Arizona Senator Jeff Flake slammed President Donald Trump and claimed that he would never “warm” to Trump, adding that the President has been long disqualified following his nasty remarks against former President Barack Obama and late Senator John McCain.
Speaking at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Boston, Flake said the President has commented about Obama’s birthplace, frequently slammed McCain, and has even labeled Mexicans as sex offenders and drug traffickers.
“I could never warm to the President. Long before he ran, he talked about President Obama not being a citizen. I thought that itself is disqualifying,” Flake said. “You cannot do that. And then talked about John McCain in a derogatory way. Then talked about Mexicans in a derogatory way. I just think that we’ve got to do better than that. We can’t refer to our opponents, political opponents on the other side of the aisle, as losers and clowns.”
“We have too big of issues to solve in this country than to just be partisan all the time,” Flake noted.
Trump ordered the background investigation but gave the FBI no more than a week’s time. Trump said in the last few days that he was open to the probe but chastised Democrats for delaying Kavanaugh’s confirmation and what he said were their tactics of obstruction.
Flake has publicly slammed Trump several times before, and Trump has delivered scathing criticism in return.
“How could Jeff Flake, who is setting record low polling numbers in Arizona and was therefore humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat without even a fight (and who doesn’t have a clue), think about running for office, even a lower one, again? Let’s face it, he’s a Flake!” the President tweeted June 7.
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