Louisiana Voice

“The speed by which Attorney General Barr released to the public the summary of Special Counsel Mueller’s principal conclusions, coupled with the fact that Attorney General Barr failed to provide a thorough representation of the findings set forth in the Mueller report, causes the court to question whether Attorney General Barr’s intent was to create a one-sided narrative about the Mueller report — a narrative that is clearly in some respects substantively at odds with the redacted version of the Mueller report.” 

—Federal Judge (appointed by President George W. Bush) Reggie B. Walton, in criticizing Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the Mueller report. [Not to beat a dead horse, but as long as readers insist on dredging up the name of Barack Obama in their defense of Trump, then we reserve the right to do likewise with the public record in shining a light on this administration.]

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“I would get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things if they give it out fairly, which they don’t.”

—Donald Trump, lamenting the fact he didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, in January. (Of course there’s always the possibility he will win the Nobel for medicine for his heroic work on combating the coronavirus epidemic.)

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“WOW! Sleepy Joe doesn’t know where he is, or what he’s doing. Honestly, I don’t think he even knows what office he’s running for!”

–Donald Trump, ridiculing Joe Biden in March 2, 2020, tweet.

“Glass houses, Spanky “

“I just “chocked” on my ‘hamberder’”.

 “Says the man who doesn’t know how to operate a speaker phone.”

“You can’t close an umbrella, you looked directly in to the sun during an eclipse, you think F38s are truly invisible, etc, etc, etc. You should shhhh….Or hey, if Biden is that far gone, debate him.”

“COVFEFE,
NAMBIA,
ANOLYMOUS,
HAMBERDER
CARONAVIRUS
SMOCKING GUN
PRINCE OF WHALES
GLOBAL WARNING
TEXT MASSAGES
PRESIDENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS
PRESIDENT OF PUERTO RICO
THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICAL
MELANIE
IT WILL HEEL
LASTING PEACH
COUNCIL
UNPRESIDENTED
TAPP”

“Careful you don’t fall off that high horse onto the glass house you are throwing stones at.”

“FO covfefe drinking, hamberder eating with a smocking gun in hand man. Go find the United Shtates of America on a map without using a sharpie.”

“Is that Tim Apple on the phone? What are the oranges of this story!”

“Have you seen yourself at your rallies?”

“I’ll bet he knows how to use an umbrella.”

 “You recently misspelled your own name!”

—Samples of Twitter responses to Trump’s tweet about Biden, mostly tossing some of Trump’s own classic tweets back in his face.

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“I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh. you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, criticizing Supreme Court justices at a rally last week.

“Justices know that criticisms come with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”

—Chief Justice John Roberts, in response to Schumer’s inappropriate blurring of the lines of separation of powers.

“She’s trying to shame people with perhaps a different view into voting her way, and that’s so inappropriate.”

—Donald Trump, criticizing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for her dissenting opinion on the court’s decision to lift an injunction on the administration’s immigrant “public charge” rule.

“Everybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel. The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican…”

—Donald Trump, criticizing Indiana-born judge Gonzalo Curiel in a May 2016 campaign speech.

“There has rarely been a juror so tainted as the forewoman in the Roger Stone case. Look at her background. She never revealed her hatred of ‘Trump’ and Stone. She was totally biased, as is the judge,”

—Trump tweet criticizing the forewoman and the presiding judge in the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone, Feb. 25, 2020.

Crickets.

—Chief Justice Roberts and most, if not all Republican elected officials in Washington.

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“[Vladimir Putin] is not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down.”

—Donald Trump, apparently unaware that Russia had already annexed Crimea in a 2014 intrusion into Ukraine that left thousands dead (July 31, 2016)

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