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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:09 AM Oct 2017

Dangerous, utterly untruthful: Two retiring GOP senators sound alarm on Trump

Source: MSN/Washington Post

A pair of Republican senators sounded an alarm Tuesday about President Trump’s fitness for office and warned that his actions were degrading and dangerous to the country — an extraordinary breach that threatens his legislative agenda and further escalates the civil war tearing apart the Republican Party.

Delivering an emotional speech on the Senate floor announcing that he will not seek reelection next year, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Trump’s behavior is “dangerous to our democracy” and summoned fellow Republicans to denounce the president’s conduct.

“It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end,” Flake said. He added, “Politics can make us silent when we should speak, and silence can equal complicity.”

The charged remarks from Flake — a totem of traditional conservatism who has repeatedly spoken out about his isolation in Trump’s GOP — came hours after Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) questioned the president’s stability and competence, reigniting a deeply personal feud with the president.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/%E2%80%98dangerous%E2%80%99-%E2%80%98utterly-untruthful%E2%80%99-two-retiring-gop-senators-sound-alarm-on-trump/ar-AAu0oHt



This is all well and good, but Democrats could just say, "I told you so."
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Dangerous, utterly untruthful: Two retiring GOP senators sound alarm on Trump (Original Post) TomCADem Oct 2017 OP
Mainstream Media will report their words, but not their actions -- Flake and Corker diva77 Oct 2017 #1
Yep SHRED Oct 2017 #2
Yes. And how will they vote on theft, er, "tax cuts"? nt appal_jack Oct 2017 #5
Exactly. The only difference between them and Trump is...degree of vulgarity? Midnight Writer Oct 2017 #3
These will be displayed as glorious victories for the Bannon/Trump white house. JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 2017 #4
Wouldn't it be nice if Corker and Flake .. Jim Dandy Oct 2017 #6

diva77

(7,643 posts)
1. Mainstream Media will report their words, but not their actions -- Flake and Corker
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:16 AM
Oct 2017

have been voting to throw millions off of healthcare, to gut Social Security, Medicare, just for starters...could go on and on...why doesn't the media include that aspect instead of ridiculous stenography "reporting" of their latest speeches??

 

Jim Dandy

(358 posts)
6. Wouldn't it be nice if Corker and Flake ..
Wed Oct 25, 2017, 01:28 PM
Oct 2017

.. moved to the other side of the aisle and began caucusing with the Democrats?

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