Jean-Pierre: Today marks one hundred days since Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully detained by Russian authorities. The world knows that the charges against Evan are baseless.
[given their concern, Gershkovich is likely an intelligence asset]
Jake Sullivan [White House press conference]: We base our security assistance decision on Ukraine's needs on the ground…we have provided Ukraine with an historic amount of unitary artillery rounds, and we are ramping up domestic production of these rounds…we will not leave Ukraine defenseless at any point in this conflict, period.
Sullivan: Ukraine has been requesting cluster munitions in order to defend it's own sovereign territory. The cluster munitions that we would provide have dud rates far below what Russia is providing.
[Russia using cluster bombs = war crimes; Global Crime Syndicate's use of cluster bombs = just fine]
Sullivan: The challenge of cluster munitions is that, even at low dud rates, there are some unexploded ordinances that are left, and that could potentially pose a risk to civilians down the road…we had to balance that against the risk of civilian harm if Ukraine did not have sufficient artillery and munition.
[our cluster bombs will kill civilians, but that is acceptable]
Sullivan: The use of cluster munitions by Russia in this conflict is completely unacceptable on multiple counts.
[however, we can use whatever we want to protect our criminal interests]
Sullivan: I'm not grading or judging the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
[he knows Ukraine is all but finished and will never admit it]
Sullivan: The idea that Ukrainian men and women fighting for the armed forces of Ukraine want to willy-nilly use these things [cluster bombs] in a way that are going to harm Ukrainian citizens, which is somewhat implied in the questions, I find at odds with their fundamental desire to protect their countrymen and their willingness to put their lives on the line to protect their countrymen.
[Ukraine has placed civilians as risk as a matter of course]
"We Love Trump!"
"We Love Trump!"
"We Love Trump!"
President Trump: We're going to do things that have never been seen before. Our country is going to hell, and we're going to take our country back.
President Trump: Now we are approaching the most important battle of our lives.
President Trump: I repealed Barack Hussein Obama's; have you ever heard of him? Ridiculous 'Waters of the United States rule'…basically they were taking your property away from you, that's what it was.
President Trump: I went to our Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, I said, "Sonny, how much damage has China done to our farmers…you gotta come back with a number." He came back, he said, "It's about twenty-eight billions dollars." I said we're going to give the farmers twenty-eight billion dollars, right out of the pockets of China.
President Trump: I got Japan to slash or eliminate tariffs on over ninety percent of US food and agricultural exports.
President Trump: We're going to come back; we're going to do some really big rallies over the next month and a half. Here [Iowa], and in Nebraska.
President Trump: In California, they don't call them brownouts anymore, they call them blackouts. The whole state doesn't have any electricity, and now they want to go to all-electric cars. These people are insane. They're trying to destroy our country.
President Trump: Within hours of my inauguration, I will cancel every Biden policy that is brutalizing our farmers and our country.
President Trump: The gloves are off with these guys, because these guys, they're sick; there's something wrong with them.
President Trump: We will bring down interest rates, and appoint a special team to attack the high price of fertilizer and other farm products, which is happening, again, because of energy. Drill baby, drill, that's what we're gonna do.
President Trump: I'll tell other countries where we spend billions and billions of dollars on military protection, we protect these countries; they wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for us. That if they do not give preferential treatment to our farmers and to our manufacturers, the troops are going to pack up, and they are going to come home.
President Trump: I'm the only person ever got indicted who became more popular.
President Trump: We've changed a lot of lives with those nicknames. They follow people right to the grave, they follow them.
President Trump: I asked Ted Kennedy who's the dumbest in the senate. He goes, "Let's see. Probably Joe." I said, "Joe who?" "Joe Biden. He's the dumbest in the senate."…he said this, and this was prime time, this wasn't now.
President Trump: Never forget, our enemies want to stop us because we are the only ones that can stop them. We can stop them. We are stopping them.
President Trump: If they wanted to run against me, they wouldn't have me under federal indictment. But I'm doing this for you, and we're going to win, and we're going to turn our country around.
President Trump: We have a president of the United States who is a stone-cold, corrupt thief. Who's willing to arrest his opponent who's leading him substantially in the polls.
President Trump: After birth. They have laws that passed, actually saying it's okay [killing a baby] after birth. They are the radical ones.
President Trump: As the horrific riots in France have proven, we must also redouble our efforts to ensure that anyone who comes to America, shares our values and assimilated into our culture. We don't want people coming into our country that hate us. We want people that love us.
President Trump: When I return to office, the travel ban is coming back even bigger than before, and much stronger than before. We don't want people blowing up our shopping centers, we don't want people blowing up our cities, and we don't want people stealing our farms. It's not going to happen., The United States will not be condemned to the same fate as is happening in France.
President Trump: I will move Heaven and Earth, to do something, that if it's not done, we will soon not have a country. To protect our elections. Because our elections are in bad shape. We need our borders, and we need our elections. The rest of it will happen.