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Republican Senator Jeff Flake Takes Astonishing Stand Against Donald Trump In Scathing Resignation Speech
Another Republican Senator has stepped forward to condemn Donald Trump, labelling the US President “dangerous to democracy” in a blistering take-down.
In a withering attack from the floor of the Senate, Jeff Flake said it was “time for our complicity and accommodation to the unacceptable to end” and said Republicans would not “meekly accept such behaviour” if a Democrat was in the White House.
His tirade came hours after he joined fellow Republican Bob Corker in announcing he would not stand for office next year. Corker, too, unleashed a stinging rebuke earlier in the day – accusing Trump of “debasing” the US.
Damn. Jeff Flake: “When we remain silent… because we might alienate the base… we dishonor our principles & forsake our obligations.” pic.twitter.com/vE2V4HpOHZ
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 24, 2017
Brutal – second Republican Senator taking chunks out of Trump right now. Jeff Flake says behaviour “dangerous to democracy”.
— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) October 24, 2017
Flake is flaming Trump on the Senate floor: “Reckless, outrageous and undignified behaviour has become excused…as ‘telling it like it is'”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 24, 2017
Flake, who has criticised the path that the Republican Party has taken under Trump, told The Arizona Republic in advance of his announcement that “there may not be a place for a Republican like me” in the current GOP.
Watch the full speech from the Senate floor below.
Corker, the US Senator who branded the White House an “adult daycare centre”, added today that the President has “great difficulty with the truth” and is “purposely breaking down relationships we have around the world that had been useful to our nation”.
“It’s amazing. Unfortunately world leaders are very aware that much of what he says is untrue,” Corker continued. “Certainly people here are because these things are provably untrue. They’re just factually incorrect and people know the difference.”
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www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-jeff-flake-bob-corker_uk_59ef92e8e4b04917c593d31f
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