California Democrat Maxine Waters seems to be regretting making comments which encouraged harassing supporters of former President Trump. Rep. Waters is likely trying to backpedal after seeing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked off her committee assignments over past comments she made. Now, Waters is denying she ever made comments which “glorified or encouraged” violence against Republicans in an interview with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.

Fox News reports:

“As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I said was tell them they’re not welcome,” Watters claimed. “[I said] Talk to them. Tell them they’re not welcome. I didn’t say go and fight. I didn’t say anybody was going to have any violence. And so they can’t make that stick.”

Watters came under fire in 2018 for telling the same network that she had “no sympathy” for administration officials who defended Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, and urged her supporters to “absolutely harass them” when appearing in public.

“They’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store,” Waters said at the time. “The people are going to turn on them, they’re going to protest, they’re going to absolutely harass them.”

Her comments came after then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former press secretary Sarah Sanders were confronted with their families in public over family separation during the Trump administration.

Rep. Waters may come to further regret her rhetoric towards Republicans as Trump’s impeachment attorney plans to use her video compared side-by-side of Trump’s speech at The Ellipse on Jan 6th. Democrats voted to impeach the former President claiming his speech inciting an insurrection, however, many have been critical that evidence will be enough to convict.

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