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Even Springsteen Hates Him

March 3, 2016March 3, 2016 Buck Banks

If anyone ever set out to make a state pissed, he
Did it better than anyone ever did to New Jersey.
Jerseyites disliked him on the stump,
But now they loath his suck-up to Trump.
Maybe D.C. is a safer place than Bayonne for Chris Christie.

Romney on Trump

March 3, 2016 Buck Banks

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Washington Post.

A Racist’s Response

March 1, 2016 Buck Banks

When you receive a racist’s endorsement, what do you say?
And hey, did you stopped beating your black slaves today?
David Duke’s like the plague
So you’d better not be vague,
Just come right out and say ixnay on the KKK, OK?

Trump Campaign Is Paying Trump to Run

March 1, 2016 Buck Banks

$2.2 million

Amount the Trump campaign spent between June 16, when he announced his candidacy from the lobby of Trump Tower, through the end of 2015, patronizing Trump businesses. “The majority — $2 million — was spent on Tag Air Inc., where Trump is CEO,” reports Daily Beast.

What’s Good for CBS Isn’t Good for America

March 1, 2016 Buck Banks

It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.

— CBS executive chairman Leslie Moonves, quoted by the Hollywood Reporter, on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Is David Duke Trying to Hurt Donald Trump?

March 1, 2016 Buck Banks

Look, Donald Trump do whatever you need to do to get elected to this country because we need a change.

— David Duke, quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on Donald Trump disavowing the former Ku Klux Klan leader’s endorsement.

Trump Has Black Students Removed from Campaign Rally

March 1, 2016 Buck Banks

30

Number of black students who were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s rally here Monday night and who “were escorted out by Secret Service agents who said the presidential candidate had requested their removal before he began speaking,” the Des Moines Register reports.

Trump Calls Rove a ‘Total Moron’

February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 Buck Banks

He is a total moron. He is the worst.

— Donald Trump, saying that Republicans “are never going to win another presidential election listening to Karl Rove,” Bloomberg reports.

General: Military Would Disobey President Trump

February 29, 2016 Buck Banks

If he were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would refuse to act.

— Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and NSA, saying that the military would have to disobey Donald Trump if he followed through on certain campaign promises as president, referring to Trump’s suggestion to torture suspected terrorists and kill their families, The Hill reports.

Whitman Says Sh’ell Vote for Clinton Over Trump

February 29, 2016 Buck Banks

You’ll see a lot of Republicans do that. We don’t want to. But I know I won’t vote for Trump.

— Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman (R), saying she’s planning to vote for Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump gets the nomination, the Newark Star Ledger reports.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Washington Post.

$2.2 million

Amount the Trump campaign spent between June 16, when he announced his candidacy from the lobby of Trump Tower, through the end of 2015, patronizing Trump businesses. “The majority — $2 million — was spent on Tag Air Inc., where Trump is CEO,” reports Daily Beast.

It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.

— CBS executive chairman Leslie Moonves, quoted by the Hollywood Reporter, on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Look, Donald Trump do whatever you need to do to get elected to this country because we need a change.

— David Duke, quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on Donald Trump disavowing the former Ku Klux Klan leader’s endorsement.

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He is a total moron. He is the worst.

— Donald Trump, saying that Republicans “are never going to win another presidential election listening to Karl Rove,” Bloomberg reports.

If he were to order that once in government, the American armed forces would refuse to act.

— Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and NSA, saying that the military would have to disobey Donald Trump if he followed through on certain campaign promises as president, referring to Trump’s suggestion to torture suspected terrorists and kill their families, The Hill reports.

You’ll see a lot of Republicans do that. We don’t want to. But I know I won’t vote for Trump.

— Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman (R), saying she’s planning to vote for Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump gets the nomination, the Newark Star Ledger reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%