Political Quotes

“by any account, this has been a momentous week in the history of the Trump Presidency and the history of Presidencies in general. President Trump's former campaign manager was convicted on eight counts and still has another trial to go. The President's former personal attorney--his lifelong compadre for so long--pled guilty to multiple violations of bank fraud and campaign finance violations, implicating the President of the United States himself in one of those crimes. Let me repeat that. President Trump was named as an unindicted coconspirator in a Federal crime. What did we hear from our Republican friends on the Hill? Was this the moment when Republican leaders finally stood up and said ``enough''? Amazingly, apparently not. Apparently, my Republican colleagues cannot rouse themselves to offer even a word of criticism for a President now implicated in a Federal crime; a President who casually tosses around the idea of pardoning his convicted former campaign chairman; a President who speaks favorably about that convicted felon because he didn't break, while disparaging a former confidant for collaborating with law enforcement. It sounds like a scene out of the ``Godfather.'' Imagine if President Obama's campaign manager was convicted of several serious Federal crimes. Do you think my Republican friends would give circumspect quotes to reporters, or do you think they would be beside me on the floor beside themselves? The answer is obvious.…”