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.
I swear... how do such monumentally stupid people manage to get elected?
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.
The soon-to-be-former Senator Flake is bad at math.
He’s done.
A monumentally stupid electorate.
evil Lord Voldemort
Not far off the mark.
It's the same morons who elect John McCain election after election. Must have something to do with sun exposure or something.
Wait until he sees what MITRE has developed for the Border Wall......
A Flake born in Snowflake, Az. Has anyone indicated they are
going to opposed him in 2018?
Has Flaky ever really spent any time with the ranchers and townsfolk of the border area? Or is that too far “out there”?
The Mormon vote.
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.
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.
Says the guy who voted for the secure fence act 2006
Kelli Ward is campaigning against Flake in the Republican primary. At 18% approval, he is toast.
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.
Kelli Ward is opposing him and is currently14% ahead of Flake in the local polls.
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
Isn’t Flake about to be defeated?
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.
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