"The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again... This cheap "RAG" is truly an "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE."... The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out."
-- Trump, on recent NYT story about his aging

"Many great legal scholars agree that the Democratic traitors that told the military to disobey my orders, as president, have committed a crime of serious proportions!"
-- Trump

"Name one."
-- Steven Beschloss

"I was just following orders."
-- known as "the Nuremberg defense," this rejected claim by Nazis on trial after WWII led to establishment of the principle in international criminal law that individuals have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order

"Hope Santa (swim trunks donned), reindeer and sleigh successfully made it southward. Yuletide hugs, Ken."
-- Ken Starr, in 2016 email to Epstein

"Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest. Drink from me Love. I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I'll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. 'Don't spill a drop.' I am a river. You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love."
-- text sent by RFK Jr. to journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who called it "a poem"

"Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of eighteen?"
-- Jack Scarola, attorney for one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, 2010

"Though I'd like to answer the question, at least today I'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights, sir."
-- Epstein

"I don't know and I don't care."
-- Fox host Jesse Watters, asked why convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment in prison

"He knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that... [He is] the most respected man in the room."
-- Trump, at Saudi Investment Forum, on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, credited by the CIA with ordering the murder of WaPo journalist Jamal Kashoggi

"He's got some real mental problems. There's something wrong with him. I'll be honest, I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. The guy's grossly incompetent."
-- Trump, speaking at Saudi Investment Forum, on Fed chair Jerome Powell

"I'll go backstage before a show, and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore I'm inspecting it... Is everyone OK? You know, they're standing there with no clothes on. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that."
-- Trump

"He is a sick pervert."
-- Trump yesterday, on Epstein

"I call it 'The Epstein Hoax.'"
-- Trump

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"If there's nothing incriminating in the files, sir, why not..."
-- female Bloomberg reporter, to Trump

"Quiet! Quiet, piggy!"
-- Trump