Name: Butterfly Effect, Anthony Weiner on his role in the 2016 Election
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Butterfly Effect, Anthony Weiner on his role in the 2016 Election' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-30. Transcript available.

Obviously, opening yourself up to another run right now.
Presently, yes.
Presently.
Very different vibe.
You think it's a different vibe.
I don't think I would be running if I thought good people were running.
I think that there's kind of, it's been 10 years since I've run, so it's not
like I've
been, and I've had other opportunities and people say it to me all the time,
you should
run, you should run.
I just think that there's no good reason not to run, right?
I think I'd be doing a good job at the job, and I have, if I'm better than the
other
people, why shouldn't I run?
It happened for a third time, and many people have asked you this question.
I'm going to ask it again.
Go ahead.
Because of the proximity of the Comey letter to the election in 2016.
Correct.
In some ways, you are considered kind of like an Archduke Ferdinand of Trumpets.
Do you have to set this part up at all, or you're kind of hemming it hard?
You're doing this thing again where it's an annoying question.
Maybe you don't.
Maybe you don't.
Maybe you don't.
Maybe you don't.
All right.
A third accusation arose in 2016.
And as a result of it, your laptop was seized, and there were emails from
Hillary Clinton,
and 10 days before the election, James Comey wrote a letter to Congress, and in
a razor-thin
election, many people perceive it to be-
Right.
The thing that pushed Trump over the line.
Right.
Right.
So Comey-
Yeah.
They had my laptop.
They had it for weeks and weeks and weeks.
They knew there wasn't anything on it that was relevant to the campaign, that
was relevant
to the investigation.
The prosecutors in New York said, "Why are you guys just sitting on this?"
And it turned out they were sitting on it, because Comey did this 11th hour
thing that
is against the law, where he announces the announcement.
I'm not saying it was your plan to do it, but like through a butterfly effect-
Right.
Except it wasn't accidental.
It was intentionally done that way.
Giuliani leaked about it long before, "We've got this.
We're holding it until the very end."
So James Comey was working in concert with the Trump campaign?
No.
Well, it's not really clear.
I mean, he's never answered exactly why it was he held onto this so long until
10 days
before the election.
They had it weeks before.
The inspector general that looked into this asked the same question.
Yeah.
The people in the FBI, the FBI was pulling against Hillary Clinton and Giuliani
was getting
leaked all this information.
They had it for a long time.
Why did Comey wait until 10 days before to talk about it?
That's a question for Comey.
Comey's-
So if you have a-
The butterfly effect is Comey holding onto stuff until 10 days before.
Of course.
Of course.
I mean, like I'm not saying that it was your intention to get-
Oh, I didn't think that you knew that.
For a third time and then have Donald Trump accidentally become president.
No.
Say that it was-
I'm not saying that it was delivered.
No, saying that the Anthony Weiner butterfly effect is like-
It was held for weeks after-
It was your laptop, though.
I know, but it was held for weeks after that.
The butterfly effect was not me.
It was what Comey did with that information.
He wouldn't have had the laptop and that wouldn't have-
Right, but he could have had the laptop-
My point is he could have had it for six months and held onto it.
It was weeks.
It was not that close to the election.
You're still a part of the butterfly.
You're still-
Someone could make that argument-
You're still a beautiful butterfly.
Someone could make that argument, but they'd have to construct a fairly convoluted-
But I'm saying like you are tangentially related to a historical moment.
There are also people that if you believe the Anthony Weiner part about it, you
have to ignore the James Comey piece and the Rudy Giuliani piece and the FBI
piece.
No, that's the butterfly effect.
It's Anthony-
We'll say the human centipede effect.
You have the Anthony Weiner.
You have Giuliani.
You have Comey.
You have Trump.
Right, but-
But Adam-
You have Stormy Daniels.
It could have been, if it's not Anthony Weiner, there could have been something
else that was the butterfly.
But in the material universe, what happened was that-
I mean you could also say-
Why are we debating this?
It's a ridiculous point for you to be taking.
You know that-
That's the sixth time-
Tangentially-
You've taken an answer of mine and critiqued it in real time.
Because you're taking some sort of abstract issue with it when it's a simple-
I am.
You asked me what do you think about the butterfly effect argument and I'm
saying I'm dismissing it and here's how I'm doing it.
You're dismissing it because James Comey could have used anything but I'm
saying what happened was he used your thing.
Correct.
So it's still a butterfly effect.
You can say that Hillary Clinton is the butterfly.
I think she's gorgeous.