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GOP Senators Blister Trump, Reveal Party at War with Itself

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., accompanied by his wife Cheryl, leaves the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, after announcing he won’t seek re-election in 2018.
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By ERICA WERNER stant untruths and name-calling. president from prominent mem- modations with Trump and said he
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of Corker, too, is retiring at the end bers of his own party — and add- could no longer play a role in them.
senators from President Donald of his term, and the White House ed to a chorus of criticism of Trump ”We were not made great as a
Trump’s own Republican Party blis- shed no tears at the prospect of that has been growing louder and country by indulging in or even
tered him with criticism Tuesday in the two GOP senators’ departures. more public. Flake challenged his exalting our worst impulses, turn-
a dramatic day of denunciation A former adviser to Steve Bannon, fellow senators to follow his lead, ing against ourselves, glorifying in
that laid bare a GOP at war with it- Trump’s ex-strategic adviser, called but there were few immediate the things that divide us and call-
self. Jeff Flake of Arizona declared it all “a monumental victory for the signs they would. At midafternoon, ing fake things true and true things
he would not be “complicit” with Trump movement,” and Trump as fellow lawmakers sat in attentive fake,” he said. Hours earlier, Corker
Trump and announced his surprise himself boasted to staff members silence, Flake stood at his Senate leveled his own searing criticism of
retirement, while Bob Corker of that he’d played a role in forcing desk and delivered an emotional Trump in a series of interviews.
Tennessee declared the president the senators out. speech in which he dissected what
“debases our nation” with con- It was a stunning rebuke of sitting he considered his party’s accom- Continued on Page 3