“The promise of jobs and the myth of the white working class as the only people struggling in this country, which animates so much of our present political moment, are right there, in this sitcom.”— Roxane Gay, nytimes.com
“The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his…”— David Sirota and Josh Keefe, ibtimes.com
“From the moment of victory, the Trump administration became a looking-glass presidency: Every inverse assumption about how to assemble and run a White House was enacted and compounded, many times over. The decisions that Trump and his top advisers made in those first few months — from the slapdash t…”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“The truth is, over this period that I witnessed, this seven or eight months, they all came to the conclusion gradually at first, then faster and faster, that something was unbelievably amiss here. That this was more peculiar than they ever imagined it could be.”— Michael Wolff, washingtonexaminer.com
“Most presidential candidates spend their entire careers, if not their lives from adolescence, preparing for the role. They rise up the ladder of elected offices, perfect a public face, and prepare themselves to win and to govern. The Trump calculation, quite a conscious one, was different. The candi…”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“And at the end, they had to look at Donald Trump and say, 'No, this is a man who can't function in his job as president.' He may have been elected president, but that does not turn him into president.”— Michael Wolff, washingtonexaminer.com
“This was an organization that was almost, I'd say, in a real sense shattered from the first day.”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“And the rhetoric that they were throwing at me was all about political correctness and free speech and silencing — men being silenced — and women being too sensitive, and people of color being too sensitive and social justice warriors. [It's] all of the same identical things that then, four or five…”— Lindy West, npr.org
“Any hope the White House may have had that the Mueller investigation might be fading away vanished this morning. Things are only going to get worse from here.”— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, lawfareblog.com
“I introduced Manafort to Donald Trump at the 1988 Republican National Convention in New Orleans.”— Roger Stone, amazon.com
“I think the debasement of our nation will be what he’ll [Trump] be remembered most for, and that’s regretful.”— Bob Corker, time.com
“Leadership knows where the buck stops. Humility helps. Character counts. Leadership does not knowingly encourage or feed ugly or debased appetites in us.”— Jeff Flake, time.com
“Were the shoe on the other foot, would we Republicans meekly accept such behavior on display from dominant Democrats? Of course we wouldn't.”— Jeff Flake, time.com
“Reckless, outrageous, and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is, when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.”— Jeff Flake, time.com
“There are times when we must risk our careers in favor of our principles. Now is such a time.”— Jeff Flake, time.com
“I don’t think Americans are ready, psychologically, for how fast China is gong to overtake us as a world power on the current course.”— Matthew Yglesias, twitter.com
“I am a black, Jewish woman from Chicago. Since the truth about my city will never come out of this White House, I’ll tell it myself.”— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com
“The real crisis here is Trump’s fragile ego. As a candidate, he called the Iran nuclear deal an ‘embarrassment’ and the ‘worst deal ever.’ So nothing has been more humiliating to him to be required, under the Iran Nuclear Review Act, to certify that Iran is, in fact, keeping its promises. This amoun…”— Jeffrey Lewis, newrepublic.com