“We have to keep to doing what we’re doing in order to make this country right. That’s what I intend to do, and as the young people say, ‘I ain’t scared,'” Waters, D-Calif., told Blavity in a video interview on Thursday. “We must not be intimidated to the point that we stop advocating and protesting for justice.”
Erin Schaff/The New York Times/ReduxRep. Maxine Waters attends a news conference where House Democrats called for an end to separating immigrant families, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 20, 2018.
The FBI is investigating at least 10 suspected bombs, including two addressed to Waters. Law enforcement officials haven’t disclosed any information about potential suspects in the case but Waters said she blames the president.
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“I think the president of United States should take responsibility for the kind of violence that we are seeing for the first time in different ways,” Waters said. “I think the president of the United States has been dog-whistling to his constituency, making them believe that their problems are caused by ‘those people over there.'”
Waters, 79, ignited controversy earlier this year when she called on her supporters to publicly confront and harass members of the Trump administration in response to the zero-tolerance immigration policy that separated families at the border.
Waters, whom Trump once called “an extraordinarily low IQ person,” attempted to clarify her comments a few days later after Trump claimed she’d “called for harm” to his supporters.
obtained by ABC NewsAn x-ray of the explosive device that was intersected en route to former President Obama’s residence in Washington, on Oct. 24, 2018,
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“I believe in peaceful, very peaceful protests,” Waters told reporters in June. “I have not called for the harm of anybody. This president has lied again when he’s saying that I’ve called for harm.”
Authorities intercepted suspected mail bombs addressed to Waters’ offices in Washington and in Los Angeles this week. Former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, CNN and other outspoken Trump critics were also targeted.
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The FBI said the mailings were an apparent attempt to further political aims.
Trump urged the country to come together in “peace and harmony” but he said members of the media should bare some responsibility.
“A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News,” Trump tweeted Thursday.
“Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, “it’s just not Presidential,” he added in another tweet early Friday morning.
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