Kaine: Trump's rhetoric 'emboldens' white nationalists [View all]
Source: Politico
03/17/2019 01:31 PM EDT
Sen. Tim Kaine on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump’s rhetoric in the wake of a shooting that killed 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand.
In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, ripped Trump for not calling out white nationalists and for “using language that emboldens them.”
“It is on the rise and the president should call it out but sadly he’s not doing that,” Kaine said. “We saw in the aftermath of the horrible attack in Charlottesville that he tried to say that the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, neo-confederates there were just, you know, ‘good people,’” Kaine said.
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“The president uses language often that’s very similar to the language used by these bigots and racists,” Kaine said. “And if he’s not going to call it out then other leaders have to do more to call it out and I certainly will.”
“I think the president is using language that emboldens them. He’s not creating them. They’re out there,” Kaine said, adding, “That kind of language from the person who probably has the loudest microphone on the planet Earth is hurtful and dangerous and it tends to incite violence.”
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Good on Kaine. EVERY Democratic should get on national TV and condemn Trump speech.
"The president uses language often that's very similar to the language used by these bigots and racists," said the Virginia Democrat
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