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Flake compares Trump's attacks on the media to to nearly empty Senate chamber
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 17, 2018 | By David Martosko

Posted on 01/17/2018 8:33:07 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Jeff Flake compares Trump's attacks on the media to STALIN in blistering speech to nearly empty Senate chamber as White House prepares to hand out 'Fake News Awards'

Senator Jeff Flake delivered a scathing anti-Trump speech Wednesday

He compared the president to Soviet despot Joseph Stalin for calling five news outlets 'the enemy of the American people'

Flake slammed Trump for using 'words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies'

The Republican announced in October he would no longer run for re-election under the Trump administration

Only two senators, Democrats Dick Durbin of Illinois and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, attended the 15-minute speech that was highly anticipated by reporters and editors.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: laplata

SNOWFLAKE!!


21 posted on 01/17/2018 8:49:06 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: laplata

He is a useless idiot.


22 posted on 01/17/2018 8:49:54 AM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: odawg

Fox News is helping the bastard sell books.


23 posted on 01/17/2018 8:51:37 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: COUNTrecount

As a constituent, I requested Flake resign; however I don’t think he will.


24 posted on 01/17/2018 8:56:23 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The Flake is the proverbial turd in the punch bowl. He would fit right in to meet CNN’s “standards of excellence “.


25 posted on 01/17/2018 8:57:14 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: COUNTrecount

“...the 15-minute speech that was highly anticipated by reporters and editors.”

I’m sure there were 100 reporters salivating all over the Flake.


26 posted on 01/17/2018 8:57:18 AM PST by euram
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To: \/\/ayne

If Trump were ANYTHING like Stalin, Flake would be DEAD by now.


27 posted on 01/17/2018 8:57:58 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: cmj328

“When, O Flake, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?”

Between Flake and Romney they are not helping the Mormon image.


28 posted on 01/17/2018 9:01:33 AM PST by Bonemaker
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To: COUNTrecount

FLAKE NEWS!


29 posted on 01/17/2018 9:02:42 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: MplsSteve
Unfortunately the whole thing was on FOX....and no doubt all the Trump hating cables and we'll likely have clips of this shoved in our faces for a while.
30 posted on 01/17/2018 9:06:27 AM PST by Aria
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To: raiderboy

Good one.


31 posted on 01/17/2018 9:07:41 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: eclectic

Yep.


32 posted on 01/17/2018 9:08:10 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: CMailBag

The lead story on the 11:00 AM (Eastern time) FOX radio news was this looney-tunes speech given by the Mormon anus Flake.

FOX sucks, too.


33 posted on 01/17/2018 9:10:13 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (SCHLONGED: How Donald Trump Beat My Lying, Marxist Ass and Went On to Win the November Election. HRC)
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To: COUNTrecount

Flake must not pay attention to the facts regarding the bias and negative reports. Either that or he’s deaf, dumb and blind.


34 posted on 01/17/2018 9:10:56 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: COUNTrecount

We only have the appearance of a Free Press in American. It’s become a propaganda arm of the DNC and the rich and powerful. Fake News doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Flake must be interviewing for a job on CNN or PMSNBC.


35 posted on 01/17/2018 9:12:07 AM PST by hope (God is still on the throne, and that which is in secret will be revealed...All of it!)
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To: COUNTrecount

LMAO, two Senators present and one is Lying Dickie Durbin!

Dear Saint Jeffie: “I see dead people. I see them walking around, they don’t know they’re dead.”

MAGA LOLOLOL!


36 posted on 01/17/2018 9:13:23 AM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: cp124

LOL, Not exactly, that’s why this Flake isn’t running again. He has 18% approval here. Arizona is a state with some very corrupt pols, beginning with McCain...


37 posted on 01/17/2018 9:18:53 AM PST by hope (God is still on the throne, and that which is in secret will be revealed...)
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To: BenLurkin

Seems to me that I read about Lincoln being much more hostile to the press than Trump.


38 posted on 01/17/2018 9:19:46 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: COUNTrecount; All

#NeverTrumper Jeff Flake Was Foreign Lobbyist Working For Uranium Firm With Ties to Iran

by Joshua Caplan

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.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/nevertrumper-jeff-flake-foreign-lobbyist-working-uranium-firm-ties-iran/


39 posted on 01/17/2018 9:21:55 AM PST by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is a organized attack by Never Trumpers . Local talk host Jerry Bader picked up and rebroadcast Flakes remarks blaming Trump for loss in recent WI special election for state senate seat.


40 posted on 01/17/2018 10:07:19 AM PST by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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