Maxine Waters cancels events over 'very serious death threat'

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[Sub-Driver]

Maxine Waters cancels events over 'very serious death threat'

By Jacqueline Thomsen - 06/28/18 08:06 PM EDT

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has canceled a pair of public events after she received a “very serious death threat,” CNN reported Thursday.

The congresswoman said in a statement that she had seen an increase in threats after she called for protestors to publicly confront Trump officials.

"As the President has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while also offering a veiled threat that I should 'be careful', even more individuals are leaving (threatening) messages and sending hostile mail to my office," Waters said in the statement, according to CNN.

She said there was "one very serious death threat" made against her on Monday from a person in Texas, "which is why my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were cancelled this weekend."

"This is just one in several very serious threats the United States Capitol Police are investigating in which individuals threatened to shoot, lynch, or cause me serious bodily harm," Waters said.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police told The Hill that it does not comment on ongoing investigations.

President Trump publicly criticized Waters during campaign rallies this week, and inaccurately claimed in a tweet on Monday that Waters called for harm to his supporters.

The Democrat said that she did not call for harm to Trump’s supporters or officials, and that she believes in “peaceful protest.”

[Walrus]

Brilliant, dfwgator!

[P.O.E.]

Serious death is the worst kind.

[Ambrosia]

OH my! Shouldn’t that have (sarc) behind it? Maxine Waters is crazy...off the track...insane...and she would not know warm, if she was standing in it! Her and that Rodeo clown from Florida Legislature.. Fredrick Wilson? LOL

[Slyfox]

She was sitting in first class.