Mudline September 20, 2024
September 20, 2024
........Liz Cheney on Trump and Vance: "Women around this country have had enough...This is my diplomatic way of saying it: They're misogynistic pigs."....Trump on debate: "That was incredible. So many things I said were debunked, totally debunked."....Trump on ABC: "The most dishonest news organization, and that's saying a lot...They ought to take away their license."....Joe Scarborough: "It's rich for Republicans to blame the ref when they can't make a single shot."....Gov. Josh Shapiro: "I'm a sports guy, and I think any time a team is whining about the refs, it's because they lost."....Trump on Harris: "People don't go to her rallies -- there's no reason to go -- and the people that do go, she's busing them in and paying them to be there."....Trump on 2020 election: "Rampant cheating and skullduggery."....Trump on the U.S.: "I would like to think God thinks I'm going to straighten out our country. Our country is so sick...Horrible...Our country is going to hell...We are a failing nation. We are in serious decline...We are laughed at all over the world. We are going to end up in a third world war. We have a nation that is dying."....Gov. Tim Walz: "My God, every time I hear Donald Trump give a speech, it's like the next screenplay for Mad Max or something. They are rooting against America."....Trump adviser Tim Murtaugh on follow-up debate: "We have another one already on the books to be hosted by NBC on September 25. We'll see if Kamala Harris shows up to that."....Eric Trump on Harris's debate strategy: "Lots of generic talk about absolutely nothing."....J.D. Vance: "The American people are smart, and Kamala Harris talks to them like they're children."....Heather Cox Richardson on Trump in debate: "He ran down every rabbit hole and appeared unable to finish a thought."....Rev. Al Sharpton: "He had the nightmare of his life that he had to shake hands with a black woman as an equal, and he couldn't get it back together after that."....Michelle Cottle: "He sounded like your unhinged grandpa."....Jonathan Meacham: "Do you want to give the nuclear codes back to the "dog-eating" guy?"....Matt Labash: "Even if Harris had stumbled out drunk and dribbled down her blouse, Trump still might have lost the debate for himself."....Michael Beschloss: "After this night -- not simply a debate but a demolition derby -- it would make sense for Trump to begin making serious plans for retirement."....Erick Erickson: "Trump lost the debate, and whining about the moderators doesn't change it...He lost because of his own performance while his lips were moving, not theirs."....John Heilemann on Trump in debate: "That is someone who has Lost His Marbles."....Chris Christie on Trump debate team: "Whoever prepared Donald Trump should be fired."....Kamala Harris: "Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. So let's be clear about that, and clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that."....former Trump fixer and attorney Michael Cohen: "When you see the accordion hands start going, what that means is that he's lying."....Trump on E. Jean Carroll: "I should be suing her for defamation."....Trump on immigrants: "Our country is being poisoned...They're going into the classrooms and taking disease, and they don't even speak English. It's crazy."....Trump on January 6th committee: "Liz Cheney and the others should be prosecuted for what they did, but Comrade Kamala is even worse!"....Mehdi Hasan: "On the one hand, Dick Cheney should be on trial at The Hague. On the other hand, EVEN Dick fricking Cheney recognizes that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy as we know it. This is not a left-right issue."....Werner Herzog on the U.S.: "You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches."....Fox host Greg Gutfeld: "How can you not be in favor of Trump?...This is a moment you've got to ask yourself: Are you going to join the pirate ship or the pontoon of pansies?"....Fmr. Navy admiral Steve Abbott on Trump: "He is not a disaster waiting to happen, he's a disaster which has already happened. He puts the country at substantial risk."....Robert Gates, defense secretary under Obama and George W. Bush: "I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair."....9/11 memorial service attendee to Trump, the morning after debate: "Where were you for 20 years? I've been here. Where were you?"....
