Maxine Waters wants the mob to get "more confrontational"

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So let me get this straight

Maxine Waters says lets get "more confrontational" and the GOP now thinks that is more than enough evidence to hold her accountable for inciting violence


Yet when Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley actually incited real violence that got people killed the GOP refused to hold any of them accountable for their actions....

I'm sorry But I don't take the GOP seriously on this at all, nor do buy their BS Outrage over Maxine Waters comments. maybe they should actually focus on holding people in their own party accountable before accusing the other party on inciting violence

How did Trump or other GOP members of Congress "incite real violence" in any way different than what Maxine Waters is saying here?

If you have to ask, you are Del Taco.

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She's doing the old "say something that you know can and will be interpreted by some people one way, but is vague enough for plausible deniability," trick that Trump used on 1/6/2021 and other times. Bad for her, and it's not the first time she's done this.

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Her exact words were "more confrontational" and "make sure they know we mean business". I don't think she actually wants riots, but it's incredibly irresponsible for her to be using this language since she presumably knows full well that rioting is what will happen if Chauvin is deemed not guilty.

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The presiding judge has harsh words, although he denies the defense's motion for a mistrial:

https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1384252569254436867?s=20

https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1384255827054272513?s=20

People really need to STFU. The play by play commentary we get on high profile trials like this accomplishes nothing accept potentially tainting the jury or witnesses.

Yeah, without any evidence placed on the record that the jurors disregarded their instructions to not watch the news, raising this issue on a pillow is going to go nowhere.

Still, while I agree that an acquittal or hung jury would be heartbreaking, Waters and other overly mouthy politicians need to take a big glass of STFU juice until the trial is done.

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2. Maxine Waters does not have the influence that her critics seem to think she has. Protesters aren't hanging on her every word and taking cues from her to be more outraged than they already are. She isn't Trump.

Again, it doesn't matter whether or not Waters succeeds in inciting violence. The point is that she is trying to intimidate the jury by not-so-subtly implying that an unfavorable verdict will be met with widespread looting and destruction.

The judge just said that her actions could be cause for an appeal.

He's throwing the defense a bone, or rather telling defense counsel he found insufficient evidence so to take it up with the court of appeals. There ain't enough here barring some affirmative evidence being placed on the record that the jurors ignored their sequestration orders, and saw Waters statement, and indicated they might have been materially affected by. None of that occurred here.

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Yet when Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley actually incited real violence that got people killed the GOP refused to hold any of them accountable for their actions....

The "rioters killed Brian Sicknick with a fire estinguisher" narrative pushed by the dishonest media was debunked.  It's completely false.


There was one individual killed on 1/6.  I wonder what her name was...

I never made any reference to Brian Sicknick in my original post nor did I ever make any claims about him being killed with a fire extinguisher

I simply stated that people did lose their lives because of that riot and as you correctly pointed out the 1 person who was shot that day was a Trump supporter. But that does not change the fact that she would still be alive if Trump had not told her to march to that capital in the first place. There is no question his actions as well as others played a big role in why that poor woman pointlessly lost her life that day.

In the end she was lied to about the election by the very people she trusted the most Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley

Let's not forget the woman trampled to death while, NP chironji, carrying a don't tread on me flag. Plus the guy who died of a heart attack after tasering himself in the balls while attempting to steal Capitol Property.