Former President Donald Trump may be campaigning for a second, non-consecutive term — an anomaly — but he’s denied any plans to seek a third one by challenging the 22nd Amendment.
“I wouldn’t be in favor of it. I wouldn’t be in favor of a challenge. Not for me,” Trump told Time magazine recently. “I wouldn’t be in favor of it at all. I intend to serve four years and do a great job. And I want to bring our country back. I want to put it back on the right track.”
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., isn’t buying it. Waters’ conspiracy theory: Trump of plotting a takeover aided by shadowy groups “training up in the hills somewhere.”
MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart broached the subject Sunday during his conversation with Waters.
“Trump says in that in that Time interview interview that he would not seek to overturn or ignore the Constitution’s prohibition on a third term,” Capehart said.
“Should the American people believe that? Do you believe that?”
Waters, MSNBC’s favorite guest, swung with full force into her conspiracy theory.
“No! Absolutely not,” Waters exclaimed. “As I said, you can’t believe anything that Donald Trump has to say. Donald Trump will do any and everything that he can possibly get away with. He does not at all support the Constitution of the United States of America. This is a man who we better be careful about.”
Then, Waters dropped her paranoid remark about hidden groups “training up in the hills.”
“I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to ask the Justice Department, and I am going to ask the president to tell us what they are going to do to protect this country against violence if [Biden] loses,” Waters said.
“I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere and targeting what communities they are going to attack. We need to know now, given that he is telling us there is going to be violence if he loses. We need to know what his plan is and how we are going to be protected.”
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Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters claims "right-wing organizations" are "training up in the hills somewhere" to attack in the event Trump loses the presidency. pic.twitter.com/xUAysmoiZT
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 6, 2024
Wasters also anticipated a round of challenges to the upcoming election.
“You can’t trust anything that Donald Trump has to say. No matter if he loses, he is going to say it was fraud. He still has not accepted what happened in the last presidential election. We have to be very concerned about a former President of the United States talking about attacking his own country, talking about perhaps a bloodbath, talking about perhaps there is going to be trouble. He said it in so many different ways,” Waters said.
“We should take him seriously. This man does not believe in the Constitution. He wants to be a dictator. This is a dangerous human being. We have to know what our country is going to do to protect us from him.”
Despite all her sloganeering about democracy, Waters objected to Trump’s 2016 victory in the Electoral College and tried to overturn the election results.
Waters said in early 2017, “Is there one United States senator who will join me in this letter of objection?”
No senator did.
Joe Biden, then serving as vice president, said, “There can be no debate.”