Jeff Flake speaks on the Senate floor, Jan. 17, 2017 (Credit: Senate TV via AP) Soon after outgoing Arizona Senator Jeff Flake delivered his blistering Senate-floor speech denouncing President Donald Trump’s attacks on both the free press and the concept of truth Wednesday, many prominent Republican and conservative figures rushed to condemn it. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders denounced Flake by claiming that he “was recently defending an actually oppressive regime.