Trumpster Diving

  • “I would not run (in 2024) if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it.”—Nikki Haley, former U.N. Ambassador and ex-governor of South Carolina.
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence has apparently weathered the “Hang Mike Pence!” threats of Jan. 6—and has found a self-serving focus. No, he hasn’t decried the “Stop the Steal” movement. To the contrary, he’s now dismissive in accusing the media of “demeaning” Trump supporters. Including, presumably, those who wanted to throw him an old-fashioned necktie party. “They want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million Americans who believed we could be strong again and prosperous again and supported our administration in 2016 and 2020,” said Pence, with that implacably straight face, on Fox News. Pence also accuses the media of trying to distract attention from “the Biden administration’s failed agenda by focusing on one day in January.” More to the point, Pence is also trying to salvage some hope for his own political orbit by not unnecessarily disparaging the Trump base. Hang in there, Mike.
  • “The whole (GOP) charade involves Republican officials—many of them educated at the nation’s top schools—betting that their constituents are too dumb to know they’re being lied to.”—Eugene Robinson, Washington Post.
  • “In attempting to enlist DOJ for personal, political purposes in an effort to maintain his hold on the White House, Trump grossly abused the power of the presidency.”—Outtake from a report by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham was booed and heckled at a South Carolina country club when he suggested folks “ought to think about getting (the vaccine).” Yes, that basket of self-defining deplorables is still there.

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