Mudline May 3, 2024

May 3, 2024

....Trump on Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels: "Two sleazebags who have, with their lies and misrepresentations, cost our Country dearly."....Lev Parnas to Trump: "Stop whining, Donny. It's time to pay the piper!"....Trump on Biden: "He is a criminal. He is a horrible president."....Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt: "Joe Biden can hardly speak."....Trump on Biden SOTU: "He was high as a kite."....Barry Diller on Trump's Truth Social stock: "It's a scam! Just like everything he's ever been involved in is some sort of con."....Sen. Bernie Sanders on Trump: "He's a pathological liar...He will lie about virtually everything."....Michelle Cottle on Trump: "An Olympic-caliber demagogue."....Rep. Sean Casten on House Republicans: "Cowards, led by morons."....Stephen Beschloss on the House Speaker's Mar-a-Lago visit: "Johnson standing beside Donald Trump makes clear he is immune to shame."....Trump mega-donor Tom Klingenstein on Sen. Chuck Schumer, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and others: "Trump hates his enemies as much as they hate him. His enemies are America's enemies."....Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Tucker Carlson: "Will eventually fade into nothingness, because his veneer of faux intellectualism is quickly falling apart and revealing who he truly is: a cowardly, know-nothing elitist full of s***."....Today News Africa's Simon Ateba: "Any crazy person out there attempting to attack my friend Tucker Carlson over his latest interview should have bombs dropped on themselves and their family members. Then we can talk from the grave."....biographer Tim O'Brien on Trump: "He's lazy, he plays golf most of the time, and he's not particularly bright."....Trump on retirement of Rep. Mike Gallagher: "Never forget our cowards and weaklings! Such a disgrace."....Maureen Dowd on Trump: "He's inflaming his base with language straight out of Macbeth's trip to hell."....Larry David on Trump: "You can't go a day without thinking about what he's done to this country because he's such a little baby that he's thrown 250 years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results...He just couldn't admit losing...He knows he lost. And look how...he's convinced all these people that he didn't lose. He's such a sick man."....Trump on immigrants: "I don't know if you call them 'people,' in some cases. They're not people, in my opinion."....Trump: "If you want to help Joe Biden wheel Granny off the cliff to fund government benefits for illegals, then vote for Crooked Joe Biden."....Eugene Robinson on Trump: "Could be making a big mistake hawking the 'God Bless the USA Bible' to his MAGA supporters. Some of them might actually read it."....David Axelrod on Trump: "A guy who has violated eleven of the Ten Commandments."....evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats: "The number one hurdle for Donald Trump is I've never met a dad or a mom or a grandpa or grandma who have told me they want their son or daughter or grandchild to grow up to be like him."....House Oversight Committee chair James Comer to Rep. Jared Moskowitz: "You look like a Smurf."....