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Jeff Flake fell for the media’s Brett Kavanaugh trap

By Eddie Scarry
Published September 29, 2018 4:00am ET
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Jeff Flake fell for the media’s Brett Kavanaugh trap
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to reporters as she arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. | (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

I hope Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., receives a massive gift basket from CNN and MSNBC after he just guaranteed them massive more airtime for Michael Avenatti.

Flake fell for the trap the national media and Democrats (I’m sure that’s just a happy coincidence) have been trying to lay for two weeks over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

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