Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Maxine Waters: I Don't Support Trump Firing Comey, I Would Support Hillary Clinton Firing Comey
Real Clear Politics ^ | May 10, 2017 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 05/11/2017 12:33:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

NBC's Peter Alexander grills Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Cali.) for her displeasure at President Trump firing FBI Director James Comey after she had announced in January that he has lost all credibility after attending a classified briefing conducted by the now-former director.

In March, Waters issued a press release that read Comey "advanced Russia's misinformation campaign."

"I do not necessarily support the president's decision," Waters said. " I think that if the president would have fired him when he first came in, he would not have to be in a position now where he is trying to make up a story about why. It does not meet the smell test."

However, in the interview Wednesday on MSNBC, asked if she would be okay with a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton dismissing Comey from his position, Waters said yes.

"If she had won the White House, I believe that given what he did to her, and what he tried to do, she should have fired him. Yes," the California Democrat said.

"So she should have fired him but had he shouldn't fire him. This is why I'm confused," Alexander said to Waters.

"No, no you're not confused," Waters told Alexander.

"I am confused," Alexander responded.

Waters tells Alexander that she does not support Trump's decision to fire Comey:

PETER ALEXANDER, NBC NEWS: You obviously have been very critical of James Comey in the past. You said that he had no credibility. I assume you support the president's decision then to fire his FBI director.

REP. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA): No, I do not necessarily support the president's decision....

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: California; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: comey; hillary; hypocrite; trump; waters
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-51 next last
Got that?
1 posted on 05/11/2017 12:33:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Her hair weave is on fire. She supports only certain peeps to put it out.


2 posted on 05/11/2017 12:43:41 AM PDT by blackdog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s just a job.


3 posted on 05/11/2017 12:44:42 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Easy. Hillary should have won, she any decision she made regarding Comey would have been legitimate. Trump stole the election with Russian help, so any decisions he makes - at all - are illegitimate. Democrat Power Politics 101.


4 posted on 05/11/2017 12:47:41 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

It absolutely baffles me how anyone could want this brain damaged woman representing them.


5 posted on 05/11/2017 12:47:52 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Are her constituents also this dumb? Did she get her schooling in the district she represents? If so, her constituents must be as stupid as she is.


6 posted on 05/11/2017 12:55:28 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Seeing More Clearly Now

I would suspect that a quarter of the Maxine voters regularly (daily) smoke marijuana. You could put Elvis (dead for over thirty years) on the ballot there and the same crowd would vote for him.


7 posted on 05/11/2017 12:58:17 AM PDT by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Seeing More Clearly Now

This Is A Closely Related Question To Ask: A much more serious question is: How does conservatism, finally, make successful political inroads, throughout all of the worlds’ cities? In the U.S., whenever the GOP does win any political offices from within cities, they are, almost always, RINO Republicans! A super majority of U.S. city voters are far leftist, and the divide between the political left voters and the political right voters, within ALL U.S. cities, isn’t, even, close! If it wasn’t for the existence of the electoral college, then the political left would, always, determine who all future POTUS picks will end up being, while U.S. conservatism would, always, be a political minority!


8 posted on 05/11/2017 1:03:26 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe it’s about time to reopen ethics charges against Maxine dearest so she can do a little dance for us.

“According to Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich writing in the Los Angeles Times in 2004, Maxine Waters’ relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped. They claimed she and her husband helped a company get government bond business, and her daughter Karen Waters and son Edward Waters have profited from her connections. Waters replied that “They do their business and I do mine.”[54] Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named Waters to its list of corrupt members of Congress in its 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011 reports. She was accused of using her position to prevail upon officials to meet with OneUnited Bank without disclosing that she and her husband had significant stock holdings in the company.[55] Since she was on the Financial Services Committee she largely had the role of determining where TARP funds would go. $12 Million in TARP funds went to OneUnited without her ever disclosing that she had a financial stake at the company.[56][57][58] Citizens Against Government Waste named her the June 2009 Porker of the Month due to her intention to obtain an earmark for the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.[59]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters


9 posted on 05/11/2017 1:25:20 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m about 40 miles from her district. WAY too close.


10 posted on 05/11/2017 1:36:16 AM PDT by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s Maxine Waters who doesn’t meet the smell test. I can smell that sorry, stupid, rancid, liberal all the way over here in Florida.


11 posted on 05/11/2017 1:49:07 AM PDT by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pepsionice
You could put Elvis (dead for over thirty years) on the ballot there and the same crowd would vote for him.

Elvis is not dead. He just went home.

12 posted on 05/11/2017 1:51:37 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

......”It absolutely baffles me how anyone could want this brain damaged woman representing them”......

She can’t remember from one day to the next what she says....she just blows whatever wind they give her to blow...I don’t think she has a single thought of her own.

Heck she threw her hands up a short while ago and said...
“The FBI Director has no credibility”...like the rest of them have. All just wind blowing....and that’s all it is.


13 posted on 05/11/2017 2:24:43 AM PDT by caww
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“It absolutely baffles me how anyone could want this brain damaged woman representing them.”

Her district is mainly the gang-infested ‘hoods in south-central LA (CA-43). She’s loud, black and radical, and most of all despises white people. Waters termed the LA riots a “legitimate insurrection.” Hating white people all that’s needed to keep the ‘hoodrat vote.


14 posted on 05/11/2017 2:33:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals' agony is my entertainment.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

She would probably agree with President Hillary running drugs or committing piracy on the high seas or being involved in child exploitation..oops..didn’t Hillary take money from people connected with those sorts of activities?


15 posted on 05/11/2017 2:41:33 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because ‘Democrats’.


16 posted on 05/11/2017 2:56:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Why has the media elevated some old hag with a James Brown wig ?


17 posted on 05/11/2017 3:06:22 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

good, solid, worthless n-word logic


18 posted on 05/11/2017 3:11:49 AM PDT by brucedickinson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Selfish people, with IQs of 70, and who see EVERY issue through the lens of “racism” think Kerosene Maxine is a genius.
19 posted on 05/11/2017 3:16:07 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh Come ON !

The lady is bat crap crazy, but she is also making the point that Trump should have fired him way before now ..

AS DID WE ALL HERE IN FR ...

and not do it while "under investigation"

Her argument is on the face of it appearing valid.

EVERYONE IS CAUGHT UP IN RESPONDING TO "NEWS STORIES" AND NOT TO THE FACTUAL NEWS.

THAT'S why FR is so overloaded with (fake news) posts.

President Trump and Russia / Putin are in no way connected because of any voting / election collusion, but because the enemy of America floated that story a few months ago, the sycophant lamestream ran with it and now there is an entire lexicon of buzzwords that the enemy can use and the LIV (low information voter) can and will red flag themselves into thinking it is true and maybe we should do something about it.


Paul Ryan and Reince Preibis (where do they GET these names ?) are two OTHERS that we still don't understand the why they're there.


Let's be careful how we read English.

20 posted on 05/11/2017 3:40:56 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-51 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson