Mudline February 29, 2020
February 29, 2020
............................Donald Trump Jr. on U.S. intelligence agencies: "Their little club."....Ted Cruz on Bernie Sanders: "Likes to pal around with [communists]."....Trump on Schumer: "Incompetent."....Thomas L. Friedman: "The Republican Party is not asleep. It's dead and buried."....former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron on Trump pardons and swamp: "He's not draining it, he's deepening it."....former national security adviser Susan Rice on acting DNI Richard Grenell: "One of the most nasty, dishonest people I've ever encountered."....Trump on Roger Stone jury forewoman: "She should never have been on that jury. Everything about this stinks."....Sen. Chris Murphy on Trump: "It stands to reason that they want Donald Trump reelected because he has been a gift to Russia. He has essentially ceded the Middle East to Russian interests."....MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: "The president is a Russian operative. That sounds like the description of a bad Hollywood screenplay, but it is real, and it is Vladimir Putin's greatest achievement."....Maureen Dowd: "This was another bad, crazy week trapped in Trump's psychopathology...In 'Gone With the Wind,' Atlanta burned to the ground. In Trump's version, Washington is aflame."....Biden on Trump: "More George Wallace than George Washington."....Bill de Blasio on Buttigieg: "Try not to be so smug when you just got your ass kicked."....Donald Trump Jr. on Sen. Elizabeth Warren in debate: "Pocahontas taking some scalps."....Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on U.S. intel reports that Russia is interfering in 2020 election: "These are more paranoid announcements...They have nothing to do with the truth."....Laurence Tribe: "Russia is waging aggressive cyberwar against the U.S. and our electoral system, and Trump's firing of Intelligence Officers for alerting Congress to that war is, as I said, treason in all but the technical sense. I stand by that."....Trump on Bloomberg debate performance: "Stumbling, bumbling, and grossly incompetent."....Warren on Bloomberg: "Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another."....Bloomberg on Sanders: "The best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses."....Rush Limbaugh on the left: "They would love for the coronavirus to be this deadly strain that wipes everybody out, so they could blame Trump for it."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "Overturning the rule of law and stuffing the agencies with toadies."....Buttigieg on Sanders and Bloomberg: "We shouldn't have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out."....Donald Trump Jr.: "Word on the street is that the new hot billionaire fetish is paying $500 million to get your ass kicked by Pocahontas."....Trump on Brad Pitt: "A little wise guy."....Trump on CNN: "Didn't they apologize for the fact that they said certain things that weren't true?"....CNN's Jim Acosta: "I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes..."....Trump: "You probably have the worst record in the history of broadcasting."....Bette Midler: "Trump complained about 'Parasite' winning the Oscar. I'm more upset that a parasite won the White House."....George Conway on Trump: "A psycho and a buffoon."....MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Trump: "Pardonpalooza."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "A neon grandiosity."....Amy Klobuchar on Trump: "Doesn't have a heart."........................
