The following article by Jesse Byrnes was posted on the Hill website December 8, 2017:
Trump tonight responds to chants of ‘lock her up’ by calling the system “rigged”: “This is a sick system from the inside.”
Reminder: Two ex-Trump aides have been charged on multiple counts, including conspiracy against the U.S.. Two others have pleaded guilty to felony charges. pic.twitter.com/yZFiCcc4A8
The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website November 25, 2017:
“We are in trouble as a party if we continue to follow both Roy Moore and Donald Trump.”
That was Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) Monday, doubling down on something he said on a hot mic last weekend: That if the Republican Party becomes “the party of Roy Moore and Donald Trump, we are toast.”
The following article by John Bowden was posted on the Hill website November 18, 2017:
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) was caught on a hot mic Saturday warning that the Republican Party will be “toast” if it becomes the party of President Trump and Roy Moore.
At a tax-reform event in Arizona on Saturday, Flake was caught on a live microphone by ABC affiliate KNXV bashing the president in a conversation with Mesa Mayor John Giles, a friend of Flake’s.
The following article by Amy Davidson Sorkin from the November 6, 2017 issue of the New Yorker was posted on their website October 30, 2017:
Even after the Senator spoke, his colleagues went on as if being accused of selling out the Republic for personal gain were nothing out of the ordinary.
President Donald Trump and Former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price arrive in the Capitol to meet with House Republicans on March 21.
When Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, explained why he had chosen to denounce President Donald Trump from the Senate floor last Tuesday afternoon as being “dangerous to a democracy,” he cited the moment, in 1954, when Joseph Welch, a lawyer representing the Army in the Army-McCarthy hearings, confronted Senator Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin. In an op-ed for the Washington Post, titled “Enough,” Flake recalled how Welch’s plain language—“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”—seemed to break the spell of McCarthyism. He had hoped to do something similar.
There are parallels in the two events, in that both McCarthy and Trump seem to have bewitched members of their party with a promise of power, coupled with a fear of being the next target, whether of a hearing or of a tweet. (And the man seated next to McCarthy during the hearings, Roy Cohn, became Trump’s mentor.) But what was particularly powerful about the Welch moment was that he was rejecting an offer of complicity from McCarthy. The Senator had just announced, on national television, that a lawyer in Welch’s firm had once belonged to a left-leaning legal organization, and added that he assumed that Welch hadn’t known. Welch had known, and he said so without hesitation. By contrast, when Flake finished speaking, it was clear that, despite the force of his rhetoric, the spell had not been broken. The G.O.P. still has not come close to addressing its complicity problem.
The following article by Ed O’Keefe and David Weigel was posted on the Washington Post website October 24, 2017:
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced on Oct. 24 that he won’t seek reelection in 2018, joining at least five other Republican members of Congress who say they won’t seek another term. (Sarah Parnass, Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday announced plans to retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of his term, saying he was out of step with the Republican Party in the era of President Trump.
