Tea at Trianon: Comey's Handwritten Notes

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, November 7, 2025

Comey's Handwritten Notes

From Tierney's Real News:

1. While massaging the media about Clinton’s personal email scandal, Comey was using personal email himself. Hypocrite and liar!
2. He expected Hillary to win and she would be “grateful” to him about the way he handled her email case.
3. It’s clear he directed Richman and approved the leaks to the media.
4. Some of the Comey documents and notes were found in burn bags in a secret room at the FBI so he was trying to cover them up.
5. His own notes show that he knew about the Clinton plan to smear Trump as a Russian agent and Comey expected to be thanked and work for ‘President-elect Clinton.’
SOLOMON: “A bad day for Comey. He was hit by a boomerang today.”
Lindsey Halligan released more hand written notes that were “found” by the FBI, which clearly show Comey was well aware that his assistant was leaking to the media. He wrote: ‘Well done my friend. Who knew this would be so fun,’ Comey wrote in an early November 2016 email after Dan Richman briefed Comey on Richman’s efforts to leak to the The New York Times on an article to help Clinton.
You can read Halligan’s whole filing here.
Handwritten notes by James Comey also reveal that he knew all about the Clinton scheme to frame President Trump. ‘President Clinton will be very grateful for my decision.’
Richman, a former DOJ official and current Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, was assisting Comey’s FBI during the 2016 election, and it is already public knowledge that Richman later assisted Comey by leaking the so-called “Comey Memos” to The New York Times in 2017 after Comey’s firing by President Trump. Motivating the leak was Comey’s desire to use the leaks to push for the appointment of a special counsel (Mueller) to carry on the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, which proved to be baseless. Comey has described Richman as a “friend” to investigators, and Richman also went on to be Comey’s personal attorney. (Read more.)