Newsmax Guest on Maxine Waters Denying Use of Violent Rhetoric Against Trump: ‘There Really is a Double Standard Here’

House Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) appeared on MSNBC’s show “Velshi” yesterday and denied she glorified or encouraged violence against Republicans in a 2018 speech that she made.

The clip was played today on Newsmax and guest Amber Athey said, “It’s pretty wild to hear those words in contrast to President Trump during his speech at the White House Ellipse, where he told people that they should be protesting peacefully.”

“This isn’t the only person on the left side of the aisle who has said things like this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tweets still up on her account talking about how protesting needs to be done to make people uncomfortable and if you’re not making people uncomfortable then you aren’t doing it right,” Athey continued.

Athey concluded by suggesting that “There really is a double standard here in how rhetoric is determined to be violent or not violent depending on the political party of the person who is saying it.”

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As reported by Breitbart:

Anchor Ali Velshi said, “I was able to play that clip that you were referring to from June 23rd, 2018, where you’re asking people to confront Republicans at department stores, gas stations, and restaurants and tell them they’re not welcome. That’s the stuff that Donald Trump’s attorneys say proves that you and others are doing the same thing Donald Trump was doing on January 6th and in the days before that. What’s the difference?”

Waters said, “They’re going to try it, but nothing any Democrat that I know of have ever said or acted in the way the president of the United States has acted. People must realize this president was out to destroy our democracy if he could not be president. He sent those people, those domestic terrorists, to the Capitol to take over the Capitol. Even they are saying so. They’re saying they were invited by the president. The president 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.”

She continued, “Yes, I defended those poor children in cages that the Trump administration has left there separated from their parents. There was a movement at the time where restaurants were denying members of his administration of his cabinet and saying you guys should speak up for the children. And so that does not in any way equal what this president has said and what he has done. As a matter of fact, the Republicans should be afraid not only about the destruction of our democracy, but if they continue to support him and allow themselves to be guided by him, they’re going to have to live with a president that dictates to them every vote they can take, every vote they cannot take, he’s going to be in their primaries, they will be owned by this dishonorable human being. If that’s how they want to live, if they would rather be owned by the president who in fact tried to destroy our democracy in order to stay in office, then they don’t deserve to be elected. So no matter what he says about me or Nancy Pelosi, Cory Booker, or anybody they’re going to point to, it won’t work. It won’t work at all because nothing matches the way this president has tried to destroy this democracy.”

Velshi said, “So let me ask you because this is what they’re going to say. Can you say that you have not glorified or encouraged violence against Republicans?”

Waters said, “Absolutely, I can say it. As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I was 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.”

We reported on May 28 of last year that Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had retweeted a tweet that indirectly compared the Minneapolis riots to the actions taken at the Boston Tea Party.

The tweet that she retweeted, referred to the Boston Tea Party as the “riot that gave birth to this country.”

On May 31, 2020, we also reported on a tweet by AOC that has now been deleted where she attempted to shift the focus after then President Trump suggested Antifa should be designated a terrorist organization to “white supremacist groups.”