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“Tuesday’s results back up my oft-stated argument that the November 2024 election was a highly focused repudiation of President Biden, the Biden-Harris Administration, and, by extension, Vice President Kamala Harris, not the top-to-bottom repudiation of the Democratic Party that many have made it out to be.”
“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”
— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.
“I’m the speaker and the president.”
— President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, noting how he’s marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson.
“I know all the names … It exists in the FBI files. It exists in the Epstein files, as we now call them … There are four different document dumps, and there are many, many names in those … They have the names — and they’ve had them for more than a decade.”
— Amy Wallace, “The ghost writer who helped Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, pen her posthumous memoir claimed she knows everyone named in the so-called Epstein files,” the New York Post reports.
“I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won’t be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own. I will, however, be a mayor who is ready to speak at any time to lower the cost of living. That’s the way I’m going to lead this city. That’s the partnership I want to build.”
— Zohran Mamdani, on Fox News.
“This is no longer, the Department of Justice, it’s no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
— Former New Jersey Governor and U.S. Attorney Chris Christie (R), on ABC News.
“The Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies.”
— President Trump, posting on Truth Social. NOTE: Trump was president on January 6.
“I don’t think there’s anything that’s gonna get me in heaven. I think I’m not maybe heaven bound.”
“Research shows that genuine political violence remains overwhelmingly driven by far-right actors, not nebulous “Antifa” networks. But this, truly, is where MAGA has arrived at: a place so far removed from observable reality that it now holds official government functions with imaginary enemies. Once, conservatism prided itself on being ‘the party of realism.’ Today’s version treats politics as fan fiction, complete with invented villains and lore.”
— The Independent, reporting on Trump’s “Antifa Roundtable” held at the White House.
“I’m so embarrassed on behalf of my Republican colleagues for not even being willing to say that you shouldn’t jail your political opponents.”
— Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), quoted by NOTUS.
