Republican Senator Jeff Flake has launched an extraordinary attack on Donald Trump as he announced he would not be standing for re-election in 2018.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate, the Arizona politician said he was retiring at the end of his term because the GOP had “given in or given up on core principles in favour of a more viscerally satisfying anger and resentment” under Trump.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
The best Dubai chocolateThe Week Recommends The viral pistachio and filo chocolate bar has some delicious 'dupes' in UK supermarkets
-
Did China sabotage British Steel?Today's Big Question Emergency situation at Scunthorpe blast furnaces could be due to 'neglect', but caution needed, says business secretary
-
Taiwan's tricky balancing actThe Explainer The island nation, no longer certain of US backing against a hostile China, is quietly looking for other solutions
-
Taiwan's tricky balancing act
The Explainer The island nation, no longer certain of US backing against a hostile China, is quietly looking for other solutions
-
America's woes are a foreign adversary's spy recruitment dreamIN THE SPOTLIGHT As federal workers reel from mass layoffs, the United States is becoming ground zero for international adversaries eager to snatch up disgruntled spies-to-be
-
'There are thorns among the grains'Instant Opinion Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
-
Two judges bar war-powers deportationsSpeed Read The Trump administration was blocked from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport more alleged Venezuelan gang members
-
Trump pauses some tariffs but ramps up China taxSpeed Read The president suspended most 'reciprocal' tariffs for 90 days and raised his tariffs for China to 125%
-
Why did Donald Trump U-turn on tariffs?Today's Big Question President's 'easy-win' trade war couldn't survive the realities of the US economy
-
Low-cost airline faces backlash after agreeing to operate ICE's deportation flightsThe Explainer The flights will begin out of Arizona in May
-
Could Trump's tariff war be his undoing with the GOP?TODAY'S BIG QUESTION The catastrophic effects of the president's 'Liberation Day' tariffs might create a serious wedge between him and the rest of the Republican party
