Maxine Waters incites mob violence against members of Trump administration *UPDATE*

Maxine Waters incites mob violence against members of Trump administration *UPDATE*
Maxine Waters inflaming passions against the administration (Image via Twitter)

The first rule of the House of Representatives official code of conduct specifies that “a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.”

Some might reasonably question whether Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) behaved creditably on Saturday when she delivered duel rants, one to a mob of fellow Trump haters on a California sidewalk whom she encouraged to harass and heckle members of the administration.

Waters, who has long been obsessed with impeachment and conspiracy theories involving Russia, appeared on MSNBC to share her views on the family separation crisis. Host Chris Hayes asked if she was in agreement with fourteen Democratic colleagues who had called on DHS Secretary Kristjen Nielsen to step down. Her answer can be found in this video, a transcript of which follows below:

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

I have no sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it’s wrong for what they’re doing on so many fronts. They tend to not want to confront this president or even leave, but they know what they’re doing is wrong. I want to tell you, these members of his cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store. The people are going to turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re absolutely going to harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.’ This is wrong. This is unconscionable. We can’t keep doing this to children,” she said during an interview on MSNBC.

We’ve got to push back. We’ve got to say no. I, for example, have stepped way out there. I said this man needs to be impeached. I know a lot of people think we’re not ready to say that. Some people have said a long time ago he would become presidential. He will never be presidential. This man does not have any good values. I believe he needs to be impeached. As a matter of fact, a long time before he’s doing what he’s doing now with these children. I think he had done enough to undermine this country and to have us understand we cannot trust him, that we should have come with an impeachment resolution. So, I believe we cannot wait until the next presidential election. We have to resist him. I want to see him impeached.

Waters repeated her call for mob violence, this time to a mob in Los Angeles whom she managed to whip into a frenzy. Again, the transcript of her comments appear below:

If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants, who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, ‘No peace, no sleep. No peace, no sleep.

And guess what, we’re going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff Sessions and others, you really don’t know the Bible. God is on our side! On the side of the children. On the side of what’s right. On the side of what’s honorable. …

And so, let’s stay the course. Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

Waters, by the way, still has not condemned death threats against the president.

Exit question: How far will the hate go and will Maxine Waters be held accountable if a member of the administration is murdered?

*UPDATE* Never mind whether Maxine Waters will be censured by her House colleagues for inciting violence. The stakes could be far higher, as Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit points out:

Here is the US Code 2101 on Riots:

(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent—
(1) to incite a riot; or
(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or
(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or
(4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot;
and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph— [1] Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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