Republican Senate nominee posts photo of Tim Kaine greeting Stalin

[Judi Lynn]

Corey Stewart’s odd attack on his Democratic opponent is apparent attempt to link Kaine with protesters clashing with white supremacists

Ben Jacobs
@Bencjacobs
Fri 17 Aug 2018 17.22 EDT Last modified on Sat 18 Aug 2018 11.49 EDT

The Republican nominee for US Senate in Virginia on Friday tweeted out a bizarre Photoshopped image of his Democratic opponent, Tim Kaine, shaking hands with Joseph Stalin.

Under the hashtag #AntifaTimKaine, Corey Stewart described Kaine meeting Stalin to discuss “economic policy” in 1944. Kaine, who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2016, was born in 1958.

The tweet seemed to be an attempt to link Kaine with protesters who have repeatedly clashed with white supremacists in cities across the US. Stewart has previously dwelled on the arrest of Kaine’s son after an anti-Trump protest in 2017.

“Antifa” is an abbreviation of “anti-fascist”. In 1944, the US and Britain were allied with the Soviet Union, which was communist. Their mutual opponent, Nazi Germany, was fascist. The image of Stalin in Stewart’s tweet appeared to have been taken from an original of the Russian leader shaking hands with Harry Truman, who is also holding the hand of Winston Churchill, at Potsdam in 1945.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/17/tim-kaine-stalin-photo-corey-stewart-fake-attack

[msongs]

1. every repub in VA needs to be linked to this guy and trumpenstein. tightly linked and bound nt

[pangaia]

2. Judi Lynn, I'm glad you didn't post this in the science group, or wherever you post all that

great stuff.

[dchill]

3. "Photoshopped" looks more like blunt scissors and school paste.

The mind of Trumplestiltskin.

[Turbineguy]

4. 1944, 1953, 1958??

All that math stuff is too hard for trumpsters to figure out.

[CanonRay]

5. He correctly assessed how stupid his GOP base is.

[Nitram]

6. The right wing long ago lost collective their mind and regressed to a state of infantilism.

Next they'll be publishing photos of Pelosi in the role of Pontius Pilate and Brennan as the Roman soldier who dealt Jesus the spear thrust that ended his suffering.