Today's Mudline

Sen. John McCain on Putin: "A butcher."....Texas GOP elector Chris Suprun, who deems Trump "not qualified for office," on why he cast his Electoral College vote for Kasich: "Ronald Reagan did not win the Cold War so that Vladimir Putin could pick our next president less than 50 years later."....Carly Fiorina on U.S. government: "Inept...Corrupt."....Michael Moore on Trump: "Gonna get us killed."....Vanity Fair's Tina Nguyen on Trump Grill: "Could be the worst restaurant in America."....Trump on VF editor Graydon Carter: "No talent."....Ruth Marcus on Trump: "Relentlessly incurious."....possible Trump press secretary Laura Ingraham on Sens. McCain, Graham, and Flake: "Triumvirate of idiocy."....Michelle Malkin on Hamilton electors: "They're traitors, they're saboteurs, and this is their last stand of self-indulgence."....Rush Limbaugh on Dems: "It's time to stomp them into the dirt."....Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos mocking transgender student during UMW speech: "The way you know he's failed is I can still bang him."....former Russia Today anchor Liz Wahl on Trump: "There really isn't a better mouthpiece for the Kremlin right now."....Ted Koppel on radio talk show host Alex Jones: "Spreading the manure that fertilizes conspiracy theories all over the internet."....radio host Jonathan Gilliam on Dems: "They follow the playbook of Mein Kampf, by Hitler, and Saul Alinsky, to the 'T" with this thing they use called 'the big lie.'"....Mireia T. Roura on Trump: "Has dumped loads of bullshit onto America."....US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, to Russia, Syria, and Iran: "Are you truly incapable of shame?...Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin, that just creeps you out a little bit?"....Carl Bernstein on Trump: "Everything that he controverts, he doesn't go to a fact-based argument he goes to an emotional argument. What we have seen throughout the campaign is pathological disdain for the truth, a kind of lie and ease with lying that we have not seen before."....Garrison Keillor on Trump: "The cap does not look good on you, it's a duffer's cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running."....China's party-controlled newspaper on Trump: "Not behaving as a president who will become master of the White House in a month. He bears no sense of how to lead a superpower."....Garry Trudeau on Trump: "If you look at his character from a Christian standpoint, he's the embodiment of all Seven Deadly Sins and none of the Heavenly Virtues. He's 0 for 14."....