Rep. Lauren Boebert slammed Democrat Maxine Waters after claiming House Republicans were “domestic terrorists,” arguing that nobody in the House has called for more violence than Waters.
Speaking on Ayman on MSNBC, Waters attacked the “Marjorie Taylor Greene Republican caucus” when discussing the possibility of federal police reform in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols at the hand of Memphis police officers.
“We’re gonna try to do everything that we possibly can, but I think that the average American person can see what is going on,” Waters said. “We have these right-wing conservatives who are, you know, we have domestic terrorists in the House of Representatives. These people are extremists.”
“It’s the Marjorie Taylor Greene Republican Caucus. And so I don’t expect anything from them,”@RepMaxineWaters says on why she’s not optimistic about police reform on a federal level. pic.twitter.com/pUXLUNT7xo
— AYMAN (@AymanMSNBC) January 29, 2023
After Waters made her comments on MSNBC, Rep. Lauren Boebert hit back against the accusations on Twitter. “Maxine Waters says that we have House Republicans who are domestic terrorists,” she tweeted. “Interesting, as I don’t remember anyone in the House who has called for more violence than Maxine Waters,” Boebert added.
Maxine Waters says that we have House Republicans who are domestic terrorists.
Interesting, as I don’t remember anyone in the House who has called for more violence than Maxine Waters.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) January 30, 2023
Waters has been caught on camera multiple times expressing violent rhetoric. Before Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd in 2021, Waters expressed her desire to see a conviction while out on the streets with radical antifa protestors in Minnesota.
Should Chauvin not have been convicted for murder, Waters declared that “we gotta stay on the streets, we gotta get more active, we got to get more confrontational, we got to make sure they know we mean business.”
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) to BLM protesters in Brooklyn Center, MN:
“[Protestors] got to stay on the street and get more active, more confrontational. They’ve got to know that we mean business.” pic.twitter.com/GLIPoLwZnd
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) April 18, 2021
Eric Nelson, the lawyer for Derek Chauvin, suggested that Waters had made “threats against the sanctity of the jury process,” adding that it was “mindboggling” to see a sitting US Representative call “threatening acts of violence.”
Judge Cahill noted that Waters may have given Chauvin’s defense team “something on appeal that may have resulted in this whole trial being overturned.” Nelson said Waters’ comments were “abhorrent,” and that he wished elected officials would “stop talking about this case.”
Judge Cahill says Maxine Waters's comments may help Chauvin on any appeal.
"I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case… I think if they want to give their opinions they should do so in a respectful [way]…Their failure to do so is abhorrent." pic.twitter.com/qrPGOPbpW0
— Jack Hadfield 🇬🇧 (@JackHadders) April 19, 2021
In 2018, Waters made similarly shocking comments when protesting against the 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 cause a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome,” she declared.
