Maxine Waters: I Want Trump ‘Marched Out’ Of White House By Military, Secret Service
California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, a staunch critic of President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that she would like to see the Republican chief executive “marched out” of the White House — during Inauguration Day by either the military or the Secret Service.
The lady lawmaker made her comments on MSNBC over the discussion on her thoughts in the event that President Trump refuses to leave the White House by the end of his term in January, unless he’s able to overturn the election results.
.@RepMaxineWaters says if Trump isn't willing to leave the White House on Jan. 20, she'd like to see the military or Secret Service march him out. pic.twitter.com/uNGRnD2Wyn
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“I know there are a lot of Democrats counting down the ways. I wanted to read something Speaker Pelosi said about Trump. She said she’s counting down the hours until he’s gone. ‘I plan to pull him out of there by his hair, his little hands, and his feet,’” the show’s anchor Ayman Mohyeldin told Waters.
“I’m curious to get your thoughts. Is that what a lot of Democrats are thinking right now about President Trump that he’s gotta get out of there one way or the other?”
Waters replied: “We want him out, and we keep hearing these rumors about everything that he’s doing to try and stay in. We’ve even heard rumors he said he’s not leaving. We want him out, and to tell you the truth, I don’t know exactly what you do with the president who has lost an election, and you have a new person who has been elected to the presidency, and the old president is not wanting to leave. I don’t know what you do.”
“My understanding or what I would like to do is I would like to see him marched out of there. I don’t know whether it’s the secret service or whether it’s military or what have you, but he can’t stay,” the lawmaker said, further spewing more unsubstantiated claims that the Republican President would impose a “martial law” to retain power.
“We want him out of there. I know Nancy Pelosi is counting down the hours. She told me that also,” Waters added.
Call to “harass, attack” Trump Cabinet
As one of President Trump’s fiercest critics, this is not the first time that the California lawmaker made such a rhetoric. In 2018, Waters even encouraged her supporters to “harass and maybe even attack” members of the Trump administration.
Maxine Waters calls for attacks on Trump administration: "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." pic.twitter.com/jMV7wk48wM
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“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,” Waters said then.
Contrary to Waters’ allegations , however, President Trump already said over Thanksgiving that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Democratic presidential candidate “although” it would be “very hard to concede” due to widespread reports of election fraud.
“It’s going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud,” the incumbent Republican president said.
President Trump told reporters that he would leave the White House on January 20, Inauguration Day if he fails to overturn the results of what he calls a “rigged election” — as his team continues to pursue legal measures questioning the integrity of the November 3 polls.
“Certainly I will — and you know that,” the President said. “But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January, a lot of things,” he added.
