Trump Targets Sanders Supporters In Tweetstorm Knocking Tim Kaine

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Donald Trump again tried to attract the support of frustrated fans of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Saturday in an early morning tweetstorm knocking Hillary Clinton’s choice for vice president.

Trump wrote that Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), a moderate on trade issues and abortion rights, was “the opposite of what Bernie stands for.”

He claimed Sanders supporters were “outraged” with his selection, which proved that the Vermont senator “fought for nothing.”

Trump pointed to Kaine’s vote in support of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and the $160,000 he accepted in gifts as governor and lieutenant governor of the state. Though Kaine’s actions were permissible under Virginia’s lenient gift laws, former Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) faced corruption charges for accepting similar gifts. His conviction was thrown out by the Supreme Court in June.

Unlike McDonnell, Kaine did not exchange official favors in response to the gifts and he has never faced corruption allegations.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller also trumpeted the gifts in a statement to reporters, branding the Virginia senator “Corrupt Kaine.”

See Trump’s tweets below.

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  1. Avatar for yskov yskov says:

    Trump Targets Sanders Supporters In Tweetstorm Knocking Tim Kaine

    Oh goody. :smile:

  2. Doubtful he will get a single Jill Stein supporter.

  3. Tim Kaine has been praising the Trans Pacific Partnership and has been pushing hard to get it approved. Job killer!

    More of a job killer than all those clothes you and Ivanka shill that are made overseas?

  4. The real reason for this tweet-storm is contained in two words in the second tweet: “Philly fight?” He’s trying to sow discord in the party before the convention so it will turn out more like his disaster. Not thinking this will happen. Clinton is running a tight ship compared to Drumpf floating aimlessly around on flotsam and jetsam.

  5. Probably more upset that the announcement means that the press isn’t talking about him.

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