Tag: Josef Stalin

Jeff Flake isn’t just comparing Trump to Stalin. He’s comparing Republicans to Stalin’s enablers.

The following article by Amber Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website January 15, 2018:

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said on Oct. 24 that he will not seek reelection in 2018. Here are the highlights from his speech. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)

A sitting U.S. senator plans to give a speech this week comparing the president of his own party to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. That in itself is remarkable.

“It is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies,” Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) plans to say in a speech about President Trump classifying the news media as “the enemy of the people.” Continue reading “Jeff Flake isn’t just comparing Trump to Stalin. He’s comparing Republicans to Stalin’s enablers.”

Jeff Flake expected to deliver floor speech comparing Trump’s attacks on media to Stalin’s

The following article by Aileen Graef and Liz Turrell was posted on the CNN website January 15, 2018:

(CNN) — Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona is expected to deliver a floor speech on Wednesday in which he will compare President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media to the rhetoric of late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

According to an excerpt of the speech, Flake will criticize the President for calling the news media the “enemy of the people,” calling it “an assault as unprecedented as it is unwarranted.” Continue reading “Jeff Flake expected to deliver floor speech comparing Trump’s attacks on media to Stalin’s”