Timothy Egan - Trump Quotes

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At least we'll hear less about corn subsidies and Corinthians II, or is it Two Corinthians? Discuss. No, don't! Stupid, stupid people. Again, that's Trump talking, not me. He uses that word to describe nearly everyone not named Donald J. Trump. He's presented no governing philosophy, no policy details, nothing resembling even-keeled judgment. He's running a combustible celebrity feud fest, and you love it.

Timothy Egan
You're supposed to be vetting, Iowa. You're supposed to be culling out the crazies. You're supposed to recognize the fraud of Ted Cruz and how Donald Trump is playing you. For all your touted small-town verities, you're not doing your job. Your bull manure detector is broken.

Timothy Egan
With media complicity, Trump has unleashed the beast that has long resided not far from the American hearth, from those who started a Civil War to preserve the right to enslave a fellow human to the Know-Nothing mobs who burned Irish-Catholic churches out of fear of immigrants.

Timothy Egan
The Republican Party, under Trump, is headed for a combustive breakup. Ronald Reagan envisioned a shining city on a hill. Trump represents nothing more than a thug with money.

Timothy Egan
This idea that people are following Trump only for the celebrity joy ride, that if they just understood the kind of radical, anti-American ideas he advocates they would drop him, is garbage. If the pope couldn't dent Trump, Romney surely will not.

Timothy Egan
The good people of Iowa have debated issues ranging from nuclear Armageddon to universal health care. And then there's 2016, when the top two Republican candidates in the dwindling hours before caucusgoers pick a nominee are throwing around this question: How stupid are the people of Iowa? It was Donald Trump who first raised the issue of Hawkeye State imbecility, in a mocking reference to a crush that Iowans had on Ben Carson last fall. And it's the odious Ted Cruz who has been using Trump's very words to goad Iowans into proving that they are not, in fact, so stupid as to back an ego-inflamed reality television star who makes fun of them.

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