Mudline February 25, 2020
February 25, 2020
............................Trump on the Justice Department: "The 'Justice' Department."....Sen. Mazie Hirono on Sen. Ted Cruz's about-face on Trump: "When he turned, he really turned, didn't he? Into a total suck-up -- you can quote me on that."....Trump: "Wow! Bloomberg is a total racist!"....former WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Bloomberg: "His record, his language is offensive and atrocious."....Donald Trump Jr." The one thing Bloomberg can't buy is personality."....Joe Biden on Trump: "Has no sense of decency, or understanding of the constitution."....Sean Hannity on CNN's Brian Stelter: "You, and all of Fake News CNN, and your very creepy assistant are all political hacks and hypocrites."....Biden on AG William Barr: "The greatest abuse of power I have ever seen."....Max Boot: "This is how democracies die -- not in darkness but in full view of a public that couldn't care less."....Eugene Robinson: "South America's past has become America's present."....Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Bloomberg: "An egomaniac billionaire."....Pete Buttigieg on Trump: "My marriage has never involved me sending hush money to a porn star. I'm ready to have a debate with Donald Trump on family values."....Fox's Jeanine Pirro: "The Democrat clown car literally packed with B-list candidates Bernie, Biden, Buttigieg, and Bloomberg bumbles along with clowns tripping over their clown shoes to out-progressive and out-socialize each other."....'The View' co-host Sunny Hostin on Trump: "I don't think it was lost on the black community that he gave [the Presidential Medal of Freedom] to Rush Limbaugh during Black History Month, sitting next to a Tuskegee airman on Rosa Parks Day."....Andrea Mitchell on John Bolton: "His comment last night, 'If you want to know the truth, buy my book and read Chapter 14,' screams of somebody putting profit over country."....Trump: "Have you noticed unhinged Democrats and media attacking AG Barr more and more lately? It's because he's an existential threat to the Swamp Creatures who've run roughshod over our government and our country for far too long."....Sen. Chris Murphy on Trump: "Acquittal has turned out to be a green light for him to take a wrecking ball to democracy."....DOJ official on Trump intervention in Roger Stone case: "A break-glass-in-case-of-fire moment."....Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "We are watching a descent into authoritarianism. Remember, the attorney general can be impeached."....Trump on Bloomberg: "A 5'4" mass of dead energy."....Sam Donaldson on Trump: "He's mean, he's corrupt...A sick, ignorant man."....Trump on Sen. Joe Manchin: "Joe Munchkin."....George Conway on Trump: "He can't even distinguish between his interests and the nation's -- and doesn't need to, according to his lawyers and now the judgment of the senate...America beware. The state is Trump, and he's very, very angry."....Trump, asked what he learned from his impeachment: "That the Dems are crooked, they're vicious."....Garrison Keillor on Trump: "He opens his mouth and great blatty ignorance comes out and a vulgarity you wouldn't accept from your child's sixth-grade teacher, but here he is, a New York developer pretending to be president."....Amy Klobuchar on Trump: "The heart of America is bigger than the heart of this guy."........................
