“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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