May 1, 2026 · 50 min · 16 segments
This week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche unveiled a criminal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey over a May 2025 Instagram post of seashells shaped in the numbers 8647. White…
This is something, right? I mean, just when you thought, uh, things couldn't get crazier, uh, this indictment of James Comey almost makes the prior attorney general look like she was, like, holding back or reigning in, like, the full level of crazy that could be, uh, unleashed here at the Justice Department.
Yeah, and before we went, before we got on air, Renato, you and I were having a little bit of a debate.
I feel like we sh- I feel like we should recap it here on kind of the levels of crazy that permeate this administration, and different categories of people.
Um, you have the true believers, which I would put Pete Hegseth, uh, Stephen Miller, I'd put them in that category.
I think Kash Patel, you know, flying around in the government jet to go watch, you know, sports events or whatever, um, is in that category.
You said that your sense of Pam Bondi was that she wasn't as bad as she could be.
I think she's a serious person, sort of like how Marco Rubio is a serious person.
I, I think that what we're seeing right now, this is my view on it, is you're seeing an addition of, f- by Todd Blanche to become the permanent attorney general, and this is what Trump always wanted, whether, you know, which was, you know, unleashed, you know, crazy indictments against James Comey and anyone else he dislikes, dislikes.
So I mean, why do you think Todd Blanche, though, is different than Pam Bondi? Like, I mean, if Pam, Pam Bondi was y- I think you mentioned she's just kind of a self-promoter, climber, or something like that, but that's also what it sounds like Blanche is.
I mean, I think if, had Bondi been given enough time before being fired, I think this all would have unfolded as well.
I mean, I think the, the more, a more apt analogy, [laughs] like to some of the other names you mentioned, would be like a Janine Pirro.
So like, if we have [laughs] or who's the guy, DiGenova, [laughs] who just got appointed special something or another, like, if one of them takes over the Justice Department, things are gonna go in a radically different direction.
I think what we're seeing is a little bit of, of, of, you know, there was a l- a c- a bit of a constraint placed on Trump here, if for a period of time...
All I'm saying is you're seeing suddenly Bondi leaves and some stuff's happening.
I mean, on its face, I, you know, it is, uh, uh, what we're talking now when I say it, the indictment of, the second indictment, excuse me, of James Comey for tweeting out, or not tweeting out, I'm sorry, posting on Instagram a photo of seashells.
This is something, right? I mean, just when you thought, uh, things couldn't get crazier, uh, this indictment of James Comey almost makes the prior attorney general look like she was, like, holding back or reigning in, like, the full level of crazy that could be, uh, unleashed here at the Justice Department.
Yeah, and before we went, before we got on air, Renato, you and I were having a little bit of a debate.
I feel like we sh- I feel like we should recap it here on kind of the levels of crazy that permeate this administration, and different categories of people.
Um, you have the true believers, which I would put Pete Hegseth, uh, Stephen Miller, I'd put them in that category.
I think Kash Patel, you know, flying around in the government jet to go watch, you know, sports events or whatever, um, is in that category.
You said that your sense of Pam Bondi was that she wasn't as bad as she could be.
I think she's a serious person, sort of like how Marco Rubio is a serious person.
I, I think that what we're seeing right now, this is my view on it, is you're seeing an addition of, f- by Todd Blanche to become the permanent attorney general, and this is what Trump always wanted, whether, you know, which was, you know, unleashed, you know, crazy indictments against James Comey and anyone else he dislikes, dislikes.
So I mean, why do you think Todd Blanche, though, is different than Pam Bondi? Like, I mean, if Pam, Pam Bondi was y- I think you mentioned she's just kind of a self-promoter, climber, or something like that, but that's also what it sounds like Blanche is.
I mean, I think if, had Bondi been given enough time before being fired, I think this all would have unfolded as well.
I mean, I think the, the more, a more apt analogy, [laughs] like to some of the other names you mentioned, would be like a Janine Pirro.
So like, if we have [laughs] or who's the guy, DiGenova, [laughs] who just got appointed special something or another, like, if one of them takes over the Justice Department, things are gonna go in a radically different direction.
I think what we're seeing is a little bit of, of, of, you know, there was a l- a c- a bit of a constraint placed on Trump here, if for a period of time...
All I'm saying is you're seeing suddenly Bondi leaves and some stuff's happening.
I mean, on its face, I, you know, it is, uh, uh, what we're talking now when I say it, the indictment of, the second indictment, excuse me, of James Comey for tweeting out, or not tweeting out, I'm sorry, posting on Instagram a photo of seashells.
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