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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaxine Waters Warns That MAGA Terrorists Are Plotting Nationwide Pre-Inauguration Attacks
Posted on Mon, Jan 11th, 2021 by Sean Colarossi
Maxine Waters Warns That MAGA Terrorists Are Plotting Nationwide Pre-Inauguration Attacks
As the country continues to reel from a violent coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol that was incited by the sitting president of the United States, there is a growing possibility that other MAGA attacks are being plotted all across the country in the run up to Joe Bidens inauguration.
During an interview on Monday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she wasnt at all confident that Bidens swearing-in would be secure. She also warned that other acts of MAGA violence and terrorism could target other states.
Some of our state legislative offices are also targeted, the Democratic lawmaker said. They may have an operation thats going on all over the country at one time, where they are being attacked.
I think were in a very dangerous time in the history of this country, she added.
Link to tweet
Rep. Waters said:
No, Im not confident (that Bidens inauguration will be secure), based on what weve just experienced. And we need to do a deep investigation about how this happened and whos complicit in all of this. But I want to tell you not only am I not confident about the times that you are identifying that possibly we could have real problems. I do believe that the president of the United States, Trump, has organized and worked in a way that even after hes not serving as the president, that he believes that hes going to have control over a significant population in this country that he can use to basically rule and to basically confront whatever entity hed like to confront thats not agreeing with him, turn them on to other groups, etc. I think that he intends to exercise power even past his presidency. And so, whether youre talking about a group of particular dates where we may have trouble, and I also think that, you know, when they talk about the 17th and they talk about the 20th, that some of our state legislative offices are also targeted. And they may have an operation thats going on all over the country at one time, where they are being attacked. So, I think were in a very dangerous time in the history of this country.
New reporting from The New York Times sheds light on why Rep. Waters and others are concerned about future attacks, particularly in Washington D.C. on inauguration day.
According to the Times, Another Defense Department official said that law enforcement agencies were planning for any number of possible events, some of them horrific. Worst-case scenarios include snipers targeting inauguration dignitaries, suicide-type aircraft entering Washingtons restricted airspace and even remote-powered drones attacking the crowd.
The officials said they were particularly worried about multiple active-shooter situations flaring up simultaneously, the report added.
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Maxine Waters Warns That MAGA Terrorists Are Plotting Nationwide Pre-Inauguration Attacks (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2021
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(70,102 posts)1. god. damn. him.
reading this and thinking about obama's 1st inauguration. i was there. it was a wonder, so many happy ppl, chatting while their toes froze.
i was there for the 2nd, too. i actually had tix for that one. i had to go pick them up at my rep's office the day before. i was awed by the building.
smaller, but no less joyous.
and joe is gonna has the smallest, most tightly controlled event ever.
there is no way around it.
12 short yrs. damn them all to the lowest circle of hell.