Posted on 12/21/2019 6:25:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
Former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is warning his former colleagues in the Senate that they, along with President Trump, will be on trial when the articles of impeachment eventually move from the House to the upper chamber.
“President Trump is on trial. But in a very real sense, so are you. And so is the political party to which we belong,” Flake writes in an op-ed for The Washington Post Friday. […]
Flake urges Republicans to consider the evidence, but at the same time not to repeat House Republican assertions the president hasn’t done anything wrong: “He has.”
“The willingness of House Republicans to bend to the president’s will by attempting to shift blame with the promotion of bizarre and debunked conspiracy theories has been an appalling spectacle,” Flake argues. “It will have long-term ramifications for the country and the party, to say nothing of individual reputations.”
He asks what Republicans would have done if President Barack Obama had engaged in the same behavior, in regards to Ukraine. “I know the answer to that question with certainty, and so do you. You would have understood with striking clarity the threat it posed, and you would have known exactly what to do,” he says. …
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I agree about “self-serving”, but Flake was not “spineless” insofar that he made an attempt to oppose Obama and buckled under pressure (something I never saw him do); rather, he demonstrates his support for Obama yet again.
Adam Shaw - Flake’s a nobody... find someone else to write about...
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