Flake: Trump's border wall plan is 'out there'

Source: Politico




By DIAMOND NAGA SIU 08/25/2017 09:25 AM EDT

Sen. Jeff Flake is throwing punches back at President Donald Trump, this time bashing his proposal for a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“This notion of a 2,000-mile wall has always been just — for anybody who spends time on the border — just a bit, you know, out there,” Flake said Thursday in an interview with ABC15 in Arizona.

The Arizona senator has been a long-time critic of Trump and even published a book this year called "Conscience of a Conservative" that heavily criticized the president, but their recent relationship has been especially contentious.

He and the president disagree on border protection, and following Trump’s Arizona rally on Tuesday, where he taunted Flake for being “weak on borders, weak on crime,” the Arizona senator has shifted his tone back-and-forth when discussing Trump. “My position is I work with the president,” Flake also said in the interview with the ABC affiliate. “Vote with the president when I think he’s right, and I oppose him when I think he’s wrong.”

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