One day after Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake delivered a rebuke of the president on the Senate floor, Donald Trump told reporters Flake “did the right thing” by not running for reelection in Arizona.
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“He was against me from before he ever knew me,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “He wrote a book about me before I ever met him, before I ever heard his name.”
“His poll numbers are so low in Arizona that he couldn’t win,” he continued. “And I don’t blame him for leaving, I think he did the right thing for himself.”
Trump took some additional shots at Flake, calling his book “horrible” and alleging that he thought the senator was a Democrat when he first heard him talking on TV.
“In fact I remember the first time I saw him on television I said, ‘I assume he’s a Democrat, is he a Democrat?’ and they said, ‘He’s a Republican,'” Trump recalled. “I said, ‘that’s impossible.'”
“He’s done terribly for the great people of Arizona, a state that likes Donald Trump very much, and he would have never won,” Trump concluded. “This way he can get out somewhat gracefully…I wish him well.”