Mudline October 16, 2019

October 16, 2019

..............................<p>........................Trump on House inquiry: "A total Impeachment Scam!...Wasting everyone's time and energy on BULLSHIT."....Rep. Jackie Spier on closed-door Ukraine testimony: "It's not just a smoking gun, it's the actual bullet."....John Bolton on Rudy Giuliani: "A hand grenade who's going to blow everybody up."....Robert Reich on Trump: "A xenophobe in public and an international mobster in private."....Trump: "Somebody please explain to Chris Wallace of Fox, who will never be his father (and my friend), Mike Wallace, that the Phone Coversation I had with the President of Ukraine was a congenial and good one."....Chris Wallace: "One of us has a daddy problem, and it's not me."....U.S. Foreign Service veteran William J. Burns: "For dictators, Trump is the gift that keeps on giving, a non-stop advertisement for Western self-dealing."....Trump on Biden: "Was only a good vice president because he knew how to kiss Barack Obama's ass."....Charles Blow on VP Mike Pence: "Looks at Trump like he's made of rainbows and cotton candy."....Rep. Matt Gaetz: "What we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court, and Chairman Schiff is acting like a malicious Captain Kangaroo."....Trump on impeachment inquiry: "A brazen attempt to overthrow our government."....Newt Gingrich: "An unconstitutional coup d'etat."....Bret Stephens on abandoning the Kurds: "It's evidence that our moral values are tissue paper around the glass fragments of our president's ego...It means that the American sailor or soldier seen on the horizon is no longer 'freedom man.' He's a 'fair-weather friend.'"....Trump on investigation of Giuliani: "Such a one-sided Witch Hunt going on in USA. Deep State. Shameful!"....WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on "All the President's Women": "That book is trash and those accusations from 20 years ago have been addressed many times."....Trump on Golden State Warriors coach: "So funny to watch Steve Kerr grovel and pander when asked a simple question about China. He chocked [sic], and looks weak and pathetic. Don't want him at the White House."....Trump on Dems: "Very sick and deranged people."....Jay-Z on Trump: "A superbug."....Trump on Pelosi "She's either really stupid or she's really lost it -- or maybe there's a certain dishonesty there."....Trump on Rep. Ilhan Omar: "America-hating socialist...A disgrace to our country."....Richard Stengel on Trump: "The epicenter of international disinformation."....Trump: "The Do Nothing Democrats are Con Artists, only looking to hurt the Republican Party and President."....Trump on Adam Schiff: "He should be impeached for Fraud!...Do we have to continue listening to his lies?"....Trump on impeachment inquiry: "The greatest scam in the history of American politics."....Rihanna: "The most mentally ill human being in America right now seems to be the president."....Trump: "We have the most dishonest media that you can imagine."....Paul Krugman: "If Trump were cannier and more self-controlled, the march to autocracy might well be unstoppable...Those of us who want America as we know it to survive should be grateful that Trump is so immature and incompetent."....former Asst. Watergate Special Counsel Jill Wine-Banks: "If the President can get away with saying, 'I can't be investigated. I can't be indicted. I can't be impeached,' then he has made himself a king. He is not the democratic ruler of a democracy."....Daniel Ellsberg on Trump: "Is turning out to be a domestic enemy of the Constitution."....Susan Rice on Trump abandoning the Kurds: "This is batshit crazy!"....Pat Robertson on Trump: "In danger of losing the mandate of heaven."....Rep. Louie Gohmert on impeachment inquiry: "This is yet again an example of Democrats projecting THEIR criminal acts on President Trump. President Trump is an innocent man. It is a lawless coup attempt against a duly elected President."....Rep. Devin Nunes: "It's hard to view impeachment as anything aside from an orchestrated farce."....John Dean on Trump: "He wants American voters to choose elected leaders beholden to foreign powers, not Americans. The act of a dictator! Supported by GOP?"....Ken Burns on Trump: "There will always be idiot bigots, and there will always be heroic people trying to stand up to them."....Pete Buttigieg: "Calling this president's behavior childlike is an insult to children."....MSNBC's Chuck Todd: "I don't say this lightly, but let's be frank. A national nightmare is upon us. The basic rules of our democracy are under attack, from the President."....Biden on Trump: "He's the definition of corruption...This guy, like all bullies, is a coward. He does not want to run against me."....biographer James B. Stewart on Trump: "The minute he's caught red-handed, he immediately -- in Roy Cohn fashion -- turns the attack on the people who are criticizing him. If you reveal embarrassing behavior by him, you are a quote-unquote traitor, with the implication that you should be given some kind of death penalty."....Meghan McCain on any Republican who backs Trump's abandonment of the Kurds: "Feckless, unpatriotic cowards."....Lou Dobbs on GOP critics of Trump: "Damn fools."....John Oliver: "Everything Trump does is designed to destroy government from the inside."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "In the end, Trump may be defeated by his greatest weakness. His Achilles mouth."........................</p>