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Rep. Waters: “I’m questioning the patriotism” of Republicans who let Trump side with Putin
Shareblue ^ | July 8, 2017 | Alison R. Parker, Editor, Reproductive justice and LGBTQ rights activist

Posted on 07/08/2017 5:08:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

On the heels of Donald Trump's humiliating and ominous behavior before, during, and after his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Rep. Maxine Waters is calling out the GOP's lack of patriotism and refusal to repudiate Trump's embrace of the Russian strongman.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has no time for the Republican Party’s hollow claims of patriotism — not when they can’t even bring themselves to denounce their ostensible leader’s deferential embrace of an adversarial country which attacked our very democracy.

Donald Trump appeared to willingly placate and buckle under to Russian President Vladimir Putin, proving that Putin’s KGB-honed techniques of manipulation are working out quite well on Trump — to the certain detriment of the rest of us.

On MSNBC’s AMJoy with guest host Jonathan Capehart, Waters emphatically declared that Republicans who can watch what is happening between Trump and Putin and not repudiate it have forfeited their pompous claims of patriotism.

And the Congresswoman was characteristically biting on exactly what is behind the GOP’s reticence.

“I think they are frightened, they’re afraid,” she noted, adding that “they don’t have the guts to stand up” to Trump.

And it is likely their fears of anger from Trump, and thus his support for them to be challenged in their next re-election bid, leading Republicans to let Trump “walk all over them.”

CAPEHART: You have been in Congress for many, many years, and, you know, your question of ‘Where are the patriots, where are the Republicans?’ — why don’t you think your fellow — Republicans in the Capitol, in Congress, aren’t stepping out and being full-throated in their condemnation of a president of the United States not standing up to the leader of Russia, and not defending our democratic processes here at home?

WATERS: Good question! And you know, these Republicans who think they’re more patriotic than anybody else, that somehow they wave the flag better — we’re the real patriots, we’re standing up for this country. I hate to say it, but I think they are frightened, they’re afraid, they don’t have the guts to stand up to him. They’re allowing him to walk all over them, because they think that somehow, he can come into their districts and that he can, you know, get the people organized against them in the vote in ’18.

Well, you know, the people sent them to the Congress of the United States to represent them, not to be afraid of a president who is looking more like a dictator than a president. And so I’m questioning the patriotism of all of those Republicans who are allowing this president to side with Putin, to wrap his arms around Putin, and let Putin say, ‘No, I didn’t do it, and you don’t have any proof that I did, so forget about it, let’s move on.’

It ought to be obvious to anyone in the United States — and certainly to those elected by the people to lead the nation — that Trump’s behavior toward Putin is unpatriotic and dangerous.

And if Republicans are not willing to do their job, and to fulfill their duty to protect the country, perhaps the primary challenge they so fear is exactly what they deserve.


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: congress; democrats; gop; putin; republicans; russia; trump; waters
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To: heights

She reads the WSJ and is very savvy with her investments...just like hillary.


41 posted on 07/08/2017 5:50:35 PM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

I really didn’t need that “vision”,


42 posted on 07/08/2017 6:00:48 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OH, this from a Democrat? Puh-leeze. They’re on the side of every Marxist cannibal dictator in the world.


43 posted on 07/08/2017 6:08:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick (The Golden Rule. Just that.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Rep. Waters: “I’m questioning the patriotism” of Republicans who let Trump side with Putin"

I question the patriotism of Democrats "let" Waters run her mouth.

44 posted on 07/08/2017 6:10:16 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Charles Martel

LOL!


45 posted on 07/08/2017 6:16:36 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would rather deal with Vladimir Putin any day of the week instead of Maxipads Dirty Waters.


46 posted on 07/08/2017 6:17:25 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: ScottinVA

They pulled the same, damn crap during Bush. Remember Hitlery’s screaming diatribe?


47 posted on 07/08/2017 6:18:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maxine is a fraud (and a lunatic). She lives in a multi-million-dollar home in a rich area with only 6% blacks, lives outside of the area she represents which is mostly poor blacks, and is fed money for her lavish lifestyle. Let’s find out from whom.


48 posted on 07/08/2017 6:24:31 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Did she get all huffy with Obama Lama the Ding Dong when he whispered to the Russians he’d have more flexibility after the 2012 elections?

So you know she’s 100% full of bull excrement.


49 posted on 07/08/2017 6:28:39 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: oldplayer

First, Maxine “takes of the gloves,” and now she questions my patriotism. Is she serious, or is she delirious?


None of the above...just a full-blown retard.


50 posted on 07/08/2017 6:31:17 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: John Milner

Yep.


51 posted on 07/08/2017 6:33:11 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“On the heels of Donald Trump’s humiliating and ominous behavior before, during, and after his meeting with Vladimir Putin...”

Maxine didn’t write that and it’s a ridiculous falsehood.


52 posted on 07/08/2017 6:35:56 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: heights

Yeah, sometimes it bees dat way.


53 posted on 07/08/2017 6:37:25 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maxine, my guess is you are brain dead.


54 posted on 07/08/2017 6:37:38 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: Psalm 144

Cosmic


55 posted on 07/08/2017 6:37:51 PM PDT by pelican001
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

God knows I’ve wanted to scream that diatribe back at them plenty of times in the last 10 years.


56 posted on 07/08/2017 6:38:11 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Always knew she was a war mongering neocon. Lol.


57 posted on 07/08/2017 6:40:32 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: ichabod1

Doooo iiit! What’s stopping you?


58 posted on 07/08/2017 6:44:43 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

where do you find this crap?


59 posted on 07/08/2017 6:46:54 PM PDT by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: dontreadthis

All over the place. Google, Reddit, AOL, Hot Air, Drudge, RealClearPolitics and etc.


60 posted on 07/08/2017 6:50:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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