U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) asserted during an appearance on MSNBC that supporters of former President Donald Trump are “domestic terrorists” who may be “preparing a civil war against us.”
Fox News and other news agencies have picked up on the 85-year-old congresswoman’s comments. She also reportedly declared, “It is not just that [Trump is] a criminal, this is a man who disrespects the Constitution and democracy and we have got to find out what they are doing as domestic terrorists [who] tried to take over the government on Jan. 6.”
Waters, a career anti-gunner, accused Trump of not caring about democracy or the U.S. Constitution. She claimed Trump is “in love with Putin and Russia and Kim Jong-un and North Korea.”
Perhaps the most ominous of her remarks, as quoted by Fox, were revelations she will ask the Justice Department and President Joe Biden “to tell us what they are going to do to protect this country against violence if [Biden] loses.”
“I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting what communities they are going to attack,” Waters stated. “We need to know now, given that he is telling us there is going to be violence if he loses. We need to know what his plan is and how we are going to be protected.”
According to AOL.com, the California congresswoman is distressed that Trump has claimed his trial was “rigged.”
On that point, Trump appears to have a lot of company. A CBS News/You.Gov poll found that 86 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of Independents believe the former president did not get a fair trial. Meanwhile, 96 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of Independents thought the trial was fair, while only 14 percent of Republicans agreed.
“Most Democrats say it’s made them more confident in the justice system,” CBS reported. “Among Republicans, three quarters say it’s made them less confident in it.”
It was Waters who, back in 2018, encouraged her supporters to “publicly confront and harass members of the Trump administration in response to the ‘zero tolerance’ policy that led to the separation of families at the border,” according to CNN at time.
What about Waters’ allegations about Trump supporters “training in the hills somewhere?” Where is the evidence?
According to raw data from the FBI National Instant Check System, May background check inquiries topped 2.1 million. There have been more than 2 million checks initiated monthly for more than a year, and though roughly only half may be directly linked to a firearms transaction, it amounts to millions of firearms purchases.
Waters and other Democrats do not like to see gun sales continuing at a steady pace. But a lot of Americans, for whatever reasons, are buying guns. Violent crime, police manpower shortages, and even rhetoric about potential violence pending the outcome of the November election from Waters and others may contribute to a sense of uncertainty.
It is nothing new for Trump critics to accuse his supporters of being misfits of one form or another. Hillary Clinton branded Trump supporters as “deplorables,” a brand the Trump crowd accepted with pride. The very reference to “MAGA Republicans” often mouthed by President Joe Biden and others is something akin to social prejudice.
Trump’s conviction gives Biden and every other Democrat down the ladder the chance to call him a convicted felon. Mediaite notes that Biden is already doing it. It will definitely become part of every campaign from Congress to state legislatures. Out in Washington State, for example, far left, anti-gun Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson—now running for the governor’s office—is doing it, posting on “X” (formerly Twitter), “Dave Reichert’s candidate for president just got convicted of 34 felonies. I’m running for Governor to uphold the law. America must not elect a convicted felon for president.”
Republican Reichert is the former King County Sheriff and congressman who has actually arrested criminals, and his candidacy for governor obviously has Ferguson and Democrats worried, even though Ferguson appears to have lots more money in his campaign coffers than Reichert.
Back to Waters, the Washington Examiner also quoted the congresswoman, who stated, “I’m worried that he’s so divisive, and that he’s talking about retribution, and they’re talking about revenge, and I think that that’s dangerous.”
Considering Waters’ previous advice to her followers to “confront and harass” members of Trump’s administration, she appears to be the expert on divisiveness.
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Dear Maxine. I want to inform you that you are a little late to the party. Since Uncle Joe O’biDUMB stated that he would attack us with F15’s, tactical nukes and drones, we took that as the threat he intended it to be if we don’t follow his rules, see things his way and do what he says. So with the militarization and Gestapo tactics of the FBI, ATF, DOJ, IRS against Christian Nationalist Republicans, we know if he doesn’t win the election that we need to be prepared and that you want the conservatives to start the war so… Read more »
America’ gun owners own hundreds of millions of firearms, many of them “weapons of war”, and literally billions of rounds of ammo.
If we were as prone to violence and as bloodthirsty as Rep. Watters alleges, there wouldn’t be enough survivors to collect, bag, and bury the dead.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all you non binary folks in between, is what my Cajun friend would call “a true fact.”
She has got to be one of the stupidest people on the face of the planet. How in the world does anyone take her seriously?
She may well be more right than she even imagines.
I went overboard last year and purchased seven firearms. I limited myself to two this year. Fortunately/unfortunately, they both became available early in the first qtr of the year, within five days of each other.
So far, I have kept to my restriction, however, I said nothing about suppressors and ordered my first one last night.
Should have it in two weeks.
Cuckoo for Cocoa puffs, that one is.