GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Senator Jeff Flake said on Wednesday [10-25-17]he expected more Republican colleagues to speak out against Donald Trump’s behavior as well as his policies, one day after denouncing the Republican president in a speech…
Flake’s criticism came on the same day that Republican Senator Bob Corker lashed out at Trump as ‘an utterly untruthful president’ who was debasing the United States.
Despite the verbal attacks, Trump said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that a lunch with Senate Republicans the day before had been a ‘love fest.’…
Despite control of the White House, the House of , the Republicans have yet to deliver any major legislative victories on priorities such as tax reform, healthcare and immigration.
Republican Senator John McCain, who is fighting brain cancer, also has spoken out sharply against Trump. But most Republicans in Congress have remained silent as the president has attacked politicians from his party and threatened North Korea and the media on Twitter.Representatives and the Senate…
So far, comments by Flake and Corker have drawn more praise from Democrats, rather than from fellow Republicans.”
-Reuters Staff, “U.S. Senator Flake sees more Republicans denouncing Trump,” Reuters, Oct. 25, 2017 08:30am