The Gateway Pundit reported Tuesday, April 20, that Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) introduced a privileged resolution Tuesday to censure Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) after she incited violence. The day’s vote was 216 Democrats to 210 Republicans, with every House Democrat supporting Waters and rejecting the resolution censuring Waters.
Waters, an 82-year-old black congresswoman, flew to Minnesota on Saturday to incite hatred in the streets, declaring that violent leftists and authorities would have to “confront each other even more” if the Floyd case did not convict Officer Shovan of murder. Just hours after the crazed Waters incited violence, a Minnesota National Guard patrol in north Minneapolis was fired upon by a mob in a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning.
Subsequently, many Republicans, including McCarthy, condemned Waters’ comments as inciting violence.
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, who was shot by a man who called Republicans the “American Taliban” during a 2017 congressional baseball practice, nearly died. He said on Monday afternoon that “Waters knew her comments would incite violence in Minneapolis, but she didn’t care because she asked for a police escort herself.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that the House should certainly censure Waters. Because she has encouraged violence time and time again. But the Democrat wants to see looting, police cars burned and violence because he thinks it “serves their political purposes.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on the Senate floor Monday, said a congressman flew in from California to not-so-subtly tell local leaders that the accused officers had better be found guilty or there would be big trouble on the streets. This is the current congressman, looking at what happened last summer and suggesting there should be some sort of sequel, which is way out of scale.
Waters remained defiant as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) worked to advance a formal censure of the House Financial Services Committee chairman, defending herself Monday by saying Republicans had twisted her words. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also defended Waters, telling reporters on Monday that Waters does not need to apologize for her incitement to violence that led to the shooting of the National Guard.
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