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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service… You have two individuals and clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, were killed by the United States.”
— Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), quoted by CNN, after being shown the full video of the September 2 boat strikes.
“This is one of the biggest flashing red light warning signs we’ve seen yet for Republicans. If every House district in the country shifted left by this same amount — about 15 points — we would be looking at a blue wave far worse than 2018.”
— Republican strategist Matt Whitlock, writing on X, on the Tennessee special House election last night.
“There is a temptation is to describe what happened yesterday as somehow a ‘new low.’ Our somnolent, gibbering, incoherent, deeply corrupt President, surrounded by his fawning toadies, unleashed a torrent of dehumanizing racist bile, disinformation, and threats. … But it’s not a new low. It’s the same old low. A scene we’ve seen repeated so often there is a kind of numbness to it. Outrage did not ensue.”
“It’s a criminal offense—war crimes or murder are criminal offenses. Hegseth doesn’t have the immunity that the President of the United States does.”
— Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), quoted by Time, on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s role in the boat strikes.
“I think it would go down, frankly, as a historically bad deal, rivaling Neville Chamberlain giving in to Hitler before World War II.”
— Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), on Fox News, on President Trump’s proposed peace deal for Ukraine.
“That’s something I’ve said in the past and I say today. And I think what I appreciated about the conversation that I had with the president was that we were not shy about the places of disagreement, about the politics that has brought us to this moment, and we also wanted to focus on what it could look like to deliver on a shared analysis of an affordability crisis for New Yorkers.”
— New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said that he still believes President Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot,” but he viewed their first face-to-face meeting at the White House on Friday as an “opportunity” to work together on lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers, NBC News reports.
“I’ll go when you go, OK? … If I may borrow a phrase from you: Quiet, Piggy!”
— Jimmy Kimmel, responding to new calls from Donald Trump that he be fired.
“He’s so obsessed with the Kennedys and the Kennedy brand that he caged one and put it in his cabinet, a rabid dog in his cabinet. He put a collar on my cousin, RFK Jr., and has him in there barking, spreading lies and spreading misinformation.”
– Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President Kennedy, on MSNOW discussing his cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while announcing his candidacy for Congress in New York’s 12th District.
“Jeffrey Epstein was not a pedophile… He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls… There’s a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old.”
— Megyn Kelly, on her Sirius XM show.
