Rep. Maxine Waters: ‘You can’t trust this president’
As the investigation into ex-National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s Russia connections heats up, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., questioned Thursday how coincidental the links are between President Trump and Russia.
“I’m concerned not only about the vetting process, I’m concerned that there are so many allies of this president, and some in his cabinet, who have connections to Russia,” Waters said when asked by News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga if she was concerned about the stringency of the Trump administration vetting process.
“How is it that all of these people came together in one administration who have business with Russia, visits to Russia, involvement with the Kremlin and with the oligarchs of Russia? There’s something going on here.”
Waters has established herself as one of Trump’s most aggressive critics in Washington, even speculating about the president’s impeachment.
Unsurprisingly, she had few kind things to say about the White House’s latest moves, including a tax proposal and threats to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement.
“We don’t know what it means,” Waters said of the tax plan. “This little one-page so-called plan does not have any specificity, it does not have any details, we don’t know what he’s talking about.”
She continued: “And don’t forget: You can’t trust this president. When he comes out with one thing, he’ll change the next day. Look what he just did with NAFTA. Remember how NAFTA was a bad deal, how he was going to undo NAFTA, he was going to make sure that he breaks it up. Today, I find out he’s backed off of that.”
Waters pivoted to Trump’s widely mocked comment about enjoying delicious chocolate cake when he informed the Chinese president of airstrikes against a Syrian airfield.
“He’s backed off of China, he said that they were currency manipulators. He had chocolate cake with President Xi, and all of the sudden they’re not currency manipulators.”
She also weighed in on the ongoing saga between Ann Coulter and the University of California, Berkeley. The inflammatory conservative commentator’s supporters on the campus canceled a speech there after university and policy officials reported there were threats against her.
“I believe that whether you are right-wing, whether you are moderate, whether you are liberal or progressive, you have a right to speak, to have a voice on our campuses,” Waters said.
“She deserves a right to speak like anybody else.”
