"...But for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissable evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial."
-- from final report by Jack Smith, whose team interviewed more than 250 people and obtained grand jury testimony from more than 55 witnesses

"I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA!"
-- Trump

"The legal system is broken... IT'S ALL RIGGED, against a political opponent, ME!"
-- Trump

"We had borders that were sealed and beautiful."
-- Trump, on his first administration

"We had a landslide election... We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people. Nobody even knows how many people...they're still counting the vote in some areas. Can you believe this? What a place, what a horrible place."
-- Trump

"The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously."
-- Trump

"In one day he ended every future opportunity that doesn't include speaking engagements at the local Proud Boys chapter. And all of us that didn't have jobs lined up will be perpetually unemployed. I'm so mad and upset. We all look like domestic terrorists now. Not being dramatic, but we are all f*cked."
-- Hope Hicks to Ivanka Trump's chief of staff following January 6

"Had this election not been won by Donald Trump, civilization would be lost."
-- Elon Musk, quoted by Trump on fourth anniversary of storming of U.S. Capitol

"We used to joke, 'A hundred men eat breakfast, seven men eat dinner.' That's pretty much how it is."
-- Russian soldier, on the frontlines in Ukraine

"There is a graveyard filled with my enemies. I do not wish to add to it, but will if given no choice. Those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril, but maybe this is their lucky day."
-- Elon Musk post on X