One-time GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s Twitter picture.
James Bond got drawn into U.S. politics this week as CIA got a new director.
The U.S. Senate voted to ratify Gina Haspel in a 54-45 vote. But not all Republican members of the Senate voted for the veteran CIA employee because at one point she ran an agency facility in Thailand performing “enhanced interrogation,” including waterboarding. Haspel wrote a letter dated May 14 (which became public the next day) saying the agency shouldn’t have utilized such techniques.
Mike Huckabee, a one-time GOP presidential candidate, criticized one GOP Senator who voted no, Jeff Flake of Arizona.
“Of course Jeff ‘Flaky Flake’ didn’t vote for Gina Haspel,” Huckabee wrote May 17. “If @realDonaldTrump nominated James Bond, he would have voted ‘no.’ That’s why Flake is ‘Dr. No.’ And I’ll be HE colluded with the Russians! ‘From Russia With Love.'”
Huckabee also is the father of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s press secretary.
Here’s what the tweet looked like:
Of course Jeff “Flaky Flake” didn’t vote for Gina Haspel. If @realDonaldTrump nominated James Bond, he would have voted “no.” That’s why Flake is “Dr. No.” And I’ll be HE colluded with the Russians! “From Russia With Love.”
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 17, 2018
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Meanwhile, TCM host Ben Mankiewicz, whose politics are the opposite of Sanders, had this reaction:
No one who’s seen a James Bond movie thinks 007 would be a good manager. And pretty sure “Flaky Flake” isn’t a Bond movie, though I couldn’t swear to the titles of the Dalton movies. Otherwise, great tweet. https://t.co/18SsNy8sEN
— Ben Mankiewicz (@BenMank77) May 19, 2018
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