Flake compares Trump's attacks on the media to to nearly empty Senate chamber

Daily Mail UK ^ | January 17, 2018 | By David Martosko

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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.

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[BenLurkin]

A speech to an audience of two.

Not even his Democrat allies showed up.

[KavMan]

Has Ben Sasse finally STFU after seeing what happens to #NeverTRUMP Senators? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[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?

[MplsSteve]

I don’t wanna be perceived as defending Flake in any way - but most speeches in the Senate are given when there’s almost no one in the chamber.

Gary Hart once said something to the effect that if you want to give a speech that no one will listen to, you should get elected to the US Senate.

[laplata]

There are no words for despicable bastards like Flake.

Hey, Flake: Most of the MSM is the “Pravda” of the Globalists, you Useful Idiot.

[cp124]

Arizona is filled with a bunch of brain dead people to elect the likes of mclame and flake of the world.

[DouglasKC]

Someone’s got the goods on Flake. And that someone is DJT. Flake is scared.

[richardtavor]

He can opine on Msnbc’s dime in the future. .

[Menehune56]

Arizona is filled with a bunch of brain dead people to elect the likes of mclame and flake of the world.

One of the reasons I'd be very leery of living there.

[Fantasywriter]

Flake is almost as ignorant as Obama, if that’s even possible. Obama set a high bar.

[LIConFem]

Flake's an ignorant ass. First off, journalism is all but dead in this country, and has been replaced by advocacy. And it's precisely that kind of advocacy that Stalin and other Soviet dictators enjoyed. So flake is 180^o out of phase with reality with that "Stalin" comparison.

And if he's really so enamored of the Constitution, then perhaps he might consider honoring his duty to it and his constituents by getting together with his fellow Senators and actually DOING SOMETHING! Aside from the tax bill, the Senate has been a bigger impediment to the alleged GOP agenda than the obstructionist Dems.

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Jeff’s net worth increased by over $500,000 in one year, how?

Jeff Flake

Rank: 100th in the Senate

with an estimated net worth of -$67,998 in 2014.
TOP INDUSTRIES INVESTED 2014
Real Estate
$375,000
Electronics Mfg & Equip
$75,000
TOP ASSETS 2014
Rental Unit - Provo, UT
$375,000
Apple Inc
$75,000

Jeff Flake

Rank: 86th in the Senate

with an estimated net worth of $459,001 in 2015.
TOP INDUSTRIES INVESTED 2015
Real Estate
$375,000
Electronics Mfg & Equip
$75,000
TOP ASSETS 2015
Rental Unit - Provo, UT
$375,000
Apple Inc
$75,000

[WayneS]

The man is aptly named.

[blueunicorn6]

Jeff Flake is screaming as he rides the one way train to Loserville.

[Leep]

Flake News?

[raiderboy]

Let’s get ON TO THE AWARDS!! I CANT WAIT!!

[odawg]

Carried live by Fox News.

[lee martell]

“I’m ready for my close-up
Mr. Durbin. Do you like me now?”