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Sen. Jeff Flake says Trump's border wall plan is 'just a bit, you know, out there'
The Week ^ | August 25, 2017 | Becca Stanek

Posted on 08/25/2017 7:33:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In further evidence that tensions are rising between President Trump and Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Flake just criticized Trump's signature proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "This notion of a 2,000-mile wall has always been just — for anybody who spends time on the border — just a bit, you know, out there," Flake said in an interview Thursday with ABC15 in Arizona. He offered to show Trump the landscape of the Arizona-Mexico border to prove a wall isn't necessary.

Flake's criticism came two days after Trump worked hard to avoid calling the Republican senator out by name at a rally Tuesday night in Phoenix — only to call him out the next morning on Twitter. After a quick brag about the "packed house" at his rally, Trump tweeted that he is "not a fan of Jeff Flake, weak on crime & border!" Politico reported that at a meeting before the Tuesday rally, Trump referred to the senator as "the flake."

Flake seemed unruffled by Trump's criticisms and rather amused that the president had gone to such lengths to avoid calling him out by name. "I'm like that Harry Potter character, he who is not named, I guess," Flake said, referring, of course, to the evil Lord Voldemort.


TOPICS: Arizona; Campaign News; Issues; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: borders; flake; immigration; trump
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1 posted on 08/25/2017 7:33:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I swear... how do such monumentally stupid people manage to get elected?


2 posted on 08/25/2017 7:35:32 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time for Hugh Hewitt to have Flake back on to try to convince us as to what a great conservative he is.

Just another charlatan. Yeah, Hewitt, too.


3 posted on 08/25/2017 7:36:46 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The soon-to-be-former Senator Flake is bad at math.

He’s done.


4 posted on 08/25/2017 7:37:50 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: Common Sense 101

A monumentally stupid electorate.


5 posted on 08/25/2017 7:42:06 AM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden can't be fought)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

evil Lord Voldemort

Not far off the mark.


6 posted on 08/25/2017 7:44:03 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Common Sense 101
I swear... how do such monumentally stupid people manage to get elected?

It's the same morons who elect John McCain election after election. Must have something to do with sun exposure or something.

7 posted on 08/25/2017 7:44:11 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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Wait until he sees what MITRE has developed for the Border Wall......


8 posted on 08/25/2017 7:46:31 AM PDT by MGG
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A Flake born in Snowflake, Az. Has anyone indicated they are
going to opposed him in 2018?


9 posted on 08/25/2017 7:51:28 AM PDT by deport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has Flaky ever really spent any time with the ranchers and townsfolk of the border area? Or is that too far “out there”?


10 posted on 08/25/2017 7:52:08 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: Common Sense 101
I swear... how do such monumentally stupid people manage to get elected?

The Mormon vote.

11 posted on 08/25/2017 7:54:51 AM PDT by libh8er
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Yes. I don’t ever recall Trump saying that he wants to construct another Wall of China. He’s said several times, that the wall can be a combination of impediments.


12 posted on 08/25/2017 7:58:36 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Let's get Newt in there to help...)
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To: Common Sense 101
"I swear... how do such monumentally stupid people manage to get elected?"

I have wondered that as well. Here, in Washington State, we have the most stupid and feckless of Senators. Ms. Murray and Cantrell.

The reason then get elected is because of two things.

One, no one with decent intelligence want the job.

Two, they campaign in the most populated areas of their state which contains people of like mentality.

13 posted on 08/25/2017 8:07:31 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Says the guy who voted for the secure fence act 2006


14 posted on 08/25/2017 8:09:24 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: deport

Kelli Ward is campaigning against Flake in the Republican primary. At 18% approval, he is toast.


15 posted on 08/25/2017 8:09:59 AM PDT by Tandem (What ever happened to personal responsibility & self-reliance?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Again, Flake is a festival of stupidity a bad judgement.

Kelli Ward is already 14 percent ahead of Flake in the local polls. Music to my ears.


16 posted on 08/25/2017 8:10:39 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: deport

Kelli Ward is opposing him and is currently14% ahead of Flake in the local polls.


17 posted on 08/25/2017 8:11:57 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess the Flake is unaware of what has been happening in YUma - https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/22/acting-dhs-secretary-elaine-duke-usa-today-editorial-border-walls-work


18 posted on 08/25/2017 8:12:24 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Common Sense 101

Isn’t Flake about to be defeated?


19 posted on 08/25/2017 8:55:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (To the insane, the sane appear insane. MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: x1stcav

Hewitt has been a propagandist for the Cheap Labor Express for many years. Medved, too.

Flake is his kind of conservative.

The fake kind.

Flake was a Cheap Labor Express stooge in the House.
Arizona knew what they were voting for.
McCain has backed every amnesty attempt and is re-elected every time.
They must like Senators who represent illegal aliens.


20 posted on 08/25/2017 9:06:54 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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