{"id":301103,"date":"2017-03-28T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/maxine-waters-questions-patriotism-of-trump-supporters-from-house-floor\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T17:27:06","slug":"maxine-waters-questions-patriotism-of-trump-supporters-from-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/maxine-waters-questions-patriotism-of-trump-supporters-from-house-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxine Waters questions patriotism of Trump supporters from House floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanmirror.com\/maxine-waters-questions-patriotism-trump-supporters-house-floor\/\"><strong>American Mirror<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 28, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note to Donald Trump supporters: Maxine Waters is a bigger patriot than you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s what she thinks.<\/p>\n<p>During a screed on the House floor Monday night, Waters played the race card and the patriotism card against supporters of the president.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RF3XMbTE43o?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-25105\"\/>\u201cMr. Speaker, my position against this president and his administration is clear. I oppose this president. I do not honor this president. I do not respect this president,\u201d Waters said during a nearly 9-minute speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican-Americans have struggled and fought historically, many African-Americans have paid a huge price fighting for justice and equality in this country, have died for it. I don\u2019t have to call the names of Martin Luther King and all the others. We have paid a price, we have fought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut guess what? Despite the fact that America has not always been there for us, we\u2019ve always been there for America. We have fought in America\u2019s wars. We have suffered discrimination, we have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not,\u201d Waters said.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we fight against this president, and we point out how dangerous he is for this society and for this country, we\u2019re fighting for the democracy. We\u2019re fighting for America. We\u2019re saying to those who say they\u2019re patriotic but they\u2019ve turned a blind eye to the destruction that he\u2019s about to cause this country, \u2018You\u2019re not nearly as patriotic as we are.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waters made it clear her mission is not to represent her constituents, but destroy Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The president \u201cis not good for America,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrican-Americans know this. The Black Caucus understands this. And for those members of the Black Caucus representing our leadership, who went to meet with him, they have laid out to him&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/maxine-waters-questions-patriotism-of-trump-supporters-from-house-floor.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American MirrorMarch 28, 2017 Note to Donald Trump supporters: Maxine Waters is a bigger patriot than you are. At least that\u2019s what she thinks. During a screed on the House floor Monday night, Waters played the race card and the patriotism card against supporters of the president. \u201cMr. Speaker, my position against this president and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}