In an address to Harvard Law School graduates on Wednesday, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake sharpened his critique of President Trump and Congress, which he said “is failing its constitutional obligations to counteract the power of the president, and in so doing is dishonoring itself, at a critical moment in the life of our nation.”
Flake, a Republican who is not seeking reelection, has long been a vocal critic of Trump.
“Our presidency has been debased by a figure who has a seemingly bottomless appetite for destruction and division and only a passing familiarity with how the Constitution works,” Flake said Wednesday.
“You might reasonably ask, where is the good news in that? Well, simply put: We may have hit bottom,” he continued. “Oh, and that’s also the bad news. In a rare convergence, the good news and bad news are the same — our leadership is not good, but it probably can’t get much worse.”
Part of Flake’s speech echoed advice that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,...
Every member of Congress who either in silence or publicly supports Trump's unending creation of conspiracy theories, all of which degrade the constitution and respect for the law, should be condemned. The abrogation of their oversight responsibility is a slap in the face of all Americans.
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