....Sen. Mitch McConnell on seizure of U.S. Capitol: "Failed insurrection."....Sen. Mitt Romney: "What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States."....Rep. Liz Cheney: "The president formed the mob. The president incited the mob. The president addressed the mob. He lit the flame."....historian Michael Beschloss: "A terrorist attack...that was instigated by the President of the United States."....Chris Christie: "The president caused this protest to occur."....Rep. Jennifer Wexton on Trump: "He whipped them into a frenzy, and sicced them on the Capitol."....rioters at U.S. Capitol, to TV reporters: "Traitors!"....Rep. Linda Sanchez: "A seditious, traitorous act designed to undermine democracy."....Rep. Adam Kinzinger: "This is a coup attempt."....retired general Barry McCaffrey on Trump admin: "A criminal regime...They are dangerous people...Democracy is in peril."....Reince Priebus on Capitol attack: "Many of these folks are nothing but domestic terrorists...Pure insanity and disgusting."....Rep. Ted Lieu on Trump: "Detached from reality."....WaPo editorial board on Trump: "His continued tenure in office poses a grave threat to U.S. democracy. He should be removed."....former Trump Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert: "This is beyond wrong and illegal, it's un-American. The president undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he's culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace."....rioter at U.S. Capitol: "This is epic, epic. We're taking the Capitol back, thank God!"....Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Trump: "Should immediately be impeached.".....former Dubya aide Scott Jennings: "Donald Trump caused this insurrection with lies and conspiracy theories about the election being rigged against him."....Trump addressing rioters: "These are the things that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away."....NewsBusters editor Curtis Houck: "The darkest day in American history since 9/11. And the mastermind behind this terrorist attack was the President of the United States."....Sen. Chuck Schumer: "This temple to democracy was desecrated...Rioters and insurgents, goons and thugs, domestic terrorists."....Joe Scarborough: "If Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump are not arrested today for insurrection and taken to jail and booked...then we are no longer a nation of laws."....Albany Times Union editorial on Trump: "Delusional or dishonest, it makes no difference. Either way, he is unfit to serve."....2016 Trump campaign official: "He screwed his supporters, he screwed his country, and now he's screwed himself."....Sen. Corey Booker: "We brought this hell upon ourselves."....Sen. Amy Klobuchar: "This is how you run for president on the Republican side in 2024. You join a coup attempt."....Stephen Colbert on Trump: "Traitor-in-chief."....Capitol rioter to police: "Next time we're coming back with rifles!"....Trump on Biden voters: "A bunch of stupid people."....

....GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on review of ballot signatures: "Three strikes against the voter fraud claims and they're out."....Trump: "The people who run [Georgia], from the Governor...to the Secretary of State, are a complete disaster and don't have a clue, or worse. Nobody can be this stupid."....former RNC chair Michael Steele: "The only way Trump gets to 220 is if he loses 50 pounds."....Geraldo Rivera on Trump: "Sadly he lost a bitterly contested election. S*** happens. However since he has behaved like an entitled frat boy."....CNN's Jake Tapper on WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: "Lies the way that most people breathe...She can't acknowledge reality."....Trump-supporting lawyer Lin Wood: "Jake Tapper is a communist."....Paul Waldman on Trump: "Quite possibly the worst deal-maker ever to sit in the Oval Office."....Susan Glasser on Trump: "Has taken credit for a vaccine against a virus he once counselled could be beaten with bleach."....Tucker Carlson on U.S. government: "They are planning to force you to take the coronavirus vaccine. It's so safe, they have to threaten you to take it."....Donald Trump Jr. on 'Saturday Night Live': "A failing sketch comedy show."....Mueller team member Andrew Weissmann, on Trump pardons including that of Paul Manafort: "What you would expect to get if you gave the pardon power to a mob boss."....Sen. Ben Sasse on Trump pardons: "This is rotten to the core."....Claire McCaskill: "He just pardoned a sleigh full of scumbags."....Bradley Whitford: "The White House is a crime scene."....

....Rep. Adam Schiff on Trump: "Lawless until the bitter end."....CNN's John Berman on Trump pardons: "It's a good night to be a corrupt Republican congressman, or a confessed liar from the Russia probe, or a convicted murderer of Iraqi civilians."....Senate Majority Whip John Thune on any challenge to Biden's win: "Going down like a shot dog."....Trump on Thune: "RINO...Mitch's boy. South Dakota doesn't like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!"....Rudy Giuliani: "I will find you, the Republican turncoats, the Republican quislings, the REAL villians there! You're acting like Dominion owns you."....Giuliani on Smartmatic: "We have definitive proof that it [sent votes out of the country.] Definitive proof. They were also counting votes in Barcelona, and they were sending folks to Venezuela...[and] Iran."....Trump on the late Sen. John McCain: "One of the most overrated people in D.C."....Arizona Republic: "Rather than attempt to insult the man's memory, Trump should ask McCain's advice. After all, Mr. President, he's right there. Inside your skull."....Meghan McCain: "It kills you that no one will ever love you or remember you like they loved and remember him. He served his country with honor, you have disgraced the office of the presidency."....forensic psychiatrist Bandi Lee on Trump: "A car without functioning brakes...At the bottom of the hill it always crashes."....Trump on George Conway: "Deranged loser of a husband."....Trump on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: "A totally overrated loser."....Susan Glassed on Trump: "A would-be dictator who is dragging an entire political party into a fever dream of denialism."....pro-Trump conspiracy theorist lawyer Lin Wood: "Make sure you have PLENTY of water, wood, flashlights and batteries, candles, radio, 2nd Amendment supplies, and plan to meet with leaders of your communities. Remember, we have only one President at a time. Our leader is Donald Trump, not Biden."....GA Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Green on Republicans who don't contest the election: [They are supporting] the Chinese Communist Party takeover of America."....Donald Trump Jr.: "The Bidens are 100% owned by the Chinese Communist Party."....Trump: "Fox News is dead. Really Sad!"....Fox & Friends co-host Will Cain on mask-wearers: "They treat it as a virtue signal that they're better, more scientific-minded, smarter than you."....George Clooney on people not wearing masks: "Everybody is like, 'Well it's my freedom.'...You're free to smoke until your lungs turn black, but you can't do it on the bus. And you're free to drink until your liver comes out your a**, but you can't drink and then get behind the wheel of a car. There have to be certain rules. This is one that says, 'Put on a f***ing mask and we'll get through this.' We've got vaccines coming -- let's save another 60,000 lives before the vaccines."....Tucker Carlson on Jill Biden: "[She's a doctor] in the same sense Dr. Pepper is."....CNN's Jim Acosta to WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: "Isn't it hypocritical of you to accuse others of disinformation when you spread it every day?"....Amy Klobuchar on Republicans: "If Vladimir Putin has accepted the election results but you haven't, you might have a problem."....CNN's Brianna Keilar: "The President could have lost this election only once, but because of his penchant for self-sabotage he keeps losing it over and over."....Lou Dobbs on GOP: "Watching its blood drain into the streets because they're gutless."....James Carville: "The commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States has abandoned his post."....Trump in The Art of the Deal: "You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."....former Rep. Joe Walsh on Trump "election fraud" fundraising: "It's what he is. It's what he does. It's all a con. It's all a lie. It's all a grift. And sadly, millions continue to fall for it."....Rep. Maxine Waters: "Trump, you attempted to overthrow the legitimate votes of Americans...You got kicked in the face by 46 courts and...the Supreme Court you thought you owned! The democracy is stronger than you will ever understand. Goodbye and good riddance!"....

....Karl Rove on Trump: "America likes comebacks, but they don't like sore losers."....Der Spiegel: "Trump's presidency ends as it began: Without decency and without dignity...Loser of the Year."....George Conway: "I didn't vote for a Democrat over a Republican this year, or for a liberal over a conservative. I voted for an empath over a psychopath."....presidential historian Jeff Shesol on Trump's COVID-19 response: "It's not simply that he has decided not to express concern or sorrow, it's that he does not feel the sorrow."....Rick Hasen on Texas lawsuit against four states: "Dangerous garbage. This is a press release masquerading as a lawsuit."....Mary Trump on 126 GOP House members who signed on in support of Texas lawsuit: "Confessed, in writing, to being anti-democratic traitors...These cowards have chosen sedition."....Rep. Adam Schiff: "History will remember the enablers."....CNN's Don Lemon: "Tried to kill our democracy. Hang your heads in shame."....Sen. Chris Murphy: "They have betrayed their country...You really have to hate America and all it stands for to openly attempt to overthrow democracy."....Laurence Tribe: "They're all unprincipled cowards, trembling at the prospect of a mean tweet by the Coward in Chief."....Michael Tomasky on Trump: "He'll tear the system apart rather than acknowledge its verdict."....Trump: "Most corrupt Election in history, by far. We won!!...78% of the people feel (know!) the Election was RIGGED...They cheated like nobody's ever cheated before...This wasn't, like, a close election...We won Georgia big, we won Pennsylvania big, we won Wisconsin big. We won all of these states."....retired general and pardoned felon Michael Flynn: "There was in fact massive fraud."....Sean Hannity: "Donald Trump won by a landslide, and they stole it from him!"....Stephen Miller: "We have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election and certify Donald Trump as the winner."....Lou Dobbs on SCOTUS: "Cowardly."....Trump on SCOTUS: "Chickened out."....Trump fan at rally: "A coup is taking place in front of our eyes."....Garry Kasparov: "An incompetent, pathetic coup attempt is still a coup attempt...He's a loser, a one-term pothole on the American highway of democracy."....Steve Schmidt: "We are now one election away from losing our democracy because one party doesn't believe in it."....Paul Waldman on GOP: "Has all but declared war on the entire system of American democracy...Trump forced them to choose between him and their country, and they chose him."....Sean Colarossi on Trump: "Won't stop whining like a grade schooler on a Little League team who just struck out."....conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: "We will never back down to the Satanic pedophile globalist new world order and their walking-dead reanimated corpse Joe Biden...Joe Biden will be removed one way or another!"....Trump: "The Biden Administration will be a scandal-plagued mess for years to come.".... Rick Wilson on Trump: "My s*** filter is full."....

Trump on GA Gov. Brian Kemp: "Moron...nutjob..."....WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on WaPo: "Blinding propagandist Fake News proclivities."....Susan Glasser: "Donald Trump in defeat, it turns out, is even more whiny, dishonest, and self-absorbed than he was before his decisive loss to Biden."....Judge Jeanine Pirro on AG William Barr: "You are so deep in the swamp you can't see beyond your fellow reptiles."...Ron Perlman on Trump: "Nothing says 'I'm guilty as f***' like a self-pardon."....National Review on Trump post-election conduct: "Disgraceful."....Daily Kos on Trump's 46-minute video: "Seemed to be thoroughly unhinged from reality. His pathetic, desperate attempts to cling to power are not the actions of a fully rational man."....Jonathan Rauch on Trump: "A firehose of falsehood...His goal here is to confuse people, and he's doing very well at that. This is a classic propaganda tactic."....Sen. Rand Paul: "I don't know anyone who actually believes that Joe Biden won the presidency."....Molly Jong-Fast on Fox News host Maria Bartiromo: "How not to journalism."....Fox News host Eric Shawn on Trump: "He can't process the fact that someone who he thinks is so inferior to him won the election."....George Takei: "I like presidents who don't pardon traitors."....Gov. Tom Ridge: "History will record the shameful irony that a president who lied to avoid military service staged a bogus event on the hallowed ground of Gettysburg in a brazen attempt to undermine the Republic for which scores of real patriots had fought and died to preseve since its founding."....Paul Krugman: "It has been clear for years that the modern GOP is a party that can't handle the truth."....Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio: "He's so incompetent that he cannot even succeed at being a loser."....AOC: "Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double they'd be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift because someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling."....Dan Rather on Trump: "Worst farewell tour. Ever."....