The week before Memorial Day has brought renewed scrutiny in the so-called Wuhan Lab Leak hypothesis on the origins of COVID-19. President Joe Biden welcomed George Floyd’s family to the White House this week, giving his daughter, Gianna, chocolate milk and Cheetos. David Chipman, Biden’s nominee for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Secretary said under oath he supports a ban on the AR-15, and Sen. Rand Paul is upset that scientists are studying cocaine-induced bird sex. Here are the quotes of the week:
“We’re waiting on a really tough news day for the cat.”
—White House press secretary Jen Psaki when asked when the Bidens might adopt, as promised, a feline friend for their two German shepherd dogs.
“His infrastructure bill is basically asking me to buy a new car, so I can get the cupholders.”
—Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, when asked by Fox News Channel about Biden’s latest spending plan.
“Biden’s ratings have killed the Radical Left Fake News Cable Channels.”
—Former President Donald Trump in a Monday statement, referring to his replacement.
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“What is happening at the state level…that’s allowing conspiracy theorists access to our voting systems?”
-—Willie Geist to Stacey Abrams, who appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss election audits.
“We may have forgotten over the last couple of years, but this is how diplomacy works.”
–—Psaki in response to criticisms raised by Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse and other Republicans that Biden’s planned meeting with Vladimir Putin only rewards the Russian president’s bad behavior.
“All the reporting showed that the percentage of this not being developed in a lab was extremely small. Like, lightning would have to strike twice.”
—A former senior Trump administration official on the theory COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab in China.
“She said, ‘I’m really hungry.’ She said, ‘Do you have any snacks?’ My wife would kill me. We gave her some ice cream. She had some Cheetos, and I think she had a — um, uh —chocolate milk? I’m not sure what the third one was.”
—President Joe Biden recounting his welcoming of George Floyd’s daughter, Gianna, and the rest of her family on the anniversary of her father’s death.
“Are quail more sexually promiscuous on cocaine?”
—Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, on the Senate floor giving a speech on wasteful spending. The National Science Foundation spent $356,933.14 to study risky sex habits of Japanese quail on cocaine, according to a poster board Paul used in his speech.
“Enjoying pork leftovers while I wait around for more amendment votes”
—Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, on Instagram. Grassley posted a photo of himself in his office eating pork loin from a takeout box.
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“With respect to the AR-15, I support a ban.”
—Biden nominee for ATF Director David Chipman when asked by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz if he supported a ban on the rifle during a committee hearing.
“This is a drive-by hearing.”
—Texas Sen. John Cornyn to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin during Chipman’s confirmation hearing. Chipman appeared alongside five other Biden nominees, and senators were given a total of five minutes to question all of them.
“You’re one of the best governors in the country at taking this on, and you did it from the beginning…Gov, I really mean this, not being political. You’ve done one hell of a job, and it matters.”
—President Biden giving a speech in support of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam after he dropped all his state’s coronavirus restrictions. Biden’s comments come two years after he called for Northam to resign following the appearance of a yearbook photo that showed the governor in blackface.
“Silicon Valley can’t cancel this movement, or this rally, or this congressman. We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it.”
— Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, during an “America First” rally talking about censorship from Big Tech in Dalton, Ga. with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“This vote has made it official. Donald Trump’s Big Lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party. Trump’s Big Lie is now the defining principle of what was once the part of Lincoln. Republicans canned congresswoman Cheney for the crime of telling the truth that Joe Biden is President Republican state legislatures seizing on the Big Lie are conducting the greatest assault on voting rights since the beginning of Jim Crow. Republicans in both chambers are trying to rewrite history and claim that Jan. 6 was just a peaceful protest that got a little out of hand…Shame on the Republican Party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.”
—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaking on the Senate floor after the successful Republican filibuster of the Jan. 6 commission.
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“You did your crime in the wrong county and now you are going to have to face me. I am not one of these woke DAs who just looks the other way on these serious crimes and actually thinks that the shooter is a victim. These people killed a young person in cold blood.”
—Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer’s warning to the suspects involved in the road rage shooting death of a 6-year-old.
