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"I ain't scared" - Maxine Waters
'I ain't scared': Maxine Waters says after being target of suspicious packagesDemocratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California says she won't be intimidated even though she was the intended recipient of two suspicious packages intercepted Wednesday.
"I don't know whether the bombs are real or not, but we should not crawl under the bed, close the doors, not go out, be afraid to go to rallies, whatever," Waters said in an interview with Blavity Politics Wednesday.
She added, "We have to keep to doing what we're doing in order to make this country right. That's what I intend to do, and as the young people said, 'I ain't scared.'"
Sources told CNN that the first package to Waters was intercepted at a congressional mail sorting facility outside Washington. A second package was found at a postal facility in south central Los Angeles, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.
She also told Blavity Politics that President Donald Trump "in his own way really does promote a lot of violence" and "should take responsibility for the kind of violence that we are seeing for the first time in different ways."
The California Democrat argued that Trump's supporters are "acting out what they believe the president wants them to do and the way that he wants them to act."
"He is expert at lying and deceiving and encouraging people in his own way to be violent, to be racist, to be separatist," Waters said.
"I don't know whether the bombs are real or not, but we should not crawl under the bed, close the doors, not go out, be afraid to go to rallies, whatever," Waters said in an interview with Blavity Politics Wednesday.
She added, "We have to keep to doing what we're doing in order to make this country right. That's what I intend to do, and as the young people said, 'I ain't scared.'"
Sources told CNN that the first package to Waters was intercepted at a congressional mail sorting facility outside Washington. A second package was found at a postal facility in south central Los Angeles, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.
She also told Blavity Politics that President Donald Trump "in his own way really does promote a lot of violence" and "should take responsibility for the kind of violence that we are seeing for the first time in different ways."
The California Democrat argued that Trump's supporters are "acting out what they believe the president wants them to do and the way that he wants them to act."
"He is expert at lying and deceiving and encouraging people in his own way to be violent, to be racist, to be separatist," Waters said.
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