As Regime Crumbles, Donald Trump Stabs Desperate Finger at Clinton Debate Questions
“Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving the answers to the debate? Just asking!” he tweets as Trump/Russia investigations close in
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“Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving the answers to the debate? Just asking!” he tweets as Trump/Russia investigations close in
“Such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against us by @foxandfriends. ‘Spied on before nomination.’ The real story.”
GOP lawmaker’s claim that Bible wants people to starve if they don’t work is not only bad theology but shows he hasn’t even read the Bible
“Wow, @FoxNews just reporting big news. Source: ‘Official behind unmasking is high up. Known Intel official is responsible.'”
“Trump was trying to sell what Trump always sells, which is sort of a flatulent mass of his own fantasy about what the product is.”
“Senate intel will NOT grant Flynn immunity. Lawyer told it was ‘wildly preliminary’ ‘not on the table’ right now per”
“I’ve never seen behavior this bizarre on the part of the chairman,†Nancy Pelosi told TODAY
“Does Trump think ‘immunity’ is this thing that white guys get where you say ‘hey, I’d rather not go to jail’ and they say cool?”
From working with the Russkies to get his boss elected to denying he even talked to the Russkies to potentially being hunted by the Russkies
“Make Melania Trump stay in the White House or pay for the expenses herself,” the expenses being between $127,000 and $146,000 each day
“If you supply a warrant to the city of Chicago, we will absolutely honor that warrant. But you’ve got to get a warrant.â€
“Inspired by Trump, his former Virginia chair runs the ‘most openly Confederate-friendly campaign in recent memory'”
“If the people of our great country could only see how viciously and inaccurately my administration is covered by certain media!”
As Stephen King put it, “Thanks to Republicans, those advocates of rugged individualism, Big Brother can now access your browsing history.”
Schiff asked, “Was today’s open hearing cancelled because WH did not want Sally Yates to testify re Gen Flynn’s deception?”
“This is done because the White House wanted it to be done. And this is what a cover-up to a crime looks like. We are watching it play out right now.â€
“I’m told that she had some very interesting things to tell the committee…and so the White House and the chairman needed to shut her down”
“Today, several members of Team Trump realized they’re in the FBI’s cross-hairs & in bed with a regime that kills those it no longer needs.”
“I got the opinion that there are some members of the Freedom Caucus would vote No against the 10 Commandments if it ever came up for a vote.”
“Republicans set to pivot from cutting taxes for the rich (AHCA) to cutting taxes for the rich (tax reform).” and tax cuts is like handing out candy
Trump wants us to believe he didn’t bill Germany, but he also said he was holding meetings until it turned out he was golfing this weekend.
“Spicer says Trump golfing different from Obama golfing because of ‘how you use the game of golf’ to advance US interests”
“Can’t be said enough: Republicans objecting to #TrumpRyancare are doing so because it’s not yet cruel enough for the @freedomcaucus.”
“It’s simple: the American people have a right to know who has access to the president and who has leverage over this administration.â€
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m President, and you’re not.”
The editorial board’s verdict is that Rep. Nunes “deserves to be subject to the same leaking probe he demanded for the previous disclosures”
“Amazing what we’re hearing from reporters…Trump treating the GOP members of congress like they’re his employees.”
The charade that Donald Trump is our legitimate president has worn increasingly thin…he stands but one good push away from impeachment
“At this point, I don’t believe there are eight Democrats supporting Judge Gorsuch,” said Dick Durbin
“The President clings” to his false wiretapping claims “like a drunk to an empty gin bottle,” say the editors of the Wall Street Journal
“It seems to be, and correct me if I’m wrong here, but virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.â€
Unfortunately, Donald Trump has also proven that you don’t have to be very well informed, or even moderately intelligent, to do great evil.
“If he had nothing personally to do with Russia, he should care deeply about saying…I want the exhaustive investigation to clear the deck”
Waters called for a “bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Russian interference in our election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.”
“Comey/Rogers JUST spent 8 hrs detailing how Russia tried to hack US election….Tillerson on a mission to make nice w/ Moscow.â€
“Hey buddy, that song you love was written by my uncle. He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years. And he’s a Jew.”
“Just heard Fake News CNN is doing polls again despite the fact that their election polls were a WAY OFF disaster. Much higher ratings at Fox”
“James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!”
“I don’t think there is any but one there [at the White House] that is under any type of investigation or surveillance activities at all.â€
The lie about British spying came to Sean Spicer from Andrew Napolitano, who got it from Russia via former CIA analyst Larry C. Johnson
“Glad you think it was great, @POTUS. Would have been greater if you didn’t treat NATO like protection racket, or allies like deadbeats”
As J.K. Rowling captioned the moment, ‘Mommy was mean to me and I don’t wanna hold her hand no more.’
“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command…he used GCHQ” accused Spicer
Trump’s budget directs dollars away from the people who need it most, vulnerable children and the elderly, to fill the swamp he promised to drain
The Dutch have provided an example to American voters who will get another chance to say no to their authoritarian racist nationalist in the Midterms
Trump, like Andrew Jackson, hates Indians, is a fake populist and as David Crockett said of Jackson, is a threat to the “national government”
Don’t give us all this grand talk about democracy dying in darkness if you’re refusing to turn on your flashlight.
When Trump claimed David Cay Johnston was “a reporter, who nobody ever heard of” he was quickly reminded Johnston wrote a bestseller about him
“It is marked ‘client copy’. It is not the copy filed with the IRS. Did he leak it himself? Lets see 2006-2016”
“There is no three-phase process. There is no three-step plan. That is just political talk. It’s just politicians engaging in spin”
WaPo touched a nerve. It is true that democracy dies in the darkness. It also, unfortunately, dies to applause.
“In honor of Sean Spicer’s latest idiocy,” says George Takei, “whenever I talk about his boss I’m just going to refer to him with air quotes, too: the ‘President'”
“I think if you read this entire report, I’m pretty encouraged by it. And it actually exceeded my expectations.”
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) appeared on CNN this morning and answered questions about his white supremacist tweet from yesterday. Asked by Chris Cuomo what he meant, King answered that he means exactly what he said.
“It is amazing how rude much of the media is to my very hard working representatives. Be nice, you will do much better!”
America is supposed to be a refuge for people who think a certain way about freedom, not a homeland for people who look a certain way.
Steve King tweeted that “culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
“We declare the reversal of the decree of ’73, Roe v Wade … We declare the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The powers of Nazgul, witchcraft and death are being reversed now over this nation.â€
“President Trump is at Trump National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, VA, per pool; it’s his 9th golf course trip since taking office 7 weeks ago”
“This feels like the kind of story that could blow up in a big way: Is GOP the party of liberty or of big business?”
Paul Krugman warns that we should not “presume that Ryan and company have any idea what they’re doing.”
If Putin is Trump’s friend and our press and intelligence community are his enemies, then Trump is not by any measure an American president.
“@POTUS made Mar-A-Lago his “Winter White House.” It’s not. It’s a private for-profit business where dues just increased from $100k to $200k”
“In which Sean Hannity looks for a way to blame Americans for an attack on America that was carried out by Russia. “
Victor Davis Hanson mocks, “He did manage to lecture Americans about the evils of the Crusades, and promise to lower the seas and cool the planet.”
When Andrea Mitchell was ejected from room for daring to ask Rex Tillerson questions, Bill O’Reilly celebrated IWD by calling her ‘Unruly’
“Actually, his ‘pay grade’ is the highest possible at WH – same as for chief of staff, national security and other senior personnel.”
“Prediction: if GOP health bill goes down in flames, Trump will deny that he ever supported it and place all blame on Congressional Rs.”
When Trump tweeted, “I have tremendous respect for women,” Twitter responded by asking, “Hopefully not by grabbing them anywhere?”
“We ask Congress to protect our patients, and find ways to maintain coverage for as many Americans as possible.â€
Paul Krugman described the GOP’s Obamacare replacement as, “It’s not Obamacare 2.0. It’s Obamacare 0.5 – a half-assed attempt to preserve ACA successes without spending nearly enough money”
Trump tweeted about “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration” but 113 of them were released by President Bush
“For eight years Russia ‘ran over’ President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles. Weak!”
Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he’ll tell us this was ‘economy class’
“You don’t need to ask a separate branch of government, the Congress, to go find out what the executive branch obviously knows.â€
“He’s ignorant in a way that’s insulting to the office, insulting to America, insulting to human rights, insulting to civil rights, insulting to John Lewis.”
“It’s just an attempt to distract from…what should be an independent…investigation of what’s going on with the Russians and the Trump administration”
We have an “erratic, vindictive, volatile, obsessive, a chronic liar” whose “presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails”
Trump said he’d be too busy “working for us” to play golf, but he is too busy playing golf to save his own scandal-ridden administration
“Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show”
According to sources in the administration, Trump convened an Oval Office meeting Friday that turned into a meltdown over Sessions’ recusal
When Brietbart ran a story about a “silent coup” by Obama, it didn’t take long to reach Trump via the West Wing
“Either @realDonaldTrump is paranoid like Nixon, or judge found probable cause of crime for #wiretap. Either way our President is in trouble”
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Even recused, as Attorney General Sessions “has the sole discretion to select and appoint a “special counsel†to investigate Russian ties
“After the votes taken earlier this afternoon, the U.S. Senate has now confirmed all of the available Cabinet nominations” – Marco Rubio
Sessions not only forgot how to speak English (Trump says he could have answered “more accurately”) but apparently forgot how to understand it
“They have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total witch hunt!”
“If Jeff Sessions is the AG 24 hours from now, understand — Trump WH is fine with being lying, lawless & in bed with Russian intelligence.”
Trump’s speech was put into “a shiny new package now loaded onto a tele-prompter, couched in the kind of Orwellian doublespeak”
“His speeches are populist…aimed at working America. His actions help the special interests and make it harder for the middle class”
“Gutting the ACA funding would only further add to our already egregious levels of economic inequality”
“Truman: the buck stops here
Trump: the buck stops someplace else, because I’m perfect — but the actual bucks go to me and my family”
“Some of us, who were sitting on the Health Education Committee who went to meeting after meeting after meeting – yeah, we got a clue.”
“I think that when you get into an airplane and you look at the cockpit and you see the pilot saying ‘boy, look at all these gauges this is really complicated,’ you know you have a problem.”
“I think President Obama’s behind it, because his people are certainly behind it.â€
“I can’t [take it personally] because I take it as a very serious violation when they say it and I have to write it off as being purely politics.”
“I just thought in light of the fake news and all the other things we’re talking about…I just thought it would be better if I didn’t do the dinner”
The fact is, this is a tenuous moment in American history. We’re being tested, we will be tested on some very fundamental constitutional principles.”
“Whether or not your intention, your presidency has given the oxygen of incitement to some of the most viciously hateful elements in our society.”