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Wednesday 13th of May 2026

2016 Presidential election Fuck the law. I don't give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Shut it down. Donald Trump, reacting to the news that his campaign was paying for its transition team members, as is required by federal law © 2019 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections They [people] should vote against Republicans in a spirit that is, if you will, prepartisan and prepolitical. Their attitude should be: The rule of law is a threshold value in American politics, and a party that endangers this value disqualifies itself, period. In other words, under certain peculiar and deeply regrettable circumstances, sophisticated, independent-minded voters need to act as if they were dumb-ass partisans. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes, “Boycott the Republican Party” © 2018 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only thing worse would be not charging him. Barbara McQuade, "United States v. Donald Trump," on the failure to criminally charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding for pressuring Pence to overturn the election due to fears about potential negative consequences for the country, such as violent protests, civil unrest, loss of life, or an acquittal, which would embolden other domestic wannabe autocrats © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The subpoenaed House Member's willful failure to comply with a congressional subpoena reflects discredit on Congress. If left unpunished, such behavior undermines Congress's longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority and suggests that Members of Congress may disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, referral of members Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the House Ethics Committee for failure to comply with subpoenas © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election What I'm asking you to do is just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen. Donald Trump, to acting attorney general Richard Donoghue © 2023 Kwiple.com
2024 Endorsement Vigilantes say Vote for Trump — we've got his back  ★ ★ ★ Kwiplers say I really don't care what they say, do U  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Affirmative action With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces “colorblindness for all” by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country’s actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.  Harvard College and University of North Carolina © 2023 Kwiple.com
Alabama Republicans say  The age of consent is fourteen, period. Or whichever comes first. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Authoritarianism The country wants the President to be “one of us” who bears the same responsibilities of citizenship that all share. But I believe that the President should be excused from some of the burdens of ordinary citizenship while serving in office. … the indictment and trial of a sitting President, moreover, would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility in either the international or domestic arenas. Brett Kavanauhg, arguing presidents should be above the law © 2018 Kwiple.com
Autocrats say For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law. Óscar Raymundo Benevides, Peruvian dictator, 1933-1939  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say In the United States of America we do not prosecute people based on politics and we don't cut them a break based on politics either. William Barr, Trump's fixer, who interfered in Michael Flynn's case, Roger Stone's case, Rudy Guiliani's case, the Mueller investigation, etc. © 2020 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say President Trump has always stood for law and order, and protecting the Constitution. Steven Cheung © 2023 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage of students at the top 30 U.S. law schools who are Asian-American: 10 Of elected prosecutors who are: 0.2 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say I am pleased to inform you that I have just granted a full pardon to 85 year old American patriot Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He kept Arizona safe! Donald Trump, 7:00 PM - 25 Aug 2017, displaying his eagerness to pander to his base's prejudices and enough deep-rooted contempt for judges, the rule of law, and the Constitution to act as a warning that he'll pardon any associate or family member convicted of any crime, however egregious © 2017 Kwiple.com
Corporations All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The defendants' actions were motivated by a personal vendetta and a desire to gain fame, notoriety, acclaim and a financial windfall and were further intended to advance their political agenda. The brazenness of the defendants' actions cannot be understated. From page one of Donald Trump's lawsuit against Mary Trump, the New York Times and its three reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on his history of tax dodges — for “no less” than than $100 million each © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say God is the only source of our law, liberty and government. Roy Moore © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes. It's a long tedious job, it takes a long time — which I was prepared to do, but I have a very busy life. I've had a very busy life. Donald Trump, trotting out his "I'm-a-busy-guy" defense for not returning government documents to the governmet after he left office and was subpoenaed to do so © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say [It] reflects the very reason we voted President Trump into the Oval Office, to uphold the rule of law. Republican Congressman Paul Gosar, commenting on Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to obey a court order to stop racially profiling Latinos, both of which Gosar and his ilk must approve of © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don't believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted. Problem is that a new…… ……lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed (if for no other reason than they can bill more), which is unfair in our great country - and I am very happy with my existing team. Besides, there was NO COLLUSION with Russia, except by crooked Hillary and the Dems! Donald Trump, 7:40 AM + 7:49 AM - Mar 25, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now 85 years old and after more than 50 years of admirable service to our nation, he is [a] worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon. White House press release announcing — prior to Arpaio's sentencing, without him having shown remorse for his crimes, and without the standard prior review  by the Department of Justice — that Trump granted a full pardon to Joe Arpaio, the virulently xenophobic and racist deposed sheriff of Maricopa Country, Arizona, who was convicted of contempt of court for refusing to comply with a judge's order for 17 months to stop racially profiling Latinos, which he did for 24 years as a thug with a badge © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There are communities under  Sharia law right now in our country … in Illinois, Indiana – up there. Roy Moore © 2017 Kwiple.com
Elites Of the elite corporate professions — law, finance, consultancy — the first two are vilified as ruthless. But only the third is seen as outright bullshit. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, February 24, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say 21st century weapons 18th century laws Placard, Geneva, Switzerland, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say The Attorney General must insure that the administration of justice – the enforcement of the law – is above and away from politics. William Barr, during his confirmation hearings to become Attorney General © 2020 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse that every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. John Selden © 2023 Kwiple.com
Impeachment Whether in London or Washington, what liberals are ultimately defending is not any policy but the rule of law: the frame within which a nation paints its politics, not the choice of colours. Protecting the one might entail some sacrifice of the other. Ms Pelosi seems ready to brave the cost. The test is whether she holds to her course if voters revolt. Janan Ganash, Financial Times, September 25, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary tort reform (tôrt ri fôrm'), n. A corporate-sponsored movement to achieve (1) legal immunity for damages or injuries resulting from using their products, and (2) legal immunity from being sued or having to provide victims with financial compensation. A post-tort-reform example: Your baby becomes mentally retarded from eating peeling paint. Tough shit. Learn to be a better parent. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Nondisparagement agreements are nothing but silencers on corporate guns © 2017 Kwiple.com
Law Being inanimate should not be a barrier to legal personhood – the courts are well populated by inanimate objects: the State, the Church and the corpo- ration have all, over the centuries, been recognized by the law. Why shouldn't nature have the same legal standing as the companies seeking to exploit it? André Dao,  “What if trees could sue?” New Philosopher #14: Nature © 2016 Kwiple.com
Law I don't want to steal the thunder from the other lawyers, but Nebraska, you're going to hear, is quite a judicial thinking place. Bill Castor, Jr., Trump's legal counsel, in his Day 1 remarks during Trump's second impeachment trial © 2021 Kwiple.com
Law The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. © 2021 Kwiple.com
Law One of the striking things is that if you're middle class, if you're upper middle class, if you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to a legal system. Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur who paid the millions of dollars in legal fees for Hulk Hogan's invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media for posting a tape of him having sex with the wife of his friend, Bubba the Love Sponge © 2016 Kwiple.com
Law The purpose of the law is to work, to work for the people. Stephen Breyer © 2020 Kwiple.com
Law So that, however it may be mistaken,  the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom: for in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom: for liberty is, to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there is no law John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government © 2016 Kwiple.com
Law Racism and segregation is no longer de jure, but it is still de facto.  Alvin Holmes © 2017 Kwiple.com
Law Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. Anacharsis the Scythian [Many slightly different translations exist] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Law and order It was the most beautiful thing. It's called law and order. Punchline to the tale Donald Trump tells attendees at his rallies about how Minneapolis police shot an MSNBC reporter covering protests of George Floyd's murder in the knee with a rubber bullet while fleeing marauding police, which tale invariably ignites Day-of-the-Locust-worthy cackling and blood lust © 2020 Kwiple.com
Law and order … knocking over a 7-Eleven makes you a “criminal” but looting a pension fund does not. Trump's unusual level of personal crookedness dovetails with a familiar reactionary agenda of combining per- missive enforcement of white-collar crime with a crackdown on street crime – or, as Trump calls it, simply “crime.” The implicit meaning of “Law and Order” is that order is distinct from lawfulness and that some crimes create disorder while others do not. Jonathan Chaitt, New York, September 14-27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
National security [Special counsel Jack] Smith’s job is straight- forward. He must … make clear to the jury that this case is about two simple things: First, a former president took documents con- taining some of our nation's most sensitive se- crets, which he was no more entitled to remove than the portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin hanging on the walls of of the Oval Office. Second, when he was caught, he persistently made up excuses, lied and tried to cover up his behavior, which he continues to do. … It is impossible to overstate how essential it will be for Mr. Smith to … persuade the trial jury … he committed serious criminal acts. The conse- quence of doing that would be nothing short of affirmation of the rule of law in this country. The alternative is too grim to contemplate. Norman Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Joyce Vance. New York Times, June 9, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Nukes What, for example, might chemical or biological weapons by now be capable of had they and their delivery systems received the same investment of resources, across sixty years and more, as has been devoted to nuclear armouries? From this standpoint the advent of nuclear weapons may have been no more than the particular form first taken—perhaps to macabre advantage, in that its savage abruptness made the reality unmistakable— by an evolution that was anyway inexorable. The issues for strategy and statesmanship, and for ethics and law, need therefore to be recognized as not only novel, but also broad and basic. Michael Quinlan, 2009 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Post-truth Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. … Post-truth wears away the rule of law and invites a regime of myth. Timothy Snyder, New York Times, January 9, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law. Karen LeCraft Henderson, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, responding to a claim by Trump's lawyers that presidents cannot be criminally prosecuted for official acts performed while they were in office once they have left it, unless they had been impeached and convicted for the acts before leaving it © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution To fully appreciate the profound change the majority has wrought, one must first acknowledge what it means to have immunity from criminal prosecution. Put simply, immunity is “exemption” from the duties and liabilities imposed by law. … Thus, being immune is not like having a defense under  the law. Rather, it means that the law does not apply to the immunized person in the first place. Ketangi Brown Jackzon, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Presidential immunity from criminal prosecution Under the individual accountability model, because everyone is subject to the law, the potential of criminal liability operates  as a constraint on the actions and decisions of everyone, including the President. After today, that reality is no more. Consequently, our Nation has lost a substantial check on Presidents who would use their official powers to  commit crimes with impunity while in office. Katanji Brown Jackson, dissent, Trump v. United States © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republican Party A certain form of partisanship is now a moral necessity. The Republican Party, as an institution, has become a danger to the rule of law and the integrity of our democracy. The problem is not just Donald Trump; it's the larger political apparatus that made a conscious decision to enable him. In a two-party system, nonpartisanship works only if both parties are consistent democratic actors. If one of them is not predictably so, the space for nonpartisans evaporates. We're thus driven to believe that the best hope of defending the country from Trump's enablers, and of saving the Republican Party from itself, is to … vote mindlessly and mechanically against Republicans at every opportunity, or until the party either rights itself or implodes (very preferably the former). Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans Party (1) The GOP has become the party of Trumpism. (2) Trumpism is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law. (3) The Republican Party is a threat to democratic values and the rule of law. If the syllogism holds, then the most-important tasks in U.S. politics right now are to change the Republicans' trajectory and to deprive them of power in the meantime. In our two-party system, the surest way to accomplish these things is to support the other party, in every race from president to dogcatcher. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republican Party So why have we come to regard the GOP as an institutional danger? In a nutshell, it has proved unable or unwilling (mostly unwilling) to block assaults by Trump and his base on the rule of law. Those assaults, were they to be normalized, would pose existential, not incidental, threats to American democracy. Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination in education is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws requiring schools to reduce/address sexual harassment and violence is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding programs providing legal assistance to women trying to escape domestic violence is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Forcing individual complainants to ferret out proof of institutional bias by preventing government from investigating charges of it is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say I'm not going to answer that question. a.k.a. The I-just-don't-feel-like-it privilege © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say If it's not illegal, just do it! © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting Republican presidents use a presidential pardon to block the enforcement of a court order is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Passing laws by rubber-stamping bills written for us by corporate lobbyists is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Right-wing populists say For us real Americans, everything; for the others, the law © 2017 Kwiple.com
Rule by law The lawsuit [filed by Parents' Choice Tennessee, a conservative activist group created specifically for the purpose] may have been designed, in part, to give the impression there was more opposition to Wit & Wisdom [English and Language Arts curriculum] than actually existed.  There are eighteen thousand students in the [Williamson County, Tennessee] district's elementary schools, but according to a district report only thirty-seven people  had complained about the new curriculum. Fourteen of the complainants had no children in the system. Paige Williams, The New Yorker, November 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Rule of law  I don't get tough with anyone, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does. Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) to J. J. “Jake” Gittes (Jack Nicholson), in Chinatown, written by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Rule of law Mr Linick is the fifth inspector general to be sacked in the past two months. “Someone was walking my dog to sell arms to my dry cleaner,” was how Mr Pompeo mocked the uproar. That is the language of impunity. Edward Luce, Financial Times, May 21, 2020 [Linick was investigating Pompeo for using State Department employees as his and his wife's gofers and for bypassing Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia. Pompeo asked Trump to fire Linick. Trump said he never heard of Linick but fired him anyway.] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Rule of law The proportion of Americans who believe a high-ranking official would be held  accountable for breaking the law decreased from 60% to 35% in the last decade. … Around 13% of Americans (regardless of political affiliation) now say people do not need to obey the laws of a government they did not vote for. World Justice Project report on U.S. Rule of Law Trends and the 2024 Election © 2024 Kwiple.com
Rule of law The rule of law is not a meal that can be ordered à la carte. Stephen Breyer, The Authority of the Court and the Perils of Politics  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Rule of law The west was law-governed before it was democratic.  (The universal franchise is about a century old.) And if the rule of law was earlier to arrive, it is also shaping up to be the first to go. It is hard to imagine a western nation ceasing outright to be democratic any time soon, if we understand this to mean that it would no longer have fair elections whose results are enforced. Chaos, though? Entropy? Those are easier destinies to picture, at times by just looking around. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Augusr 29, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Rule of law What makes an officer a principal officer is that he or she reports only only to the president. … A principal officer must be confirmed by the Senate. And that has a very significant conse- quence today. It means that Mr. Trump's installation of Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General of the United States after forcing the resignation of Jeff Sessions is unconstitutional. It's illegal. And it means that anything Mr. Whitaker does, or tries to do, in that position is invalid. Neal K. Katyal and George T. Conway III, New York Times, November 8, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I can't afford your Harvard ethics. Roy Cohn, to a lawyer in his firm who refused to sign a false affidavit © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie  I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. Roy Cohn © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I didn't like law. Every client had a problem, and I didn't want to listen to people's problems; I had enough of my own. David Tang © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I never had a lawyer who took notes. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees and they spent a lot more. I did it to make his life miserable, which I'm happy about. Donald Trump, on spending two years before his case was dismissed suing Tim O'Brien, author of TrumpNation, for writing that his net worth was most likely not in the billions as he frequently claimed but in the low hundreds of millions © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Arbitration benefits all parties © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Arbitration is not in the pocket of corporations © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so– because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrain the United States. John Bolton © 2018 Kwiple.com
Snapshot For someone who is head of a party that's all about government backing off, he's very much for telling people what to think, what to watch, who shouldn't be speaking out –he's very authoritarian. The rule of law is his  law, which I find quite menacing. Donald Trump portrayed by Armando Iannucci © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sports It was fun. We had a great lawsuit. Donald Trump, recapping his experience as an owner in the United States Football League (USFL), which he convinced to sue the NFL to force a merger with the USFL, which lost, causing its demise © 2016 Kwiple.com
State of the union The Supreme Court has weakened the conflict- of-interest laws we have on the books. Trump and his Republican wrecking crew are ripping out the floorboards under the government ethics porgram. His administration has taught us the difference between theory and application and shown us what immunity to accountability looks like. What good are laws if no one in power will enforce them? Before Trump, our nation was admired for its anticorruption mechanisms, and its ethics program was considered the gold standard. No more. Once a model for other nations, we are now an object lesson for them. Walter M. Schaub. Jr. New York Review of Books, Juky 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court The current court's concept of equal protection has essentially boiled down to supporting white plaintiffs who claim to have been disadvantaged by affirmative action. Eric Foner, “Partisanship Rules” (2001) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court [T]rust is built on consistent adherence to the rule of law. The recent, radical rulings by the Supreme Court, which itself reflects political polarisation, have made clear that the law won't be applied  in the same way everywhere. The legal framework that binds you will depend on who you are, and where you live. Rana Foroohar, Financial Times, July 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest No man is above the law, no man.  Neil Gorsuch, during his Senate confirmation hearing for appointment to the Supreme Court  --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest The President is not above the law. Trump v. United States --> © 2014 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Customers bear legal responsibility for misuse --> © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpism One of the most corrosive effects of Trumpism upon the political culture has been to detach the law from any behavioral definition and to attach it to political identity. As Trump likes to say, “The other side is where there are crimes.” He has trained his supporters to under- stand this statement as a syllogism: If Trump's opponents are doing something, its a crime; if Trump and his allies are doing it, it isn't. Jonathan Chaitt, New York, September 14-27, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Blah, blah, blah. If you're trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it's not going to work. Let me know when the jail sentence starts. Kellyanne Conway, giving the finger to the Trump-appointed Office of Special Counsel, who recommended that she be removed from office for repeatedly violating the Hatch Act  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I’m going in with 20 strong men. I’m gonna speak in front of the school board and I’m gonna give them an option. They can leave or they can be removed. And then after that we're gonna replace them with nine parents and we're gonna vote down the mask mandates that evening. That evening. This is how you get stuff done. Forget writing your legislators. Forget it. They’re not listening. You gotta do something. It's us. It's we the people. Steve Lynch, August 29, 2021, Republican candidate for Northhampton County, PA, executive, on school boards that invoke anto-Covid mask mandates © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses. Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana, on signing a law that mandates displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom in every public school and college in the state [Moses lived about 1,000 years after Ur-Nammu codified laws in ancient Sumer] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The rule of law appears to be suspended  tonight — not just for Trump, but for anyone who would consider voting for him. This is what it seems to be. It is a political purge. … [It's] probably not the best time to give up your AR-15. Tucker Carlson, March 30, 2023, on a Manhattan grand jury's indictment of Trump for crimes related to paying hush money to Stormy Daniels © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We control the budget, we control the power of the purse. If Speaker Johnson supports Trump like he claims, he should stop the special counsel Jack Smith and he should be using the power of the purse to hold New York accountable for the sham convictions against President Trump.  The entire thing is political, it’s outrageous, and our country has completely turned a corner. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling for an end to investigations of Trump and for withholding federal funds for social pograms in state whose citizens uphold the rule of law in the face of threats to themselves and families © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We have to blur some faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ. Mike Johnson, December 5, 2023, who tried to overturn the 2020 election, here obstructing justice by trying to prevent online slueths who've helped identify hundreds  of Capitol rioters from seeing the faces of rioters in previously unreleased footage of the attack on the Capitol, while simultaneously making himself an accessory after the fact to multiple federal crimes, in announcng he's releasing doctored versions of all footage of the attack in an attempt to counter the narrative of the January 6 commission report © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You are living in territory controlled by enemy tribes. You, and all like you, must assume the innocence of anyone remotely like yourself who is charged in any confrontation with those tribes and with their authorities – until proven otherwise beyond a shadow of your  doubt. Take his side. In other words, you must shield others like yourself by practicing and urging “jury nullification.” And, by the way, when the police –a fortiori the FBI – come to talk, you don't know or remember anything – except that they answer to your enemies. Don't be a good German. Angelo Codevilla, October 23, 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats That is not normal. That is not OK. First of all, he's just making stuff up. But, most importantly, the president of the United States is calling for the imprisonment of a private citizen, as he's done for a whole lot of people  who criticize him. That is not acceptable in this country. The president doesn't get to decide who goes to jail. James Comey, on Trump's call to imprison him for allegedly leaking classified information and lying to Congress © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say  If I say do it, they're going do it. Donald Trump, when asked what he would do if the US military refused to follow the [illegal] order he vowed to issue to kill ISIS family members in reprisal for attacks © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say It's a disgrace. It's frankly a real disgrace. It's an attack on our country in a true sense. Donald Trump, conflating law enforcement – executing a search warrant for records pertaining to fraud and campaign finance violations by his lawyer, Michael Cohen – with an attack on the country © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say The saddest thing is that because I'm the President of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. I am not supposed to be involved with the FBI. … I am not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing. And I am very frustrated by it. Donald Trump © 2018 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say We got immunity at the Supreme Court. It’s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds. Donald Trump, responding to Hugh Hewitt, who asked, “You’re either going to have to pardon yourself or you’re have to fire Jack Smith [the special counsel investigating him]. Which one will you do?” © 2024 Kwiple.com
Wannabe autocrats say  When the president does it, that means it's not illegal. Richard Nixon © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
Want ad I am in the process, along with my team, of  interviewing various law firms to represent me  in an Appeal of one of the most ridiculous and  unfair Witch Hunts our Country has ever seen—  The defamation Sham presided over by a Clinton appointed, highly partisan, Trump Hating Judge, Lewis Kaplan, who was, together with certain other Radical Left Democrat Judges, one of the most partisan and out of control activists that I have ever appeared before. …  Any lawyer who takes a TRUMP CASE is either “CRAZY,” or a TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT. I will make my decision soon! Donald trump, Jan 30, 2024, 11:08 PM,  after a jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $88.3 million in her second defamation suit against him © 2024 Kwiple.com