Rep. Maxine Waters is pushing back against death threats she’s received in the wake of her call for action against the Trump administration, telling those who send threats that if they intend to shoot her, they’d “better shoot straight.”
“There’s nothing like a wounded animal,” Waters said Saturday to a crowd of Los Angeles protesters at one of the “Families Belong Together” events, noting that she has “no fear.”
“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” Waters added, remarking on her pointed criticisms of the president during a Sunday morning appearance on MSNBC’s “AM Joy.” “I can defend against him and I can promote good public policy. I intend to do that.”
Waters faced a wave of backlash following her statements on White House press secretary Sarah Sanders’ being refused service at the Red Hen, a restaurant in Virginia. The California Democrat told MSNBC last weekend that Trump officials should be be not be welcomed “anymore, anywhere.”
“If you see anybody from the Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, and a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd to push back on them,” Waters said.
President Trump has been vocal in his disapproval of Waters’ statements, describing her as a “very low IQ person” on Twitter.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
“Let him call me whatever he wants to call me, whatever he wants to say he will not stop me,” Waters said during her MSNBC stint. “They want me to run away, they want me to stop talking, they want me to be quiet. But he can’t do that to me.”
