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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • November 02, 2016

    "The American people deserve a voice in the nomination of the next Supreme Court Justice."
    -- Sen. Richard Burr, March 2016, on delaying consideration of Merrick Garland's nomination until after November

    "If Hillary Cliinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court."
    -- Sen. Richard Burr, October, 2016

    "I believe the American people must have a voice in the direction of the Supreme Court by electing a new president."
    -- Sen. John McCain, March 2016

    "I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up."
    -- Sen. John McCain, October 2016

  • November 01, 2016

    "She wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it, that's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."
    -- Donald Trump on a Hillary Clinton presidency

  • October 31, 2016

    81
    -- percentage of Americans who say they wish the election were over, according to a recent poll; 12 percent say they're enjoying it

  • October 30, 2016

    "'Becuase I'm a billionaire I can do things other people can't.' What a disgustting assertion for anyone to make... The press always ask me, don't I wish I was debating him? No, I wish we were in high school, and I could take him behind the gym."
    -- Joe Biden on Donald Trump

    "I'd love that. I'd that, Mr. Tough guy. You know when he's Mr. Tough Guy? When he's standing behind a microphone by himself."
    -- Donald Trump

  • October 29, 2016

    "We don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails. I don't want to create a misleading impression."
    -- FBI Director James Comey, in his announcement to Congress that some Hillary Clinton emails, which may or may not have been seen before by the FBI, have come to light in the course of a federal investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner

    "He has no business writing to Congress about supposed new emails that neither he nor anyone in the FBI has ever reviewed."
    -- former assistant U.S. attorney Nick Akerman

    "This is such an inappropriate public disclosure by Comey... the latest in a long string of them."
    -- former DOJ spokesman Matthew Miller

    "This is bigger than Watergate."
    -- Donald Trump, at a rally

  • October 28, 2016

    "Don't worry about it. I'll make that decision at the right time. But we have a rigged system."
    -- Donald Trump on whether or not he will accept the results of the election

  • October 27, 2016

    "We should never have been in Iraq, but once we were there we should have never gotten out the way [Obama and Clinton] want to get out. She gave us ISIS as sure as you are sitting tthere."
    -- Donald Trump, 2016

    "I think [Obama] could have gotten out a long time ago. These wars are a disaster. Iraq is going to be taken over by Iran the minute we leave."
    -- Donald Trump, 2011

    "I'd get out of Iraq right now."
    -- Donald Trump, 2008

    "How do they get out? You know how they get out? They get out. That's how they get out. Declare victory and leave. Because I'll tell you, this country is just going to get further bogged down. They're in a civil war over there... There's nothing we're going to be able to do with a civil war."
    -- Donald Trump, 2007

  • October 26, 2016

    "All of my employees are having a tremendous problem with Obamacare."
    -- Donald Trump

    "I don't use much Obamacare, I must be honest with you, because it is so bad for the people and they can't afford it."
    -- Donald Trump

  • October 25, 2016

    "He is not willing to not concede if he loses and there's no fraud."
    -- RNC chair Reince Priebus on Donald Trump

  • October 24, 2016

    "Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over."
    -- Donald Trump