Host Jake Tapper: “We all were hoping that the President would not go there and lie and falsely and prematurely declare victory….It is shocking.”...
Correspondent Jim Acosta: “I think our Founding Fathers are probably rolling in their graves right now. They did not envision a President of the United States delegitimizing an American election. And that is what the President just did a few…
Host Jake Tapper: “We all were hoping that the President would not go there and lie and falsely and prematurely declare victory….It is shocking.”...
Correspondent Jim Acosta: “I think our Founding Fathers are probably rolling in their graves right now. They did not envision a President of the United States delegitimizing an American election. And that is what the President just did a few…
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“I really thought America was on the ballot. I thought America was on the line. Everything we stood for as a country, everything we promoted in the world was at stake, that we could, like any country can choose a bad leader for a short period of time and get over it, but if we had gone for four more years of this man, every norm we have, every value we cherish, every…
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“The only night that I...recall that really feels like this one was the night that Augusto Pinochet was defeated in....Chile and the country was going to return to democracy after 17 years of his autocratic rule.”
— Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on MSNBC’s live election coverage, November 7, 2020.
“The Republican Party has only one platform plank now — this piece of shit Trump….Trump and his Republican cult have only one goal — this piece of shit Trump. We are fighting for — cornball as it sounds — truth, justice and the American way. Trump and his Republican cult fight for only one thing — this piece of shit Trump….What the ‘F’ is wrong with him? Honestly not as much as is wrong…
“We are all tired! But mostly I’m tired of the needless sickness and the needless death and the needless terror because this mentally incompentent, inhuman dumb bastard has lied about this disease in a thousand different ways….I’m tired of....a country that should have learned something, but which in large part has been authorized to wallow and die in its own stupidity because of one man. One…
“By any practical measurement, Trump is no longer the President. Realistically he has reduced himself to simply serving as COVID-19’s accomplice and accessory. He is — at this moment— a mortal threat to every citizen of this nation. The team of Trump 45 and Covid-19. In a world where government existed to serve, rather than to rule, he [Trump]] would have been on a plane to North Korea now…
“Mr. President, yes or no. Have you or are you now — have you ever worked for Russia? Yes or no?”
— NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker to Donald Trump in a January 14, 2019 confrontation.
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“And by the way, Mika, when there is a New York Post article that is false, it’s much better for Twitter to let people read the New York Post article and sit there and laugh at the hokie story of a computer repairman looking at a computer going ‘This sure does look suspicious to me. I’m gonna call Rudy Giuliani.’ Like let that out. Okay? Because people read this story…
“Apparently, the pick is gonna be this…. Amy Coney — we’ll all be saying this name a lot I’m sure because she’s a fuckin’ nut!....Amy Coney Barrett. Catholic. Really Catholic. I mean, really, really Catholic — like speaking in tongues.”
— Host Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time, September 25, 2020.