Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) is calling on fellow Democrats to “hit the streets” to “influence the courts” in the party’s fight against President Donald Trump.
“We can fight back against Trump and co-president Elon Musk. We can influence the courts,” Waters wrote Wednesday on X. “How do we do that? We hit the streets and fight back. If we fight, we can win.”
Waters, 86, has a long history of making threats against Republicans.
In 2017, during Trump’s first term, Waters told a crowd that she will “go and take Trump out tonight.” One year later, she urged her supporters to confront and harass Trump administration officials.
“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,” Waters said during a 2018 rally in Los Angeles. “You push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Waters later tried to defend those comments, saying, “I did not threaten [Trump] constituents and supporters. I do that all the time, but I didn’t do that that time.”
The California congresswoman has also stoked controversy over her questionable money dealings. In the 2022 election cycle, she funneled nearly $200,000 in campaign funds to her daughter, adding to a decades-long million-dollar operation between the two, the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time.
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
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