In a recent interview with SiriusXM's Joe Madison, Congresswoman Maxine Waters hits some current issues on the head. She talks KKK, Donald Trump, calling Civil Rights organizations out for lack of support for impeachment, and the violence going on in Virginia. In Maxine Waters fashion, she doesn't hold back and tells it exactly how it is. In the full interview, that can be listened to here, she addresses her issues with what's going on right now as well as her hopes for the future. 


When Congresswoman Waters  was asked about Donald Trump's comments on Charlottesville:

"I still think that Donald Trump is a deplorable human being that does not deserve to be the President of the United States of America. And, even though he finally, after 3 days, made comments where he was able to say the words white supremacist, KKK, alt-right, etc., he only did this because both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, have raised the question about why he hasn’t done it.  Some have condemned him because he hasn’t done it.  And, his advisors have told him that this is serious…he better do it…this might be a tipping point. And so, like I said earlier today, it was not in his heart, he didn’t really mean it.  They wrote the words, he had to say it.  And I think no more of him now than I thought of him after I witnessed him in the Election in the way he conducted himself.”

On what members of the Congressional Black Caucus and members of the other side of the aisle can do:

“I think that’s pretty well known now…I don’t feel that the Intelligence Committee of the House really could get anywhere because it’s headed by Nunez who ran up to the White House trying to protect the president when the president lied on Obama and said Obama had wiretapped him.  So we know he is not the leader that’s really concerned about getting at collusion, or conflict of interest, or interference with justice.  And so, the Senate I had great hopes for but, they move very slowly.  I put my hopes in Mueller now. I think that he is serious…he’s staffed up with a lot of good experts.  He’s already caused the FBI to raid the home of Manafort…and I think he’s going to into the West Wing and he’s going to do the kind of raid and everything that he needs to do to get the information to connect the dots.  And so, we support that. We support that very much.

We have a responsibility to communicate with our constituents and help them to understand, as much as we can, what is going on.  But I would employ everybody…join me…Call for his impeachment, put the pressure on, question the members of the Republican party about their patriotism and whether or not they’re going to stand with this man, with his lies, with distorted information, who before our own eyes interfered in the White House when he literally gave the Russians classified information.  When will they stand up?  I think everybody should be doing what I’m doing and continue to call for impeachment.”

On Stephen Bannon:

“You cannot believe that this President is sincere.  He’s got the white supremacist in the west wing.  They work with him and for him.  How can you take him seriously when it takes him 3 days  to comment on the vile, outrage of the right wing, the alt-right causing all of that calamity and putting people at risk and really being responsible for the death of the young lady who got run over by the car because they organized all of this, they started all of this? How can you take him seriously when all of this stuff is going on?

 

On when President Trump’s administration might dissolve:

“I would say it could happen as early as the end of this year, I really do.  We’ve got to have all the civil rights organizations, all of the non-profits, everybody weighing in and calling for his impeachment.  You’ve got to have people prepare to continue to rally, to continue to convene.  We don’t have enough people weighing in on impeachment…

What you have to say is this, just as they were not willing to stand with him as he made his statement about what took place in Virginia and they called him out because they didn’t want that on their heads, they knew that something was wrong with the way the President dealt with that and you saw them start to come forward. This is what it takes. It takes them understanding that they will be politically endangered if they don’t move at certain times when he reveals himself for what he is and his lack of morals, and what he stands for and so, the more he does it, the more we weigh in, the more the opportunities are there for impeachment.  But, if we just sit around and wait until one person is calling for impeachment, a few people are calling for impeachment, that doesn’t put pressure on them.  We’ve to get city councils coming up with resolutions, we’ve got to get cities coming up with resolutions.  We have not had a resolution from a civil rights organization. 

 

On denouncing the KKK:             

“We don’t have the majority vote and perhaps we can bring over some Republicans.  You saw three of them who came on over on the Senate side when they tried to pass the skinny repeal of Obamacare and sometimes we can get them to come on.  I think that we can keep weakening him as we have just done because of his lack of rising to the occasion to speak up against the white supremacists and what happened in Virginia.  I think the more those kinds of things happen, the more we weigh in, the more we have the possibility of getting Republicans to join in on something like that. 

…This means that everybody has got to be committed to the proposition that we have to get rid of him as president, that he doesn’t deserve it and we have to get these resolutions going from all of our non-profits, and all of our civil rights organizations, our churches.  Where is the Baptist Ministers Conference, where is the CME, the AME? When are we going to hear from everybody?


Congresswoman Water's comments are a call to action. In order to see change, everyone has to do their part. Do you think that Trump could actually be impeached? What do you hope to see black leaders doing more of? Let us know in the comments below.