"President Hernandez is working with the United States very closely. We're stopping drugs at a level that has never happened."
-- Trump, 2019

"We'll shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos."
-- a witness, quoting Hernandez during his 2024 trial for drug trafficking

"I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly."
-- Trump, on Friday

"Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?"
-- reporter, referring to murdered National Guard member

"I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere."
-- Trump

"I'm glad that the U.S. military is now investigating this guy Kelly because this is what we expect from Donald Trump 2.0...You gotta draw the line in the sand, and you have to make examples out of people."
-- Fox host Jesse Watters on Sen. Mark Kelly

"I never thought I'd see a president call for my execution. Trump doesn't understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it."
-- Sen. Mark Kelly

"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