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The longtime critic of President Trump and wishy-washy conservative, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake announced his retirement on the Senate Floor Tuesday in a spectacle targeting the President and designed to get the media all hot and bothered. After he called Trump "reckless, outrageous and undignified” all of the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) gleefully led their evening newscasts with the GOP infighting as they fawned over Flake for ‘speaking truth to power,’ while mostly omitting how he was likely to lose re-election in the primary.
“In a year of stunning unheard of political moments, you almost had to pause to take in how extraordinary it was to hear not one but two Republican U.S. Senators publicly rebuke the integrity and character of a sitting President in the terms we heard today,” announced Anchor Lester Holt in awe as he began NBC Nightly News.
Throwing Republican Senator Bob Corker into the mix, Holt touted how “Flake and Corker both unburdened of re-election worries, and with little to lose, speaking their truth to power today, at a time the President can ill afford to lose Republican support for his agenda.”
And during the report, NBC Chief White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson glorified Flake’s comments as “extraordinary on every level.” “In a remarkable relentless critique of Donald Trump, Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake announcing he'll retire rather than keep work with a leader he finds dangerous to democracy,” she said. “The Senator's voice, thick with emotion.”
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