Posted on 11/19/2017 12:40:50 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Since announcing he will not seek re-election in 2018, Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is on a warpath against President Trump.
While Flake is lamenting President Trump's rhetoric and nationalist, populist policies, it's important to remember the Arizona lawmaker has a checkered past as a foreign lobbyist who worked for a uranium mining firm with ties to Iran.
Yahoo News reports:
[Flake] came back to Washington [from Namibia] in 1990 and launched a consulting firm, Interface Public Affairs; he signed up the Rossing uranium mine, one of the new nation's economic drivers, as a client.
Flake signed on as the mine's representative a month after Namibia achieved independence. His job was to ensure that sanctions enacted by state and local governments in the U.S. didn't prevent the sale of Rossing "uranium to some of the utilities around the country," he said.
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More recently, the Rossing mine has come under scrutiny for its financial ties to Iran. While the firm Rio Tinto owns 69 percent of the mine, the Iranian Foreign Investment Co., which the Treasury Department describes as a "wholly owned" subsidiary of the Tehran regime, holds a 15 percent stake. Iran has held its share of the company since the 1970s, said Rio Tinto spokesman Illtud Harri.
Flake said he was unaware that Iran owned part of the mine. Indeed, his 1990 federal filing states that Rossing was not "owned," "financed," "controlled," or "subsidized in part" or whole by a foreign government, although Iran and Namibia both held stakes in the mine.
Flake is in the news after being caught on hot mic saying Republicans are "toast," if President Trump and Judge Roy Moore take over the party.
"[If we] become the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast," Flake told Mayor of Phoenix suburb of Mesa Friday after taking questions at a town hall session.
Later, Flake tweeted a link to the story, saying "No news here. I've been saying this to anyone who will listen."
So, not just a Left Leaning, Open Borders, flake fake, he is a traitor as well.
Good to know.
Well, well, no wonder he wanted to quit. What have he and little Johnny One Foot been up to?
Thanks UMCRevMom@aol.com.
VERY INTERESTING!!!! NO ONE but FREEPERS will KNOW THIS!!!
All of those scumbags like Flake, Corker, McCain have plenty to hide.
Flake is a liar and I hope and pray we can leave the party of Flake behind.
Russia has a contract to build nuclear facilities in Iran.
Did U. S. uranium wind up in Iran?
What is the Bundy Ranch connection? Thanks.
I hope all the cockroaches scurry to get out of DC. And then I hope law enforcement follows them to wherever they try to hide...
That seems to be the supposition !
Of course it did. That was the whole purpose of the scheme.
These lawless SOB’s make the damn laws they DO NOT follow.
“NO ONE but FREEPERS will KNOW THIS!!!”
“... scumbags like Flake, Corker, McCain have plenty to hide.”
MSM helps them hide. What the people are supposed to “know” is highly regulated. Look here! Russians, Russians, Russians talked to the Trump campaign.
Treason...get a rope!!!
Flake is our lame duck senator. Perhaps he needs to be investigated to see what his role, if any, in Obama’s own corrupt Iran scandal.
While I am not complaining about the info Gateway Pundit is pointing out, they would be more professional if they noted that the Yahoo news report they quote from is a 2012 report.
Just sayin. It may be new news to some, but Gsteway Pundit knows it is old news about Flake, and they just want to lift it up again because of how and why he’s putting himself back in the spotlight.
Why am I not surprised?
My theory with all these sudden announcements of “retirements” is that Comey’s files revealed all the wrongdoing of our political “leaders” and they have been told to retire or face a public disgrace. Some of the swamp is being drained very quietly.
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