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Hope for the best. It's like the best.

Expect the worst.

Some drink and pain.

Some die of thirst.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Welcome to the Commentary daily podcast. Today is Friday, September 26th, 2025. I'm John

Putth, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me, as always, executive editor, Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mandel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John. And senior editor Seth Mandel, hi, Seth.

Hi, John.

So there are two opinions in the world.

There actually seems to only be one opinion in the world and then a kind of attitude. And the opinion in the world is that the indictment of former FBI director James Comey is, ranges from being absurd to being the beginning

of the end of our republic. And then the attitude is, the hell with Comey and the idea that the

Justice Department is only just now being weaponized to punish the enemies of the sitting president is so preposterous that giving that any credence once again shows a desire to hold Donald Trump, a man who does not hold anybody to any particular standards, to a standard that

they hold nobody else to is ongoing.

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