Today's Mudline

Steve Bannon on House Speaker Paul Ryan: "A limp-dick motherf***er who was born in a Petri dish at the Heritage Foundation."....WSJ on Trump: "Believes his outsize personality and social-media following make him larger than the presidency. He's wrong."....Ross Douthat on Trump: "Everyone who gives him the benefit of the doubt eventually regrets it."....Joe Scarborough on GOP: "How much of this country and our values are they willing to sell out?"....Michael Gerson on Trump: "If you make losing a sin you make cheating a sacrament."....Carl P. Leubsdorf on Trump: "Hired foxes to watch the chicken coops."....Erin Gloria Ryan on Trump: "In the business of putting his name on things he did not make."....Mark Shields on WH denials of Russia story: "They stand naked and they stand exposed as shams."....Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin: "The president's maliciousness is only outdone by his incompetence."....Charles Blow on Trump: "It's as if he puts the language through a meat grinder."....Al Gore on Trump: "I thought there was a chance he would come to his senses. But I was wrong."....Ann Coulter on Delta Airlines: "Fascist."....Sean Hannity on collusion coverage: "Media psychosis."....Tucker Carlson on collusion coverage: "Hysteria."....Donald Trump, Jr. on collusion allegations: "Disgusting...So phony."....Trump deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka on Trump Jr. Russia email story: "A massive nothing burger."....Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti on Trump Jr. comments re Russia emails: "He's stupid for saying what he did."....NY Post editorial board: "Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot."....Senior White House official on Trump Jr.: "An idiot."....Defense attorney Brian Wice on Trump Jr.: "Didn't they teach this kid anything about optics?"....Australian journalist Chris Uhlmann on Trump at G20: "Isolated and friendless...No desire and no capacity to lead the world...Pressed fast-forward on the decline of the United States."....WH director of social media Dan Scavino: "Dumb as a rock Mika and lover Jealous Joe are lost, confused and saddened since POTUS stopped returning their calls. Unhinged!"....Sen. John McCain on his developing sense of Trump: "First shock, then surprise, then Whiskey Tango Foxtrot."....Mark Leibovich on Washington, D.C.: "The swamp feels anything but drained; more like remodeled into a gold-plated hot tub."....Gov. Chris Christie: "I'm enormously relieved that we don't have a criminal in the White House like Hillary Clinton."....NBCUniversal News Group VP Mark Kornblau: "Never imagined a day when I would think to myself, 'It is beneath my dignity to respond to the President of the United States.'"....NY Post critic Kyle Smith: "Don Jr. is why Nigerian e-mail scammers keep trying their luck."....