Tim Kaine suggests there are 'people within the FBI actively working' to help Donald Trump

Tim Kaine speaks with Fusion
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Tim Kaine suggested in an interview Saturday that forces within the FBI are conspiring to hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign. "I don't think Giuliani's walkback is credible," the vice presidential nominee said, referencing Rudy Giuliani's backtracking of comments in which he indicated he knew about the FBI's recent announcement about Clinton's private email server before it became public.

"What's come out since suggests that it's probably more likely explained that [Giuliani] knew that the FBI is not only a leaky sieve," Kaine continued, "but there were people within the FBI actively working — actively working — to try to help the Trump campaign. This is just absolutely staggering, and it is a massive blow to the integrity of that body."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.