Rep. Maxine Waters said those who want to harm her had better “shoot straight because there’s nothing like a wounded animal.”
The California Democrat’s comments at a rally Saturday in Los Angeles protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies days after the veteran lawmaker said she had to cancel speaking events in Alabama and Texas this weekend due to death threats.
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Those threats came after she exhorted opponents of Trump’s immigration policies to confront and harass Cabinet members wherever possible.
“Already you have members of your Cabinet who have been booed out of restaurants,” she said in remarks last weekend directed at the president.
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