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Oct. 1, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Lionel on Redacted: Why Comey Walks Free & Justice Dies
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Well, James Comey, the former FBI director and prosecutor was indicted by the Justice Department, but our next guest says he will walk free because the government did they even try?
It seems not because the indictment is less than two pages.
So we can extrapolate pretty much nothing.
Uh it says Comey lied to Congress and obstructed justice.
It doesn't say when or how or what those lies were.
This is not to say that James Comey is a good guy.
He is not.
He has used dirty indictments before.
Remember the case of Martha Stewart?
Uh, but that doesn't mean that this case has any strength.
Did the if the government is going to indict them him, they've got to bring the goods, and they didn't hear another problem is that this indictment came just days after President Trump asked for it, which is not the way this is supposed to work.
The executive branch is supposed to be separate from the judicial branch.
Joining us to discuss is Lionel from the Lionel Nation YouTube channel, and he is pissed, he told me on text today.
He's mad as snakes because he says this is not a good case.
This is not how it should have been done.
So uh make that case to us, Lionel.
What what are the charges and why are they so crap?
Well, here I go again.
Another case for Diddy and then this one and they all these cases are dogs, and I don't want to do this.
It's not my point.
When when I first heard that Comey was indicted, I said, I think goes about time.
Yes, finally, yes.
I didn't read anything.
I'm thinking, I'm just assuming he lied.
That son of a gun, of course he lied.
Let me tell you what the case is about and why he will not only walk, but very well could have this case dismissed before it even gets to a jury.
He is alleged to have done as follows.
They asked him the question.
Did you, Mr. Comey, direct, authorize whatever you want to come?
And these words are weird.
Authorize, direct, but did you authorize Andy McCabe to order a leak?
With Lisa Page, it doesn't matter.
Well, but I don't want to get into the weeds.
Did you, did you, Comey, authorize or order or know about, or but were were you a part of this leak?
He said no.
No.
Later on, for reasons I do not understand, Ted Cruz, who I don't know what this guy's about, I don't know whose side he's on.
He goes into this discussion about he how he authorized Andrew Andy McCabe to issue this leak.
And he says, and and and McCabe said that you did this.
He goes, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I never said that.
Now the bottom line is simply this.
He never authorized McCabe.
How do I know that?
How do we know that?
The IG, the inspector general's report, Michael Horowitz, he said it.
He said, McCabe is a crook.
If anybody needs to be pushing or cracking rocks upstate, it's it's McCabe.
But he even said, No, I did this on my own.
Now, afterwards, afterwards, Comey found out, and you seem to say, oh well, he didn't object, he didn't stop, he didn't arrest him, but he didn't authorize it.
And in the world of perjury, you've got to know that what you're saying is false, believe it to be false, and intentionally say it is false.
He said specifically, I didn't authorize this.
McCabe said he didn't authorize it.
The case is done.
Do you think and this Lindsay Halligan or does she know what she's doing?
They say she even actually handled the grand jury herself.
There was one particular count that was rejected.
You know, the great Saul Walkler, greatest jurist New York certainly has ever produced, came up with this line one time in passing.
He said, you know, a good prosecutor or prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.
Well, apparently the Trump administration can't indict a ham sandwich.
It's yeah.
Because there's a buffet of things to pick from that Comey has done.
The problem is, as it relates to Russia Gate, we we know that Tulsi Gabbard has shown us evidence that he used the steel dossier when there was no right.
So we know he did bad stuff.
So why did they choose this spoiled food when there's a whole buffet of other is it just because of the statute of limitations?
Well, but so what?
The statute of limitations on a case that doesn't exist.
He didn't commit a crime.
He didn't commit a he didn't he didn't lie.
They asked him.
He didn't authorize this.
Look, you know, it's like the old, it's like the old expression, what do you say?
Look, I may have done a lot of things, but I didn't do this.
Well, that's the same thing.
Okay, but the law, the but the law, he did use a faulty document, the steel dossier, to continue to pursue the Trump Russia collusion case.
What's illegal about that?
Can the FBI just is there anything there?
Well, well, maybe maybe maybe have a grand jury and be find out.
How about what they did to Carter Page?
How about here's one for you.
Everybody brace yourself.
How about Hillary Clinton?
What is this woman?
What is she?
What is she bulletproof?
She's a is she the sacred cow?
What what does she have to do?
What does she have to do?
Let I don't have to go through that again.
This whole business, you know, the steel dasigate Perkins GUI and this and that and then and the and the Russian uh uh harlots relieving themselves on the look, that's another issue.
The bottom line is simply this.
Comey was so right, and this is a guy, by the way, he also put up that that weird shell design where he said 8647, meaning 86.
He's making references to what?
To murder?
Is that what you're doing?
I don't even know what he's talking about.
Yeah.
But the bottom line is simply this, and it pains me.
Look, I'm not going to.
For every time I ever was a member of a bar association, whether it's Florida, New York, New Jersey, the Supreme Court, we always had to plead and swear rather fealty to the Constitution to honor and to defend, protect the Constitution.
And the Constitution says, I don't care who you are.
I don't care if you're James Comey, you're not guilty of this.
And how how anybody I've got to ask the question, what's going on here?
How did this this Lindsay uh, by the way, I I guess, in order to be a U.S. attorney, you've got to be what, a Fox News uh person?
You've got to be uh somebody on the Q. Let's give her that.
Yeah.
I I don't this is ridiculous.
I mean, she's no Bill Barr, but the point is, these people were competent.
These people were competent.
I, you know, people love, I hate to say it, Pam Bondi, Pete Pete Hagseth, you know, uh Cash Patel.
By the way, Cash Patel, bless his heart.
Someone said what time he looks like a cartoon hypnotist.
Every time he talks, I get scared.
It's like, what cash?
What?
Someone said it looks like this this is terrible.
It's like Charlie Manson's whispering in his ear.
These are these people that represent the FBI.
Say what you want about these other folks.
I don't care who it is.
They may be scoundrels, they may be rap scallions, they may be criminals, but they were really good.
And they were folks who were who were basically brought up in this system.
But going back to this, it's going to be a very simple thing.
It's going to be such a slam gun.
Now, the question is, when this judge, I remember his name, um, I'm gonna mispronounce it, I won't, but when when this this is a Biden appointee, if he were to grant the motion to dismiss, you know what they're gonna say, the fix is in.
The fix is in.
No, I'd be the first one to say, I can't stand this guy.
But justice demands this.
Or they could say, look, let's let it go to a jury, you know, waste your time, waste your money, and then maybe the public will be able to to fathom this or to swallow this.
That's not justice either.
Let me tell you what I wish they would have done though, which they could just stop you for a second because why don't you're talking about whether these specific instances, and it says it happened September 30th, 2020.
So tomorrow will be the five-year statute of limitations.
But it doesn't actually say which false statements, it doesn't actually say who he did it to.
So if we could just put Up what the Sixth Amendment says, so that because we should want everybody to have the best defense.
The Sixth Amendment says that you have a right to the accused has the right to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation.
You can't fight a case like this when it's literally it.
I mean, it's probably less than 200 words, and we're not exactly sure.
You can't.
So how do you know?
Well, you can have, you know, but bills of particulars, and and they also want in diamonds sometimes.
They say another person.
It'd be McCabe, person number one, Hillary.
Person number three, I think was this this law professor that he referred to.
So it's very often sometimes these are very, very sparse.
They don't go through a lot of words.
It's kind of like the old notion of notice pleading.
You're you'll find out the specifics of this.
That's not.
They don't sit back and say, that's all you're gonna get.
We're not gonna talk to you.
Doesn't matter.
But the bottom line is simply this.
Let me just leave you with this, because I know.
I would have not minded, Natalie.
I think you would have agreed too.
Okay, fine, you're gonna dismiss it.
But when you arrested, or when you charged him, could you have at least given him the Roger Stone 4 a.m. ninja routine?
Wake up in the middle of the night, have him walk out barefoot, you know, with super.
So Martha Stewart, could you have done that for her?
Like, I mean, just do it.
Now remember, Martha Stewart, this is a different case.
Remember, she was charged on her uh 18 USC 1001, lying to a federal agent regarding an investigation.
That's why people say, don't talk to the police or the feds.
What do you you have the Fifth Amendment?
What do you talk?
Which is another story completely.
But I I don't understand this.
Look at what happens.
Look at the ignominy.
Are we gonna see the mugshot?
Because remember, he's gonna be booked.
Uh he's gonna be booked, he's gonna turn himself in.
They have to physically take custody of him.
Are they gonna are they gonna have his mugshot or on display like they did Trump's?
I mean, are they going to do this?
But why Roger Stone?
Think about this.
It was essentially the same thing.
Roger Stone's not going anywhere.
Roger Stone's not.
They could have at least easily called his lawyer and out of courtesy.
Look at the way they treated him.
Look at the way they treated Judge uh General Flynn with these process crimes.
It's unconscionable.
That's a different issue.
Absolutely horribly, terribly a different issue.
But it's so unfair.
But Natalie, it kills me.
I was so excited.
And then we're reading something.
Oh no, because when you get back into it, you have to bring into an effect the testimony from just uh from uh uh I. G. Horowitz, because that fellow said, McCabe, McCabe, McCabe, that's the one who should have been charged.
But the FBI said no.
And don't forget, remember, Comey, Comey was the one who basically the Joey Behar doesn't like him.
Joy Behar doesn't like him because of what he did.
He went after Hillary Clinton, said he wasn't going to charge Hillary Clinton, and then read all the things Hillary did, and then said, and by the way, we're not gonna charge you.
Even I said then you charge him or you don't, and you keep your mouth shut.
You don't tell what somebody did, but we're not gonna charge you.
Comey is dirty to everyone.
Nobody likes him.
Hillary Clinton, here I am.
I'm thinking, I'm actually standing up for Hillary Clinton.
I believe in the rule of law.
I believe in the Constitution.
I don't care who it is, Charles Manson, Charles Schwab, it doesn't matter to me.
But this, this goes to show you, Natalie.
Does the but President Trump know what he's doing?
Who are these people he's hired?
Alina Hobbit, gone.
Pam Bondy.
Remember the Epstein thing with the binders?
What's that all about?
And by the way, we're gonna ask you a question of what you're thinking.
Who the hell's decorating the Oval Office?
It looks like a cracker barrel gift shop.
What is this stuff?
What is happening?
Well, we can forgive that if we get the good.
He's paving over the rose garden to make it to be like a like a uh some kind of a food court at a mall.
I don't, I don't look, but that's the least of our problem.
We have the weirdest, I'm let down constantly.
Natalie, the other day where we're gonna finally get to the bottom of autism, where we're gonna get to the bottom.
What about the role of of vaccines?
Anti-vaxxer.
What did they say?
Tylenol.
What?
What is happening here?
I don't understand anything.
And and and I I BB spoke today.
I'm not even gonna take that story.
I'm not even gonna read it.
Because my book is.
Oh, well, we're gonna get to that next with Dave DeCan from anti-war.com.
So I'm not watching.
Don't you worry.
You can't take this.
But my body language is the same as yours.
This constantly.
So okay, that's how we gotta end it.
Uh because we do have a lot of things.
I am in constant I'm in constant flex.
My physician is this.
You're in co I'm like I mean, I'm in a Valsalva maneuver, look like a baby with a diaper.
I'm always upset by this.
I wanted so much to believe in this man.
What is going on?
Tell me one big news.
What?
Ice is great.
They're slugging people left and right.
That's good.
And by the way, pray for us, because I live in New York City and we have a we have a race.
I don't even know what the hell that's about.
I have no it's it's like it it's put it this way.
I'd rather vote for an onion ring than half of the people running.
I mean it it it is I don't know what country I'm in anymore.
I'm serious.
I don't know.
And I need you and Clayton to help me.
And so far you've done a lousy job today because I'm more upset than I was before I listened.
Okay.
Well, we have a box of medication on its way this afternoon.
It's a it's arriving by courier.
We we door Scotch whiskey.
We door dashed it.
It'll be there this afternoon.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
Thanks, Lionel.
All right.
So anyone who had anything in the Comey indictment, we've just if we have not sufficiently burst that bubble, uh then come back.
Watch it again.
No, I've told my my great our great neighbors, uh great patriots, I said, Yeah, Comey's gonna walk.
And they're like, Oh no.
Yeah.
Oh they're like, Yeah, I think so too.
I mean, I opened that too.
I'm like, ooh, what are we doing?
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