, there is no evidence that George Soros' foundation has funded any groups that have done violent extremism. There are also, at least in the cases of the most recent incidents of violence, there's no evidence that groups were involved at all, right?
As of what we know right now, these are the actions of individuals acting on their own. So this is a completely made up thing to begin with.
They're trying to hang this on the thinnest read possible, which is there is a group that is a Palestinian rights and aid organization that the government of Israel, to my knowledge, not the government of the United States, but the government of Israel has said is a front for terrorism. Now,
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Chapter 8: How can Democrats effectively respond to the current political climate?
I'm going to be pretty skeptical of how Bibi Netanyahu's government characterizes a group that provides aid to the Palestinian people at this exact moment in time. But that is what they're going for. That is the hook here. The arson stuff is a reference to this completely made up idea that lacks any evidence at all that the sabotage of Teslas was funded by Soros.
That was a big talking point on the right. I think that's where the arson comes from. But there is no evidence there. They are instructing prosecutors to go investigate, but they're starting with the crime, not with the evidence, which is as I said before, exactly the opposite of how it's supposed to go.
Yeah, basically what they're doing here is first they're trying to find protests that have happened in the United States any time in the last decade where at some point some maniacs infiltrated the protest and caused vandalism or violence or something like that. Or like Antifa showed up. and they were violent or they were destructive and some black box or any of these fucking anarchists, right?
And then they're gonna look and say, okay, originally was that protest organized by some kind of a group? And then can we tie the group that organized the protest to the Antifa anarchists who joined the protest later and caused some damage? And then who funded the groups That set up the protest.
And could we tie the funding somehow to Soros or to the Ford Foundation or to any of these other, you know, left leaning foundations? And then do those foundations have foreign ties? Because since you there's no legal way to label NGOs, you know, nonprofits in this country as domestic terrorists. That's like not a not a legal thing. We've talked about that. You can only label organizations.
foreign organizations, terrorist organizations. So is there any foreign funding involved for many of these groups, which of course the Soros Foundation funds sort of nonprofits all over the world, that you can then tie to them and then do it that way?
I'm not even sure the funding works in the reverse, right? You need the funding to come from abroad, right? If you send your American money abroad, that is America funding things abroad. It is not... Internet, foreign interest funding, like it's all bullshit. It's all ridiculous bullshit.
And it's once again, the president United States has a fever dream that is inspired by a right wing outrage machine. And then the government then goes tries to make that real.
He just signed the ā we're going to talk about the TikTok deal. And he was in the Oval and got asked about this and asked about Soros particularly. And he said, I mean, I don't know. You know, like every time I ā he's involved in so many things. Every time I read the paper, it's Soros' name. So I assume that's, you know, like just reading his name connected to progressive ā
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