Golden State Today

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) rejects people’s perception of her that she has encouraged harassing Republicans.

Waters told Ali Velshi, MSNBC that “if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I was to tell them they’re not welcome, talk to them, tell them they’re not welcome. I didn’t say go and fight. I didn’t say anybody was going to have any violence. So, they can’t make that statement.”

A video clip from June 2018 showed Waters talking to a crowd, asking people to confront Republicans at gasoline stations, department stores, restaurants and tell them they’re not welcome, Breitbart reported.

“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, and you push back on them,” Waters said in the video. “You tell them that they’re not welcome anymore anywhere! We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents. The children are suffering.”

She said she was defending “those poor children in cages that the Trump administration has left there separated from their parents.”

Waters reiterated that what she did was different from the Jan. 6 insurrection in which Trump “was rallying them right before they went. He told them to be tough. He told them to take back their government. And so, nothing equals that.”