Mudline August 24, 2019

August 24, 2019

..............................<p>........................Trump on Dayton, Ohio mayor Nan Whaley's post-shooting news conference: "A fraud."....Whaley on Trump: "A bully and a coward."....former CIA Director John O. Brennan: "In 2020, we need to elect someone to safeguard and strengthen democracy, not trample it."....Trump on the Wall Street Journal: "They understand nothing about trade or business. Nothing."....Bill O'Reilly on Joe Biden: "A swamp creature..."....Trump on Biden: "A pretty incompetent guy...He's such a disaster."....Soledad O'Brien on Sen. John Cornyn: "Is so much more stupid than I ever gave him credit for."....Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Trump: "He's been treating farmers like poker chips at one of his bankrupt casinos."....WA Gov. Jay Inslee: "I see something and I'm saying something: It's time to get white nationalism out of the White House."....former GOP congressman Joe Walsh: "[I want to] apologize for the role that I played in putting an unfit conman in the White House."....Trump on media: "Doing everything they can to crash the economy because they think it will be bad for me and my re-election."....Public Citizen president Robert Weissman: "What's now become very clear is that a very substantial portion of the Trump fortune is due to tax evasion, including his evasion of taxes on his daddy's wealth."....former WH communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Trump: "Let's face it, he's gone off the rails...He's sounding more and more nonsensical...Fracturing the institutions and all the things that the country stands for...Loyalty is not blind obedience unless you're supporting a demagogue, okay?"....Trump on Scaramucci: "A highly unstable 'nut job.'"....NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: "Such a charade. Too much of the time what Fox and News Corp do is try and take people's minds off the fact that they are being screwed economically by the one percent."....Sean Hannity on de Blasio: "You drive me crazy."....Rachel Maddow on Trump: "Trying to make America into a whole new country we have never been before in all of the 243 years that we have existed."....CNN anchor Chris Cuomo to guy who called him 'Fredo': "I'll f***in' ruin your s***. I'll f***in' throw you down these stairs."....Trump on Cuomo: "He shouldn't be allowed to have any weapon. He's nuts!...I thought Chris was Fredo also. The truth hurts."....WaPo opinion editor James Downie: "Funny how employer audits almost completely dried up after a president whose companies employ undocumented immigrants entered office."....Jake Tapper to Customs and Border Protection head Mark Mogran: "It seems like you guys are turning a blind eye to this crime being committed by the president's own companies."....Trump on Bill Maher: "So many lies."....Trump on biographer Timothy L. O'Brien: "A world-class loser."....Trump on Biden: "Sooo boring."....Beto O'Rourke to Trump: "Twenty-two people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism."....Trump on O'Rourke: "Should respect the victims and law enforcement -- and be quiet!"...Jay Inslee on Trump: "Selling out the vital interests of the American people to the well-paid lobbyists and the special interests."....Maureen Dowd: "The shining city on a hill is an ugly pile of rubble."....Trump: "Never has the press been more inaccurate, unfair or corrupt!...We are fighting the seriously dishonest and unhinged Lamestream Media. They have gone totally CRAZY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"....Laurence Tribe on Trump: "This presidency shames and disgraces the office every minute of every hour of every day."....Trump: "So funny to watch Little Donny Deutsch on TV with his own failing show."....Trump on 'Morning Joe' co-host Mika Brzezinski: "[Joe Scarborough's] angry psycho wife."....then-CA Gov. Ronald Reagan on watching 1971 UN vote to recognize the People's Republic of China (on a recently-released Nixon tape): "Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did. To see those, those monkeys from those African countries -- damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"....Louis Menand: "Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties."........................</p>