According to recent remarks from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), right-wing groups that support former President Donald Trump are “training in the hills somewhere” to commit political violence if they don’t receive their desired outcome in the upcoming presidential election.
Waters made the unsubstantiated claims during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show,” where she sounded the alarm on the supposed right-wing militants. She also called on the Department of Justice to take preemptive action to prevent post-election political violence from the right.
“This is a man who we better be careful about,” Waters cautioned. “And I tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to ask the Justice Department, and I’m going to ask the president to tell us what they’re going to do to protect this country against violence if he loses.”
“I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that he’s connected with, who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting, you know, what communities they’re going to attack,” the Democratic representative said, providing no evidence for her claims.
“Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants … who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, ‘No peace, no sleep! No peace, no sleep!’” Waters said, adding, “God is on our side!”
In earlier comments during the segment, Waters expressed her belief that Donald Trump is a serious threat to America. The representative also touted Trump’s “bloodbath” comments, which were taken out of context when he was referring to job losses in the auto industry.
“You can’t trust anything that Donald Trump has to say. No matter if he loses, he is going to say it was fraud. He still has not accepted what happened in the last presidential election. We have to be very concerned about a former President of the United States talking about attacking his own country, talking about perhaps a bloodbath, talking about perhaps there is going to be trouble. He said it in so many different ways,” Waters said.
She continued, “We should take him seriously. This man does not believe in the Constitution. He wants to be a dictator. This is a dangerous human being. We have to know what our country is going to do to protect us from him.”
However, critics have called out Waters, citing her past comments where she seemingly encouraged her supporters to engage in aggressive behavior when confronting political adversaries. “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,” she said in 2018. “And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents.”
“We got to stay on the street. And we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” she said, instructing people what to do if Derek Chauvin was acquitted of murdering George Floyd in 2021.
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