«That kind of language from the person who probably has the loudest microphone on the planet Earth is hurtful and dangerous,” he says.
Democratic 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,» Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, ripped Trump for not calling out white nationalism and «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.
The accused shooter in Friday’s attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, praised Trump as a symbol of white identity in a lengthy, rambling manifesto filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric.
