California Congresswoman Maxine Waters appeared on NewsNation this week to talk about the devastating fires in her state.
Waters, who never missed an opportunity to be politically toxic during Trump’s first term, has been conspicuously quiet since the 2024 election. During her appearance with Chris Cuomo, she claimed that she did not want to talk about Democrat vs. Republican. Cuomo correctly points out to her that politics is involved here because California’s governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass are both Democrats.
Waters then pivots to the victims of the fires and suggests that some of California’s richest people, the one percent, are not paying their ‘fair share’ in taxes. California has the highest taxes in the country.
From Breitbart News:
“The first thing we’ve got to understand is, services cost money and we should be willing to get the richest people in this country, the richest 1% that is protected, make sure they pay their fair taxes so that we can have the money to provide the services. With that money and with those resources, the people who have been selected or elected to do the job should do the job.
I don’t care who it is. It could be Democrat, it could be Republican, it could be whatever. But the fact of the matter is, we all should have heavy hearts right now, but we should have faith and we should be on point by making sure that we do everything to help the people that need us. Dammit, you can do the politics later. You can come and talk about Gavin Newsom later. You can talk about the Democrats later.”
See the video below:
CA Rep Maxine Waters takes umbrage with criticism of Democrats’ handling of LA Wildfires:
Maxine Waters: “nstead of talking about Democrats and Republicans. Get the information up on the screens.”
Chris Cuomo: “However, it can also be seen that you don’t want to talk about the… pic.twitter.com/4wpu0jyGuz— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 11, 2025
Actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman responded to this with anger:
This is unbelievable. Maxine Waters just blamed “rich people” for the failings of @GavinNewsom and @KarenBass. She says the problem is that the rich in Pacific Palisades didn’t pay the taxes necessary to “provide the services.”
The truth is that the wealthy of Los Angeles pay so… https://t.co/NFUeT0icyV— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) January 12, 2025
You can see the entire segment below:
It’s amazing that Waters would use a time like this to push the far left talking point that the rich don’t pay their fair share in taxes. Frankly, every taxpayer in California should be outraged right now.
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