blustered

When they didn’t, he blustered over the course of half a dozen hearings, at one point threatening to bulldoze Brentwood’s pool or fill it with sand.

It’s that he blustered and equivocated and, yes, claimed that there were “very fine people” among the villains, and perpetrators, of an unquestionably tragic day.

In 2020, after Trump blustered and repeatedly talked over Biden during their first debate — “Will you shut up, man?”

The nadir of Licht’s time at CNN was probably the embarrassing town hall the network hosted with Donald Trump in May, a cringeworthy hour in which the former president and current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination lied and sneered and blustered in front of a friendly crowd for an hour, essentially unimpeded by host Kaitlan Collins.

“Tweeting is not policy” was the explanation given when our itchy-fingered governor blustered a hollow threat against Walgreens in a fight over abortion access.