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TWO DECADES OF WTF

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  • August 05, 2016

    "A threat to national security...In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation."
    -- Michael J. Morell, former intelligence briefer for George W. Bush and acting CIA director under Obama, on Donald Trump

  • August 04, 2016

    "It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life."
    -- Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson on the death of Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, who was killed in iraq in 2004; Obama took office in 2009

  • August 02, 2016

    "I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case."
    -- Donald Trump on what his daughter Ivanka should do if she were experiencing the kind of sexual harassment Roger Ailes has been accused of

  • August 02, 2016

    "She's the devil."
    -- Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton

  • July 30, 2016

    "No more Mr. Nice Guy."
    -- Donald Trump

  • July 29, 2016

    "The slaves that worked there were well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government."
    -- Bill O'Reilly, on the slaves that helped build the White House

  • July 28, 2016

    "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
    -- Donald Trump

    "Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug. Putin should stay out of this election."
    -- spokesman for House Speaker Paul Ryan

    "Trump's appeal for a foreign government hostile to the United States to manipulate our electoral process is not an assault on Hillary Clinton, it is an assault on the Constitution."
    -- William Inboden, National Security Council member under George W. Bush

    "I was shocked to hear [Putin] mention the N-word...He doesn't like [Obama]...I think he's going to respect your president if I'm elected, and I hope he likes me."
    -- Donald Trump

  • July 26, 2016

    "I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization. Trump only takes two positions. Either you're a scummy loser, liar, whatever, or you're the greatest...A stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance."
    -- Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz

  • July 25, 2016

    "Fifty percent of our country is men, where I am doing very, very well. Record-setting numbers, folks. That's the good news. Let me give you the bad news. The women. I don't know what is going on with the women here..."
    -- Donald Trump

  • July 25, 2016

    "I appreciate [Tim Kaine] having multi-cultural and speaking Spanish...but what Mr. Trump did, he spoke in a language that all Americans can understand. That is English...I didn't have to get a translator for anything that was going on at the RNC this week. And I'm hoping I'm not going to have to start brushing back up on my Dora the Explorer to understand some of the speeches this week."
    -- CNN commentator Scottie Nell Hughes on Kaine saying to a crowd, in Spanish, "Welcome to everyone in our country, because we are all Americans"