Jeff Flake condemns conservatives for creating and ‘rationalizing’ Trump

Published July 31, 2017 11:12pm ET



Sen. Jeff Flake believes conservatives helped create the conditions for the rise of President Trump and are emboldening “instability” in the White House by not speaking out more.

“We created him, and now we’re rationalizing him. When will it stop?” Flake wrote in his new book, “Conscience of a Conservative,” an excerpt of which Politico published on Monday.

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