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Jeff Flake: ‘Treason is not a punchline, Mr. President’

By Pete Kasperowicz
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Jeff Flake: ‘Treason is not a punchline, Mr. President’

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., criticized President Trump on the Senate floor Tuesday after Trump suggested Monday that Democrats who refused to stand up and applaud him during his State of the Union address were guilty of treason.

The White House said Tuesday Trump was joking, but Flake said there’s nothing funny about treason, or the way Trump was trying to accuse Democrats of treason.

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