Flake: You can't call US troops at the border anything other than a 'stunt'
Source: The Hill
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 11/14/18 08:24 AM EST
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that it's unnecessary to send U.S. troops to the southern border to prepare for the arrival of Central American migrants, calling the move ordered by President Trump a "stunt."
Flake, who will retire from the Senate in January, was asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what he would tell a soldier deployed to the border wanting to know why they were sent there.
"I think its unfortunate that we have the soldiers [at the border]," Flake said. "You cant call it anything but a stunt here, and its unfortunate that theyre going to be away from family during the holidays coming up, and we just dont know what really for.
"We dont know where the caravan, if it makes it north, is going to come," he continued. "I think it could be handled by civilians that we have there in terms of Border patrol and others. So I dont know what I could tell them other than we shouldnt be doing this, and this wasnt an issue that Congress was involved in, it was an executive decision."
Link to tweet
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/416591-flake-you-cant-call-us-troops-at-the-border-anything-other-than-a-stunt
mucifer
(23,658 posts)health care
flake is horrible IMO
he is actually better at stunts than trump because people respect him for his BS statements.
PatSeg
(47,842 posts)Repeatedly he refuses to back up his rhetoric. Hard to take him seriously anymore.
cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)independent voters (rather than the Repugnant voters as they are morons and he should be able to win them by tossing them a few biscuits) because if he can win them down the road when he decides to run for the Presidency he has a good chance at winning.
PatSeg
(47,842 posts)though I don't think he'd get past the GOP primaries.
cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)Repugnant base and Flake knows how to do that.
PatSeg
(47,842 posts)Flake isn't crazy enough to win the wingnuts vote.
cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)with any ethics would refuse to do.
PatSeg
(47,842 posts)cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)vi5
(13,305 posts)Coward.
Coventina
(27,243 posts)you, McTutrle, Collins and Graham - just STFU
Racerdog1
(808 posts)Except the scared little tRump snowflakes. What a waste of resources. Could have put barb wire around the white house to keep the orange asshole contained.
DFW
(54,608 posts)There has rarely been a Senator whose name more accurately describes his behavior in Congress.
PatSeg
(47,842 posts)I hadn't thought of that. Certainly does fit him.
hatrack
(59,615 posts)IronLionZion
(45,724 posts)since Flake is all talk and always flakes
sarge43
(28,947 posts)pigs still haven't scored pilot licenses.
Jeebus Flake, with Moron et al what isn't a political stunt?
Well maybe not when he just wants to be sadistic.
SayItLoud
(1,703 posts)Wish the WaPo or NYT's or better yet the WSJ would put a *count up clock* on their front page indicating how much it's costing every minute to keep our military sitting on the border doing nothing.
Let us all see in real time what this stunt is costing.
My guess is since the F'n MORON tRUMP didn't get his parade because the Pentagon said it would cost so much he's screwing with their budgets and spending that parade amount and more on his border stunt.
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