“Washington (CNN)Sen. Jeff Flake has a
political target on his back.
The Arizona Republican has been critical of
President Donald Trump while promoting his recent book, and Trump is returning
the favor. On Thursday, he tweeted Flake was "WEAK on border, crime and a
non-factor in the Senate. He's toxic!" [Typical Trump immature, issue
avoiding criticism of critics]
Trump also praised Flake's primary contender, Kelli Ward, an Arizona
doctor, and will actually travel to Arizona next week to hold a campaign-style
rally thereWashington. [Conservative
Republican] Sen. Jeff Flake has a political target on his back.
The Arizona Republican has been critical of
President Donald Trump while promoting his recent book, and Trump is returning
the favor. On Thursday, he tweeted Flake was "WEAK on border, crime and a
non-factor in the Senate. He's toxic!" [Typical, immature, issue-avoiding
response by Trump.
Trump also praised Flake's primary contender, Kelli Ward, an Arizona
doctor, and will actually travel to Arizona next week to hold a campaign-style
rally there, an incredibly aggressive move for a President against a member of
his own party. [A Republican Pres. Campaigning
against an incumbent Republican Senator.
Unheard of modern Republican politics.
Symptoms of Trumps immature vindictiveness and the disarry in the
Republican Party. It looks like Trump only
wants his kind of Republicans—the phony, toady type. This will not set will with others in the ‘clubby’
Senate. More trouble for Trump’s already
flailing legislative agenda.
Flake's
book, "Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics
and a Return to Principle," borrows its title from another book by a
Republican senator from Arizona -- perhaps one of the most famous books in
modern conservatism -- Barry Goldwater's "The Conscience of a
Conservative," published in 1960
[In his book, Flake, who did not endorse Trump]
“unloads
on Trump, chapter after chapter. Conservatism has been "compromised by a
decidedly unconservative stew of celebrity and authoritarianism," he
writes, and he traces the likely birth of "alternative facts" to the
"birther" movement, which Trump for years championed. Of the 2016
campaign he writes, "Never has a party so quickly or easily abandoned its
core principles as my party did."
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