Mudline January 21, 2020
January 21, 2020
............................Trump on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Not operating with a full deck."....Trump on Rep. Adam Schiff: "You little pencil neck..."....Laurence Tribe: "All roads from Trump or McConnell -- and I'd add Kevin McCarthy -- lead to Putin...Our descendants will wonder why we insisted on so narrow a definition of treason."....Donald Trump Jr.: "It would be nice if the Democrats running for president were as in sync with hard working Americans as they are with a murderous and totalitarian regime in Iran."....Sen. Mike Lee on classified briefing on Iran: "Insulting and demeaning...Probably the worst briefing, at least on a military issue, I've seen in my nine years...Telling us that we need to be good little girls and boys and run along and not debate this in public. I find that absolutely insane."....Fox News' Lou Dobbs on Lee: "[A] Benedict Arnold impression...Having something of a snit fit."....Fox News' Sean Hannity on Dems: "They have decided in their insanity and psychosis and rage to abuse [the power of impeachment] and bring up what is a non-case."....Sen. Ron Johnson on impeachment charges: "Pretty thin gruel."....Trump on Soleimani: "He's been called a monster, and he was a monster. And he's no longer a monster. He's dead."....Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "We all know this president has zero impulse control."....GOP strategist Rick Wilson: "The assertion by Lindsey Graham that today's bizarre performance by Sniffles the Clown was on par with 'Tear Down This Wall' is part of the Saddamificaton of the GOP."....Rep. Doug Collins on Dems: "Are in love with terrorists. We see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families."....Preet Bharara on Collins: "I don't know what Doug Collins has ever done for America except preen and sound stupid."....former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley: "The only ones mourning the loss of Soleimani are our Democrat leadership."....Rep. John Rutherford on Rep. Pamila Jayapal: "You and your squad of Ayatollah sympathizers are spreading propaganda."....Colin Kaepernick on killing Soleimani: "There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism."....Sen. Lindsey Graham on Kaepernick: "A loser on and off the field...He's a racist. If you're looking for racism in America, Mr. Kaepernick, look in the mirror."....Rand Paul on Graham: "He insults the Constitution and the Founding Fathers."....Piers Morgan on criticism of killing Soleimani: "Pathetic two-faced liberal bleating."....radio host Mark Levin on Nancy Pelosi: "No moral compass."....Trump on Pelosi: "She will go down as perhaps the least successful Speaker in U.S. history!"....George Conway on Trump: "It's outrageous that the United States has a president who is so dumb that he doesn't know how to spell 'outrageous.'"....Meat Loaf on Greta Thunberg: "She's been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change, and there isn't...She's been forced into thinking that what she is saying is true."....Outgoing GOP Gov. Phil Bryant: "If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the [Mississippi state] Senate we will take that first step into a thousand years of darkness."....Rose McGowan to Iran: "We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us."........................
