Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Senatior Flake's Wednesday speech, on the floor of the Senate

Senator Flake's remarks, today, included the following: "For without truth, and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts... our democracy will not last."

From CNN.com, analysis of the speech by "Jeff Flake's 20 most damning lines about Donald Trump's assault on the press"):

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/politics/jeff-flake-trump-press-speech-analysis/index.html

And from The Washington Post, Senator Flake's full speech, with annotation by Amber Phillips:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/17/our-democracy-will-not-last-jeff-flakes-speech-comparing-trump-to-stalin-annotated/