A bitter Maxine Waters won’t attend President Trump’s first speech to Congress tonight.
She has not publicly stated why, though it’s entirely possible she’s still looking to Russia’s apparent invasion of “Korea.”
MSNBC reports Waters has told her colleagues privately that she will not be at Trump’s speech tonight.
According to Kasie Hunt, Waters’ Democratic colleagues encouraged her to attend, but apparently to no avail.
Speaking to reporters with other House Democrats earlier this month, Waters attempted to build the case for why Democrats “may” push for impeachment.
“How can a president who is acting the manner he is acting — whether he’s talking about the travel ban, the way he’s targeted Muslims, or whether he’s talking about his relationship to (Vladimir) Putin and the Kremlin and knowing that they have hacked our (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and the (Democratic National Committee),” she said.
But then the already wobbly wheels began falling off Waters’ rhetoric wagon.
“And knowing that he’s responsible for supplying the bombs that killed innocent children and families in, um, in, um,” she said, forgetting the name before someone behind her murmured, “Aleppo.”
“Yeah, in Aleppo,” she said.
Waters continued, “And the fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea.”
Korea, Crimea, what’s the difference, besides spellings, cultures and continents?
Referring to Trump, she said, “I think he’s leading himself into that kind of position where folks will begin to ask, ‘What are we going to do?’ and the answer’s going to be, ‘Eventually, we’ve got to do something about him.'”
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