Mudline January 15, 2021
January 15, 2021
........Sen. Mitch McConnell on seizure of U.S. Capitol: "Failed insurrection."....Sen. Mitt Romney: "What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States."....Rep. Liz Cheney: "The president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame."....historian Michael Beschloss: "A terrorist attack...that was instigated by the President of the United States."....Chris Christie: "The president caused this protest to occur."....Rep. Jennifer Wexton on Trump: "He whipped them into a frenzy, and sicced them on the Capitol."....rioters at U.S. Capitol, to TV reporters: "Traitors!"....Rep. Linda Sanchez: "A seditious, traitorous act designed to undermine democracy."....Rep. Adam Kinzinger: "This is a coup attempt."....retired general Barry McCaffrey on Trump admin: "A criminal regime...They are dangerous people...Democracy is in peril."....Reince Priebus on Capitol attack: "Many of these folks are nothing but domestic terrorists...Pure insanity and disgusting."....Rep. Ted Lieu on Trump: "Detached from reality."....WaPo editorial board on Trump: "His continued tenure in office poses a grave threat to U.S. democracy. He should be removed."....former Trump Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert: "This is beyond wrong and illegal, it's un-American. The president undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he's culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace."....rioter at U.S. Capitol: "This is epic, epic. We're taking the Capitol back, thank God!"....Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Trump: "Should immediately be impeached.".....former Dubya aide Scott Jennings: "Donald Trump caused this insurrection with lies and conspiracy theories about the election being rigged against him."....Trump addressing rioters: "These are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away."....NewsBusters editor Curtis Houck: "The darkest day in American history since 9/11. And the mastermind behind this terrorist attack was the President of the United States."....Sen. Chuck Schumer: "This temple to democracy was desecrated...Rioters and insurgents, goons and thugs, domestic terrorists."....Joe Scarborough: "If Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump are not arrested today for insurrection and taken to jail and booked...then we are no longer a nation of laws."....Albany Times Union editorial on Trump: "Delusional or dishonest, it makes no difference. Either way, he is unfit to serve."....2016 Trump campaign official: "He screwed his supporters, he screwed his country, and now he's screwed himself."....Sen. Corey Booker: "We brought this hell upon ourselves."....Sen. Amy Klobuchar: "This is how you run for president on the Republican side in 2024. You join a coup attempt."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "Traitor-in-chief."....Capitol rioter to police: "Next time we're coming back with rifles!"....Trump on Biden voters: "A bunch of stupid people."....
