"I don't know who he is...I know nothing about it because I'm too busy..."
-- Trump, asked why he recently pardoned Changpeng Zhao, a cryptocurrency exchange founder who pled guilty to violating anti-money-laundering laws (and is also involved with a Trump family crypto venture), adding "I was told that he was a victim, just like I was"

"He is a CRIMINAL AND SHOULD BE IN JAIL. A MAJOR LOWLIFE AND FAILURE...A disgrace to humanity. Deranged Jack Smith is a criminal!!!"
-- Trump

"Jack is happy to discuss his work as Special Counsel and answer any questions at a public hearing just like every other Special Counsel investigating a president before him has done. We hope the House and Senate Judiciary Committees will agree so the American people can hear directly from him. Name the time and place. Jack will be there."
-- Lanny Breuer, attorney for Smith

"My message to America is, first, the fact that your government is failing you, right now. Poverty is not red or blue, is not a Republican or Democrat issue. If you are in a position that you can't feed your family... we have failed you."
-- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, whose agency oversees SNAP payments

"When she says, 'We have failed you,' she means 'We, the Democrats,' okay?"
-- Speaker Mike Johnson

"Everybody said that I should immediately get the Nobel Peace Prize."
-- Trump

"People don't care if we send in our military, if we send in our National Guard, if we send in Space Command. They don't care who the hell it is. They just want to be safe... We can as we want to do."
-- Trump

"I don't like good-looking people. I never liked good-looking people. I'll be honest with you. I've never admitted that before. But see I'm allowed to -- we won at the Supreme Court a thing based on merit. You know about that, right?"
-- Trump, to U.S. troops in Japan

"Trump is going to be president in '28 and people ought to just get accomodated with that...There is a plan...He's a vehicle of divine providence. He's an instrument...We need him for at least one more term."
-- Steve Bannon

"I haven't really thought about it...but I have the best poll numbers I've ever had...I would love to do it."
-- Trump, on a third term

"I am the Speaker and the President."
-- Trump

"The state Duma."
-- Steve Bannon, describing Congress

"[Their signs were] all made professionally in a printing shop. Looks like on Madison Avenue someplace. Some guy is paying for all that stuff... They're getting paid. They're professional agitators, and we are finding out who's paying them. Yeah. You're going to be very surprised when you find out."
-- Trump, on the "No Kings" demonstrations

"...They say that he was not guilty of anything, that what he did -- well, you don't know much about crypto...You know nothing about nothing. You're fake news. But...they said that what he did is not even a crime...So I gave him a pardon at the request of a lot of very good people."
-- Trump, asked about his pardoning crypto CEO Changpeng Zhao, who pled guilty to money laundering and had involvement with the Trump family's crypto startup