Mad Maxine Waters is downright giddy about the impeachment inquiry opened on President Trump.
The California congresswoman, who has been demanding impeachment since the days after Trump’s 2017 inauguration, could hardly contain her enthusiasm.
Talking with BuzzFeed News on Friday, Waters was asked if she wanted to say “I told you so” now that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has formally opened an impeachment inquiry.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,” Waters responded with a laugh. “A lot of me wanted to do it and I have to be subtle about it because it is not considered acceptable to just get in somebody’s face after you have really made the argument and you’ve won.
“So I’m being subtle about it, yeah, I sure felt like that,” Waters said with a smile.
“So it’s safe you say you felt vindicated?” Waters was asked.
“Absolutely, absolutely,” she said.
Waters first floated impeachment in early February 2017, just days after Trump was sworn in.
Speaking to reporters at the time, 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.”
She meant Crimea.
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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