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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 30, 2025

They bring the diversity and the energy to a place like Minnesota and for him to just randomly decide to do this, it makes no sense.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

It's time for Congress to rein in a president who is deciding to wage war on his own say-so, which is not what the Constitution allowed.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 30, 2025

You can use that word. Sure, you can use that language. But you shouldn’t. And that's something Donald Trump fails to realize.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 30, 2025

This is what Donald Trump has done. He has normalized this type of hateful behavior and this type of language.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 30, 2025

Do your job. Get the criminals out, secure our border, but do it with dignity and respect to the American tradition of respecting immigrants and refugees as a beacon of hope.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

This is shocking. And again, this is not an individual who was accused of running drugs to the United States. He was convicted in a federal court in the United States.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

The circumstances have changed in the months since we had that vote.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 30, 2025

At first, I think it’s just because he’s not a good human being. But secondly, (it’s) to distract from his incompetency.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 30, 2025

Many times, it’s just about being decent to people and making them feel included.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

The president's decision to say, OK, this particular criminal, who should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, who came in under an asylum grant... don't say that all Afghans in the United States... are bad.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

If the report was accurate, the attack rises to the level of a war crime.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

It completely undercuts the administration’s claim that they really care about narco-trafficking, and that raises the question of what is really going on with the Venezuela operation.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DoD's own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Nov 30, 2025

This rises to the level of a war crime if it’s true

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Nikki Haley
@nikkihaley· Republican · SC· Nov 29, 2025

His best friend, Steve Witkoff, came to our house in South Carolina, spoke to me and my husband, and basically wanted a truce between me and Donald Trump.

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Timothy Walz
@timothywalz· Democratic · MN· Nov 29, 2025

It's not surprising that the President has chosen to broadly target an entire community. This is what he does to change the subject.

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