At a press conference Tuesday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) went into peak gaslight mode on the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, wagging her finger at Americans for daring to believe the evidence of their own eyes that there was, in fact, violence in the streets.
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But the charade didn’t last. On Wednesday, she finally admitted the obvious and acknowledged that there was violence in Los Angeles, though she did her best to bury the admission under a barrage of partisan deflection and blame aimed at President Trump.
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Appearing on CNN, Waters first launched into a familiar tirade, accusing Trump of provoking unrest and insisting the responsibility lies with him, not with local leadership. “The President of the United States should do what he didn’t do
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