Tim Kaine once wanted Bill Clinton to resign
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Aug 15, 2016: Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine greets supports at the conclusion of his remarks at the Arthur Edington Education & Career Center in Asheville, N.C. (AP)
Sen. Tim Kaine may be on Team Clinton now, but he once said that Bill Clinton should resign after his White House affair with Monica Lewinsky.
A report first published by the Daily Beast on Wednesday said the Democratic vice presidential nominee was responding to a separate scandal, involving then-Virginia state congressman Vance Wilkins, when he reflected on Clinton’s affair.
Kaine called for Wilkins to resign and told theRichmond Times-Dispatch in 2002 that he still maintained that Clinton should have stepped down in 1998 amid the Lewinsky controversy.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“My reaction was the same I had when I read about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair: this is not appropriate conduct. It’s beneath the dignity of the office,” the Virginia senator told the Associated Press in a separate interview.