Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine cited his Christian faith Thursday as he made the case against GOP nominee Donald Trump, and claimed the GOP nominee is too compromised to be the next president of the United States.
“I’ve often heard preached in my parish the lesson out of Matthew, ‘No man can serve two masters.’ No one can serve two masters,” Kaine said at a campaign stop in Exeter, N.H. “I want a president that’s thinking about New Hampshire’s bottom line, not his own bottom line. I want a president that’s thinking about America’s bottom line, not his own bottom line.”
“And if you are even taking 5 or 10 percent of your energy and you’re thinking about your family businesses and what’s happening and whether it’s going to affect them,” he said, “then you’re taking your energy away from the pressing challenges that we have in this country and the problems that we need to solve. No one can serve two masters.”
The senator also urged his audience in New Hampshire to read a recent Newsweek article alleging the Trump Organization’s foreign business ties would create serious conflicts of interest for the GOP nominee should he win the White House.
“[D]o you want a president making decisions about our foreign policy and what is in American interests who has got financial interests all over the globe, that he’s not disclosed, who might be thinking, well, I could do this, but it might hurt the stake of my investment in Russia. It might hurt the stake of my investment in Kazakhstan, or wherever the investments are. I mean, that’s a huge, huge problem for a president to have those kind of conflicts,” Kaine said.
Like his running mate, the Virginia lawmaker demanded Trump respond to the Newsweek article.
“Donald Trump needs to come clean and reveal the information about these deals so that the American voters, who have a right to know, can make their own decisions about whether he has conflicts of interest and whether he’s qualified to be president. It’s so important,” Kaine said.
