Mudline December 31, 2020
December 31, 2020
........GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on review of ballot signatures: "Three strikes against the voter fraud claims and they're out."....Trump: "The people who run [Georgia], from the Governor...to the Secretary of State, are a complete disaster and don't have a clue, or worse. Nobody can be this stupid."....former RNC chair Michael Steele: "The only way Trump gets to 220 is if he loses 50 pounds."....Geraldo Rivera on Trump: "Sadly he lost a bitterly contested election. S*** happens. However since he has behaved like an entitled frat boy."....CNN's Jake Tapper on WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: "Lies the way that most people breathe...She can't acknowledge reality."....Trump-supporting lawyer Lin Wood: "Jake Tapper is a communist."....Paul Waldman on Trump: "Quite possibly the worst deal-maker ever to sit in the Oval Office."....Susan Glasser on Trump: "Has taken credit for a vaccine against a virus he once counselled could be beaten with bleach."....Tucker Carlson on U.S. government: "They are planning to force you to take the coronavirus vaccine. It's so safe, they have to threaten you to take it."....Donald Trump Jr. on 'Saturday Night Live': "A failing sketch comedy show."....Mueller team member Andrew Weissmann, on Trump pardons including that of Paul Manafort: "What you would expect to get if you gave the pardon power to a mob boss."....Sen. Ben Sasse on Trump pardons: "This is rotten to the core."....Claire McCaskill: "He just pardoned a sleigh full of scumbags."....Bradley Whitford: "The White House is a crime scene."............Rep. Adam Schiff on Trump: "Lawless until the bitter end."....CNN's John Berman on Trump pardons: "It's a good night to be a corrupt Republican congressman, or a confessed liar from the Russia probe, or a convicted murderer of Iraqi civilians."....Senate Majority Whip John Thune on any challenge to Biden's win: "Going down like a shot dog."....Trump on Thune: "RINO...Mitch's boy. South Dakota doesn't like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!"....Rudy Giuliani: "I will find you, the Republican turncoats, the Republican quislings, the REAL villians there! You're acting like Dominion owns you."....Giuliani on Smartmatic: "We have definitive proof that it [sent votes out of the country.] Definitive proof. They were also counting votes in Barcelona, and they were sending folks to Venezuela...[and] Iran."....Trump on the late Sen. John McCain: "One of the most overrated people in D.C."....Arizona Republic: "Rather than attempt to insult the man's memory, Trump should ask McCain's advice. After all, Mr. President, he's right there. Inside your skull."....Meghan McCain: "It kills you that no one will ever love you or remember you like they loved and remember him. He served his country with honor, you have disgraced the office of the presidency."....forensic psychiatrist Bandi Lee on Trump: "A car without functioning brakes...At the bottom of the hill it always crashes."....Trump on George Conway: "Deranged loser of a husband."....Trump on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: "A totally overrated loser."....Susan Glassed on Trump: "A would-be dictator who is dragging an entire political party into a fever dream of denialism."....pro-Trump conspiracy theorist lawyer Lin Wood: "Make sure you have PLENTY of water, wood, flashlights and batteries, candles, radio, 2nd Amendment supplies, and plan to meet with leaders of your communities. Remember, we have only one President at a time. Our leader is Donald Trump, not Biden."....GA Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Green on Republicans who don't contest the election: [They are supporting] the Chinese Communist Party takeover of America."....Donald Trump Jr.: "The Bidens are 100% owned by the Chinese Communist Party."....Trump: "Fox News is dead. Really Sad!"....Fox & Friends co-host Will Cain on mask-wearers: "They treat it as a virtue signal that they're better, more scientific-minded, smarter than you."....George Clooney on people not wearing masks: "Everybody is like, 'Well it's my freedom.'...You're free to smoke until your lungs turn black, but you can't do it on the bus. And you're free to drink until your liver comes out your a**, but you can't drink and then get behind the wheel of a car. There have to be certain rules. This is one that says, 'Put on a f***ing mask and we'll get through this.' We've got vaccines coming -- let's save another 60,000 lives before the vaccines."....Tucker Carlson on Jill Biden: "[She's a doctor] in the same sense Dr. Pepper is."....CNN's Jim Acosta to WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: "Isn't it hypocritical of you to accuse others of disinformation when you spread it every day?"....Amy Klobuchar on Republicans: "If Vladimir Putin has accepted the election results but you haven't, you might have a problem."....CNN's Brianna Keilar: "The President could have lost this election only once, but because of his penchant for self-sabotage he keeps losing it over and over."....Lou Dobbs on GOP: "Watching its blood drain into the streets because they're gutless."....James Carville: "The commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States has abandoned his post."....Trump in The Art of the Deal: "You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."....former Rep. Joe Walsh on Trump "election fraud" fundraising: "It's what he is. It's what he does. It's all a con. It's all a lie. It's all a grift. And sadly, millions continue to fall for it."....Rep. Maxine Waters: "Trump, you attempted to overthrow the legitimate votes of Americans...You got kicked in the face by 46 courts and...the Supreme Court you thought you owned! The democracy is stronger than you will ever understand. Goodbye and good riddance!"....
