Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) on Sunday called on his fellow Republicans to reject the comments of White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who’d said earlier in the day that there was a “special place in hell” for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“[T]his is not who we,” Flake told Republicans. “This cannot be our party.”
Fellow Republicans, this is not who we are. This cannot be our party. https://t.co/xkGMYfoR9w
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) June 10, 2018
In tweets, President Donald Trump cited a press conference Trudeau held at the end of this weekend’s G7 summit as the reason he refused to sign an agreed-upon joint communiqué authored by the summit’s attendees.
Two White House advisers, Peter Navarro and Larry Kudlow, followed Trump’s actions with explosive Sunday show appearances.
In reality, though, Canada said days before Trudeau’s G7 summit press conference that it would retaliate with its own tariffs in response to new American tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports.
“These are things that the prime minister has said before, basically,” Kudlow acknowledged to CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan Sunday. “But he didn’t say them before after a successful G7 communiqué where President Trump and the others all worked in good faith to put a statement together.”
“Is that necessary?” Kudlow added later in the interview. “Where’s the good faith? Where’s the optimism?”
H/t The Hill.
You’ve got the power to do something about it, Jeff. It would only take ten members of your caucus in the Senate to pass a serious resolution censuring the president – and putting him on notice that impeachment is a real option.
Do it.
Republican Party can we get someone who is running for re-election to say something? Didn’t think so.
Forget ‘party’ right now, Mr. Flake – this is about our nation, all Americans, not just Republicans or any other party. I want this asshole out of our White House, immediately. I want him held responsible for everything illegal he has done. Same goes for every member of his family and each and every one of his administration. This is much more serious than ‘party,’ sir.
But that would put a crimp in his 2020 plans.
This cannot be our party? For chrissakes, how about, This cannot be our nation?