Weekend Quotables
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For what it’s worth, #ARREST TRUMP NOW is trending on Twitter this morning.
Donald Trump
"If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6th fairly," Trump said Saturday night during a rally in Conroe, Texas. "And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly." — CBS News
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
…rejected Trump’s comments as sending a wrong message that it’s OK to defile the Capitol. For the Jan. 6 offenders, “I hope they go to jail and get the book thrown at them because they deserve it.” — Face the Nation
@PaulaChertok
😅Trump admits *in writing* he wanted Pence to “overturn the election.” — Tweet
George Conway, a conservative lawyer
But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them. — HuffPost
Joanna Lydgate, CEO at States United Democracy Center
All told, some 21 candidates who dispute Biden’s victory are running for secretary of state in 18 states. “It’s like putting arsonists in charge of the Fire Department.” — Boston Globe
Musa al-Gharbi
Indeed, far from giving up on elections, Republican voters are reveling in the prospect of taking back one or both chambers of Congress at the end of this year; they are eagerly awaiting the midterms (likely for good reason). — No, America is not on the brink of a civil war (Guardian)
