Posted on 05/23/2018 2:42:31 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) took aim at President Trump on Wednesday, saying the president has "debased" the office with his "bottomless appetite for destruction and degradation."
“Our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division, and only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works" Flake said in a commencement address to Harvard Law School graduates, according to prewritten remarks.
“Our Article I branch of government, the Congress (that's me), is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily,” Flake continued.
The Republican senator went on to say that the country's strongest enemies could not hurt the U.S. more than "we are hurting ourselves," concluding that "we may have hit bottom."
Flake also criticized Trump for his continuing attacks on the media and what he views to be the president’s willingness to indulge and encourage “our very worst impulses.”
“When a figure in power reflexively calls any press that does not suit him ‘fake news,’ it is that person who should be the figure of suspicion, not the press,” Flake said.
Flake said his criticism of the president makes him no less Republican; instead, he called it an act of patriotic loyalty. The senator, who has gone after Trump in a number of recent speeches, has voted in line with Trump 84 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight — one of the lowest percentages for Senate Republicans.
“My sounding this alarm against the government that was elected, under the Republican banner, and that calls itself conservative, makes me no less Republican or conservative,” Flake said. “And opposing the president and much of what he stands for is not an act of apostasy. It is, rather, an act of fidelity.”
Flake announced last year that he would retire in January after finishing one term in the Senate.
Flake news, you lie!
ANYONE anti-Trump is now my enemy forever.
Flake should run for the Mexican Senate.
Jeff Flake hates Trump but worships Obama. Flake and Obama are good pals. The end of Flake’s career in the Senate is a blessing from God.
Only thing worse than a liberal Democrat is a two-faced one (fake Flake) who pretends to be a Republican so he can stab people in the back.
Res ipsa loquitour.
Wow, what an inspiring commencement address for graduates...
Monumentally stupid topic for a commencement address even if he believes it. And Trump so far hasn’t tried anything like proclaiming he has the power to declare when the Congress is or is not in recess so he can make recess appointments like Obama...did Flake say anything about abuse of power / lack of understanding of the Constitution like this?
“Good thing Flake is retiring. He has become the ‘Swamp’.”
And this guy has aspirations of running for President. Hope he does. Will be entertaining....
Flake and those like him want a “blue wave” to vindicate their positions. He will work in the background no doubt even to defeat Martha McSally if she wins the nomination to replace him.
When Flake was in the House, he made sense. Must be something about associating with McCain and the rest that turned him
I couldn’t agree more.
Harvard Law?? This stupid moron went to BYU and doesn’t even have a law degree.
He can die a traitors death well before his time.
I agree Jeff Flakes appears to be mentally ill. He also might have some skeletons in his closet that make him go ballistic out of fear that under Trump they might be discovered. Or maybe he is so overwhelmed with envy and hatred that he loses control of his mouth.
I agree and it could be all of them, especially the envy and hatred.
Coming from Flake, he should take that as a compliment!
This guy is a swivel-eyed loon. He’s a Democrat in the style of Schiff, who ran as a Republican.
I wish to God the voters of Arizona would wise up.
Throwing the lies and distortions and omissions back into the faces of the shills and propagandists of the MSM is long overdue and Trump is doing the nation a great service by doing it. Flake is one of the most self-important and despicable characters to come along in quite some time.
Flake needs to be arrested for treason.
Jeff debased the Flakes.
Anyone who is so unctuous as Flake is covering up something deeply personal ... he is either a toe-tapper or a fellow foam boy traveler ... people in AZ love to GOssiP ... that’s how we found out about Cindylude McCrisis ... where there’s a will there’s a sashay ...
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