Maxine Waters
Blames Trump For Making Her A Target: ‘He’s Setting Some Of Us Up To Be Killed’
By Molly Prince
DailyWire.com
October 2nd, 2019
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) criticized President Donald
Trump on Wednesday for endangering her own safety by supposedly dog-whistling
to white supremacists to start a civil war over the House’s impeachment
inquiry.
“[Trump] should not be going after anybody,” Waters told
MSNBC host Ali Velshi. “He is the president of the United States of America. He
is setting some of us up to be killed. I have death threats constantly.”
“There are a number of people who have been convicted for
threatening to kill me, and when he does that he’s dog-whistling to the white
supremacists, the KKK, and the dangerous people,” she continued. “We have
stories about many of those white supremacists who do nothing but practice how
they’re going to be involved in a civil war and fight against this government.
This president is irresponsible in so many ways aside from making us a target
of these white supremacists.”
Waters’ complaints come in stark contrast to her
now-infamous calls for people to publicly harass members of the Trump
administration in response to the White House’s long-standing immigration
policy.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up,”
Waters was recorded shouting at her supporters in June 2018. “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, and you
tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
At the time, Trump responded to her rallying cries,
calling her an “extraordinarily low IQ person.” The California lawmaker is an
outspoken critic of the president and was one of the first members of Congress
to call for his impeachment.
“Yes, absolutely he has called me names as he has called
many others names,” Waters told Velshi. “I have been at this almost two years
because I understand the danger of this president. I understand that he has
colluded with Russia. I understand that he has embraced Putin. I also
understand that he really wants to be and act like a dictator. I’m very worried
about our entire government. I’m worried about his entire administration.”
She further praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for
finally moving forward with an impeachment inquiry and defended remarks that
she herself made calling for the president to be “imprisoned” and “placed in
solitary confinement.”
“Most people know me and know what I’ve been doing for
the last two years,” Waters said. “They know I’ve spoken about the president’s
lack of understanding or appreciation for the Constitution. He doesn’t care
about the democracy and how he has undermined all of those who are trying so
hard to make this democracy stronger.”
“So, I think people know me,” she continued. “And I think
that they know I have the best interest of this country at heart and that I’ve
worked very hard and that I’ve spoken truth to power in ways that many others
didn’t even have the courage to do it.”
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