Louisiana Voice

60 Days

“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers. Who were the good guys in this war?”

—Donald Trump, in 2018, rejecting the idea of a visit to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery where more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives while stopping the German advance toward Paris at Belleau Wood in 1918 are buried. [If Trump’s attacks on John McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, his ridiculing the parents of Humayun Khan, an Army captain who was killed in Iraq in 2004, or his insistence that wounded veterans be barred from military parades because “Nobody wants to see that (amputees),” fails to temper your enthusiasm for Trump, I don’t expect this will because you are either complicit in his contempt for this country or you’re too stupid to understand the significance of the above quote from The Atlantic magazine on Sept. 3, 2020.]

“I think there are some situations where statistics would suggest that they are treated differently, but I don’t think that that’s necessarily racism.”

—Attorney General William Barr, in interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. [Words fail me.]

“Kim Jong-un hit on you!” He did! He f**king hit on you! Well, Sarah, that settles it. You’re going to North Korea and taking one for the team! Your husband and kids will miss you, but you’ll be a hero to your country!”

—Sarah Huckabee Sanders in yet another (yawn) Trump book. [It’s difficult to feel sorry for Sanders after her countless lies on behalf of such a crude man. And now that’s she’s trying to capitalize on her tenure, it’s even harder. She stayed on long after her shelf life had expired.]

“In my view the American voter needs to know as much about this as can be revealed. They need to know if someone is attempting to influence their vote or manipulate them.”

—John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, on the decision by John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence, that he would no longer provide in-person briefings on election security.

“So, send it in early and then go and vote. You can’t let them take your vote away; these people are playing dirty politics. So if you have an absentee ballot . . . you send it in, but I’d check it, follow it and go vote.”

—Donald Trump, urging voters in North Carolina to test his theory that vote-by-mail is fraught with fraud. [In other words, vote early and often.]

“It is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction in America’s cities.”

—Donald Trump, ordering an investigation into the possibility of withholding federal funding where violence is permitted. [Of course, that would have to include the entire district of U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, who has certainly promoted violence on Facebook.]

Interview that went awry:

Laura Ingraham: “Let’s say for the sake of argument you have a deficit among female voters who may be in some cases, you’re too aggressive, your tone or your tweets. What do you say to them directly about what you’ll do in a second term?

Donald Trump: “Okay. I have to be aggressive, because I’m like standing here in a sea of incompetent people, stupid people, and violent people — very violent people.”

Ingraham: “But that’s the kind of language, stupid people, a lot of women don’t like that.”

Trump: “Well, where are we? We’re in the White House I see,” he said. “See? Okay.”

[And Trump claims Biden has dementia.]