"This was never supposed to happen in America. We can't let this happen in America."
-- Trump after his indictment

"IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU!"
-- Trump post, three days later

"How is that not intimidation?...As someone who gets death threats every day, it makes me nervous."
-- Stephanie Grisham, former Trump WH Press Secretary

"This is a very sad day for America, and it was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that I left."
-- Trump, following his indictment

"The American people deserve to know that President Trump and his advisers didn't just ask me to pause, they asked me to reject votes, return votes, to essentially overturn the election... I rejected that out of hand."
-- Mike Pence

"I feel badly for Mike Pence, who is attracting no crowds, enthusiasm, or loyalty from people who, as a member of the Trump Administration, should be loving him."
-- Trump

"The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes."
-- Trump campaign, on Tuesday's indictment

"When our research and campaign legal team can't back up any of the claims made by our Elite Strike Force Legal Team, you can see why we're 0-32 on our cases. I'll obviously hustle to help on all fronts, but it's tough to own any of this when it's all just conspiracy s*** beamed down from the mothership."
--  senior campaign adviser in email to Trump, per indictment

"You're too honest."
-- Trump to Pence, who denied he had the authority to reject presidential electors, per yesterday's indictment

"In the real world, folks, this is how things go. If other people want these things, go get them. Do the work to establish such a tradition in your family, if that's what they want to do."
-- investment banker Rob Longsworth, the seventh in his family to attend Amherst, defending legacy admissions

"If you f*** around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before."
-- Trump in 2020 clip recently re-posted on his social media account

"I don't think he needs a vice president. If there's ever one president who's so strong he doesn't need one, it would be him."
-- Kari Lake on Trump

"They hate, hate on the outside, and are very aggressive towards Putin exactly because they want Putin to be their president."
-- Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on the people of Ukraine

"We'll have fun on the stand with all of these people that say the Presidential Election wasn't Rigged and Stollen [sic]. THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY!"
-- Trump