Mudline July 11, 2020
July 11, 2020
....................Sen. Claire McCaskill on Trump: "He looks like a weak little baby for refusing to wear a mask."....former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka on masks: "COVID burqas...An act of submission...My body, my choice."....Fox News host Laura Ingraham on NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci: "The medical deep state...Alarmist COVID drivel."....Andrew Yang on Trump calling COVID-19 "kung-flu": "The desperate thrashing around of a losing candidate."....Jon Stewart on Trump: "The greatest agent of chaos in this country today."....Trump: "It seems the entire CNN lineup works for the communist party."....Stevie Wonder to Trump: "It's a sad day when I can see better than your 20/20 vision."....Michael Tomasky on Trump: "A needy, turbulent five-year-old whose life is a nonstop freak show."....Tim O'Brien on Trump: "He will descend further into abuse, alienation, and authoritarianism. That's what he's stewing on most of the time, the triple A's."....former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Trump: "In effect, gave personal favors to dictators he liked...I don't think he's fit for office."....Trump: "Everybody in the White House hated John Bolton...He is a liar...A sick puppy...Wacko...A washed-up Creepster...A lowlife who should be in jail...Never had a clue...A disgruntled boring fool...Incompetent!...What a dope!"....Dan Friedman on Bolton: "Say it under oath, a**hole."....Rudy Giuliani on Bolton: "A classic backstabber...A swamp character."....Seth Meyers: "There's no one -- no one -- to root for in a Trump vs. Bolton fight. They're both megalomaniacs, sociopaths looking out for themselves. It's a real 'Alien vs. Predator' situation."....Trump on Biden: "A helpless puppet of the radical left...Was a total failure in government. He 'bungled' everything that he touched."....Lara Lea Trump on Biden: "This man has done absolutely nothing positive for the African American community."....Newt Gingrich on Dems: "A major question this fall should be if the party of illegal immigrants, illegal anarchists, illegal looters should win."....Trump: "These horrible and politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives. We need more Justices or we will lose our 2nd Amendment and everything else."....Rush Limbaugh on LGBT ruling: "Might be the biggest sellout of conservatism by conservative justices in the history of the Supreme Court."....Clyde Haberman on AG William Barr: "You, sir, are the winner: the most disgraceful US attorney general in my lifetime."....Trump on Maine Gov. Janet Mills: "Doesn't know what she's doing. And she's like a dictator. Why isn't she opening up this state?"....David Corn: "Trump's slow, ineffectual, self-serving, and deadly response to the coronavirus has been the most consequential act of corruption in the history of American governance. It eclipses Watergate, Teapot Dome, Iran-Contra, you name it."....nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Treasury Sec. Mnuchin refusing to disclose businesses that received PPP assistance: "Unconscionable, jaw-dropping corruption."....Donald Trump Jr. on media: "They will lie, cheat and steal to make sure Democrats win."....Trump: "Why doesn't the Lamestream Media treat us as they should? Answer: Because they are Fake News!"....BLM Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown on Trump: "He's willing to kill democracy. He is willing to kill any sense of real respect or trust in his government. He is willing to kill America's international and global relationships. He is a destroyer."....Jake Tapper: "There is one group of generals the president is...standing firm with: Dead, racist losers, the Confederate commanders...Before we talk about where all this ends, it does not take much moral clarity to understand that a good place to start would be for the United States to stop honoring traitors and terrorists."....The Lincoln Project ad: "For all intents and purposes, Donald Trump today became the Confederacy's second president."....GOP political consultant Raynard Jackson: "[Journalists Joy Reid, Don Lemon, and Roland Martin] are putting more poison into the black community than any drug dealer...are killing more black folks than any white person with a sheet over their face."....former national security adviser Susan Rice on Trump administration: "Racist to the core...Basically made plain that they prefer to stand by a Confederate legacy than a modern America...Its record on race is just disgraceful."....Trump on pulling down Confederate statues: "They want to demolish our heritage so they can impose their new oppressive regime in its place."....Fox host Tucker Carlson on murder charges against police officer in killing of George Floyd: "Why doesn't anybody stand up for the rest of us, for civilization?"....Anderson Cooper on WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: "The president's chief apologist and lie teller."....former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell on Trump: "Lies all the time...[His rhetoric is] dangerous for our democracy...dangerous for our country."....Trump on Powell: "A real stiff...Highly overrated...He was weak and gave away everything to everybody -- so bad for USA."....Trump on November: "This will be, in my opinion, the most corrupt election in the history of our nation."....Dan Rather on Trump: "A rule of thumb: If you're lying about nonexistent voter fraud, if you're limiting polling places, if you're forcing people to line up to vote in a pandemic, even the old and the infirm, then it seems you're basically admitting most Americans don't want you to be president."....Trump on WDC Mayor Muriel Bowser: "Grossly incompetent...In no way qualified to be running an important city."...Ann Coulter on George Floyd: "He could breathe. His heart stopped."....Trump: "These Liberal Dems don't have a clue. The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it is just wonderful, even the death."....George Conway on Trump: "A soulless man with a broken mind."....Trump: "If the Democrats gain power, then the rioters will be in charge and no one will be safe."....Jon Stewart on Trump campaign: "He's going to be the meth-head Nixon...He's basically just sitting in his basement tweeting out fear-based trolling videos...A malevolent Mr. Magoo."....Rep. Maxine Waters on Trump: "Now is the time to save our country before this would-be dictator takes us all down!"....Sen. Ted Cruz on Trump, 2016: "A narcissist at a level I don't think this country has ever seen."....Ron Perlman to Cruz: "Give me 10 minutes with you and Mitch McConnell. Let's see what else yu muthaf***as can obstruct besides justice."....Henry Rollins on a Trump second term: "That should be a Philip K. Dick book, it shouldn't be our lives."................
