"For those of you funding Donald Trump's re-election campaign, you may want to take note: Because you keep writing checks to this president, it's on you...because you are funding this white supremacist campaign...It is your money that is funding this white supremacy." --
@JoeNBC
"Donald Trump, you have a copy of the warrant. It explains what they were looking for, what statutes they think were violated, what judge signed off on that...If you believe this is such an abuse, release the warrant and let us decide for ourselves."
@neal_katyal
"He is aiding & abetting Putin’s ongoing attempts to subvert U.S. democracy, according to the Republican FBI, CIA, DNI…All Republicans are saying Russia is trying to subvert U.S. democracy & Moscow Mitch won’t even let the Senate take a vote on it. That is un-American.--
@JoeNBC
"Donald trump is upset because Congressman Cummings is everything that Donald Trump is not. He is calm; he is smart; he is thoughtful; he actually works for his constituents. He is a good public servant. He is the example of the American dream." --
@K_JeanPierre
"I will say it to Democratic candidates again: Focus on Donald Trump. OK? Repeat after me: 'I will not attack Barack Obama; I will focus on Donald Trump and the dangers his presidency brings.' It's really easy." --
@JoeNBC
"It was the best speech of his presidency by far. Strongest speech and most importantly...He gave a lot more than he got and made these Republicans look like fools time and time again." --
@joenbc
"Putin killed Navalny. Let's be crystal clear about that... Putin killed Navalny because he was the one opposition leader in Russia that Putin feared the most."
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@McFaul
on the death of his friend, Alexei Navalny
"Democrats are you listening? You're running against a party whose two platforms this year are: let the economy crash and keep the border open."
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@JoeNBC
breaks down Trump's policies
A Special Sunday Morning Edition of Morning Joe Tomorrow at 7AM as the New York Times Dedicates Page One to All Those Who Have Lost Their Lives in the Pandemic.
If Trump runs in 2024, 16% of Republicans say they'll vote for the Democratic candidate, someone else, or not at all, rather than the former president.
"If you want to stop Donald Trump, it is time to...roll up your sleeves and go after him and do whatever it takes to win. If you don't do that, you'll have [him] for four more years." --
@JoeNBC
's message to Dems
"The Republicans have no choice but to condemn this. If they don't condemn it then, of course, they are being disloyal to their country and choosing instead to be loyal to Donald Trump." --
@JoeNBC
"I was willing to give [Cannon] the benefit of the doubt...but she's getting it dead wrong. And every time she gets it dead wrong, it's always in Trump's favor... If this were a law school exam, she would be failing."
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@KGreenberg_
on Judge Aileen Cannon's legal failures
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@Morningmika
: "A lot of people say Biden's age is a factor, and you're damn right it is...With age comes wisdom, experience...and he's unafraid, and that's what makes him an effective negotiator, effective at diplomacy...I wouldn't want anyone else doing it."
"Come back and bring me the evidence of women in New Jersey having abortions in the ninth month. It's not happening...and I can't let it go again."
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@morningmika
pushes back against Chris Christie's claim about NJ allowing abortion up to 9 months
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@gtconway3d
: "Of all the things that Trump's done—eight decades of lying, cheating, and stealing...For this man to go to jail for potentially a long time for something so pointless and silly and useless as keeping these documents, it's actually kind of fitting."
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@JoyceWhiteVance
: "Someday, one hopes that the people in the GOP will take a deep breath, the fever dream will break, and they’ll begin to see this for what it is because…we're well past the point where anyone can maintain that this conduct was democratic, fair, or legitimate."
"Republicans now have put themselves in a position where what's good for America is bad for Donald Trump. And that's all you need to know about that campaign and this Republican Party."
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@JoeNBC
criticizes GOP's fealty to Trump on the border issue
'You had a law that could have been passed yesterday. That would've required...a candidate or a campaign to report illegal actions to the FBI and Mitch McConnell and Marsha Blackburn and the Republican Party of Trump opposed that. Let that sink in for a while.'--
@JoeNBC
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@JoeNBC
: "Lindsey Graham's completely betraying his past...the people of Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan...Why? All because Trump told him to — I can't imagine being such a political coward that you'd betray everything you believed because of a failed reality TV show host."
"I'm a single-issue voter now, and that single issue for me is whether or not you support democracy or whether or not you stand up against disinformation." --
@gtconway3d
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@JoeNBC
: "I'm getting tired of saying this to people who claim to be 'patriotic' but hate America... America's stronger than ever before. Its economy is stronger than ever... But they'd never know this because they are fed a steady stream of hate America first rhetoric."
"He is so despised on Capitol Hill. He is so despised by GOP governors across the country. He's so despised by members of the House personally that it's only a matter of time that they start planning ahead for post-Trump Washington." --
@JoeNBC
recounts a talk with GOP insider
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@gtconway3d
: "Trump's always going to accuse people of falsehoods to draw attention away from himself because he's an incorrigible pathological liar... and he's finally being called to account for it...the jury saw for themselves how sick and deranged he was."
"There are a few moments in my life that I've been more embarrassed than to watch Tim Scott [last night]... He has a right to be Republican, to back Trump, but to do it in such a way that is so humiliating was troubling."
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@TheRevAl
on Tim Scott tell Trump 'I just love you!'
"The law is pretty clear, Willie: It is absolutely illegal for anyone to solicit, accept or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with any election in the United States." --
@EllenLWeintraub
to
@WillieGeist
"The fact that no Republican thinks that this is worth looking into suggests to me that passion and superstition and blind obedience have replaced reason for those people in this moment." --
@jmeacham
"What Mr. Trump did yesterday was to betray the women and men of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA and others and to betray the American public. And that's why I use the term that this was nothing short of treasonous. Because it is a betrayal of the nation." --
@JohnBrennan
"Joe Biden owned the Republicans in every way... It was an incredible night for the president and I don't know if the Republicans understood just how negative they looked."
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@morningmika
on the SOTU
"Mitch McConnell thinks his legacy will be SCOTUS. I would tell you, I believe Mitch McConnell's legacy will be his failure to lead at the most critical juncture in American history."
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@clairecmc
on how Republicans missed their moment to move past Trump
"There is no policy that I want enough to trade off the norms that we are destroying daily in the Trump administration. There is no judge; there is no policy; there is no tax cut. Nothing to me personally is worth what we're paying for." --
@RadioFreeTom
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@Liz_Cheney
: "People need to think about what it means when a president won't enforce court rulings he disagrees with. As soon as that happens...we're unraveling the fundamental structures and systems that make us a nation of laws, so there won't be any guardrails to stop him."
"It's time that fascism is called fascism and Americans know exactly what they're voting for." --
@joenbc
discussing NYT reporting on Trump's authoritarian bent
"This was a vintage mob operation with Trump at the top not putting his fingers too directly on things but sending out his lieutenant Rudy Giuliani..." --
@JoyceWhiteVance
"I will never be able to fully comprehend the inability of even a small critical mass of people to just come out and say this guy is completely unfit for office. I still cannot fathom it to this day because they all knew," -
@gtconway3d
on testimony from Jan. 6 hearings.
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@JoeNBC
: "If Speaker Johnson had his way, Vladimir Putin would already [have taken] Kyiv because he's voted against all funding to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression— And now he's also killing a bill that would stop the chaos on the southern border? You gotta ask why."
"The things that Kentuckians voted for Trump for are not being done. He's not able to get it done because of Senator McConnell." --
@AmyMcGrathKY
on why she's running against Mitch McConnell.
“I’ve said it for weeks now. Mr President, I’ll say it again: This is not an economic crisis; this is a health care crisis. If you will do everything that’s required to take care of the health care crisis, then the economic crisis will go away.” --
@JoeNBC
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@BeschlossDC
: "As we talk about this campaign as it unfolds, we have never seen anything remotely like this in American history. A major party candidate is saying, you elect me, there's going to be dictatorship, bloodbath, violence, retribution against my political enemies."
"How dare you, Donald Trump, tell me what it takes to be a good Jew...For anybody who says, I'm voting for Donald Trump because he's automatically good for Israel, he would turn on Jews in a second."—
@DonnyDeutsch
on Trump saying Jewish Dems hate Israel and their own religion
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@JoeNBC
: "All the things Republicans once claimed they cared for, now Mike Johnson and Donald Trump together are doing everything they can to undermine what conservatives have always supported. And they're undermining national security for pure politics and they admit it."
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@JoeNBC
: "Is this not the Trumpiest story of all time? This guy starts [Truth Social], goes public,...then he sues his co-founders.... Everybody that goes into business with this guy regrets it because he's a terrible businessman and he sues you."
"Donald Trump said, blame me for this. Donald Trump said kill the bill and blame me for everything that happens after this point... There is an onslaught at the southern border still, and it's all Donald Trump's fault."
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@JoeNBC
on the GOP's failure to pass the border bill
"You want to know how Biden's doing? Look at your 401k...Look at your stock app and see how much money you're making every hour because there's not a crazy lunatic in the WH; there's somebody who respects the rule of law." -
@JoeNBC
on GOP claims Biden's a socialist
"Would Donald Trump not do whatever he could do if he could get away with it? Seriously. If he could arrest every journalist he didn't like, if he could arrest us tomorrow...If you say he wouldn't, you're just lying to yourself." --
@JoeNBC
"This is how far we've come. We now have a president…who attacked an American vice president and an American president on foreign soil. That is something you do not do." --
@JoeNBC
"If I were advising a president at a moment like this, I would advise being as transparent as you can. And instead it sounds like what they want to do is describe this thing and then hand it over." --
@PeteButtigieg
"I know what a hostage is, and that prison choir is not a bunch of hostages. I know patriots, I served alongside millions of them... The correct term for the prison choir: convicted felons."
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@stavridisj
on Trump's praise of January 6th rioters
"What makes ads against Donald Trump so powerful, is using the weight of Donald Trump's own arrogance, own conceit, own flamboyance against him."
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@JoeNBC
on The Lincoln Project's new political ad 'God made a dictator,' in response to the 'God made Trump' video
"Donald Trump can release the warrant. He should release the warrant. If it's such a scam, release the warrant. Stop the scam, stop the grift. Release the warrant. Let us see why they came in to Mar-a-Lago. Let us see what they're looking for." --
@joenbc
"Biden knows where he is, what decade he's in, and he sure as hell knows who he's running against. There's really no comparison here— [Trump] can't even remember that Obama hasn't been President in eight years."
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@JoeNBC
highlights the contrast between Biden and Trump
"So much of [Trump's] problems are self-inflicted. If he ends up in jail for a couple of nights for violating this [gag] order, it's on him. 340 million Americans would not get away with what Trump's getting away with."
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@JoeNBC
on Trump's attacks on judge in hush money case
'A tragic moment out of Texas, but also sad for democracy when you have a governor of one of the larger U.S. states feeling the need to be hateful and callous after a mother tries to shield her 9-year-old child." --
@joenbc
on Gov. Abbott labeling victims 'illegal immigrants'
"I served in Congress long enough to be able to say this— This group of extreme house MAGA Republicans are the most un-patriotic I have seen in a long, long time. And I say that as a small government conservative."
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@JoeNBC
slams GOP for continuing to disparage America
"History has chosen the Democratic Party at this point in time to be the only party in America who will stand up and defend the rule of law. There is no one else there...Whether it's the smart political calculation or not, the Constitution requires it." --
@JoeNBC
"Words have consequences. The president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated." --
@RepEscobar
"We can survive bad policy — we can't survive a bad heart that wants to undermine, terminate, scorch the constitution, and execute for treason anybody who disagrees with him."
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@JoeNBC
echoes Liz Cheney's warning of the dangers of a second Trump term
"Donald Trump said, 'kill this bill, it will help Joe Biden if we actually shut down the border, and I'll take the blame.' So Donald, we blame you. We blame you because it's your fault."
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@JoeNBC
on Trump killing the bipartisan border bill
"I think cameras in the courtroom are a must because if we don't have them, what will we get? A one-sided account coming from Trump's lawyers. You're not going to get anything from Jack Smith and his federal prosecutors." --
@glennkirschner2
"Everything in these rules is rigged...They are so afraid, so afraid of the facts coming out that they want things to be presented at two, three in the morning. Give me a break." --
@SenSchumer