Tim Kaine didn’t hold back when asked about claims that Donald Trump is softening his stance on immigration.
“I don’t buy it,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee told “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Thursday.
“He’s always fighting against the Latin community with words of ill will and the actions of an idiot,” Kaine added, speaking in fluent Spanish.
Kaine, who was making his late night debut, also didn’t shy away from staunchly defending Hillary Clinton — whom Trump had described Wednesday as a “bigot.”
Kaine highlighted how, after finishing law school, his running mate had worked to advance racial justice in South Carolina and fight segregation in Alabama — while he was battling housing discrimination.
Trump, meanwhile, “was a real estate guy who got sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against people in housing,” Kaine said.
“Hillary Clinton has got a track record, all the way back to being a middle-schooler in a Methodist youth group, of trying to advance priorities for others, and Donald Trump is for himself,” Kaine added.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
