Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) was confronted by MSNBC on Sunday about previous comments she’d made in which she allegedly encouraged violence against Republicans.
Waters Confronted By MSNBC
MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi kicked things off by playing a clip in which Waters said, “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you push back on them. You tell them that they’re not welcome anymore anywhere! We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents. The children are suffering.”
“I was able to play that clip that you were referring to from June 23rd, 2018, where you’re asking people to confront Republicans at department stores, gas stations, and restaurants and tell them they’re not welcome,” he said afterwards.
‘That’s the stuff that Donald Trump’s attorneys say proves that you and others are doing the same thing Donald Trump was doing on January 6th and in the days before that. What’s the difference?”
Waters Fires Back
Waters fired back by denying that she’d ever encouraged violence against conservatives.
“They’re going to try it, but nothing any Democrat that I know of have ever said or acted in the way the president of the United States has acted,” she said. “People must realize this president was out to destroy our democracy if he could not be president.”
“He sent those people, those domestic terrorists, to the Capitol to take over the Capitol. Even they are saying so,” Waters continued. “They’re saying they were invited by the president. The president was rallying them right before they went. He told them to be tough. He told them to take back their government. And so nothing equals that.”
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Waters Doubles Down
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Waters added:
“Yes, I defended those poor children in cages that the Trump administration has left there separated from their parents. There was a movement at the time where restaurants were denying members of his administration of his cabinet and saying you guys should speak up for the children.
And so that does not in any way equal what this president has said and what he has done. As a matter of fact, the Republicans should be afraid not only about the destruction of our democracy, but if they continue to support him and allow themselves to be guided by him, they’re going to have to live with a president that dictates to them every vote they can take, every vote they cannot take, he’s going to be in their primaries, they will be owned by this dishonorable human being.
If that’s how they want to live, if they would rather be owned by the president who in fact tried to destroy our democracy in order to stay in office, then they don’t deserve to be elected. So no matter what he says about me or Nancy Pelosi, Cory Booker, or anybody they’re going to point to, it won’t work. It won’t work at all because nothing matches the way this president has tried to destroy this democracy.”
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“So let me ask you because this is what they’re going to say,” Velshi said. “Can you say that you have not glorified or encouraged violence against Republicans?”
“Absolutely, I can say it,” Waters responded. “As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I was was to tell them they’re not welcome, talk to them, tell them they’re not welcome. I didn’t say go and fight. I didn’t say anybody was going to have any violence. So they can’t make that statement.”
This piece was written by James Samson on February 7, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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Sorry Maxi but you also said "push" which is violence. As to your comment that NO Democrat said any thing about violence, in addition to your self there were Cory Booker telling his followers to "get up in their faces" and Eric Holder who told his sheep to "kick them" and the them he was talking about were Republicans.
mad max should be in jail for stupidity nuff said
Maxine Waters just hates Donald Trump. She needs to go back to her District and clean it up. Obama was the one that put those children in cages….not Trump.
There you have it……Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Nadler, AOC, Schumer, Biden, both CLINTONS, both OBAMA'S are Liberal double standard hypocrites. They lie, deflect, project, blame……
"DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO" ~ Liberal Democrats
Maxine Waters is proof that even a complete fool can be elected to political office.
She believes her constituents believe her, and what is pathetic, is her constituents DO believe her because they keep voting for the angry racist woman!
Just one lie after another lie. She proves how darn stupid people that voted for her can be. She actually believes we are stupid enough to believe anything she says.
Maxine Waters is nothing but a RACIST and a LIAR !!! This tree swinger is the reason bannana prices are up !!!
Impeach 46..
Waters, Schumer, Pelosi, Swalwell, Schiff, all the Squad members, Feinstein and many more DemocRATs need to be impeached, along with many DemocRAT Governors around the country, like we are doing here in California.
Political persons who try to incite riots against Americans need to be removed from from Office. Maxine Waters is a racist liar. Remover her now.
They wouldn't have her.. Impeach 46..
She belongs in a nursing home.
Maxie Pad, James Brown wig wearing, H2o is a liar.. I hope she reads this post.. Maxie Pad, you're a liar.. If anyone sees her at a gas station, department store, a restaurant or on the street, get in her face and tell her that she is non longer welcome anywhere in America.. Notice, I didn't tell anyone to commit a violent act.. Impeach 46..
Maxine Waters is a primo example of why we must fight for term limits.
Waters is nothing more than a somewhat intelligent grifter. Donald in losing a stolen election has shown how power hungry and unrepentant lot democrats are.
Impeach Maxine Waters under the same charges the Democrats are prosecuting Donald Trump! Sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose!
She did say get into the cabinets face apparently that is Republican she wouldn’t tell Democrats that
Does mad Maxine ever listen to herself or remember what she said last week or last year?
All depends on what your definition of is, is. Yeah, we've heard that one before.
If any one person encourages violence, its HER BIG MOUTH AND NO BRAINS. She shouldn't even be in the country how about GITMO
All this long clip showed was a lunatic in our government lying at length. It also showed MSMBCs’ sycophantic worship for all things democrat. And old Maxie obviously has no idea what the word ‘democracy’ means.
I have said it before and will say it again.
Liberals Lie.
Hey ole Max you sure have a dual meaning of things.