After responding to his victory rally crowd’s “lock her up” chants by saying it “might just happen,” the Republican Senate candidate who won the GOP primary in Virginia on Tuesday evening, Corey Stewart, again suggested that his opponent should be jailed.
During a turbulent interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night, Stewart suggested that his opponent, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) was at the “center” of reports that a government informant was deployed to meet with members of the Trump campaign to probe their contacts with Russian officials at the start of what we now consider the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. President Donald Trump, Stewart —who claims he won because he fully aligned himself with Trump — and other far-right Republicans have seized on reports of the informant as evidence that a spy was sent to infiltrate Trump’s campaign. The President himself has dubbed the whole ordeal “spygate.”
“I’ll tell you something, I really do believe that Tim Kaine has been at the center of all this stuff that you’re seeing with regard to the FBI, you know, the whole problem is having the FBI spying by federal agency on a presidential campaign,” Stewart told Cuomo, who interrupted him to say there was “no proof” to back up his allegations.
Stewart shot back: “We’re not in a court of law are we?”
“That doesn’t mean the truth doesn’t apply, my brother,” Cuomo said.
Stewart then repeated his claim that Kaine and the entire commonwealth of Virginia were at the “center” of the informant controversy.
“I would not be surprised if there’s an investigation of Tim Kaine before the year is out,” Stewart said. “Look, here’s the question, at the end of the day people have to ask themselves, what has Tim Kaine accomplished in his six years in the United States Senate? Tim Kaine can’t point to a single accomplishment in the United States Senate for Virginia or Virginians. The only thing that Tim Kaine has done in the past six years is run for vice president, and he didn’t even do a very good job at that, I might add.”
Corey Stewart again suggests his opponent should be investigated: "Tim Kaine is at the center of this" pic.twitter.com/PBErDb0lcB
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) June 14, 2018
