Sen. Tim Kaine, speaking a little bit earlier this evening on MSNBC, said the following:
“I agree with your reporter that while they are advancing referrals on three items, the most significant is the third – assisting in an insurrection against the United States. That clause of the 14th amendment of the constitution has only been triggered once or twice since 1870. But if it’s triggered, it would bar any insurrectionist – or those who give comfort or assistance to insurrectionists – from ever again serving in any elected office in the United States unless that disability is lifted by Congress. This is a…major major development, nearly unprecedented, but in my view completely warranted, because of President Trump’s desire to invite people to Washington to do something wild, to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history.”
“While they are advancing referrals on three items, the most significant is the third – assisting in an insurrection against the United States.”
Sen. @timkaine of Virginia discusses criminal referrals against Donald Trump being finalized. pic.twitter.com/JckzvYv0tJ— PoliticsNation (@PoliticsNation) December 18, 2022
P.S. Also from Sen. Kaine:
“I am confident that there will be a bipartisan and bicameral consensus on [continued assistance to Ukraine]. We have to back a democratic Ukraine against an illegal invasion by an authoritarian dictator, Vladimir Putin. We have to. And we do that because Ukraine is a democratic ally, but we also do that to send a message to dictators around the world, that you cannot casually violate international law, commit human rights abuses, invade the sovereign territory of another nation and get by without a consequence. You’re right, there are some Republicans that are mouthing off about that they may not want to continue it, and I think this is a really important thing for Americans to watch, to see which party is pro-democracy worldwide…”
“I live in the Virginia 4th…Donald McEachin was my friend of 40 years, and Jenn McClellan has been my friend of 30 years…Jenn McClellan has been a laborer in the vineyard helping good people for 30+ years…she’s been my delegate, she’s been my senator, I officiated at her wedding…”
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