Donald Trump has been compared to Russian dictator Joseph Stalin by Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, photographed with Trump last month (Picture: Getty Images)

Donald Trump was compared to evil dictator Joseph Stalin by a Republican Senator over his treatment of critics.

Arizona Senator Jeff Flake will deliver the blistering criticism in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, as he prepares to step down from his post over the ‘alarming and dangerous state of affairs’ with Trump in charge.

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An excerpt from the speech obtained by MailOnline says Trump ‘uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies.’

It continues: ‘It bears noting that so fraught with malice was the phrase ‘enemy of the people’.


‘Even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use, telling the Soviet Communist Party that the phrase had been introduced by Stalin for the purpose of ‘annihilating such individuals’ who disagreed with the supreme leader.’

Sen. Flake compared Trump to Soviet dictator Stalin, whose reign of terror was blamed for the deaths of up to 60 million people

Stalin was General Secretary of the Soviet Communist party from 1922 until 1952, a year before his death, with his regime blamed for killing up to 60 million people.



Sen. Flake’s leaked speech also makes the dramatic claim that 2017 was the worst year in America’s history.

He called last year ‘More battered and abused than any other in the history of the country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government.’

‘It was a year which saw the White House enshrine ‘alternative facts’ into the American lexicon, as justification for what used to be known simply as good old-fashioned falsehoods.

‘It was the year in which an unrelenting daily assault on the constitutionally-protected free press was launched by that same White House, an assault that is as unprecedented as it is unwarranted.’

President Trump is known for hitting back at enemies on Twitter, with pundits now waiting to see whether he will lash Sen. Flake over the remarks.

Mr Trump’s long-awaited Fake News Awards are set to be unveiled later this evening, with the president handing them to news outlets which have angered him most during his first year in office.

Flake’s blistering attack comes on the day Trump plans to hand out his ‘Fake News’ awards to media outlets (Picture: Getty Images)