“For 17 months, I’ve traveled this country and met countless Americans from every walk of life. Your hopes have become my hopes and your dreams have become my dreams. I’ve been inspired on this journey by the millions of you who came to cheer a simple idea: that we can make America great again.”— Donald Trump, usatoday.com
“Apparently his campaign has taken away his Twitter. They had so little confidence in his self-control they said, 'We're just going to take away your Twitter.' If somebody can't handle a Twitter account, they can't handle the nuclear codes.”— Barack Obama, cnn.com
“It’s only when you find yourself describing someone who really is the definition of an extremist — who really is, essentially, in my opinion, a fascist — that you recognize that the language that you’ve used in the past to describe other people was hyperbolic and inappropriate and cheap.”— Howard Wolfson, nytimes.com
“And this is a two-way street. Republicans paint a broad spectrum of Democrats as socialist kooks, and Obama has been as strong a magnet for hyperbole as any politician in my lifetime. Let us not forget Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book ‘The Roots of Obama’s Rage,’ or Newt Gingrich’s assertion that ‘only if…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“In Commentary, Noah Rothman has repeatedly examined this subject. He wrote back in March that when ‘honorable and decent men’ like McCain and Romney ‘are reflexively dubbed racists simply for opposing Democratic policies, the result is a G.O.P. electorate that doesn’t listen to admonitions when the…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,’ Howard Wolfson said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also ‘active in discussing’ John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. ‘And I’m quite confident I employed language tha…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“Conservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. Sing me a song I haven’t heard so many times before.”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“Who shows up at the opening of a nursery school opened to care for AIDS patients, demands to speak as if he were an honored guest, and then leaves without ever offering a donation? The man who would eventually become the current Republican nominee for president.”— @LOLGOP, nationalmemo.com
“A spokesperson for the Trump campaign did not return a request for comment on whether Trump voted for Bush or why he gave different answers to the question at different times.”— Andrew Kaczynski, cnn.com
“In a 2009 radio interview with Don Imus uncovered by CNN's KFile, Donald Trump claimed he did not vote for President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in an interview on Fox News following the 2004 presidential election, Trump said the exact opposite: that he did vote Bush despite his opposition t…”— Andrew Kaczynski, cnn.com
“The fact is that Hillary embodies so many of the values that we try so hard to teach our young people. Advocating for kids with disabilities, fighting for children's health care as First Lady, affordable child care in the Senate. Hillary has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, Fi…”— Michelle Obama, twitter.com
“A review of Trump's many decades of abusing the judicial system, ignoring judges, disregarding rules, destroying documents and lying about it is not simply a sordid history lesson. Rather, it helps explain his behavior since he declared his candidacy. He promised to turn over his tax returns and his…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“These startling revelations changed nothing, however, because there was no trove of documents. The Trump records had been destroyed. Despite knowing back in 2001 that Trump might want to file a lawsuit, his companies had deleted emails and other records without checking if they might be evidence in…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“This behavior is of particular import given Trump’s frequent condemnations of Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, for having deleted more than 30,000 emails from a server she used during her time as secretary of state. While Clinton and her lawyers have said all of those emails were personal,…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official proceedings, often in defiance of court orders. These tactics—exposed by a Newsweek review of thousands of pages of court filings…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“Donald Trump has a long, troubling history of destroying and hiding important documents in lawsuits, but he thinks Hillary Clinton’s the one who should be going to jail.”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“When I asked one senior Trump adviser to describe the scene inside, he responded: ‘Think of the bunker right before Hitler killed himself. Donald’s in denial. They’re all in denial.’”— Gabriel Sherman, nymag.com
“In advance of this story, The Post sent more than 70 questions to the Trump campaign. Those questions covered the individual anecdotes and statistics contained in this story, including the tale about Trump crashing the ribbon-cutting in 1996, as well as broader questions about Trump’s life as a phil…”— David Fahrenthold, washingtonpost.com
“New findings, for instance, show that the Trump Foundation’s largest-ever gift — $264,631 — was used to renovate a fountain outside the windows of Trump’s Plaza Hotel. Its smallest-ever gift, for $7, was paid to the Boy Scouts in 1989, at a time when it cost $7 to register a new Scout. Trump’s oldes…”— David Fahrenthold, washingtonpost.com