11/20/25

Good morning! It’s Thursday, November 20th.

Universal Children’s Day

Oh my god, first men and now children?! Wow!

What will they think of next?

And now, the news.

Comey Hearing

-via CNN

Starting with the hearing of James Comey, the former FBI director who is currently in court for… existing. Well, no I guess technically he’s there for lying under oath.

If you don’t remember, here’s what you missed on Glee…

This all goes back to an October 2016 Wall Street Journal article that talked about Hillary Clinton’s email use.

This was a big deal at the time for two reasons that are funny in a way that is actually really really hurt…

First, funny because we just didn’t know how emails worked at the time so when people were like “her servers” we were like “sounds bad! I bet she’s a criminal!”

But also because, at that time, we thought that between Hillary Clinton, who was sending emails to her assistant to print for her because she didn’t know how to connect her laptop to the printer, and Donald John Trump’s general existence in life… we thought Hillary’s emails were the bigger crime.

It hurts!

So this article comes out about an investigation into Hillary’s emails and it’s specific enough to make it clear that there’s a leak at the DOJ. Everyone assumes it’s Comey, but he says he didn’t do it.

Okie doke, we’re good to go.

A lot of stuff happens in between, including Comey investigating Trump for very obvious ties to Russia that prove to be true because, duh, and also Comey making a whole big deal about investigating Hillary’s emails.

Do you remember that? Do you remember that Comey came out and said he was investigating Hillary?

What if I told you… that’s not even what he was investigating?

He was actually investigating Anthony Weiner, but his wife was Hillary’s assistant so he needed to dive into Anthony’s wife’s emails, which meant also seeing emails to and from Hillary. That’s what that was. And then he held a press conference to say that Hillary acted extremely He did a whole press conference And I’m gonna make a whole press conference about it, note that Hillary was careless in her actions, and then say “let’s not charge her though” which isn’t like… why not just say “she didn’t do crimes. Don’t worry. I saw the emails. She just doesn’t know how to connect to a printer.”

So now cut to 2020, the country has elected Trump and Tedward Cruz, in an effort to suck up to Trump, brings Comey on the stand and says “hey back in 2017 when you said you didn’t authorize that leak to the Wall Street Journal – do you still believe that? Because apparently three months later, Andrew McCabe, who was the deputy director at the time, said he knew about the leak.”

In 2020, Comey said he didn’t know about the leak.

And now here we are. It’s 2025, and Trump does… well, actually, he does a lot, but a big one is political persecution. So of course, he wants to punish Comey somehow because remember that even though are a lot of reasons that Trump was elected in 2016, the Hillary email thing sure didn’t help her. It helped Trump.

But once Trump was in office, Comey continued to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia. So Trump went searching for literally anything he could find to charge him with, and what he found was… maybe Comey really WAS lying to Tedward Cruz in 2020.

That’s what his case is about.

But Comey – he’s got himself a little hunch that maybe it’s about political prosecution. So he’d like to just double-check to see if his gut is right. So he asked the court. And on Wednesday, a US District Judge returned the answer of… yeah, no, something’s not right here.

Literally on Wednesday, the DOJ admitted that – whoopsies. Not every grand jury member saw the final version of the indictment. Well, how many people missed it? One or two, while they were in the restroom? No, no.

Only the foreperson and one other person saw the whole thing.

Earlier this week, the judge said this case may rest on, “uncharted legal territory.” Well, now, the whole thing may get tossed thanks to “a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps that potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding."

Additionally, when asked when the DOJ attorney had learned whether a declination memo had been prepared by career prosecutors recommending that they DON’T charge Comey because there wasn’t enough evidence, the DOJ lawyer, Tyler Lemons first tried to dodge the question and then said he couldn’t answer.

This is… not going well for the DOJ. Because if you were trying to look either competent or not like this is for political retribution, I have the worst possible news for you.

So we’ll see where things go from here but if I had to guess? I’d say they’ll go… in Comey’s direction.

Trump Signs Epstein Bill

-via AP News

After it made it through the House and the Senate, the bill compelling the DOJ to make the Epstein files available to the public has made its way to the president’s desk and has been signed off on.

The question now is… will the DOJ actually release the files or will there be some investigations that, aw shucks, just came up to hold it up?

And will those investigations be the same ones that Trump just announced last week?

In the bill is a measure noting that the AG can withhold or retract info that "would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution,” HOWEVER, the end of that sentence is… “provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary."

If the DOJ holds anything back, they have 15 days to say why they did it.

Included in the bill is language that says the DOJ has up to 30 days from its signaling to make everything publically available in a searchable and downloadable format. And by everything, that would include not only the items the DOJ has, but what the FBI and the US attorneys’ offices have in relations to Epstein, including all investigations, prosecutions, or custodial matters.

So that means the DOJ has until December 19th – ah, the holidays.

The DOJ can, however, hold back anything needed to protect victims. Which, Speaker Johnson says is his big worry. It doesn’t do enough to protect the victims.

Sure.

Let’s be clear, the bill specifically notes: "no record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

So there we go.

Who knows where we go next.

Interesting. That’s for sure! Very, very interesting.

And that’s it. That’s the news.

I’m proud of kids. They have so much potential. And most of them grow up to be pretty cool. I don’t mean to brag but I used to be a kid. I’m not saying I’m cool (of course I’m not. I literally do a daily news podcast for fun.) I’m just saying… I used to be young.

But more than me… because you are all the best of everything rolled into one… I’m proud of you!