President Donald Trump vociferously called out Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate, after the latter compared the Founding Fathers to the theocratic dictatorship of modern-day Iran. Kaine’s comments went viral a few days before Trump took the stage at the Washington, D.C. Museum of the Bible.
For context, Senator Kaine – looking completely disheveled, no less – kicked off the controversy by echoing the hollow, woke talking points so beloved by Democrats. He suggested rights come from laws and government, not a benevolent Creator, but also took it a step further by saying Americans committed to the Declaration of Independence and the notion of inalienable rights endowed by a creator might as well live in Iran under Shia law.
“The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator. That’s what the Iranian government believes,” Senator Kaine remarked in a short clip that went viral, continuing, “It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Bahais, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.”
Take a look at Kaine’s horrendous view on rights, laws, and morality below:
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It was in response to this insane position – which by the way, if rights simply come from laws then why was slavery ever a moral outrage since the law of the land in the antebellum south declared it a viable institution – that Trump decided to lay into the woke Virginian and failed vice presidential candidate. Among other things, Trump said the should be absolutely “ashamed of himself.”
Trump said: “The need for this commission has never been more clear than it was last week when the ineffectual senator from Virginia, a man named Tim Kaine stated that the notion our rights come from our Creator is, quote, extremely troubling to him, very troubling. Isn’t it troubling? Isn’t that terrible, though? Howie would say something like that, and advocated really by a totalitarian regime, this is what they say.”
But as everyone in this room understands, it is tyrants who are denying our rights and the rights that come from God,” he continued, “and it’s this Declaration of Independence that proclaims we’re endowed by our creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The senator from Virginia should be ashamed of himself for many things.”
Watch Trump take a sledgehammer to Tim Kaine here:
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Later in the speech, the President also echoed a common refrain from the campaign trail, making note that to make America great again the nation would have to make God great again. Along these lines, Trump said “to have a great nation, you have to have religion. I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”