Monday, February 8, 2021

Maxine Waters Denies Ever Using Violent Rhetoric Toward Trump, Administration Officials

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters claimed on Sunday that she never encouraged violence against members of the Trump administration.

“As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I said was tell them they're not welcome," the California Democrat told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi after he asked if she ever “glorified or encouraged” violence.

“Talk to them," she recalled saying. "Tell them they’re not welcome. I didn’t say go and fight. I didn’t say anybody was going to have any violence. And so they can’t make that statement.”

Waters’ infamous 2018 comments came after backlash over the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. On MSNBC at the time, she said “the people…[are] going to absolutely harass them.”

Read entire article, see tweets and video here: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2021/02/08/maxine-waters-asked-about-her-violent-rhetoric-toward-trump-n2584375

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