I love Tim Kaine. What a liar.
Kaine specifically mentioned one email on
Meet the Press that referenced him and "was flat-out completely incorrect."
Kaine is talking about an email in the Podesta dump that this month
fueled rumorsClinton had picked Kaine as her choice for running mate in 2015.
The July 25, 2015, email was from political consultant Erick Mullen, and the subject was "Bob Glennon." The Clinton campaign would not confirm the authenticity of the email or identify who Glennon is.
But the email suggests Glennon had told two Democratic senators — Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota — that Clinton had already told Kaine he was her vice presidential pick.
Mullen wrote that Glennon "Won't stop assuring Sens Brown and Heitkamp (at dinner now) that HRC has personally told Tim Kaine he's the veep. A little unseemly."
The email does not, however, indicate whether Glennon’s information was correct, nor do we have anything but Kaine’s word to refute the idea that he knew about his nomination in advance. We reached out to Mullen, but he declined to comment.
We do know, though, that no one has doctored this particular email. Well-known hacker Robert Graham
verified the email’s digital signature, a tool email providers use to confirm that an email actually came from the provider’s server without alteration.