Sarah Sanders blasts Maxine Waters for ‘unacceptable’ threats

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders heaped a second helping of scorn Monday on Democratic congresswopman Maxine Waters, telling reporters at that the liberal firebrand’s open call for harrassment of Trump supporters is ‘unacceptable.’

The president himself slammed Waters as ‘an extraordinarily low IQ person’ after she made a public rallying cry for people to hound administration officials they see in public.

‘This weekend,’ Sanders said Monday, ‘a member of Congress called for people to “push back” and make clear to those serving their country in this administration that they are not welcome anywhere, anytime, for anything.’

Waters was reacting to a series of incidents sparked by a rural Virginia restaurateur’s decision to kick her and her husband out because she worked for the Trump administration.

‘We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm,’ Sanders said. ‘And this goes for all people regardless of politics.’

Sarah Sanders called for civility on Monday despite President Trump’s often abrasive and confrontational manner

Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, is a vocal Trump critic and said Trump administration officials should not be able to go anywhere without being publicly harassed

Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, is a vocal Trump critic and said Trump administration officials should not be able to go anywhere without being publicly harassed

Last week protesters from Democratic Socialists of America forced Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to leave a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., complaining loudly about the White House’s immigration policies. 

And protesters accosted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a prominent Trump supporter, outside a film screening Friday night.

The movie was ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor,’ a documentary about the mild-mannered children’s TV pioneer Fred Rogers   

Waters heaped fuel on the fire Saturday, and the president blasted her back on Twitter.  

‘Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max! ,’ Trump tweeted Monday. 

It is unclear what the president meant by the implicit threat.

The never-shy lawmaker, a California Democrat who is a vocal Trump critic, made her war cry at a public rally in Los Angeles outside a federal building.

She was condemning the Trump administration policy on immigration – particularly the separation of illegal immigrant children from their families – and called on him to be impeached. 

President Donald Trump slammed Waters as 'an extraordinarily low IQ person' after she made a public rallying cry for people to harass his aides

President Donald Trump slammed Waters as ‘an extraordinarily low IQ person’ after she made a public rallying cry for people to harass his aides

Trump attacked the Democratic lawmaker via one of his favorite weapons: Twitter

Trump attacked the Democratic lawmaker via one of his favorite weapons: Twitter

Sanders' call for kindness followed a Friday night episode in which the co-owner of the Red Hen, a restaurant in rural Lexington, Virginia, ejected her and her husband because she works at the White House

Sanders’ call for kindness followed a Friday night episode in which the co-owner of the Red Hen, a restaurant in rural Lexington, Virginia, ejected her and her husband because she works at the White House

‘Let’s stay the course. Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and 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 and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,’ she yelled as supporters cheered.

She added: ‘Mr. President, we will see you every day, every hour of the day, everywhere that we are to let you know you cannot get away with this!’

She warned those who work for Trump will get no peace.

‘For these members of his Cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant. They’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station. They’re not going to be able to shop at a department store,’ she said. ‘The people are going to turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No I can’t hang with you — this is wrong, this is unconscionable, and we can’t keep doing this to children.”

Waters holds what is seen as a safely Democratic House seat that she was first elected to in 1990. She is being challenged by Republican candidate Omar Navarro, who has the endorsement of former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Republicans swiftly criticized Waters.

And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to Waters’ comments as ‘unacceptable’ but blamed Trump’s ‘daily lack of civility’ for provoking them.

‘Trump’s daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable,’ she wrote on a retweet of a CNN story on Waters’ remarks. ‘As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.’

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, called Waters’ comments ‘absolutely insane’ and ‘extremely dangerous’ in her twitter post on the incident.

Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News that what Waters was doing is “very dangerous.”

“She should apologize to the American public,” he said. 

Waters is a longtime liberal and foe to Republican presidents, including Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. She was a vocal critic of the war in Iraq during the second Bush’s presidency.  

Waters, at her rally, used colorful, flashy rhetoric to whip up the crowd. 

‘History will record while he tried to step on all of us, we kicked him in his rear and step on him,’ she said 

‘If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,’ she added.

Then she called on people to assail administration officials where ever they saw them in public. 

Waters’ plea follows two incidents involving high-profile members of Trump’s administration.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Waters' call was 'unacceptable'

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Waters’ call was ‘unacceptable’

Republicans like Meghan McCain criticized Waters

Republicans like Meghan McCain criticized Waters

Rep. Waters holds what is seen as a safe Democratic House seat

Rep. Waters holds what is seen as a safe Democratic House seat

On Friday, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave because of her job, which Sanders tweeted about from her official White House account.

And last week when Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was run out of a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC by protesters.

The protesters descended on MXDC Cocina Mexicana by Todd English, where Nielsen was dining with a male colleague just hours after Donald Trump praised her for doing a ‘fabulous job’ at Sunday’s press conference.

‘Secretary Nielsen how dare you spend your evening here eating dinner,’ one protester begins to yell in the video.

‘You’re complicit in the separation and deportation of over 10,000 children separated from their parents.’

‘If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace! Not in DC, not in the US!’ they chant at one point.

 



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