Tim Kaine’s Constitutional blasphemy
Posted By: Moritz55, 9/7/2025 1:19:10 PM
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) this week warned the American people that a Trump nominee for a State Department position was an extremist, cut from the same cloth as the Iranian mullahs and religious extremists. Riley Barnes, nominated to serve as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, revealed his dangerous proclivities to Kaine in his opening statement when he said that “all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.” It was a line that should be familiar to any citizen — virtually ripped from the Declaration of Independence
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