Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) cancelled two events in Alabama and Texas this week after receiving a flood of “hostile mail” — including “one very serious death threat,” according to a Friday CNN report.
“As the President has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while also offering a veiled threat that I should ‘be careful,’ even more individuals are leaving (threatening) messages and sending hostile mail to my office,” Waters said in a statement.
“There was one very serious death threat made against me on Monday from an individual in Texas which is why my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were cancelled (sic) this weekend,” she continued. “This is just one in several very serious threats the United States Capitol Police are investigating in which individuals threatened to shoot, lynch, or cause me serious bodily harm.”
Waters called for people to continue protesting Trump staffers in public spaces on Saturday, prompting Trump to threaten her in a tweet and rail against her at rallies since. Trump claims that Waters is advocating for physical violence against his administration, while she insists that she is only urging for peaceful protest.
Loving Xtian Nazis, attacking a brave woman. Cowardly wimps.
How “civil” of them. Texas and Alabama? Why was she going to waste her time in those “shitholes”?
How about Secret Service Protection for Rep. Waters? I mean, a death threat hardly rises to the level of being asked politely to leave a restaurant, but armed protection for a member of Congress would be a nice gesture.
I will take the Right seriously when they treat Milo with the same veracity they treated Maxine.
Milo potentially has the death of five on his hands.
How many has Maxine got?
Minorities who speak out are threatened with violence into silence.
Just as dear leader wants it.